Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-03-02

ouickI that may wash it of. Show me
| the pool where / may be cleansed of the
terrible stain. Here it is. Ihave found it.
| 1t Is the fountain opened for all sin; and
| though sin were as scarlet, It shall be as
snow.
Our Sins.
Ii was substituiionary blood Our sins
cried TO heaven for vengeance Some one
] must iie. Shall it be US or Christ? Let
it be me-" said Jesus You were drafted
for the last war and some took your place
You were in debt; not being able to meet
the obligation, some one paid it You can
easily understand how Christ went in to fight
our battles and to pay our debts. The
6ebt is cancelled; the captiyes are released;
the sbackles are broken; the prison is
opened Blood paid the price; blood
washed away the pollution; blood sealed the
agreement. The blood of Paul that soaked
the dust of the guillotine; the blood of Hugh
Latimer that simmered in the fire; the blood
of the high-souled martyrs that Redeemed
the mouths Of the lions in the coliseum, have
Just as much worth to your soul as the
blood Of Christ unless you take this last as
huu lccl TIC llht plOOu
of Jesus Christ cleanssth from all sins.
Come then and get your sins pardoned.
do not ask you to come to private con-
tessionsl or to whisper into my ears your
offences, but sitting where you are to accept
this moment the blood cleansing. First,
for that old sin. Do you ask What sin do
you meanT' mean that old sin that you
committed years ago. 1t may have been
two years, ten years or twenty years. You
know when it was. / think that old things
are like other debts-they increase by having
the interest added on. They are tenfold
greater now and have been multiplied BY all
of your opportunities of having them par.
doned. Does that old sin present its dun at
the door of your soul today Can you pay
it7 Does it threaten to carry you
off to jail? 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 ne count them! Not enough. Bring
all that you possess. You say: Il have
brought everything Alas that you can
not meet the obligation. You must die.
NO! no. no. says voice from heaven
The blood Of Jesus Christ, the royal blood,
the human blood, the expiatory blood,
What is the old sin gomez Yes heard
it topple over and splash into the depths Of
The sea. 1t sinks like lead There is no
rondemnation to them who are in Christ
Jesus.
Aegrayating Sin.
Circumstances aggravate sins. II child
does wrong, not Willingly, you excuse it;
but when we do wrong we know it. Every
time sin is committed conscience tolls a
funeral bell. We may laugh and pretend
not to hear it, but hear it we must. Our
sins are against warnings and reproofs and
doubly aggravated. This mans sins are
more henious than the transgressions Of that
man, because he had better bringing up
Here is man who twenty years ago
kneeIed at Methodist altar. He went
awhile on the road to heaven, but then got
tired and put off in another direction
Where he has been since he began to back.
slide be and his God only know. This do
know, he is wretchedlY unhappy. There is
no such nest of scorpions this side Of hell as
the heart of the backslider. He is the last
man that ever returns. The publicans and
the harlots come in before him. Where o,
man, is that family altar that you once
lifted? Where is the closet of prayer
that you once frequented2 Are you as
happy now as you used to be? Your CON-
mon sense teaches you that the man who
came to Christ and heard the full expires
sion of Gods love- and then went away to
betray the Lord, must drink the bitterest
gall and the thunders that last drive
him away will roll and crash with all the
accumulated wrath of God omnipotent; and
yet to-day my text sweeps circle OF par
don around all these accumulated sins.
Fire NAV not be able to burn them out;
hoofs may not be able to trample them out;
hammers may not beable to pound them out;
but here is blood that will was them out.
Comel Comel take you with nav right
hand, while with my left catch the warm
blood that gushes from the heayt Of Christ
and pour It over your soul, and lol the
blackness Of your sin is gone forever Oh,
that the red hand Of Christ today would
rub all our sins away!
God Sees All.
But you sag These things are not ap-
propriate to me, for ! am a moral man"
How about your thoughtsH You sec my
right hand and you see my left hand aud
one Just as plainly as the other. So with
the sin Of the heart and the sin Of the life
one is Just as plain in Gods sight as the
other. You have not been guilty Of muir
der, you say. Are you sure about that2
Have you ever hated anybody? Then you
ore a murderer. John iii, Is: Whose
bateth his brother is murderer. "Ion
cav you have never been guilty of theft.
Are you sure about that? acknowledge
you have never taken anything from your
fellow man; but have you not taken days
and hours that belonged to God for your
own purposes2 Ifit is wrong to steal from
a man; it is more wicked to rob God.
III could marshal before you all the sins
of the best man in this house to-day this
whole audience would shrek out with hor-
TOR. Sins against God and man; sins
against Sabbaths and sacraments; sins
against body and soul; sins against light
and knowledge; sins against Sinai and Cal
vary; sins against the grave and the resur-
rection; sins against the Judgment; sins
against the throne OF God and the MANSIONS
OF glory. l blow the trumpet and call up
all the sins of your past life. / wave them
here from the past. / stamp them up from
beneath-gather them into companies OF
hundreds; into regiments Of thousands; in
to brigades of ten thousands. We have q
host yaster ;han that Of Xerxes. Let the
largest of the hundred sins be captain over
the company. Let the larges, Of the thous-
and iniquities be colonel over the regiment.
Let the swarthiest trsnsgression Of Jour
lifetime be general over all the host: To-
gether let them wheel and march snd fire.
How the couriers Of death dash up
and down the line How the
rrsat batteries Of woe belch
forth the sulphurous smoke Of he'll, and
boom with the canonadipg of eternal de-
structionl The host Of the sins innuner-
able, marching on to cspturethe soal. One
man against g million armed iniquities
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