OBJECTS: A Pole Painted White Standing Erect on the
Platform with a Scripture Reference on It. Also
a Red-and-White Cardboard Heart.=
The North Pole has been discovered at last. This is an achievement
which history will record in large headlines.
The names of Nansen, Kane, Amundsen, Scott, and Peary and others are
engraven on golden tablets in the World's Hall of Fame. These famous
men now wear the crown of achievement. Through fields of ice they
plowed, enduring the rigors of the long Arctic winters, suffering the
pangs of hunger and loneliness, but with iron wills and nerves of
steel they pressed on and won out.
And yet there are ocean depths that never a human eye hath seen;
mountain peaks that never yet have been pressed by a human foot;
mighty rivers up which no civilized man has ever sailed. Of a truth
there remains much land to be possessed.
But harken: the largest and most mighty adventure in this old world
of ours is to find the larger North Pole of Creation.
This larger North Pole you will find in the Bible, and all who
believe God should be striving to find it.
Here you see standing on the platform before you a white pole. We
will call it the North Pole of the Bible. On it you will notice a
passage of Scripture which reads, "And he answering said, Thou shalt
love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as
thyself" (Luke 10:27). This should be life's greatest endeavor, to
love God with the big measure of this text.
This is a gigantic adventure. You are invited to join the expedition.
A man by the name of Thomas Boston, who wrote the "Fourfold State,"
was much afraid when a boy that the number of God's chosen ones,
144,000 spoken about in Revelation, was already made up, and that his
name was not among the number because he had come into the world too
late. But no one may despair that his name is not among the number
chosen by God to reach the Greater North Pole of the Bible, for all
the believing world are asked to seek and find, and all who seek
aright shall indeed find.
The reason so few fail to find it is because they don't seek long
enough. Did you ever hear the story of the discovery of gold in
California? It seems that two men seeking the yellow stuff had gone
to California. One man's name is not known in history. Marshall was
the name of the other man. One morning after long months of fruitless
toil the man of the forgotten name threw down his pick and pan and
declared he was through, and said he did not believe that gold could
be found in that spot, and he left for his Eastern home. Marshall
said he would try again because he believed the yellow stuff was
there. Six hours after his companion had left Marshall struck a vein
of the finest gold and became rich and famous. Both of these men were
brave and strong, only Marshall was brave just six hours longer than
his companion, and so won out.
It is the man who can believe the longest and work the hardest that
will find the North Pole of the Bible. This is the secret passage to
the Greater Pole: Love God, and stick to it until you can do it with
all your soul. It is sad to think that not every one will do this.
This is why God can't reign in his own world, because of the people's
unbelief.
God is yet waiting to show the world what mighty things he can do for
us with the man who loves him with his whole heart, and the man who
does this has reached the North Pole of the Scriptures. To love God
with the whole heart means to love God first and most, and all the
time.
To illustrate this thought prepare two hearts made of cardboard. One
should be red; this stands for man. The other card should be white;
this represents God. Make this heart a little larger than the red
heart. Make it of double cardboard and open at the top. Hold up the
red heart in the left hand and the white heart in the right hand.
Hold both hands far apart, bearing in mind that the red heart stands
for man and the white heart for God.
Now say that God calls the red heart to come to him, to repent of sin
and forsake all evil ways, and to love him ever afterward with the
whole heart. The truth is he asks for your whole heart, which means
your full and perfect love. He will hide you in his great heart of
love. As you make this remark cause both hearts to approach each
other. You will notice that the white heart moves toward the red
heart, this is to make clear the fact that God meets us always _half
way_.
The only time God was ever in a hurry was when he ran out to meet the
returning Prodigal Son. He is anxious and yet more than anxious to
meet half way the soul who will seek him and wants to love him with
all his heart. Now let the hearts approach each other and when they
meet let the red heart slip into the white one, and say: "God is
ready to receive the believer who wishes to be lost in his love. This
is perfect love. This is loving the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy
mind, and thy neighbor as thyself."
This is finding the North Pole of the Bible.
Now fasten the white heart containing the red heart on the Pole. God
will give us large wings of Faith which can endure the long hard
flight to the North Pole of the Bible.
There we will find Jesus, this is where he lives, in the perfect love
of God. In the Book of Life, which is God's Blue Book of "Who's Who
in the Kingdom," you will find written in letters of gold the names
of those who had perfect love and so have reached the North Pole of
the Bible.