The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-16

hat is in the way. off with it; will run into the
streets of God bareheaded, coatless and shoeless
| If that is necessary to make the gates in
| safety That is the language of man in earn
| est. And / will tell you, brother. the angels Of
| God look over the parapet of heaven and watch
with all its ransomed powers TO make the city of
God in safety and peace and make their future
home in heaven forever. Will you start out to-
nights Take up your cross. Do your duty, be
faithful to God. Be faithful to right, brother.
an some day we will get to heaven. We will
get to heaven. Faith without works. is dead,
being alone
when Jesus prefgured the Judgment, ne
said 4 was sick and We visited me: l was
naked and ye clothed me; / in prison and
We came to me; inasmuch as you went about
doing good to these you did it unto
Me; enter thou into the kingdom OF our
Lord forever Gracious Father. give US Thy re-
ligion, that makes 60 about doing good, that
makes US the best fathers that children ever had.
and the best mothers that children ever had and
the best children that parents ever had and the
best citizens that any city in the world can claim.
That is the sort we want. And I will tell you all
that you can make Indianapolis such city as
God Himself will just extend the streets in the
New Jerusalem right along line with you
and incorporate the whole into the city of God,
aud make you all New Jerusalem forever This
is a possibility. God give US perfect liberty in
Thy service here and perfect freedom from sin.
!, There is another class of prisoners with hope
That is those men and women who are attend
ing these meetings. and they say i have got
| personal interest; want to be saved Brother,
you are penitent to night; you are sorry you are
a sinner; you are sorry you have done bad L
want to tell you another thing, that there are
| just thousands of people all over America that
are tired of life of sin. Oh, brother, you need
rest don't you? Don't you need restl That
father, that mother [point ting at the audiencel.
| don't you need restl Don't you hunger for q
better life? Don't you want to be better man
md hatfn ont ho
lessor here tonight has got in his heart of hearts
the burning desire 10 do good and to be good. l
know what my life was Whenever sat down
and began to think over my own case got mis-
cradle, that with all the lights and privileges
had, oh what a bad man was. am sorry for it.
1 wish l was good. and I have said 1t
Thousand times as sinner-I wish was
good man; would give anything in the world II
| was good man. Walking along in that mood
l would meet some precious old man of God or
some good woman and would say to myself Il
would give the universe, if I had it right now,
II was as good as that man, If L was as good as
that woman was not altogether bad. When
ever thought of myself all down in nay heart
of hearts God knows wanted to be good man.
l did. In my better moments | never saw the
day that did not want to be good. know how
| restless I was My life for three or four years
before | converted was turbulent indeed.
Ii l would sit down an hour and think OF my
life, think of myself, would almost be insane.
Oh, brother, sin makes us insane That is the
truth about it. | recollect brother. when all
wretched and undone, tossed and driven by
thousand sins and temptations, how very was
like that little lake of Gennasaret. You see it
down there hid away with the mountain, on all
| sides, and and then the four winds
of heaven would contend as to which
should have this little lake for its own, and they
would bear down upon that little lake, and d.
recty it would begin its restless notion and
one day Jesus, as he rode upon that little lake,
the squaH came down upon it, and lie was
asleep on deck: and the little vessel began to
pitch, and toss, and roll and Jump under the
pressure of the tides and waves, and the wind,
and the disciples were affrignted and ran to Him
| and walked Him up and said: Master, we will
| be engulfed. Look at this storm all about u.s.
| And Jesus rose up and looked out on
the angry, foaming, restless sea, walked up to
the PROV of the little ship, and pulled the lake
| upon His knee, and dangled it to sleep like
mother would an infant child, and said Peace,
| be still And they looked out and said, What
| calm-what a calm And when / came to
Him, with nature all tossed and driven by ten
thousand storms, He pulled up to His great
loving heart, and said, Peace, be STILL and
walked off, saying, Now, glory be to God; there
is no wave of trouble rolls across my peaceful
breast Brother don't you grieve for that spirit
of peace, to-night Don't your heart long for
that spirit of peace tonight Oh come
with all your guilt and fears; coEfsss, and
fall at His feet and Jesus is as ready to hush
the storm of your nature as He was TO dangle
that little lake to sleep upon His knee and make
it rest in quiet If you feel in your heart to-
night like you want to be a good man, God
touched your heart and now you feelit the same
good spirit that reused that feeling in your ma
ture stands ready to carry it on now unto the
feet of Jesus Christ Foster your good feelings.
Yield to your impressions, and then above every
thing else say tonight i resolve here and
to give my heart to God, and to cease life of
SIM
'sThere is another class of prisoners with
hope. That is that man that came here listless
and careless to night; came through curiosity
| maybe. He has not thought about his soul
| maybe for five years; but now, as he sits and
| looks at me in the face, he says We'll, after
ALL there is something in religion for me; | wish
/ was good man; this is the first sermon have
heard for five years; don't know hardly how /
| ever came to be sitting under the sound of
this sermon. But my brother, if down in
the chambers of your soul tonight the gospel
reaches out in peace and love, yield to the good
| impression and be prisoner OF hope all the rest
of your days Be freeman Of God in the sweet
by and bye. Oh, my brother. God Is ready and
willing to save you tonight and so let this null
titude of thousands OF people go away if they
want to tonight I am going to have peace with
God or will stay in this house until the sun
rises tomorrow morning; and | am in earnest
about It,. Thank God, we can sue for peace
with the consciousness that we shall have it.
Nov TO the other side Of the question mo-
ment There three classes of prisoners
| without hope. The first class we read Of in this
book are the angels who kept not their first es-
tate They sinned against God and were cast
down in chains of everlasting darkness. And
|! this book assures US that while the atonement
was made for fallen man, and gospel notes have
been sounding through this world for sixty CEN
turtles. yet in that lone land of deep despair no
Sabbath heavenly light has ever shown,
and no ray of hope has ever lit up
the dark dungeon of the home of the lost spirits.
Oh it makes my soul shudder as look down on
picture like that. There they are amid the
clankinp of their chains there thew ara among
the horrors of their terrible condition. and there
| they are for ever and ever, without a spark of
hope ray of heavenly day. Itlnakes mans
soul shudder to look upon a picture like that;
| but brother, we never saw angels. We don't
know how to sympathize with them. Angels
don't have bodies we do They know nothing
about wrinkles, or gray hairs, grave yards. like
we have.