THE LATE REV. ARTHUR TRIGGS. - The Gospel Magazine

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means and ordinances of prayer, praise, or the ministered Word, and
drawing near together to commemorate the memorials of His dying love.
Jesus is in our midst, dispensing right royal favours to the heart, and we
exclaim with burning love, " Lord, it is good to be here." " My willing
soul would stay in such a frame as this." But alas! how brief the
season, how transient the joy! How momentary seems the heart's
flow of love to Jesus! Yet hidden strength has been imparted, and
weary hearts encouraged and sinking faith strengthened and re-vivified
to press on once'more.
Again, we may be'.J~alled to " come apart and rest awhile." Taken
aside with Jesus! Ahmnd us a desert waste and the people many­
" many coming and goiRg "-and resources and strength are taxed, and
the heart grows careless in caring for others' vineyards to the neglecting
of our own. Jesus sees and knows it all, and will have His dear child
" come apart and rest" with Him awhile in His favoured Presence, there
to learn of Him, and to renew his strength and draw him from the
snare of " that restless will that hurries to and fro, seeking for some great
work to do, some hidden thing to know." How truly that beloved man
of God, the late Rev. W. H. Krause, wrote:
" We live in a time when there is a great deal of busy working in the
cause of God, when the energies of God's people are greatly taxed, but
we live in a day when there is a danger from that veJ;y activity to which
the people of God are called. Nothing can compensate for the secret
transactions of a man of God with the Lord Himself; and therefore,
we say to the children of God, in the midst of the active duties to which
you are called to engage in the cause of God, remember that your own
vineyard is of the greatest importance; remember that if you would go
to work with the machinery oiled, you must be anointed with fresh oil
in the secret of your own chamber, by the hand of God Himself."
Dear child of God, seek to habituate yourself to a turning aside to be
apart, alone with Jesus. Let there be no hindrance from the quiet
communion of the closet, and coming apart in secret prayer daily for
confessions of sins and failures-seeking afresh the precious blood of
sprinkling-and for renewed strength and grace for the untrodden
future and its needs. Or it may be that a rest is seen to be needful for
us in the sick and silent chamber. That too, under the Divine sanctifying,
makes it "good" for the soul "to be here." For mark the
gracious invitatilm, " Come unto Me, all ye that are weary and heavy
laden, and I will give you rest." Rest from self and sin! Shut in with
His gracious Presence, and garrisoned with His Peace; the weary head
pillowed upon His heart of love, in all its weakness and weariness!
Satan may try his hardest, and is ever watchful for his prey when
physical weakness overtakes a child of God, but Jesus has that weak,
weary, and helpless one in His keeping, and whispers to the becalming of
every fear, " It is I, be not afraid," whilst the soul in feeling, if not in
words, responds :-
" This is rest. Lord Jesus,
Alone with Thee to be,
The desert were an Eden
With Thy blest oompany."