“Lenten Sermon” from the April 8, 1927 Door County Advocate
Lenten Sermon
A Series of Weekly Articles Written for Publication During Lent by Local Pastors
By Rev. J. T. Bowden
“Is there any word from the Lord?” asked a craven king from the persecuted, yet only courageous prophet of his day, Jeremiah. “Is there yet another message from Jehovah?” asked Jehosaphat as he was about to fight for a doubtful cause. “Should I go up into any of the cities of Judah?” asked David at a most critical time in his career. “Is not God angry because He is silent?” asked some heathens in Africa to the great missionary Dan Crawford. “Does God care?” asks the sorrow-stricken and sore beset person.
Thus the inevitable question arises in the heart: “Is there any message for us from God?” “Has God spoken and does He still speak?” To this inquiry Christianity gives an assurance and emphatic answer that God in these last days has spoken to us by His Son. Jesus is God’s Word to us; He is the Message Incarnate.
Does a sinner need forgiveness? Let him listen to the story of the Cross. Does a business man want light and inspiration for his business? Let him read the Sermon on the Mount and the Golden Rule. Do the jaded nerves of the disappointed pleasure-seekers and money-seekers cry out for rest? Then hear Him say: “Come unto Me and I will give you rest.” For all of mankind has the needed word and balm. He is the Word of the Lord to us.
“He speaks, and listening to His voice,
New life the dead receive;
The mournful, broken hearts rejoice;
The humble poor believe.”
Courtesy of the Door County Library Newspaper Archive
[Dan Crawford, 1870-1926: https://gfamissions.org/dan-crawford
The verse is from “O for a thousand tongues to sing”: http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/o/f/o/r/ofor1000.htm ]
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