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go. Compel souls to come in to the marriage supper of the Lamb. Let
there be more praying, believing, and receiving, and more working
together with God.
There is the most distressing indifference and neglect in regard to
the great salvation. The careless must be awakened, else they are lost.
Since God has given His own Son to save the guilty sinner, He means
through His agents to counterwork the human and satanic agencies
that are united to destroy the soul. The Lord has made every provision
that the uplifted Saviour may be revealed to sinners. Although they
are dead in trespasses and sins, their attention must be aroused by the
preaching of Christ and Him crucified. Men must be convicted of the
evil of sin. The eyes of the transgressor must be enlightened. Let all
who have been drawn to Christ tell the story of His love. Let everyone
who has felt the converting power of Christ upon his own soul do what
he can in the name of the Lord.
The infinite value of the sacrifice required for our redemption
reveals the fact that sin is a tremendous evil. God might have wiped
out this foul blot from His creation by sweeping the sinner from the
face of the earth. But He “so loved the world, that He gave His only-
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but
have everlasting life.”
John 3:16
. Why are not all who claim to love
God seeking to enlighten their neighbors and their associates, that they
may not longer neglect this great salvation?
Christ gave Himself to a shameful, agonizing death, showing His
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great travail of soul to save the perishing. Oh, Christ is able, Christ is
willing, Christ is longing, to save all who will come unto Him! Talk to
souls in peril and get them to behold Jesus upon the cross, dying to
make it possible for Him to pardon. Talk to the sinner with your own
heart overflowing with the tender, pitying love of Christ. Let there
be deep earnestness; but not a harsh, loud note should be heard from
the one who is trying to win the soul to look and live. First have your
own soul consecrated to God. As you look upon our Intercessor in
heaven, let your heart be broken. Then, softened and subdued, you can
address repenting sinners as one who realizes the power of redeeming
love. Pray with these souls, by faith bringing them to the foot of the
cross; carry their minds up with your mind, and fix the eye of faith
where you look, upon Jesus the Sin Bearer. Get them to look away
from their poor, sinful selves to the Saviour, and the victory is won.