And then seek the Church—­oh, yes, the Church.  Do you think, my friends, you who stand outside the Church, and blame her for her inconsistencies, and tell of her shortcomings, and point out the corruptions that are in her history, all that are in her present life to-day—­do you really believe that there is an earnest man in the Church that does not know the Church’s weaknesses and faults just as well as you do?  Do you believe that there is one of us living in the life and heart of the Church who don’t think with all his conscience, who don’t in every day in deep distress and sorrow know how the Church fails of the great life of the Master, how far she is from being what God meant she should be, what she shall be some day?  But all the more I will put my life into that Church, all the more I will drink the strength that she can give to me and make what humble contribution to her I can bring of the earnestness and faithfulness of my life.  Come into the Church of Jesus Christ.  There is no other body on the face of the earth that represents what she represents—­the noble destiny of the human soul, the great capacity of human faith, the inexhaustible and unutterable love of God, the Christ, who stands to manifest them all.

Now those are the things for a man to do who really cares about all this.  Those are the things for an earnest man to do.  They have no power in themselves, but they are the opening of the windows.  And if that which I believe is true, God is everywhere giving himself to us, the opening of the windows is a signal that we want Him and an invitation that He will be glad enough to answer, to come.  Into every window that is open to Him and turned His way, Christ comes, God comes.  That is the only story.  There is put aside everything else.  Election, predestination, they can go where they please.  I am sure that God gives Himself to every soul that wants Him and declares its want by the open readiness of the signal which He knows.  How did the sun rise on our city this morning?  Starting up in the east, the sun came in its majesty into the sky.  It smote on the eastward windows, and wherever the window was all closed, even if it were turned eastward, on the sacred side of the city’s life, it could not come in; but wherever any eastward window had its curtains drawn, wherever he who slept had left the blinds shut, so that the sun when it came might find its way into his sleepiness, there the sun came, and with a shout awoke its faithful servant who had believed in him even before he had seen him, and said, “Arise, arise from the dead, and I will give thee life.”  This is the simplicity of it all, my friends.  A multitude of other things you need not trouble yourselves about.  I amaze myself when I think how men go asking about the questions of eternal punishment and the duration of man’s torment in another life, of what will happen to any man who does not obey Jesus Christ.  Oh, my friends, the soul is all wrong when it asks that.  Not until the soul says, “What