The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-01
CANTON OHIO, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER |, 1883

the theatre l met some fellows who did
me no good. They dragged me through
all the sewers of sin and was ashamed
to go back, looked so bad. 1 lost my
place. / lost everything. Sister wrote
to me, father wrote to me, and mother
wrote to me; but didn't answer their
letters, my hand trembled so | knew
they would think from the writing that
something was wrong. One day good
Christian man put his hand on my
shoulder and said: George, come with
me, L will do you good. | looked up
into his face to see if he was joking OF
not. 1 saw he was in real earnest. SO
fixed myself up as we'll as L could, and
buttOned my coat over my ragged vest,
and went to the meeting. An old man
got up to pray who looked just like my
father. and l sObbed out, and they were
so kind and sympathetic l could hold
out no longer, and there and then i gave
my poor, wasted body and poor, bruised
soul to him on whom "the Lord hath
laid the iniquity of us all"
o, brother, gone so far astray that no
one pities you, without your looking at
your hand to see whether it is washed
or not; without your looking at your
hand to see whether it is feVered with
sin or not; without looking at your hand
to see whether it is blOated or not, put
it in my hand and let me give you
one warm-hearted, brOtherly, Christian
grip. You cannot get on any longer
with your sins. "0h," said a man to me,
what shall dOP What shall L dO?'
If he be in the house | say to him-if
there be others in the house in the same
temptation, in the same undODe cOndi-
tiOn, say to you, let Jesus take your
sins all away. You do not want to keep
them any longer. They have made you
too hard bed. They have mingled for
you too bitter cup. Oh, Jesus, take
them away-take those sins all away
take them out of sight. Away with the
the accursed things. We want no more
to do with them.
But who comes here? Some one with
a slow and weary and painful step; the
mantle of night over his brow and over
his shoulders. l cannot at first recOg-
nize who he Is. But the mantle of dark
ness falls from the face and from the
sus, the Son of God. And | say: "Art
thou WearyP" And he says, Weary
with the worlds Woe" And say, From
whence didst thou Gomez" And he says
From Calvary" And say, "Didst thou
come alOneP" And he says, 81 have trOd-
den the wine press alone" And l say,
For what purpose hast thou Gomez"
And he says,"I have come on a blood red
eTrand, to take away the sins of all this
people," And l look over the audience
and say, Lord, Jesus, canst thou carry
all the sins of this peOplep" And he
says, "Yes, put them upon my shoulder"
And then feeling my own sins l take
them first and put them upon Jesus, and
say, "Canst thou endure more than
that?" And he says: Yea, MORE" And
then there are scores of people In this
house that come and bring their sins and
put them upon his back, and | say:
''Canst thou carry any mOre2." And he
says, "Yea, more" But now Jesus is
departing. Make room for him through
the isle. Swing open the door and let
him pass out. He is carrying our sins.
We shall never see them again. He
will throw them into the abyss. "On
him hath the Lord God laid the iniq-
uity of us ALL"