St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-02-23

anu tney push everything aSlue t0at
they may gather wealth. If we should
seek after God as we seek after wealth
there would be great turning to the
Lord. Tens of thousands of people
would be saved here in very short
time. Seek for Him as men seek after
wealth. How a man will seek to re-
cover health. Money! He will spend
money without end, and call in the best
physicians in Boston, and if Boston
physicians can't help him he will go to
New York and have the best physicians
there, and if New York physicians can't
help him he will cross the Atlantic
yea, the man will go round the world
just to lengthen his days for few
months or years, and recover his health
Now, what men want is to seek for
God i'll the same way. Seek for Him
as men seek for honor. Go and take a
lesson from these politicians. They
put their whole soul into it if they want
an office. We like to see man in ear
nest. We like to see a business man in
earnest, to see a man take up anything
with heart and soul. And, now, why
should we not take up this question in
earnest.
| Now, think it is great deal better
to settle this question while we are
young. The longer we put it off the
more difficult it is going to be. The
early habits we shall form will be hard
to break. If could go to yOnder GEM
etery and call up the dead here, you
would find younger congregation than
this. You will find that. though the
life allotted to man is told us in the
Scripture as three score years and ten,
yet the average is only about thirty
out half their days. They die very
young. And how many dark hours
you would be saved if you would seek
the Lord now. 1t is great deal bet
ter to seek the Lord now in your youth
than to put it off, better to give to Him
the flower of your youth and strength
than to give it to Satan and the world.
Not only that, my friend, but by COM
ing out and taking your stand on the
Lords side you may influence many of
your schOolmates and companions. To
work for Christ with your men you
must reach them now, young man, in
young youth. You have an influence
over them that nobody else has. One
solemn thought has come to me, that |
am growing away from the young men.
Once | had more influence with them
than | have now. So, my friends, you
are losing golden weeks and months,
in which you might be working for the
Son of God. SO let us all here tonight,
who are young, seek the Lord while He
may be found, and call upon Him while
He is near. | would like to ask the
congregation Il question. | would like
to ask you this: Do you really believe
in your heart tonight that the Lord
can be found? Do you believe that
these unconverted men and women in
this Tabernacle tonight can find the
Lord Can he be found here tonight |?
Do you believe it? Then isn't it the
very thought of folly for men not to
seek Him?
Suppose | was to tell you that while
talking here tonight | had lost very
valuable diamond ring and would give
any man $1,000 who would find it, do
you think your thoughts would be for
the sermon any more Most of your
thoughts would be on the diamond
ring, and on that $1,000. and there
wouldn't be police enough in Boston to
drive you out. How you would seek
| IOI IL NOW, 1911 NOuI SOul WOElu
more than $1,000 Isn't your soul worth
more than all the diamond rings in the
world &? Now, why not obey the COM
mand of Scripture and seek the Lord
while he may be found, and call upon
Him to he near? Why not just now
call upon Him. Because if He can be
found here tonight He must be here
The Lord must be in this building, and
if He can be found why not call upon
Him while he is near? If he should be
here on this platform where | am stand
ing, and as He stood on the Mount of
Olives nineteen hundred years ago and
wept over Jerusalem, if you could see
Him with these bodily eyes, standing
with outstretched arms and saying,
"Come unto Me all we that labor and
are heavy laden, and | will give you
rest" wouldn't you all press up around
this platform Wouldn't YOU rise in
this assembly and come forward ? You
would forget all surroundings and say,
''LOrd Jesus, save me, Lord, now 2"
You would call upon Him. That
would be working by sight, wouldn't
itP Now, He says that where two
come together in His name He will be
there. o that He may give us faith
to behold Him in all His loneliness and
holiness now. ''Seek and We shall find"
find eternal life here tonight. The
Son of Man stands at the very door of
your heart and knocks. Hank! listen
Let the voice of man he hushed for
moment. 1t is the heart throbbing.
Well, that is Christ knocking. What
does he say "Behold, | stand at the
door and knock. If any man hear my
voice and open the door, | will come
in unto him and sup with him and he
with me-" My friend, tonight Just
unlock the door, pull back the bolt,
open the door, and say, "Come in, o
Son of God, unto this heart of mine.
Come and welcome, unto this black
heart of mine"
Perhaps l am speaking tonight to
some one that is hearing the last gospel
sermon and spending his last year upon
earth. This may be the day of grace
for you. When my friend Sankey and
myself were in the north of England,
at Newcastle-on-Tyne, was preaching
to the people, and after doing so 1
went down into the congregation and
went to a lady and asked her if she de-
sired to be a Christian. She said, 'No,
sir; / don't desire to become one.n |
said, 81 hope you are not offended with
me 2" She said, 81 don't want you to
speak to me-" The next night she was
there, and the next also, but l didn't 90
near her. A few nights after, right in
the midst of the sermon, she bowed her
head and came to Christ. l saw the
spirit of God was working with her,
and after the sermon l went to her and
said, Are you still of the same mind
you were the other night? ?" and she
said, ''Mr. Moody, l wish you would