Drawing Nigh to God....series

 

Drawing Nigh to God

 

by

 

Minnie E. Dauphinee

 

 

Working With Christ..... The Reward

 

Some years ago scores of ocean liners carrying thousands of immigrants from more than forty different European country sped across the Atlantic in an endeavor to reach the shores of the United States before midnight of June 30. At that hour a law would become effective which said that only so many immigrants from each country might enter during a certain period. Many arrived too late. The quotas were already filled. Disappointed and heartbroken, hundreds who had spent the savings of a lifetime with the hope of becoming citizens of this land of opportunity returned to the lands from which they had come.

 

We are bound for the heavenly Canaan and are nearing the end of our voyage on the sea of life. Heaven has no quota. All who make the necessary heart preparation in time- "now is the accepted time"- And bear "fruit unto holiness," shall not be disappointed when the midnight hour of God's probation comes.

 

"Eternity in glory shall I spend

And never, never have an end.

 

"Oh! shall I live in glory fair

As many millions years as atoms in the air?

 

"And when these are past as many more

To flow as grains of sand that bound the

ebbing shore?

 

"And when these are spent as many on the

march

As starry lamps that gild the heavenly arch?

 

" And when these run out as many more

behind,

As leaves of forest shaken by the wind?

 

"When these are past, as many more to flow

As blades of grass on hills and dales that

grow?

 

"When these are gone, as many millions more,

As every moment in the age before?

 

"When all these blissful years spent with my

glorious King

Are multiplied by myriads once again?

 

"Then an only then shall I begin to under

stand

What God hath provided in His gift of life

to man."

_Author Unknown