The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-02-24
No. So.

They come to that ark Hear them cry
Hear them pound on that ark ! Noah
Noah Noah Let US in !" There comes
door. [ cannot open it." All God shut
that door. 1t had been open one hundred
and twenty years. God had plead with
them. God had invited them. They mockcd
at the invitation. They scoffed and ridi-
culed the idea OF deluge. Now it is too
late. Now they would enter but they can
not. My dear friends, have you read your
Bibles ? If You have, You have read III the
New Testament scene like this. "As it
WIS in the days Of Noah, so shall it be in
the days when the Son of Man c0meth" "
They were eating and drinking The food
came and took them all away. So shall it
be in the coming Of the Son Of Man I
can't tell you how | have felt for the last
few days, | don't know how you can live
on in sin when the old year is passing away,
The last few days of the year are very sol
emn TO me. | have been looking over the
last year Of 1875, and l can hardly keep
back the tears when | think what year
Of grace il has been--how God has permit
ted lne to preach to multitudes and to in
vite people into the ark And one thing
has come over me. How few have accep-
ted the invitation Thank God many
have. But there might have been thous-
ands more if / had only plead with them
as Il dying man to dying men I am come
here not 50 much to preach a se:men to
you as to plead with you and to beg of you
to come to Christ. Come into the ark while
it IS yet open This last Sabbath of 1S75 may
be the last Sabbath you will spend in the
world. Let it be the last Sabbath you will
stay from Christ. Let it be the Sabbath
on which you will seek the Kingdom of
God. Do you know why God put but one
window into the ark, aud not one out Of
which he could look upon the drowning
world? 1t was put in the top of the ark
He could not look out aud see the judg-
ment OF God on the world There was no
one left to tell Of the destruction that came
upon the world. There was no one left to
tell what destruction came upon his pro-
perty. There was no one left to tell what
happened. There was not one solitary one
left to tell US the sad ending of thes, an
tedi!uyiams. | do not believe any man can
picture those scenes. think I got u
glimpse of 1t in Imagination. When Chi
cago was on fire | saw mother with eight
or ten children gathered around her and
Crying with fear. I think l got little
idea of it when | saw man running
through the st ects tearing the hair off his
head. He told me his wife and children
had burned up before him. All what a
scene is that. At that time hundreds and
thousands of parents saw their children
pcrishing before their eyes and had no way
Of helping them Their mockery Is rome
now. Their scofing is all ended They are
crying for mercy but it is too late. The
day Of grace has passed There was time
when Christ would have saved them ifthey
had called upon him but they have neg
lectcd salvation They have neglected that
open door in the ark You can see thero
climbing up the dark mountains. You can
can see them swept away as the waves dash
up against them. Eou can see the father
parted from his loved child You can see
the wild beasts gong up the mountains to
save their lives. | can imagine see them
going up on the top of the house and bv
and 10y the foundation gives away, and
down goes the whole family. Others climb
upon the trees and the waves come up
nearer and nearer, and at last they are
dashed of. Did YOU will ever think what
would have been Noah's feelings If he had
left ont any one Of his children? There is
one prayer make every day, and that is
that the children that God has given me
may be with me In Heaven. That seems
to be the burden Of my prayer Mothers,
just for few minutes think what would
have been Noah's feelings in that ark, as
as those Judgment waves rose higher ana
higher, and bore that ark safely upon its
bosom, if one of his children had been left
out. What Il terrible blow. This one he
loved so in that dark day. But these child
rem had confidence in him, and when God
said ''Go thou aud all thy house into the
ark" they followed him. Every member OF
his family went in. There was rot one left
out. Now want to ask you: Won't you
come into the ark, and invite your c ildreu
in? Won't you accept of the invitation
and come into the ark, and let your child
ren follow you? Right down here last Sun
day afternoon sat u mother and her daueh-
ter at the close of the meeting. The daugh-
ter said "Mother, l want to go into that
inquiry-room VIII you 90 lii with me ?"
The mother was not Christian She said
No, no. l will not go. You &c"
She said: "No, I viii not go with
out you" The mother began to think {:
Shall l stand in the way of my child ?"
She arose and went into the inquiry-room
with her daughter The next day she
came 10 me. was talking with her. She
told me how she was brought under convic-
ton. She said the sermon made no i'm
preston. She had no feeling about the
matter until the daughter said Mother,
will you go into that inquiry-room q
asked her where her daughter was, aud she
pointed her out, \ friend was talking.
with the daughter. At last the mother