Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1914 — Water of Life. [ARTICLE]
Water of Life.
Grand old Samuel Rutherford, of Scotland, once exclaimed: “If I only had vessels large enough, I might fill them; but my old riven and runningout dlsh, v when I am at Christ’s well, can bring but little away. Nothing but glory will make tight and fast our leaking and rifty vessels. Algs! I have spilled more of Christ’s humanity and love and godly sorrow than I have brought with me. How little of the sea can a child carry in hlB hand—as little am i able to carry away of my boundless and runningover Christ Jesus!” While such a happy and holy nuus. as Rutherford was complaining that he could not get enough of Christ, thousands are perishing—not for lack of the life-giving water, but because their foolish and depraved heart* will not touch it or taste it
