Will ye also go away?— John 6:67

Many have forsaken Christ, and have walked no more

with Him; but what reason have YOU to make a

change? Has there been any reason for it in the past?

Has not Jesus proved Himself all-sufficient? He

appeals to you this morning—Have I been a

wilderness unto you? When your soul has simply

trusted Jesus, have you ever been confounded? Have

you not up till now found your Lord to be a

compassionate and generous friend to you, and has

not simple faith in Him given you all the peace your

spirit could desire? Can you so much as dream of a

better friend than He has been to you? Then change

not the old and tried for new and false. As for the

present, can that compel you to leave Christ? When

we are hard beset with this world, or with the severer

trials within the Church, we find it a most blessed

thing to pillow our head upon the bosom of our

Savior. This is the joy we have to-day that we are

saved in Him; and if this joy be satisfying, wherefore

should we think of changing? Who barters gold for

dross? We will not forswear the sun till we find a

better light, nor leave our Lord until a brighter lover

shall appear; and, since this can never be, we will hold

Him with a grasp immortal, and bind His name as a

seal upon our arm. As for the future, can you suggest

anything which can arise that shall render it

necessary for you to mutiny, or desert the old flag to

serve under another captain? We think not. If life be

long—He changes not. If we are poor, what better than

to have Christ who can make us rich? When we are

sick, what more do we want than Jesus to make our

bed in our sickness? When we die, is it not written

that neither death, nor life, nor things present, nor

things to come, shall be able to separate us from the

love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord! We

say with Peter "Lord, to whom shall we go"?