The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-12-30
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course they go back TO pay and thank the
man of God for his coun iel 50 fraught with
wisdom. When they lett the prophets house
they went oil mai; they have coma oa;k
glad.
People always think better of minister
after they are converted than they do before
conversion. Now we are to them an intoler-
able nuisance because we tell them to do
things that 90 against the grain, but tsomeo OF
us have great many letters from tn $50 who
tell US that once they were angry at what we
preached, but afterward gla ily received tho
gospel at our hands. Tney once called NJ
IanaJlcs or terrorlsss or enemies; now thy
call Us friends Yonier is q mani speak n
literal fact-who said that he would never
come INTO the church again. He sad that
two years ago. He said: My family shall
never coma here again If such doctrines as
that are preached" But he came agaia and
his family ca ne again. Hs is Christian,
his wife Christian, all his children Chris
tians the whole bo1senold Christians, and
shall dwell with them in the house OF the
Lord forever. Our undying coadJutors arc
those who once heard the gospel am went
away in rage.
''eow, my hearers, YOU notice that this
General Naaman did two things i'll order to
get well. TIE first was--he got oIt of his
chariot. He might have stayed there with
his swollen feeU on the stuffed ottoman,
seated on that embroidered cushion until his
last gasp he would never have got any relief.
He had to get down cut of the chariot And
you have got to get down olt of the char OF OF
your pride if you ever become a Christian,
You cannot drive up to the GRO with
coach and four, and b. saved among al the
spanglesA You seem to think that the Lord
is going to acomplimented by your coming.
Oh, no; you poor, miserable, scaly, leprous
sinner get down out of that We all come
in the same naughty way. We expect to
ride into the kingdom of God, Never until
we get down on our knees VIII we ind mercy.
The Lord has unhorse1 US uncharioted US.
Get down out of your pride Get down out
| of your self-rightsousness and your hyLer-
criticism. We have all got to do that. That
| is the journey we have got to make on our
knees 1t is our Internal pride that keeps us
| from getting rid of the leprosy OF sin. Lear
| Lord, what have we 10 be proud Of! Proud OF
| our sca.e,' f'ruud of our uncleauness! Proud
| OF this killing infec ction! Bring us down at
! Thy feet, weeping, praying, pentent, peiiev-
| Ing suppllants.
"For sinners Lord, Thou canest to bleed,
| And Pm sinner vile indeed;
Lord, l believe Thy grace is free,
Oh, magnify that grace in me"
But he had not only to get down out OF
| his chariot. He had to wash "Jhm you
say. Il am very careful with my abtutlons.
Every day plunge into bright ana oeautl,
| full bath" All, my hearers, there IS n OIL
| brighter tnAD any OlIIe! IL 10 oiO I4c't tliAS
| breaks from the granite of the eternal bills.
| II is the flood of pardon and peace and life
| and heaven. That flood artel in the tears
| of Christ and the sweat of Gethemane ana
rolled on, accumulatins food, until all earth
and heaven could bathe in 1t. re harlah
called it the fountain open for sin and uh-
cleauness.n William C9wper called it the
fountain filed with blood" our fathers
and mothers washei all their sins and sorrows
away in that fountain. Oh, my heartrs, d ;
YOU not to-day feel like wading int) l5! " ado
down now into this glorious flood, deeper,
deeper, deeper, Plunge ONE, Twice tnrl 'e'
four times, five times, six times seven timex
II will take as much as that to cure your soul
| Oh wash, wash wash and be clean.
suppose that was great time aG ainas
Gus when General Naaman got ia * lh'
charioteers d not have to drive slowly any
longer, lest they jolt the Invalid; oet as ta'
horses dashed through the streets OF Damas-
cus. I thiuk the people rushed out to hail
hack their chieftan Naamans wife hardly
recognized her husband. he was 50 wonder
fuIly changed she had to look at him two or
three times before she made out tnat IL was
her restored husband And the niue eaptlye
maid. she rushed out, clapplng her han1s
8hd7skouting: 'Did he cure you' Did he
cure YOUR Then music woke up the pala q
and the ta2estry of the windows was draw,s
away, that the multitude outside might MIN
gle with the princely mirth inside, and the
feet went up and down in the dance and all
the streets Of Damascus that night echoe
and re.echoed with the news: "Naamans
cured! Naaman's cured"
But gladder time than that it would be i,
all this place OF wherever this sermon shall
be read, if the soul should GET cured ol u,
to the Kings chariot woald rush the news
into the eternal city Our loved ones before
the throne would welcome the glad t,dlngs.
Your children on earth with more emotion
than the little Hebrew captive would notice
the change in your looks and the change IN
around your neck and say: Mother, guess
you must have become a christian ia ,her'
think you have got rid of the lepi 'sy Oh,
Lord God of Elisha, have mercy oil lSi