Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-09-03

cure you: 10 has cure fifty people and It will
cure you you would say: ~ have no conf
dence in itn would say: "Won't Won take
Il 10 obligo meF' well" you would say, 'ff
IT'S any accommodation Co you III take it.n
Ny friend VIII Won be just as accommodating
in matters Of religionl
There are some OF You who have found
out that this world cannot satisfy your soul.
You are like the man who told me after the
seTvioe wa over: 81 have tried this world
and found it an insufficient portion Tell
me Of som4thing bettern You have come
to that You are sick for ths need Of divine
.nedicament Now, come and tell Won or
physician who will cure you, who has
cured hundreds and hundreds who were sick
as you are. oh you say, II have no con-
fidence in him." But will you try him. Ac-
commodate me in this matter; oblige me in
this matter; just try him. 1 am very GER
tain he will cure you. You reply: 81 have
no special confidence in him. but if You ask
me as matter of accommodation, introduce
him. So 1 introduce him-Christ, the
physician who has cured more blind eyes,
aud healed more CHASTITY wounds and bound
up more broken hearts, than all the doctors
since the time of Aisculapius
Tie Divine Physician is here. Are you
not ready to try himl VIII You not as G
pure matter of experiment. state your case
before him nowl Holding nothing back
from Him: If you cannot pray, II you do
not know how 10 pray any other way. sav:
sob, lord Jesus Christ this is strange
thing for me to do! l know nothing about
the formula of religion. These Christian
People have been talking so long about what
thou calst do for me, am ready to do what.
ever Thou commandest me to do. lam ready
TO take whatever Thou commandest me to
take. Ii there be any power in religion, as
of it"'
VIII you try that experiment. do not at
this roiut of my discourse say that there is
anything ia religion; but simply say try it
try 1t. 10 not take my counsel, or the
counsel of any Clergyman, if you despise
clergymen. Fo~haps we may be talking pro-
tes ionauyi perhaps we may be preiudiced
in the matter; perhaps we may be hypocriti al
III our utteranceS; perhaps our advice is not
worth taking. Then take tho counsel of some
very reSpe ,tabio laym1n-as John Milton,
tia poet; as William Wilberforce the states
man; as Isaac Newton, the astronomer: as
Robert Boyle, the philosopher; as Locke, the
metaphysician. They never preached or
pretended to preach; and yet putting down,
one his telescope aud another his rarlia-
mentary SCI oil AMI another his elect' iciau's
wire, they all do lare the adaptiveness of
Christ's religion to the wants and troubles
of tho world. If you will not take the
recommendation of ministers OF the
gospel, then take tie recommendation OF
highly respe table laymen. Oh, men, skepti-
cal and struck Through with unrest, would
you not like to have some OF the IcaCe which
br0cdj over our souls to-day! l know all
about your doubts | have been through
them all. l have gone through al the cur
rlculum. l have doubted whether there is a
God, whether Christ is God. | have doubted
whether the Bible was true. have doubted
tho Immortality of the soul. | have doubted
my own existence, l have doubted every
thing, and yet, olt Of that hot desert of
doubt, lhave come into the broad, luxuriaut,
slnshiny land of gospel hope, and pea e, and
comfort: so have confden~ in preaching to
you, and a'Iing you to come in. However
often you may haI spoken against the Bible,
or however Inu h You may have caricatured
religion, step ashore from that rocking and
tumu,tnols ecl. If you goaway adhering to
your infdelit eS, you viii not sleep one wink
toni. h5. Yoi do not want your children to
come up with your skepticism. You cannot
afford to e in that midnight darkness, can
yoL! If you do not believe in anything else,
you believe in love--a faith IRIS love- moth
or's love- wife's love- child's love. Then
let me tell you that God loves you more than
they do. Oh! you must come in. You will
come in. The great heart of Christ aches to
have you come in, and Jesus this very mo-
ment-whether you sit or stand-looks into
your eyes and says: Other sheep have,
which are not Of this fold
3. Aca'n, remark, that the Heavenly
Shepherd is going to find great many sheep
among those who have been flung of evil
habit. ltmabes me feel mad to see Christian
people give up prodigal as lost There
are those who talk as though the grace
of God were a chain of forty or fifty
links, and after tn ~ had run cut there
was nothing to touch q very bad case. If
they were hunting, and got off the ira. k of
the deer, they would look Ion or among the
banks and the bushes for the lost game than
they have been looking for that lost soul.
People tell us that if man has delirium ire
mems twice that he cannot be reclaimed; that
after woman has fallen from her integrity
she cannot be restored. The Bible has dis
tinctly intimated that the Lord Almighty 10
ready to pardon 400 times; that is seventy
times seven There are men before the throne
of God who have wallowed in every kind
of sin: but, saved by the grace of Jesus, and
washed in his blood, they stand there radi-
ant now. There are those who plunged in
the very lowest he of abomination, who for
the tenth time have been lifted up and,
finally, by the Grace of God they stand in
Heaven gloriously rescued by the grace prom
ised to the chief of sinners. Iwant to tell You
that God loves to take hold of a very bad case.
When the church casts you off, and when the
club room casts you off, and when society
casts you off, AMI when business associates
cast you OF, and when father casts you off,
aud when your mother casts you off, and
when everybody casts you off, your first cry
Tor help viii send the eternal God clean down
into the ditch off your suffering and shame.
The Good Templar5 cannotsave you, althou gh
they are a grand institution. The Sons of
Temperance cannot save you although they
are mighty for good. Signing the temperance
pledge cannot save you, although | believe in
it. Nothing but the grace of the eternal God
can save you, and that will if you will throw
yourself on it. man said to me: UNLESS
God helps me I cannot be delivered. / have
tried everything, sir; but now have got into
the habit of prayer, and when l come to a
drinking saloon pray that God will take me
sa ely past, and pray until | am past. He
does help me-" For every man given to
strong drink there are scores of traps set,
and no one but the everywhere present God
can see that man through OH they talk
about the catacombs of Naples, and the eata-
| combs Of Rome, and the catacombS OF Egypt
the burial places under the city VIII ore the
dust of great multitude le-but tell you
New York has its catacombs, Nashville has
its catacombs, aud New Orleans is cata-
combs, and Boston its catacombs, and Phi.a-
delphia its catacambs, and every town an
city nei2hborhood its ca'a ,ombs. They az 9
th1 un .ergrouh1; restaurants full of dead
mems bones and all unJ eanneSs. Young
man, yoI know it. God help you'll There
is TO need Of going into the art
gallery to see in skill ,ul scul pture that
wonderful repre- sentaton of a man and his
sons wound around with sarpents. There
are families represented in this au lienee that
are wrapped in the martyrdom of fang and
ale and venon-a living LAGOON Of Shost-
illness and horror. What are you to do?
Do not put your trust in bromide of potas-
SUM, Or i'll Jamaica ginger, OF anything else
that apothecaries can mix Put your trust
only in the eternal God, and he will see you
through. So ne of you do not have tempta-
ton every day. 1t is periodic temptation
that comes every six weeks, or every thrse