PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
Pax Vobiscum
Drummond, Henry, 1851-1897 · 7,146 words · 12 reading sections
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10 wordsSECTION 2BY HENRY DRUMMOND, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., LL.D.
1890 "PAX VOBISCUM," prepared for publication by the Author, is now published for the first time, being the second of a series of which "The Greatest Thing in the World" was the first. Nov. 1, 1890. "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me…
88 wordsSECTION 3PAX VOBISCUM
I heard the other morning a sermon by a distinguished preacher upon "Rest." It was full of beautiful thoughts; but when I came to ask myself, "How does he say I can get Rest?" there was no answer. The sermon was sincerely meant to be practical, yet it contained no experience that seemed to me to be tangible, nor any ad…
736 wordsSECTION 4EFFECTS REQUIRE CAUSES
Nothing that happens in the world happens by chance. God is a God of order. Everything is arranged upon definite principles, and never at random. The world, even the religious world, is governed by law. Character is governed by law. Happiness is governed by law. The Christian experiences are governed by law. Men, forge…
850 wordsSECTION 5Part 5
He begins, you remember--for you at once know the passage I refer to--almost as if Rest could be had without any cause: "Come unto me," He says, "and I will _give_ you Rest." Rest, apparently, was a favour to be bestowed; men had but to come to Him; He would give it to every applicant. But the next sentence takes that…
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Now it is obvious why Christ pointed out as the two chief objects for attainment the exact opposites of these. To Meekness and Lowliness these things simply do not exist. They cure unrest by making it impossible. These remedies do not trifle with surface symptoms; they strike at once at removing causes. The ceaseless c…
769 wordsSECTION 7Part 7
I should be wrong, even though my theme is the brighter side, to ignore the cross and minimise the cost. Only it gives to the cross a more definite meaning, and a rarer value, to connect it thus directly and _causally_ with the growth of the inner life. Our platitudes on the "benefits of affliction" are usually about a…
804 wordsSECTION 8WHAT YOKES ARE FOR
There is still one doubt to clear up. After the statement, "Learn of Me," Christ throws in the disconcerting qualification, "_Take My yoke_ upon you and learn of Me." Why, if all this be true, does He call it a _yoke_? Why, while professing to give Rest, does He with the next breath whisper "_burden_"? Is the Christian…
845 wordsSECTION 9Part 9
This is the origin, among other things, of a disease called "touchiness "--a disease which, in spite of its innocent name, is one of the gravest sources of restlessness in the world. Touchiness, when it becomes chronic, is a morbid condition of the inward disposition. It is self-love inflamed to the acute point; concei…
390 wordsSECTION 10HOW FRUITS GROW
Were rest my subject, there are other things I should wish to say about it, and other kinds of Rest of which I should like to speak. But that is not my subject. My theme is that the Christian experiences are not the work of magic, but come under the law of Cause and Effect. And I have chosen Rest only as a single illus…
924 wordsSECTION 11Part 11
The medium through which this Joy comes is next explained: "He that abideth in Me, the same bringeth forth much fruit." Fruit first, Joy next; the one the cause or medium of the other. Fruit-bearing is the necessary antecedent; Joy both the necessary consequent and the necessary accompaniment. It lay partly in the bear…
565 wordsSECTION 12THE TRUE VINE
"I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fru…
243 wordsSource & rights
Public domain in the USA; original historical text digitized by Project Gutenberg.
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.