St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-28

times to sit in the senate, he was allowed
to ride in great professions. and when he
entered room the people would rise up to
greet him and do him honor. l would to
God that tonight we might aspire for the
higher honor of saving soul-an immortal
soul. There are three or four reasons that
l can think of why we should obey the in
junction of my text and wake up. The first
arousing consideration that occurs to my
mind is the fact that there are so many OBJ
| stacles in the way of our salvation. Now,
there is no need of our hiding this fact
We some times hear people talking to the
uneonverted, and saying: SIT is just as
easy to become Christian as it is to turn
over your hand" 1t is not. There are
TREMENDOUS OBSTACLES
in the way of your becoming Christian,
and every man that has tried in thorough
earnestness to become a child of God has
found that there are obstacles. That is
not q wise general who depreciates the
force the enemy-who says to his men:
MY troops, you will have an easy time of
It. Those castles can be captured without
any serious bombardment, There are only
few enemies in that opposing host. 1t
will only be few moments assault and we
will gain the victory No. A wise gem
eral says: Those are strong battlements;
those men who are coming out to assault us
are armed, and they are brave men If you
ever capture those fortresses, and if you
ever overcome that host, it will be by a
mighty rallying of all your energies" And
l have to tell you now that if you are ever
going to get to heaven, it will be by going
| out in : contest as one against hundred,
as one against a thousand, as one against a
hundred thousand; aye, it is an Infinite i'm
possibility that you ever succeed by any
strength or resolution Of your own, and if
there were not some supernatural aid to
be offered and some divine promise to take
hold of, we would be lost, and we would all
be lost. In the first place, there are the
obstacles in the worldliness that surrounds
you. need not tell you, men Of Brooklyn
and New York, that there is tide of
| worldliness setting away from God and
from heaven. You have felt it. You have
waded down in it until the flood came to
your knee, until it came to your girdle, un-
til it has come to your lip. You rise in the
morning. You find it is a few moments
LATER THAN you THOUGHT
it was. You are in great haste. You
hurry through the morning meal You
race down the street. You go to your
Office. You open the letters and answer
them. You examine the money market
You run hither and thither. Your life is a
toll and turmoil. The long day, save the
| fifteen or twenty minutes in which you
luch, is given up to the influence of this
world and it is very rare indeed that from
O'Clock in the morning until or O'Clock
in the afternoon, that you have single
fbn1rrbf OH ha fr1t1Ira
thought may, while you are standing at the
counter or in the banking house, may some
stray thought of the future world come
through your mind, but it darts out again
just like swallow that in summer time
wheels into the open window, makes a
circuit of few minutes and hen goes out.
o, this tide of worldliness You have felt
it. 1t sets away from God and away from
heaven. You know it. Then there are
obstacles in the way of your getting
to heaven, in Satanic and internal
assault. The air is tull of evil spirits.
They accost you. They meet you at the
crossroads. They tell you the wrong
road. They try to unhorse your good reso-
lutions, to spike your guns, to outfank you
in every Christian movement, and if you are
ever successful at all in gaining the realm
of everlasting bliss, it will be by raEying all
your physical, mental an6 moral ener-
gies; aye, it will be by calling Upon the Lord
Almighty by His infinite and
oAfNIPoTENT GRACE
to help you. And yet, e shere were a
single man in all this audience who should
suddenly have come upon him the impress
sion that he was going to miss heaven,
there would go up a shrek louder than
that which is heard between coIliding rail-
way trains. There is no man who expects to
miss heaven. But how are you going to
get over all these obstacles? I ask you as
reasonable men if the impediments in the
way ought not to arouse you. Another
awakening consideration is in the value of
the soul. Theodore forbade the debasing
of the national coin. They say: 1--WE
ought to debase it. We can mix something
else in it and it will be Just as good.'
mo" said Theodore the Emperor, 81
will not have my face imprinted on a de-
based coin." Here we are; the image Of
God has been impressed upon our soul, and
yet it has been debased and has become a
counterfeit. We have all sinned and we
are all lost, unless divine grace rescue and
redeem US. Now, here is the soul. What
is it worth? Is there not something in its
value to arouse us? If, this moment, by
giving up your sin fairly and squarely-I
do not take the responsibility of saying
what your sin is, do not know,-if you
would honestly and before God this moment
give up your sin and take Christ, the news
would fly heavenward and would strike
seraphic harps, and angels bending in the
sky, and ministering spirits flying on er-
rands of salvation, would join wing to
wing, and wing to wing, while they cried:
Behold he praySr'