Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 311, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1918 — Safety by Surrender [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Safety by Surrender

By REV.B.B.SUTCLIFFE

Extension Department, MflwhSiUti Institute. Cbicaqc>~~jj^~

TEXT— Let him take hotd Of my strength.—lsa. 27:5. The passage from text is taken is a call from UpassboM for

his enemies, both the Wi»xl4sW and also hWJ J acl[ ' slidden people, to turn tojWttl before his judfemfcaWaHs. He dec UttWd he will come,, among them' 1 . vs' fire by surrender to him th © can .p4i»rv text *' His , Jutt sure a tpn<a#« and povßehawstO be needed it. Wbet&^cati ,a this

power be found and safety - secured? Not by fleeing away but IftOSrawing near. Not by opposing by yielding to him. To the sinner and the backslider {he Lord jfcfjfdars as an enemy. To yield or Snarrtifdsr to any enemy seems like folly, the rushing into danger. But yiel<Ji££*Lto the Lord means safety. And<«4*l*tf£ call to surrender to the Lord call for the exercise of faith as the protector from his own coming judgment. To hqm«y,jreaßon escape would seem to be J#)pg§9ibte. How can we esenpe the rfejßteppW|ucrgment of God, after having-incurred it by our own conduct? It tt rfktljlossible with map, but with God alts tMttWj are possible. • Failure is not in'TOm, but in Imperfect yielding to ,hijpQ^ A Possible Thingji qoila The text says: “Let hlAi tdwi'Wld of my strength.” There to be overcome except unbelief of the human heaift /fSqcftj one Is afflicted with this. It te tfebModering thing that opposes all certainty or enjoyment. It Is tlreMne common sin of which all ar^and by which all the more It is the sin which so easily ns. But it Is possible to overcome It. When we come to the pladeJWlifc’e real desire exists to escape thesM£HWSkt of Gpd, there are no real we may if we will, take strength and in it find safetftoninrr A Personal Thih£l ■9*% "Let him take hold.” self and not another. I jfefo njflpelf. I am judged for myself. safety, If I escape the judgßpeym/'Rwill find for myself and escape fadchtffeelf. None else can get it soy a personal matter. In thcrienjgr of my own will lies the t° whether I shall go down fcVtff/Kgftt defeat under the judgment'; or whether I shall rise superiMftpHgl the future holds of wrath. ligfhddwfl by opposing myself to by yielding to him. I find etdrmir death by fighting him; eternal rendering to him. It is Oftft#ftoice which I shall have. -- -- -- A Peculiar Thlna/iO* 9Let him take hold of I cannot take hold of his srrgflgw.until I let go of that which I nowgggplfL All the things I have relied upo*otojsee me safely through the judgnwsfrpHfeust relinquish: I must havetoo sfetflfe in my good deeds, by ences, my moral code, tions —yea, I must have myself. Like Job of old I njugcwme to the-Lord saying, “I ablm* Like Isaiah, "I am unddfae.lbudLike Paul, “There dwelleth nooibbd fifcing in me.” Myself and my my weapons against him. ‘ Fmukr lay them down and in full tional surrender of myself .tetiMp I will find safety In the surrendMi- It Is therefore, as was said aliuvi?rn~eall for faith in him. He can free me from bondage, guard me from protect me from certain disaAteerfunfS as Rtrusf'him. Until I do 'find tnbT'he cannot do any behalf because of my unbelief^ belief which erects the case of tlye army facing hilation, only one thing remafns to he done, and that is surrencldAAiWdeath be not preferred. As long ons are used and battle offeMSL ftrerdestruction is certain. The certain perdition—he fightxMaunsjyie judgment and wrath of Goa. There Is no escape, and can be ndii4>*ilXe by the way of surrender. Wheftat*»'!Surrender is made, he finds supposed enemy is really a what was thought to be ’jtqHj affilF 8 * thing is seen to be the beak Jmstead of God desiring to injure, wj-flulßs all of God’s desire is to protffifPfrfltf“injury. How p strange that Jured should be th£ one wn(f caff, and will gnard the sinner from the effects

of the injury. A Powerful ThlnfL With man’s strength It WQfllu ttffropossible, but the text sayi, MBS him take hold of my strength!’ auuk.taeith God all things are possibly < is nothing too hard for his for he has omnipotence, deep for his understanding f$WHk 1* omniscient. Nothing too to reach, for he is omnipresent IMwr' belongeth unto God and nay eager, to exercise on' who will cease fighting themselves to him. Hov/jjMOw . •scape If we neglect so greajj^J^aiion?' TV' .