Charles Aladrondo, Tiffany Vergon, Charles Bidwell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

THE ONE GREAT REALITY

By

LOUISA CLAYTON

Author of "Heart Lessons", "Loving Messages", "Winning and Warning", "Wilderness Lessons", etc.



"I AM GOD, AND THERE IS NONE ELSE"-- Isa. xiv. 22.

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED to all my friends in Rusthall, in loving remembrance of our happy fellowship in the gospel during the past thirty years, with the earnest prayer that the messages may be stored up in their hearts and bring forth fruit in their lives when the voice which delivered them is still.

3, Somerville Gardens, Tunbridge Wells.

FOREWORD

In response to the request of an old and esteemed friend I gladly add a Foreword to the collection of Addresses embodied in this volume.

I do so in recognition of the supreme importance of the great topics that have been chosen, and also in appreciation of the clear and attractive way in which the truth is set forth. May the messages find attentive and receptive readers, and be followed by deep and abiding spiritual blessing.

EVAN H. HOPKINS.

Woburn Chase, Addlestone, Surrey.

CONTENTS

I GOD, THE GREAT REALITY

II GOD, OUR FATHER

III THE SON OF GOD

IV THE SPIRIT OF GOD

V THE VOICE OF GOD

VI THE HANDS OF GOD

VII THE WORD OF GOD

VIII HAVE FAITH IN GOD

IX THE CHURCH OF GOD

X THE KINGDOM OF GOD

INDEX OF CONTENTS

ADDRESS I

GOD, THE GREAT REALITY

Personal knowledge of God, the secret of happiness--Realising His Presence in prayer--Illustrations from the telephone and family life--God is our Father, Saviour, Comforter--The Living God-knowing all, and controlling everything--Illustrations from current events.

ADDRESS II

GOD, OUR FATHER

A Chinese convert--Christ's confidence in the Father--Christ reveals the Father--Philip's prayer, "Show us the Father"--What God is to us as Father--How the minister sang the Doxology in an empty flour barrel--The glorious calling of the children of God.

ADDRESS III

THE SON OF GOD

Christ is the Son of God from Eternity--He is sent to be the Saviour of the world--Three questions answered: Where did He come from? When did He come? Why did He come?--A working-man's experience--The story of the pearl necklace--Christ's work of redemption--Sir James Simpson's dying testimony--Hymn, "He came and took me by the hand."

ADDRESS IV

THE SPIRIT OF GOD

God is a Spirit--True spiritual worship--The Spirit of God in Creation and Salvation--The New Birth--The work of the Holy Spirit convincing of sin, and revealing Christ--Searchlights--The loveliness of Christ--The Holy Ghost like a Mother--The Comforter.

ADDRESS V

THE VOICE OF GOD

Jacob's ladder, a type of Christ--Jacob brought face to face with God-- What it is to hear the Voice of God--God's first call to man in the Garden of Eden--A perfect link of communication between God and man--The Voice of God speaking in His Word.

ADDRESS VI

THE HANDS OF GOD

Why St. John wrote his Gospel--The safety of the believer--God's hands in Creation, Providence and Redemption--The "Scarred Hands"--The story of a brave shepherd lad--The Hands of Jesus wounded for our transgressions-- The Three Crosses.

ADDRESS VII

THE WORD OF GOD

The Glory of God seen in Nature--The Glory of God revealed in the Bible-- The dying woman and her rich inheritance--God's Word brings wisdom, conversion, joy and light to the heart of man--Spurgeon's text in the Crystal Palace--A Chinese convert "behaving the Bible"--The Torch that will light you home--A neglected Bible.

ADDRESS VIII

HAVE FAITH IN GOD

Abraham the Friend of God--The greatness of his faith--Faith the gate into Life--Faith the link between the sinner and the Saviour--A missionary's faith rewarded--Illustrations from the telegraph and electricity--The