Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1860-07-13
REJECTING CHRIST.

II an awakened sinner deliberately
banishes bis serious feeling. and refuses
to yield to the claims of Christ, he may
be left TO indulge in gaiety without re-
morse or alarm, until in tho dying hour.
a consciousness OF guilt and ruin may
overwhelm him with fear. One Of our
exchanges has the following
A few years ago, was travelling in
South America. As approached the
base of q mountain which lay in my
route, found il covered with what
supposed To be an underground Of weeds.
Bot pressed my way onward, aud
climbed up its sides, TIL reached the
summit. When / had gained the top.
| gazed around me with delight, and
happened 10 look back upon the winding
path in which / had assembled, and 10
my whole path was clearly marked oct,
to the very foot Of the mountain. /
found it was caused by having walked
through growth Of the sensitive plant,
as il is familisrly known to US, which
grows indigenous there. 1t had left all
my way plain before me, so that / could
trace my footsteps in all their curves and
deviations, as had struggled up the sides
Of that beautiful mountain.
A few months after that, as l was re-
posing in my tent in California, at 12
O'Clock at night, man came to the door
of an adjoining tent, and called out:
Are there any Christians here, gen.
tlemen?"
One man sprang from bis bed.
+" j love my Savior" said he.
" Come With me, them" said tho
stranger. There's man dying out
here, just beyond the walls of Captain
SIS fort; and he says he wants to talk
with Christian"
They ran out together, although the
rain poured down in torrents, until they
came to where the dying man lay. He
was stretched on a couch, was going TO
say, but / hardly know what to call it,
for il was made up of broken branches.
On these he lay, while few bed-spreads
were thrown over him. He was dying.
Let Us hear his testimony:
He said to my Christian friends who
gathered around him.
" have now reached point at which
4 the whole scene Of my life seems to lie
visibly before me. Every action that /
have committed, every Sin, every crime
that l have perpeirated before God,
seems to stare me right ia the face. !
can see my way clear back to my youth
and as look, the scenes Of iniquity and
guilt in which | have engaged pass one
and another before me in terrible re-
view"
They sang with him, and prayed with
him, and endeavored 10 console him, and
point him to Jesus bu, said he:
Its all over now--all overl Ihaye
rejected Christ, and there is no salvation
; for me-"
J He ceased speaking. They sang and
; prayed with him again; and whilst thus
: engaged, be closed his eyes in death.
His immortal spirit passed into the
presence Of the God whom be aeknowl-
edged TO have sinned against and reject.
0 ed all bis life.
b Unconverted friends, you will reach
7 that point by y-and-by, when every seems
Of yoar life, like the life Of this dying
man. or like my path up the mountain,
9 viii pass in terrible review before you
q Then your anguish aud your agony will
be terrible to witness, when you reflect
le that you have rejee.ed Jesus Christ, snd
II that lie Is about to leave you to perish
e in yoor sins