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"If any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him." - Hebrews 10:38.

God taketh pleasure in them that fear him, and who manifest their fear to displease him by constantly and carefully pressing forward in that good path which he has opened up to them. When a man is pressing forward in the path of God, all heaven and earth rejoice, reflecting the joy of God. The sun shines not in vain for him; it lights him along the pathway of holiness. The earth is encouraged to run cheerfully her race of a thousand miles a minute.

The Bible lives with reference to such a soul. Its commands, its promises, its invitations, all its words are clothed with their proper majesty, and bring to bear the influences of omnipotence upon this soul. But it is sad when such a soul in some evil day begins to slacken its energies; sadder still when it quite ceases to press forward; but oh how melancholy the spectacle when it actually begins to go back. The sun has his mission, and he continues to shine; and the earth too sweeps on in her orbit; the time has not come for the displeasure of God to enunciate itself; but it is none the less stern and terrible for its present silence.

You have come and looked upon the suffering Son of God. You have taken note of his dignity; of his humiliation; of his purity; of his death; of his perfect ability and fitness to save. You have looked into the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone; you have beheld the tree of life in the midst of the paradise of God; you have seen a Lamb in the midst of the throne as it had been slain; you have tasted of the manifold banquet of the word of God, and have had experience of the powers of the world to come; and after all, you conclude to go back. It appears now, that while you suffered yourself to be drawn to Christ, to be drawn by the cords of the gospel far on your way to him, there was all the time a forgotten cord attaching you to the world. Your chains seemed to be all severed by the mighty love of Christ; but your former master spun one of these chains to an invisible cord of immense extent, and you were not allowed to feel that there was any such cord until you had accomplished a large part of your journey to the kingdom of heaven. Your master watched his time; and at length availed himself of the hold he still had upon you, and drew you backward. Many were astonished; for they had never perceived that very minute and long-drawn bond. "

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