od saying, "Come up
hither" is heard, calling His children home, there will be a grand
jubilee. That glorious day will soon dawn. "Lift up your heads, for
the time of your redemption draweth nigh."

One more bell to complete the chime--

"WHOSOEVER WILL, LET HIM COME!"

It is the last time that the word "Come" appears in the Bible; and
it occurs there over one thousand nine hundred times. We find it
away back in Genesis, "Come, thou and all thy house, into the ark";
and it goes right along through Scripture. Prophets, apostles, and
preachers, have been ringing it out all through the ages. Now the
record is about to be closed, and Christ tells John to put in one
more invitation. After the Lord had been in glory for about sixty
years, perhaps He saw some poor man stumbling over one of the
apostles' letters about the doctrine of election. So He came to John
in Patmos, and John was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day. Christ said
to His disciple, "Write these things to the Churches." I can imagine
John's pen moved very easily and very swiftly that day; for the hand
of his Lord was upon him. The Master said to him, "Before you close
up the Book, put in one more invitation; and make it so broad that
the whole world shall know they are included, and not a single one
may feel that he is left out." John began to write "The Spirit and
the Bride say, Come," that is, the Spirit and the Church; "and let
him that heareth say, Come!" If you have heard and received the
message yourself, pass it on to those near you; your religion is not
a very real thing if it does not affect some one else. We have to
get rid of this idea that the world is going to be reached by
ministers alone. All those who have drunk of the cup of salvation
must pass it around.

"Let him that is athirst, come." But there are some so deaf that
they cannot hear; others are not thirsty enough or they think they
are not. I have seen men in our after-meetings with two streams of
tears running down their cheeks; and yet they said the trouble with
them was that they were not anxious enough. They were anxious to be
anxious. Probably Christ saw that men would say they did not feel
thirsty; so He told the apostle to make the invitation still
broader. So the last invitation let down into a thirsty world is
this: "Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely."

Thank God for those words "Whosoever will!" Who will come and take
it? That is the question. You have th