The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-04-04 00:00:00

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The text was (run Keekiel gull, II—" As I live, midi
the laird God—l here no pleasure in the death of Me
wicked; but that the wicked tarn from hia way and live.
Torn ye, turn y• from toorooll ways, for why will ye
0 noose of Israel r —Among the preacher's remarks were
Sume time ago, I was in the axon of a prefeesieg
Corieuen, sal he gays me • newspaper and pointed out •
somber of letelities—shipwrecks, motif lives lost, earth.
Tsetse, cjiiory accident., more lives lost, several murders,
reliefs, accidents, and other dreadful things." Tore'," solo
• whet do rot woke of that r I replied—" What do
yau think of lir Well, when I me or read of so many
preen. burned away by eternity. I am led to *A 'l
iiod • Gado( mercy or of justice " What did you decide r
" Well, I dim t know whet to say," he replied.
" Tom n let me tali you, " I &towered, "(lot
is • God of both, of justice and at mercy,
and He is as much of mercy as of justice, and of justice
es of mercy." Some people speak of others as being
hurried iota 'Wait, uowermid ; unprepared no doubt
they are. but not unwernol ; It is a great fact that all
of is have been •ran.... 4 inane easeeek se mend', eh,
d 'wands of justice, we have aU been often reproved,
often warned, end that eniugh to justify God if He sua
now at once—" Let them alone, never to be warned maim"
Some people mpect Got to have mercy at the expena 01
jusace, but H. never will. WheoeVer Divine awcy
furtive. the anther. Envies junco et sods by and eay•—l
ii quits right. Gel as holy. and, as dm holy GA He
cannot to .1 on sin with the boat degree of leniency, but,
as a 'tumid u, GA, tie will forgive the sinner whenever
lie can coosuitentiy with justioe, but
justice will he forgive the sinner, for Hers the H rly God'
li. will b. i gag end yet the justiOw of him who belevete
In esus.gouse people think that all will be right, and
; teat all will be lived by ml by, sad that we shall look
back upon the "fable 4 isell lire" as a thing that wn.
meant to frighten us. Hut it would he unjuet to the holy
algal. who have sever hoard; it would IA unjust to the
devils who we to to eternally demand if Gad shocks( tale
the wicket to beeves in their wicktd ewe. Yet He I. a
w„rgagi that "As I live, sad the Lad GA, I neve no
pleasure in the Mosta of the wicked. but Ky plower* i.
that the wicket tura frost he evil way and des." Go
delighted to i.e you saved; Were pleasure is no: to demo,
out to my osmium -so. He. "is that t is wicked
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but you love him enough to die for him, and.. Got le
with you, but lie lovw you =Ash to send His San to die
lot you.
to Him toßufUrgyoutes"kme—t-IW• i“tinoi to motion God's heertr
N,, ;itto to soften your ore heart, Go es heart we.
dot toned long ado. You do not ask for tee Mamie/
properly—nut in a becoming meaner, end so said hes toot
,t beck until yoa do. You have Wight your child beeomiag
manners, but he comes in tram the puepgreautd with
the playground manners: sod 'eye to his mother with the
pisyground rudeness, • G:ve me that relate I' No
sn,wer; not bream* you would not give It him, you would
/tee him a damn if they were for his good; but next he
sue, littlo soft•ned. "Nattier, may I bane that orange r
But sill it is not satisfactory, and you give no reopens.
You were out. willing to give it him, but you wanted
your ktkilg to an rightly. Some [wools have not learned
t get low enough at the feet of Jens.; they wggg to pg...
chase salvation, but they wil not set it yet. And some
peopla do not 0.010 earnestly mown, tow mei no, in
Oll,ltest, some not half aloud "Well II thought that
earnestness was no virtue." No, but it lea vent blown,
You are ;taking for forgiveness ass thing you do not ybig"
You hear your door knocked at once, don't you meatier,
and you see how th• delay will quicken that knack,
how there will be two, three, how it will ring from
collar to attic I Why are they setting so waist / BeOlua•
you are not answering. Got I. wiling enough to give you
fureetn.it, but you are not earnest enough: "Well but"
said a backslider, "bow is it eo hard for me to get the
blessing a sec mid timer Because you did not value it at
gret„ and to you threw it away, and now God wants to
give you the biometry' so that you shall value it and hold
it feet, I know went' who used to forgive their child
for wrongs just when he said "I'm sorry ;" but that was
forced out On one oceseion the mother told the child bow
very Imeegly he had date, and how hurt his lather would
be. "Oh," mid the boy, "I have only got to say I am
sorry, lead then he will forgive me." Too many nooolo go
to God and get pardon, as they think, so easily, that they
think, "It does not matter; I ma go and have my day at
the theatre, the rare* or the hali, and afterwards can go
VI God and say, 'I am sorry,' and it will be all right."
