St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-02

been multiplied by all of your opportunities
of having them pardoned. Does that old
sin present its dun at the door Of your soul
to-days Can you not pay it? Does it threaten
to carry you off to jaiIs Does it propose to
sell you out? Better get together all your
bonds and mortgages and certificates of
stocks and United States securities. Come,
let me count them-not enough. Bring all
the clever things you have ever done. Let
me count them not enough. Bring all that
you possess. You say: II have brought
everything!" Alas that you cannot meet
the obligation. You must die! ''No! no!
non' says voice from heaven. The blood
of Jesus Christ, the royal blood, the human
blood,
THE EXPIAToRY BLOOD,
cleanseth from all sin. 'sWhat is that old
sin gone" Yes, heard it topple over and
plash into the depths of the sea. 1t sinks
like lead There is no condemnation to
them who are in Christ Jesus.
If could marshal before you all the sins
of the best man in this house to-day this
whole audience would shrek out with horror.
Sins against God and man; sins against
Sabbaths and sacraments; sins against body
and soul; sins against light and knowledge;
sins against Sinai and Calvary; sins against
the grave and the resurrection; sins against
the judgment; sins against the throne Of God
and the mansions of glory. l blow the trum-
pet and call up all the sins of your past
life. l wave them here from the past. I
stamp them up from beneath-gather them
into companies of hun dreds; into regiments
of thousands: into brigades of ten thousands.
We have host vaster than that of Xerxes.
Let the largest of the hundred sins be captain
over the company. Let the largest Of the
thousand iniquities be colonel over the regi-
ment. Let the swarthiest trausgression of
your lifetime be general over all the host.
Together let them wheel and march and fire!
How the couriers of death dash up and down
the line How the great batteries of woe belch
forth the sulphurous
SMOKE OF HE'LL
and boom with the cannonading of eternal
destruction The host of thy sins innumer-
able, marching on to capture thy soul. One
man against million armed iniquities.
Who can so forth and meet them? We must
fall back and fall down. Are there no allies
to help? In ali the round of Gods universe
is there no one to take our part? Arise We
seas and whelm the host! Strike We light
nings and consume the foe! But the wave
strikes the beach and falls back, crying: 'No
help in mel" The lightning sheathes itself
in the black scabbard of the midnight cloud
and says: mo help in me''
But yonder see white horse in hot haste
coming this way. Make room for the courier.
He swings his sword. Good newsl Good
news! The Captain of salvation comes to the
rescue. Fall back, my sins fall back, my
sorrows! allies of light and love, to arms, to
arms! The host of our sins scatter in defeat
apd 1aliu CHI
through our Lord Jesus Christi At the sea
shore you go down on the beach and into the
waters, hand in hand, to battle. None but
l would that we might all join hands and 90
down by scores aud by hundreds and by
thousands to battle in the
GREAT SEA OF GODS FORGIVENESS.
Let us not stand on the margin and paddle
the ripples with our feet, but plunge in until
the waves go over our heads and we come up
again washed clean from all our sins. Cry
nightly that the blood of the cross may
avail for you. If it cleanse you not, it will
plead against you; and all those gaping
wounds of Christ, through an unknown
eternity will haunty your soul with the thought
of what you might have been. Oh, take your
feet out Of your brothers. blood. Go not
down, condemned at last, for fratricidc and
regicide and decide. Better for thee that
Calvary had never borne its burden and the
lips of Christ had never addressed thee in in
vitations it, rejecting ALL thou goest into
eternal desoation, thy hands and feet be-
dabbled with the blood of the Son of God.
Dye dying but immortal men Ye blood
bought judgment-bound hearers Repent
and believe and hear and live "How shall We
escape if we neglect SO great salvationl"