THE “RECEIVER” INSTRUMENT.
By T. E. Bowen
EVERY wonderful invention is but the revelation of some wonder of our God before hidden from view. The telegraph, the telephone, the power of steam, simply brought into action powers that had been here during ages of the past, undiscovered, reserved, so the Lord tells us, until the “time of the end.” Wireless telegraphy is but the revealing of a wonderful truth in science that Christ might have told when He was walking about the hills of Judea, but did not—vibrations through air by which communication could be had at a distance. This discovery in the scientific world is certainly wonderful, yet it is not more important than another in the spiritual realm. Wireless telegraphy is but the perfect tuning of the transmitting instrument with the receiving instrument. The secret is here. The two must accord perfectly. And they are so perfected that there shall be no other instruments precisely the same, or no secret communications could be made. Thus God’s Spirit is moving or brooding over men to-day. The transmitter is perfect, but nearly all is lost upon men’s lives because the human receivers are not attuned to the heavenly vibrations. Consequently, men go on wholly ignorant of wonderful messages God has for them, wholly unconscious, unimpressionable because sin has marred the soul receiver. If this is not so, what meaning is there in such expressions as these? “And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, . . . whom the world can not receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him;” “Yet a little while, and the world seeth Me no more; but ye see Me; because I live, ye shall live also;” and “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.” It is by listening to, and obeying the words of God sent us in the Bible that we shall become attuned to hear the wonderful things Christ has for us to hear and know. Men about us who are living in wickedness and sin will not get the message. “The sheep hear His voice; and He calleth His own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when He putteth forth His own sheep, He goeth before them, and the sheep follow Him; for they know His voice.” “And other sheep I have, . . . them also I must bring, and they shall hear My voice.” Have you heard, dear reader, this voice calling you? You certainly may, and among the ten thousand discordant voices found here, you may for yourself hear that loving, pleading call of the Great Shepherd calling you by name. You have never yet experienced true pleasure if you have not heard His call.