But you will And by ea I by it will not beaul right; God
, .111 mugs you to ask sag ask, and ask, and not until you
; feel ,he valor, of the blessing, and oak ollvie, will you get
it. Gad does not delay Living it. became Heal not willing,
, but WNW* you are not ready.
, Here lithe first proof He gives, Hs swears to the foot—
' "As I live," mini God, I hays no pleasure in the death
of the wicked.-
. In the second pleas He exhorts man—" Turn ye, tarn

la the third plate, He asks an unanswerable question—
" Why will ye die r
First. He swears to the fact. "As surely se lam alive ;"
God oould not swear by anything more certain than Hu
own existattee. I do not mean to stay to prove the
existence of Gad; w.biv. eyes to sos and sets to bear
His works, and we are certain of Ilia being. %me of the
e 'artier, of Napoleon Summonses were an board ship with
him and had been arguing satinet the oxidants of •
God, and they asked ttim—' What is your Malesty's royal
oploionF Said Napoleon, "You ham been debating as
to whether there 1. a Clod or not r Yes." said May
.. And you have 001114 to the Cplidelliele that th-re is no
cha r " Yes, your Majesty.' "Theo," said Nopolom
' waving his hands to ths leo and the sky, 'then, gentle-
man. who made all UMlee thlnp r And be poised on,
leaving ioAdidity in ruins behind him. For man, In the
risof oreation, knows that there is • God; the fool
h ae
said in Ida heart there Is no God ;" but he has not
mid it is his hoed, he had too touch same for that. Hs
had said it In his kart whore hie passioas exelalm—" Meta
drink, do os you Uko ;" but not In his head, whence his eym
look out on emotion, and his ears hear the music of the
universe. He hes Mere is Dot and therefore he says
there is not. Lad this God, who we know lives, says—
"As surely as I am alive, I would rather leave than
dom.,. Thu, oeth way mesa " &WM liVe ; bemuse I
the merciful God I have no ple•sure In the death of
the wicked." The Lord wins to say—" Look at my
life l" Says the meiotic ' Yes ; look at his lite ; me bow
wrathful he is ; u. how for on paltry sin ha drove them
mit of parodist See bow be punished the Israelites."
Than wm indite there! My Mead, Mere was mercy.
Do not you know there were two Mass in thst garden I
That. was also the trio of life, Re well as the tree of
knowledge of good and evil. And God said—" Now,
behold the man hos booms as one of us, to know gold
and evil, and now Wet he reach forth his hand and take
of the to.. of life, and live for ever—live tor ever as •
fallen, wretched, unredesmable creature, let us drive him
out, that hi may not perpetuate his misery, and that we
may bring him again to safety." But ears the soeptic,
" Yee ; but bow long were those children of Israel puoisd,
with war, famine, robellioo, and pestilence F Yes ; but you
punish your child only to make it better, and so God did
with the children of Israel. We must aims to the
and to Calvary, and look thereat redemption. Dr. Lal.tirt
tells of • man who kept a school for street Arabs, and
they were possessed by their oil crime, stealing., vo he
werbs a law that everyone who stole should be dogged.
One of them did so, and Mottos demanded he should be
flogged accordingly; the master called the boy, and took
down the tame; the beck ws• Mired ; but just as he wee
&sons to 'into.. rs taught the bruised sides of that
poor drinks's-41e and they were Ailed with team
He was meroiful as well as lost, and h• tuned to the rest
and said 'You know what sort of • home he las had' if
I squish him, It will only be more min to those he km
sawed already' I coosommars, the low bee hem broken.
NA min be 101181,-, Mt Ii Mill 700 bon