How can I be quiet?

"Thrice, thrice are we the debtors of the heathen world.

Debtors — for we possess what they have not.


Debtors — for we have kept back for centuries what should have been given them with generous hand.

Debtors — for instead of a loaf we have given a stone, instead of a fish a serpent!

This weary world cries out for rest — rest which, though it knows not, can alone be found upon the bosom of God.

Its cry is well-nigh unheeded by the majority in Christian lands.

This wretched world exclaims for peace — peace which, though it knows not, can only be found through the blood of Christ.

Lo! We poison them with spirit; we drug them with opium.

Christians! Let us arise and shake off from us the dust of inactivity. Let us to Calvary’s hill. Behold He dies!

Shall we pass by with heart not wholly won, with life not fully yielded, a grace so special and a love so true?

No! It must not — cannot be!

His love, His dying love, shall constrain us; it shall put devotion into our lives; shall stamp upon our hearts the “All for Jesus” cry; it shall awake us trumpet-tongued from the grave of sloth, to the risen life of gladsome service.

Christians! Hark we to His word: “All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth.”

Christians! Look we upon the open field! Africa, South America, India, China, the ocean isles which “God so loved;” for which Christ died.

And then—the marching orders — His last command that knows no compromise: “Go ye! And make disciples of all nations.”

Who will miss the privilege of obedience?"

Montagu Beauchamp of the Cambridge Seven writes in Days of Blessings in Inland China (1886).

Can I silence Jesus from my thoughts or my life? How can I be quiet about him, who "loved me and gave himself for me"?