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Salvation
As good old
Simeon looked into the face of the Child he said,
"Mine eyes have seen Thy Salvation." Who can
tell what this meant to him? Who can tell what rapturous
delight filled his soul? There he saw salvation in its
true meaning. From this scene we look away to an
innumerable company in white robes with palms in their
hands standing before the throne and before the Lamb and
they are singing. "Salvation to our God which sitteth
upon the throne, and unto the Lamb." When the sinner
takes Jesus to his heart the song of "Salvation"
begins. We hear him singing it all along the journey of
life. He may some times be in the furnace fire, but he
never loses his song. The storm may be raging but above
the howling of the winds you will hear him singing
"salvation." He may be misunderstood,
misrepresented, despised, and forsaken by men, but on he
goes singing his lovely song. He never misses a note. The
adversities of life, be what they may, cannot still the
song in his soul. Men may deride him, but the angels are
listening. The world may sneer and scoff, but his song
rolls as a sweet anthem up to the ears of the Great
Eternal. One day a company of angels came to bear him away
to his home beyond this world of trial, and we behold him
in the midst of that great throng singing his song of
salvation. That is his theme. It began here when he
accepted Jesus and it will never have an end. It is the
song that never grows old. The heart can find its fullest
expression in but one word and that word is salvation.
What does it mean to be saved? It is to be saved from an
eternity in the miseries of hell to an eternity of
blessedness in heaven.
"Salvation
is the sweetest thing
That mortal ever found;
My soul can never cease to sing,
Such love and peace abound.
"Salvation
is the theme so grand;
It thrills with joy my soul:
I'll sing it here, and sing it there
While ceaseless ages roll.
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