The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-08-27

So there are those here to-day who are
safe on the shore Of Gods mercy, but 1
see there are soms who are freezing in the
rigging of sin. aud surrounded by perilous
storms. Pull away, my lads! Let us
reach them. Alas! one is washed off and
gone! There is one more to bs saved. Let
US push out for that one. "Clu.ch the
rope, . dying man! Clutch it as with .
death grip. Steady now, on the slippery
places. Steady! There: Saved Savea.'
Just as l thought. For Christ has declared
that there are soma still in the breakers
who shall come ashore.
Other sheep have which are not OF this
fold.
Christ commands his ministers to be
fishermen, and when 60 fishing do not
wantto go among other churches, but into
the wide world; not sitting along small
creek where eight or ten other persons are
sitting with hook and line; but, Ike the
fishermen of Newfoundland, sailing on
and dropping net away outside forty or
fifty miles from shore. Yes, there are
church .goers here who Will come in.
Next Sabbath they will again lie in the
religious service. They are this moment
being swept into Christian associations.
Their voice will be heard in public prayer.
They will die in peace, their bed sur.
rounded by Christian sympathies, amt
be carried out by devout men to be buried,
and on their grave be chiseled the words:
Precious In the sight of the Lord is the
death of His saints.
And on resurrection day you will get
up with the dear children you have al.
ready buried, and with your Christian
parents who have already won the palm.
And all that grand and glorious history
begins now.
Other sheep have, which are not OF this
fold.
l remark again: The Heavenly Shep.
herd is going to find a great many of his
sheep among those who are positive re.
jecters of Christianity. l do not know
how you came to reject Christianity. 1t
may have been through hearing Theodore
Parker preach. or through reading Re.
mans "Life of Jesus" or through the inf
del talk of some young man in your store.
1t may have been through the trickery Of
gusted YOU with religion. l do not ask
you how you became SO; bu. you frankly
tell me that you do reject it. You do not
believe that Christ is a divine being, al
though you admit that he was very
good man. You do not believe that the
Bible was inspired of God, although YOU
think that there are some very fine
things in it. You believe that the Scrip
tural description of Eden was only an ale
legory. There are fifty things that I be-
leve that you do not believe.
And vet you are an accommodating
man. Every body that knows you says
that of you. Ii 1 should ask You to do
kindness for me. or if any one else should
ask Of you kindness, you would 90 1t.
Now have kindness to ask of you to.
day. 1t is something that will cost you
nothing and will give me great delight.
want you. by experience, to try the
power of Christ's religion. If should come
to you, and you were very sick, and doc.
tors had given YOU mp and said there was
no chance for You, and should take out
little bottle and say:
"Here is medicine that will cure you;
it has cured fifty people and it will cuie
YOU"
You would say: 81 have no confidence
in it."
Iwou!d say: "Won't you take it to
obliec me-"
"Weli." YOU would say, eff it's any &C.
to you III! take it,
Ny friend, will you he just as accommo.
dating in matters Of religion:
There are some of you who have found
GU. that this world can not satisfy Your
soul. You are like the man who told me
after the service was over:
81 have tried this world and found it DC
portion. Tell me of something
better"
You have come 70 that. You are sick
for the need of Divine medicament. Now
1 come and tell you OF physician VINO
will cure you, who has cured hundreds
and hundreds who were sick as you are.
"Oh," you say, 81 have no confidence in
him."
But will you not try him: Accommodate
me in this matter: oblige me in this mat
ter; just try him. l am very certain he
will cure you. You reply: 81 have no
special confidence in him; but if you ask
me as c matter of accommodation. introduce
him." So introduce him-Christ, the
physician who has cured more blind eyes,
and healed more CHASTITY wounds, and
bound up more broken hearts, than all tho
doctors since the time of -Esculapius.
That Divine physician is here. Are you
not ready to try him! VIII you not as a
pure matter of experiment state your case
before him now: Hold nothing back from
him. If you can not pray, il you do not
know how to pray any other way, say:
"Oh, Lord Jesus Christ, this is a strange
thing for me to do! know nothing about
the formulas of religion. These Chri stan
people have been talking 50 long about
what thou canst do for me. am ready to
do whatever thou commanded me to do.
am ready to take whatever thou command.
est me to take. II there be any power in
religion, as hese people say. let me have
the advantage of it."
willvou try that experiment! I do not
at this point Of my discourse say that
there is anything in religion; but l simply
say try it-try it. Do not take my coun-
sci, or the counsel of any clergyman, if
you despise clergymcn. Perhaps we may
be talking professionally: perhaps We may
be hypocritical in our utterances; perhaps
our advice is not worth taking. Then
take the counsel Of some very respectable
laymen-as John Milton, the poet; as
wilberfo,ce, the statesman: as
Isaac Newton, the astronomer; as Robert
Boyle, the philosopher; as Locke, the
They never preached or
pretended to preach; and yet putting
down-one his telescope, and another his