Article July 17, 1909 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from H. Arnold Thomas, John Bascom, Silas McBee

[Rev. H. Arnold Thomas, M.A., in British Congregationalist.]

It is good to think of what Christ Jesus was and of what he did yesterday, but it is better to believe that he is the same today. That is, then, how we are to conceive of him. He is at the right hand of the throne of God. Ah, yes, but where is that? Surely somewhere at an infinite distance from this poor earth on which we toil and suffer. We might as well think of him as being far away in the past as on that remote and inaccessible throne. But why should you speak of the throne as remote and inaccessible? It is nothing of the kind. Where is the throne? It is everywhere. It is here. It is where God is, and where is God not? To be at the right hand of the throne means not to be very far away, but to be invested with the authority and power. Do not let us banish our Lord from the world he came to redeem. He is where two or three are gathered together in his name. He is where any solitary, anxious soul is seeking help and guidance. He is in the darkest part of the valley of the shadow of death. He is everywhere where he is wanted. That is the way to think of him. That is the Christ of faith.

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