The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-03-10

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sweetness ofsin, like the honey gathered
from the rhododendron, makes that man mad
who eats it. As the Persians planted a red
flag wherever a tiger had slain man, so
lift warning this morning against all sin in
the places where men have been DESTROYED.
The fact is that the soul is too large a craft
to sail up the shallow stream of sinful pleas
ure. Going away from God you go away
from happiness. Now my invitation is to
all those who have wandered away to come
back, do not invite the righteous; in
vite the prodigals. 1 have seen your dis
quietude. You may think that the Lord
does not want you back. He does. He
sends me out this morning to say so. He
wants you to come back. l come on the
Bonded knees of my soul, and / beg you to
quit that wilderness. Christ puts one hand
on His bleeding side, and he puts the other
hand on His bleeding brow; then He stretches
forth His hand blood-tipped and says: "Come
unto me, all We who are weary and heavy
laden, and will give you rest.' The Holy
Spirit has moved upon your heart, and if
should ask those this morning who would like
to return to their Fathers house by re-
pentance and faith, there would be many
hands lifted, think. You would be willing
to start now, but you know not which way to
take. God help me to show YOU the way.
Throw yourself on God; say to him, 81 am
a sinner, save me; 1 am prodigal give me
rest; i make no apology for my crimes; 1
plead the sacrifcial blood of the Son of God"
God will not shut the door against that poor
soul. furnishing and dearth and death in the
wilderness, but rest, perfect and everlasting
rest in God. Though your sins be as scarlet,
they shall be as snow
Thora e Gel lo la Ill
rode on a steed called Albarak from Jerusa-
lem to Mecca in one night The steed had
eyes like jacinth, and the fable says at every
step it went as far as the eye could reach.
But OIL with what swifter step cometh the
rider on the white horse, cometh to pardon,
cometh to bless and cometh to save There
may be those here who, as have said, have
wandered off from early religious influences,
andI would like to charm them back by some
beloved memory. Oil your parents could
come and sit by your side to-day how they
would urge you to God. If / could
sing, would sing one of the old songs with
which they blessed your youthful life.
Would to God that the family altar might
speak, and the family Bible that comforted
them in their old days. L plead by those
anxious tears and by those dying supplica-
tions. Yea, if they can hear my voice. |
would that they might come out on the bat
Elements of Heaven, and give emphasis and
weight TO the plea ] now make from the
door of their sepulchers. If with such a
Christian ancestry you reject God, how can you
escape2 But there are others perhaps who have
no such blessed memory of early days. You
came into life without any benedictiOn, and
you have trudged along under all these dis
advantages. 1 want to tell you this MORN
ing that though you may be a stranger in
church, though you may be a grievous
wanderer God is ready this moment to
give salvation to your bruised spirit. Oil
prodigal, come home. In the next hundred
years you can not find an hour so fit for your
coming as this, it is such blessed hour. God
calls so tenderly to your soul, our hearts
are so warm to greet you, everything is so
calm. l give you the childrens hymn:
tome to Jesus come to Jesus, just now
He will save you He will save you, Just now:
OH believe Him. Oil believe Him, just now
Don't reject Him, don't reject Him, just now
"Ohl" says some one, sit is only a ques-
ton of time" But when2 i tell you now is
the time. / have stood in this place and
presented these truths to men of whom it
was said afterward that it was their last offer
of mercy. / have stood in the pulpit and
looked into the face Of young man and in
vited him to Christ, and before the following
Sabbath we had put him away to his last
sleep. Every time the clock ticks soul
rushes into eternity. / have prayed God
that this truth might go straight to the
mark, and make you think and make you
feel. You see your duty as plainly as you
see me. You want to be saved. No man can
come as near the gate of the kingdom as
you are, and give it up without awful risk.
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shall this morning fatally and forever quench
the spirit
l was reading of ship that was COM
ing from California during the time of the
gold excitement. The cry of "Firel fre!"
was heard on shipboard, and the captain
headed the vessel for the shore, but it was
found that the ship would be consumed be-
fore it reached the beach. There was a
man on deck fastening his gold around him
in belt, just ready to spring overheard,
when a little girl came up to him and said
"Sir, can you swim2" He saw it was a ques-
ton whether he should save his gold or save
that little child, and he said, Eyes my darl- |
ing can SWIM" and he dashed his gold on |
the deck. Snow" he says, "put your arms
around my neck; hold on very hard; put |
your arms around my neck" And then the |
man plunged into the sea and put out for the |
beach, and great wave lifted him high |
upon the shore, and when the man was being |
brought to consciousness he looked up; the |
little child, with anxious face, was bending |
over him. He had saved her. 1t was a
beautiful rescue. But between us and the |
shore of safety there is a deep flood. We
can not swim it. Christ, the Lord, comes to
the rescue. He takes us upon His shoulder,
He plunges into the wave of blood and tears,
and billow of human hate and internal
wrath hurls Him dead upon the beach, but
we go forth safe and free. OH the match
less sacrifice of the Son of God This is
faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptance,
that Christ Jesus came into the world to
save sinners.
"For sinners, Lord Thou camst to bleed.
And I'm sinner vile indeed;
Lord, believe Thy grace il free,
OH magnify that grace in me-"