National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-12
Elder HASTINGS LAST SERMON.


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! Elder H. L. Hastines last evening preached 1t
the Foundry church the last of his sermons dur.
ing his stay in this city. The service was well
attended, and the half hour Of prayer and song
before the sermon was particularly interesting.
Mr.. Hastings prefaced his remarks BY reading
from II Corinthians, v, beginning at tbs MINI
verse. His remarks were In the form OF COM
read, and portions Of which he quoted while he
was speaking. Speaking OF the redemption by
the blood Of Christ, be said that Abel, Abraham
The Significance Of the blood was, ave thus
judge that If one died for ALL then were all dead"
meaning Of it was death; death for them, Chris.
dying for them, dying to bring them back to life,
and every time they read Of blood It was Of the
"And that he died for all, that they which live
should not henceforth live unto themselves, but
unto him who died for them and rose again"
There had once been man on one Of the lake
steamers who had stood near the pilot, rough
looking man, and the Captain had told him to
overheard, and the pilot had plunged over and
rescued him; and every time she Afterwards
touched at that landing he had gone to see him,
that he felt towards him he did not feel toward
his own children; he had periled his life for him.
orS tSeys sSOuId not live for
twas not much that they could do, but the
trouble was that they could not do that. They
had but one talent. 1t had been the one-talent-
man who had said that his master was Q hard
master, and buried HIS talent in the ground. Tho
Lord would bear with their "can't," but would
not bear with their won't" Very few persons
had shed their blood for them and It was his opin
ion that there very few persons who would do 1t.
fsnS tbsm IOS I, ING Tb.ps "a oei9 ons frisns
in Coos world who had laid down his life for them.
and that was the one they did the least for. If
another that would die for them. The reason
why great many people did not have any friends
frfanho
and went out among a race Of lGckals and wolves.
They called It, he believed, doing business. Men
them out Of every mill that they had that's the
kind Of friends that they had when they rejected
Christ. man who didn't
TREAT JESUS CHRIST WELL
didn't deserve to have o friend
Yea, though We have known Christ after the
They did not know Christ after the flesh because
they knew him as the anointed Of God; they
knew him in the new liie the resurrected life.
They were members Of his body; what had they
to do with the vanities and follies Of the worldf
Said the apostle: Know ye not that fsi is
things are passed away" How was II with their
old grudges? The books Of their memories were
hang Them tie Bible How Was Il
with their hsbits7 The old things had not passed
away. "All things are become new" 1t was o
the Holy Ghost browning him with benediction.
" If any man be in Christ he Is new creature;
old things are passed away, behold all things are
beyond earth's ambitions to the greatness Of the
kingdom Of heaven. The mirth and madness OF
the world were gone, but new eternal JOY had
taken their place. And all things are Of God.
When man was anew creature lights and SHADE,
trials and joys, all things were Of God. They did
not want 600 70 love tnem any more I6n nm ne aS
The trouble was with them; they were the ones
who had been angry; I'VE pray you 10 Christ's
had @ me as ambassadors. There had never been
such an instance Of condescension. They had
heard of the poor sending ambassadors to the
rich, but where did they lind an instance Of such
an embassaRe as that2
The great God, who needed nothing, depended
the blood royal of Heaven, the noblest men that
ever walked the earth-and he had sent them in
peril Of their lives-to tell every lost rebel TO be
Teconciled to Christ. Right in Jerusalem, where
they had Knocked him, where they had scourged
him, where they had spurned him to the last dy-
inv aRODy, Christ had told his apostles to begin.
And so the Gospel had begun there, and 1t had
gone around the world, and there that night he
stood before them, pleading the same plea-"We
pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconcIled to
God had given his only bsgotten Son, but they
had forgotten the gin. He remembered when in
London; IN the presence Of s5 or seven thousand
receive Christ, Gods gilt, and he pressed the
question until a hundred persons had declared
speaker asked whether they would receive him
that night. Tomorrow meant never. "For he
hath made him to be sin for US who knew no SIM"
Then was the accepted time. In a few moments
he would leave them. They might never meet
again. Death was in the land. Eternity was
opening its gates before them. In Ohrist's stead,
he pray ed then to be reconcled to God. 1t was
accept or reject, be saved or lost.
After the sermon Mr.. Hastings asked those to
rise who were anxious to receive Christ, and
nearly the whole congregation rose. He then,
after prayers had been offered, LEFT the meeting
in charge Of others.
DR.. Cleveland, the pastor Of the church, after
Mr.. Hastings had gone, urged the necessity Of
establishing revival prayer meeting, and said
that there was little doubt but that in case they
should get series Of revival meetings well under
way that Mr.. Hastings would respond to any call
they might extend TO him within ten or twelve
days.
DR.. Ball and DR.. Mason Noble, who were In
the congregation, spoke in support Of DIR. Cleve-
lands suggestion, and o vote was taken which
resulted in the pledging OF the greater part of
the congregation TO do all they could to support
such meetings during the coming week, at the
Foundry church, on every night except Wednes-
day, the day set for union prayer meeting.