Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-01-21

the way Well, you are all by nature
lost in a wilderness,-the wilderness OF G
sin and death and the blessed Jesus is
so kind and merciful that He has come
from Heaven to show you the way-nay, i
Himself is the way. But there are those
who tell us of some other way Of getting 9
to Heaven-and what do you think that !
can be? Oh il is a way Of works They
would construct out of their own doings
a. ladder by which to climb up to glory
He then strnck the pulpit with tremen-
dous force, and raised his voice, and
cried out,-"Works carry man to Hea7-
en-! 1t were not more presumptuous
than for a person to undertake to climb
to the moon by rope Of sand" 10
wards the close Of his discourse, while he
was entreating sinners to come to Christ
the way to holiness, to happiness, and
, TO Heaven, he brought to view the gra-
: cious and powerful advocacy of the Saw
= Tor. and in that connection told the follow
:, ing story: ''In the time of the old Ro-
? man Republic" he said, 'there was man
t who had done worthily for his country
= and in the wars in which he had served,
; had lost both his hands, though the stumPs
+ IF his arms still remained. He was
! greatly esteemed and beloved in the COM
/ munity in which he lived. A brother OF
:, his was under trial for some offence, be-
h fore a Court Martial, and there was eve
? ~ prospect he would be condemned
'e The unfortunate man being apprlzed OF
ID his brothers perilous condition, made his
g way into the Court, stretched up the
ly stumps of his arms, but said nothing
IN The Court, aware Of the relation he sus-
v tanned to the man they were trying, al
ut most Immediately pronounced upon hin
ar a sentence of acquittal. So Christ, add
On ed he, 'shas no need to say anything II
x him to lift up his wounded hands, an'
IT. show his pierced side-these will constl
nd tute an awaiting plea in the poor sinner
to behalf, without his actually saying any
lth thing" The effect of this story, wit
Ter the gesture and expression of counter
nd ance that accompanied it, was perfect
his electrical: nothing that can be put
10 paper can convey even a remote idea
it.
,rd, The Westinghouse in which l hear
ev- him preach was the same in which Nj
nd, Moody, of whose fame you have doub
lon, less heard, had preached for many year
the and | recoIlect bis making an allusion
Or Mr.. NJ. in his sermon to this effect: Gil
lre- first time l preached here said he, II
,ng, Their Moody would not sit with me in II
IT. desk-he said he was not worthy, al
Es- took his chair and sat down in that bro
ons, aisle, saying that he would sit there al
vent Judge of my doctrine. Afterwards
met was pleased to say,-If ever l felt t
t he power of God on my soul, have ii
) in day. Now he is singing new anthel
iers. in the Kingdom of Heaven"
eose Mr.. Whitefeld, with all his gifts a
,orlv excellencies, was not without his defe
very of both body and mind. l distinctly
as to member, for instance, that he was soul
oars eyed. And l believe too, that he had
black full share of self-complacency. 1t '
coal currently reported, in those days, t
them Mr.. Edwards, who, during Whitefe
nvic- earlier visits to this country, resided
ppilv Northampton, felt himself constrained
nver- deal plainly with him, and tell him wht
tour in he thought he had erred; and tho
ID. he Whitefeld at first resented the reproo
ming impertinent and uncalled for, yet he
stated forwards, with a Christian spirit, ap
sling rized for what he had said. l recoll
,e ser too. as l was once travelling through
nd de- ginia, to have been told by a son of
rbade late DIR. James Waddell, that his lat
conse- whom Whitefeld used sometimes to
with it, once ventured to remind him Of S
in the things in the former part of his co
reach that be thought inconsistent with Gle
r; and propriety and the reply was,-"1'
injured Whitefeld said and did many things
ace in old Whitefield is ashamed of"
warn whatever may have been his defects,
his life baby there are few of Christ's mini
an i'm who will have so many jewels as
us mo- their crown of glory.
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