Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1877 — Christ All-Sufficient. [ARTICLE]

Christ All-Sufficient.

• fc. ■ We have seen already that to the believer Christ is all in all—the Alpha and OmeSl, the source and end of all true life. e is the soul’s raiment, and food, and rest—its wisdom, righteousness and strength; without Him we can do noththing, but witn Him we can do all things/ It is one thing to read this and even believe itj it is another ,to experience its truth m the actual necessities of life. Luther says somewhere, “No man .will lift his heddito Heaven’till he Audinothing on earth, on Which he may h#u Jt,” and so one object of the discipline of sorrow/# to takeaway frep up our earthly props, all created sources of wisdom, anu strength, and comfort, that we itfiay find that in Christ tfll fullness dwells. How many have had to say when fire or commercial disaster has swept awigr their propertyj” I never knew before how secure Was my inheritance ih Christ;’* whensTander and unkindness have torn the spirit; “ I never knew before what a friend I had in J[eauswhen sickness or bereavement have draped all the World in darkness, “ O how bright and calm and healing is the presence ot my Lord!"— Bm. Wm. A. Uaigh , in Chicago Standard. ' ■ l. i