Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-12-24

his attendants look a. him and say: "Why,
General how much better YOU do looS.n
And be bows second time into the food
aud he comes up and the wild stare is gone
out of his eye He bows the third time into
the flood and comes u and The shriyeed
flesh has got smooth again. He bows the
fourth time into the food and comes up and
the hair that had fallen ont is re'toret n
thick locks again all over the brow. He
bows the fifth time into the Sood and comes
up and the hoarseness has gone out of his
throat. He bows the sixth time aud
comes up and all the soreness aud anguish
have gone out of the limbs "Why,n he saws
81 am almost well, but | will make q com
plete cure, and be bows the seventh time
into the flood, and he come up, and no. SO
mu h as a tester, or a scale, or an eruption
as big as the heal OF pin is to be seen on
him. He steps oJt ON the bank and says:
''ls it poSsible" and tlie attendants look and
say: rs it p0SSibleg and as with the health
of an athlete, he bounds back into tne
chariot and drives on there goes up from AL
his atten ants wild "Hu "a! huGzam OF
course they go back to pay and thank the
man of God for his coun, ,ei so fraught with
wisdom. When they left the prophets house
they Went or mali they have CONS ba TX
glad.
People always think better of minister
after they are converted than they do before
conversion. Now we are to them an intoler-
things that go against the grain; but some Of
us have great many let6ers from those who
tell us that once they were angry at what we
preached, but afterward gladly received the
gospel at our bands. They once called us
TanaUlcS OF JerrOrlSJS or enemleS; now til "
call US friends. Yon Ter is a mani speak a
literal fact-Hho said that he would never
come into the church again. He said that
two years ago, He said: MY family shall
never come here again if such doctrines as
that are preached" But he came again and
his family q ne again. He is a Christian
his wife a Christian, all his children Chris
tians, the whole household Christians, and |
shall dwell with them in the house of the
Lord forever Our undying coadjutors are
those who once heard the gospel AMI went
away i'll rage
"Now, my hearers, you notice that this
General Naaman did two things in order to
get we'll The first waS-he got out of his
chariot. He might have stayed there with
his swollen feeG on the stuffed ottoman,
seated on that embroidered cushion unit his
last gasp, he would never have got any relief.
He had to get down out of the chariot. And
you have got to get down o 1T of the char.o of
your pride if you ever become a Christian.
You cannot drive up to the Gro with
coach and four, and Be saved among all the
spangles. You seem to think that the Lord
Is going to obecomplmented 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 expee to
ride into the kingdom of God. Never until
we get down on our knees VIII we find mercy.
The Lord has unhorsed us, uncharioted us.
Get down out of your pride. Get down out
of your elfright 9ousness and your hyper-
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
frt IN getting rid of the leprosy OF sin. Dear
Lord, what haYc we 10 be proud of! Proud 0 ;
our scales Proud Of our uncleanneSs9 Proud
OF this killing inte ;tion! Bring us down at
Thy feet weeping, praying, penitent, beliey-
ing suppllants
"For sinners, Lord, Thou earnest to bleed,
And Pm a sinner vile indeed
Lord, believe Thy grace is free,
Oh, magnify that gra,e in me-"
But he had not only to get down out of
his chariot He had to wash. "Jhn you
say. II am very careful with my ablutions.
Every day plunge into a bright and beauti-
ful BATH All, my hearers there is fl cd
brighter than any other 1t is the food that
breaks from thu gTa ite of the eternal hills.
1t is the hooi of pardon and peace and life
and heaven. That iood artel in the tears
OF Christ and the sweat Of Gethemane and
rolled on, ac unulatin flood until all earth
and heaven could battle in it. Le hariah
called it the fountain open for sin and un-
cleanness.n William C)wper called it the
lODHlulu bllGh "lbu blOOu OuI lulueTS
and mothers washed all their sins and sorrows
away in that fountain. %, my hearers, d,
you not to-day feel like wading into it! " ade
down now into this glorious flood, deeper,
deeper, deeper Plunge once, twice, thlire,
tour times five times, six times seven times.
1t will take as much as that to cure your soul
Oh wash, wash wash and b. clean
| suppo5e that was great time at Eamas
cls when General Naaman got ba k. Ths
Charioteers d d not have to DIVE slowly any
longer, lest they Jolt the invalid; Lut as the
horses ashad through the streets of DANA
Gus, | think the people rushed out to had
back their chieitan. N6aman's wife hardly
recognized her husband he was 50 wonder
fully changed she had to look at him two or
three times before he made out that it was
her restored husband. And the little captive
maid, she rushed out capping her hands
and shouting: Ibid he cure you. Did he
cure vouln Then music WOKE up the pala q
and the tapestry of the windows was drawn
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 cf Damascus that night echoed
and re-echoed with the news: "Naaman's
cured! Naaman's cured"
But gadder time than that it would be in
all this place or wherever this sermon shall
be read, if the soul should get cure1 Of its
leprosy The swiftest white horses hit2hed
tothe Kings chariot would rush the news
into the eternal city. Our loved ones before
the throne would welcome the glad tidings.
Your children on earth with more emotion
than the little Hebrew captive would notice
the change in your looks and the change in
your manner, aud would put their arms
around your neck and say "Mother, guess
you must have become christian Father,
think you have got rid of the lepI osy." Oh,
Lord God of Elisha have mercy Sn uSl