The One Great Reality

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THE ONE GREAT REALITY
By
LOUISA CLAYTON
Author of "Heart Lessons", "Loving Messages", "Winning and
Warning", "Wilderness Lessons", etc.

"I AM GOD, AND THERE IS NONE ELSE"-- Isa. xiv. 22.

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED to all my friends in Rusthall, in loving
remembrance of our happy fellowship in the gospel during the past
thirty years, with the earnest prayer that the messages may be stored up
in their hearts and bring forth fruit in their lives when the voice which
delivered them is still.
3, Somerville Gardens, Tunbridge Wells.

FOREWORD
In response to the request of an old and esteemed friend I gladly add a
Foreword to the collection of Addresses embodied in this volume.
I do so in recognition of the supreme importance of the great topics that
have been chosen, and also in appreciation of the clear and attractive
way in which the truth is set forth. May the messages find attentive and
receptive readers, and be followed by deep and abiding spiritual
blessing.
EVAN H. HOPKINS.
Woburn Chase, Addlestone, Surrey.

CONTENTS

I GOD, THE GREAT REALITY
II GOD, OUR FATHER
III THE SON OF GOD
IV THE SPIRIT OF GOD
V THE VOICE OF GOD
VI THE HANDS OF GOD
VII THE WORD OF GOD
VIII HAVE FAITH IN GOD
IX THE CHURCH OF GOD
X THE KINGDOM OF GOD

INDEX OF CONTENTS
ADDRESS I
GOD, THE GREAT REALITY
Personal knowledge of God, the secret of happiness--Realising His
Presence in prayer--Illustrations from the telephone and family
life--God is our Father, Saviour, Comforter--The Living God-knowing
all, and controlling everything--Illustrations from current events.
ADDRESS II
GOD, OUR FATHER
A Chinese convert--Christ's confidence in the Father--Christ reveals the
Father--Philip's prayer, "Show us the Father"--What God is to us as
Father--How the minister sang the Doxology in an empty flour
barrel--The glorious calling of the children of God.
ADDRESS III
THE SON OF GOD
Christ is the Son of God from Eternity--He is sent to be the Saviour of
the world--Three questions answered: Where did He come from? When
did He come? Why did He come?--A working-man's experience--The
story of the pearl necklace--Christ's work of redemption--Sir James
Simpson's dying testimony--Hymn, "He came and took me by the
hand."
ADDRESS IV
THE SPIRIT OF GOD
God is a Spirit--True spiritual worship--The Spirit of God in Creation
and Salvation--The New Birth--The work of the Holy Spirit convincing
of sin, and revealing Christ--Searchlights--The loveliness of

Christ--The Holy Ghost like a Mother--The Comforter.
ADDRESS V
THE VOICE OF GOD
Jacob's ladder, a type of Christ--Jacob brought face to face with God--
What it is to hear the Voice of God--God's first call to man in the
Garden of Eden--A perfect link of communication between God and
man--The Voice of God speaking in His Word.
ADDRESS VI
THE HANDS OF GOD
Why St. John wrote his Gospel--The safety of the believer--God's
hands in Creation, Providence and Redemption--The "Scarred
Hands"--The story of a brave shepherd lad--The Hands of Jesus
wounded for our transgressions-- The Three Crosses.
ADDRESS VII
THE WORD OF GOD
The Glory of God seen in Nature--The Glory of God revealed in the
Bible-- The dying woman and her rich inheritance--God's Word brings
wisdom, conversion, joy and light to the heart of man--Spurgeon's text
in the Crystal Palace--A Chinese convert "behaving the Bible"--The
Torch that will light you home--A neglected Bible.
ADDRESS VIII
HAVE FAITH IN GOD
Abraham the Friend of God--The greatness of his faith--Faith the gate
into Life--Faith the link between the sinner