Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

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LET US DRA W NIGH 85
of prophecy was clearly revealed, and that day
was connected with the coming of the Lord
Himself. It is enough for us to know that the
fear of an approaching day of judgment was the
motive to which appeal is made ; and that not
only to move the indifferent, but specially to
urge the earnest to exhort others. Christians
need to be reminded of the terrible doom
hanging over the world, and of all the solemn
eternal realities connected with our Lord's
coming in their bearing upon our daily life.
will our efforts for
So
helping and saving others all
be under the power of the thought of how short
the time is, how terrible the fate of those who
perish, and how urgent the call for everyone
who knows redeeming love to do its work with
all his might. In the Holiest of All we hear
the voice of warning, and come out to
it be too late.
save ere
1. Note the intensely practical character of the gospel. Our
section (19-25) is only one sentence. It begins with spiritual,
heavenly mysteries ; it ends in the plainest rules for our conduct
to our fellow-men. Let us be sure that the deeper we enter into
the perfection-teaching of chap, uii.-x., the fitter we shall be to
be a blessing in the world.
?. When Christ spoke His farewell discourse to His disciples,
one of the things He pressed most urgently was that they should
hue one another. He loues all His redeemed ones, however feeble
or perverse they be, so intently, that He tells us that we cannot
prove our real love to Him in any other way than by loving them
the proof of a real entrance into the Holiest of All is the