HIS LOVE REVEALED IN HIS WORD.
By E. Hilliard
IF the Bible were prized as highly as it should be, if the Spirit that inspired its sacred pages was abiding in the heart, the cost of placing it within our reach would be more fully realized. Its promises are written in the blood of the cross. It plainly sets forth what we are, and what we should be. While it points out our sins, it does not leave us under the painful sting of conviction, but speaks comfort to the sorrowing heart in words of pathos that touch the most hardened soul and encourage the most despondent. Reader, if you are downcast, if you hardly dare look toward heaven because of the enormity of your guilt, listen a moment to the cheering voice from heaven: "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: tho your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; tho they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." Isa. 1:18. The great God in His infinite love invites us to reason with Him. However great our guilt, He certainly has promised to forgive it, and He wants us to take a reasonable view of the matter. He can not lie; therefore we know that He has pardoned, according to this promise, "The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin." Precious blood! precious promise! These and kindred promises have cheered the heart of thousands, who tremblingly laid hold of them, walked in the path of faith, and were laid away to rest in hope of eternal life. In a little while the Author of the Word will come to gather its fruit. Not until then will we fully realize the love of God in giving us the Bible. Mother and daughter, father and son, brother and sister, husband and wife, whose lives have been prompted by its divine precepts, will meet never to separate. This great, eternal meeting will speak forth the results of the Bible, and proclaim the love of God with greater power than did all the united voices of men through the ages of sin. Praise the Lord for the Bible, that gathers in its harvest of souls to share eternally the mansions that Jesus has gone to prepare for those that love Him! E. HILLIARD. Tonga, Friendly Islands, S. Pacific Ocean.