Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-08-26

| give me great delight. want you by expert
ment to try the power of Christ's religion II
/ should come to you, and you were very sick,
and doctors had given you up and said there
was no chance for you. and should take out
little bottle and say: ''Here is a medicipe
that viii cure you; 4 has cured fifty people,
no confidence ia It," | wouid say: "Won't
you take II TO obligc met" 'Well," you
would say, ''if it's any accommodation to you
| I'll take it.n Ny friend will you be just as
| accommodating In matters OF relgiOnt
RELYING ON THE DIVINE PHYSICIAN.
There are some OF you who have found out
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 1t an insufficient portion. Tell
me of something better" You have come to
that. You are sick for the need of divine
medieament. Now come and tell you of
physician who will cure you, who has cured
hundreds and hundreds who were sick as
| you are. "Oh,n you say. Il have no conf
dence in Him!' But will you not try Hint
| Accommodate me in this matter; oblige me in
this matter; just try Him. am very certain
He will cure you. You reply: Il have no
as matter of accommodation, introduce
Him." So l introduce Him-Chrst the
| physician who has cured more blind eyes, and
healed more CHASTITY wounds, and bound up
more broken hearts, than all the doctors since
| the time OF Escuapius.
That divine physician lie here. Are you not
ready to try Himl VIII you not, as a pure
| matter Of experiment. state your case before
Him nowl Hold nothing back from Him. II
you can not pray, If you do not know how to
| Christ, this is strange thing for me to do!
| know nothing about the formulas of religion.
| These Christian people have been talking SO
| long about what Thou canst do for me, / am
ready to do whatever Thou comnandcst me to
| do. | am ready to take whatever Thou com
mandest me to take. II there be any power in
religion, as these people say, let me have the
| advantage Of it."
| FOLLOWING GREAT MEMS pRECEPTs.
| Win you try that experiment. do not AT
| this point of my discourse, say that there l.
anything in religion; but | simply say try it
| try it, Do not take my counsel or the couns,i
| OF any clergyman, If you despise clergymen.
| Perhaps we may be talking professionally;
perhaps we may be prejudiced in the matter;
| perhaps we may be hypocritical In the utt,r'
ances; perhaps our advice Is not worth taking.
| Then take the counsel Of some very respecta-
| BILE laymen-as John Milton, the poet; as Will
| lam Wherefore, the statesman; as Isaac
| Newton, the astronomer; as l.obcrt Boyle,
| the philosopher; as Locke, the metaphys!-
| clan. They never preached or pretended to
preach; and yet putting down, one his tele-
| scope and another his parliamentary scroll,
and another his electricians wire, they all de-
| clare the adaptedness of Christ's religion to
the wants and troubles of the world. If you
| will not take the recommendation Of ministers
| Of the gospel, then take the recommendation
| OF highly respectable laymen. o, men skepti-
cal and struck through with unrestl would
| you not like to have some OF the peace which
| broods over our souls to-day! / know all
| about your doubts have been through them
| all. have gone through all the curriculum.
| have doubted whether there is God whether
| Christ Is God | have doubted whether the
Bible was true. 1 have doubted the immortal
| ity of the soul. 1 have doubted my own eX-
| istence. ! have doubted everything; and yet,
| out of that hot desert of doubt, have come
| into the broad, luyuriant sunshiny land of
| Gospel hope, and peace, and comforts, so
have confidence in preaching to you and ask
| ing you to come in.
No PEACE FOR THE INFIDEL.
However often you may have spoken
| against the Bible, Or however much you
may have caricatured religion, step ashore
| from that rocking and tumultuous sea.
| If you go away adhering to your intideli-
| ties, you will not sleep one wink tonight.
| You do not want your children to come up
! with your skepticism. You can not afford
| to die in that midnight darkness, can you!
| II you do not believe in anything else you
believe in love-a fathers love, a mothers
| love, a wife's love, a child's love Then let
me tell you that God loves you more than
| them all. o, you must come in. You will
| come in. The great heart of Christ aches
to have you come in, and Jesus this very
moment-whether you sit or stand,looks
into your eyes and says; '''Other sheep l
| have, which are not of this fold.h
Thrd-Again | remark, that the heavenly
| shepherd is going to find great many sheep
among those who have been flung of evil
| habit. 1t makes me mad to see Christian
| people give up a prodigal as lost. There are
| those who talk as though the grace of God
were chain of forty or fifty links, and after
| they had run out there was nothing to touch
| a very bad case. If they were hunting and
| got off the track of the deer they would look
longer 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
| reclaimed, that after a woman has fallen from
| her integrity she can not be restored. The
Bible has distinctly intimated that the Lord
| Almighty is ready to pardon four hundred
| and ninety times; that is seventy times seven.
GODS MERCY TO THE LOWEST.
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 radiant now There
are those who plunged in the very lowest hell
of abominaton, 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 promised 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 OIL, and when the clubroom casts you OIL,
and when society casts you of, when business
associates casts you off, and when father
casts you off, and when mother casts you OIL,
and when everybody casts you off, your first
cry for help will send the eternal God clean
shame. The Good Templars can not save
you, although they are grand institu-
ton The Sons of Temperance can
not save you, although they are mighty for
good. Signing the temperance pledge can
not save you althoug l believe in it. Nothing
but the grace of the Eternal God can save you,
and that will If you will throw yourself on to
it, man said to me: unless God helps
me can not be delivered. / have tried ev'
| erything, sir; hut now have got into the hab-
it of prayer, and when / come to a drinking
saloon / pray that God will take me safely
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.
CHRIsT's SAVING POWER woNDRoUs.
There are here those whose hands so trem
BILE from dissipation that they can hardly hold
will preach the gospel, and on communion day
carry around the consecrated bread, accepta
BILE to every body because Of their holy life ant
their consecrated behavior. The Lord is go
ing to save you. Your home has got to be re
[ built. Your physical health has got to be re
stored. Your worldly business has got to b.
; reconstructed. The church of God Is going t.
, rejoice over your discipleship "Other sheeI
} / have, which are not Of this fold"
While have hope for all prodigals ther;
. /
! full mean those who have been church 90
ers all their life, who have maintained out
ward morality, but who, NOTWITHSTANDING!
: twenty, thirty, forty years of Christian ad
S yantages have never yielded their heart t.
9 | Christ. They are gospel hardened. A ser
mon has no more effect upon them than tn,
, | shining Of the moon upon the city pavement
| As Christ says: "The publicans and harlot
, | will go into tine kingdom of God before them.
| They have resisted all the opportunities of Di
t vine mercy, and have gone during these thir
0 | ty years, through most powerful earthquake
! Of religious feeling, and they are furthe
s | away from God than ever. After awhile the,
e will lie down sick, and some day it will be toll
r that they are dead. No hope! But turn t,
outsiders with hope that thrills through IN
body and soul .Other sheep l have, whcl
: | are not of this fold.
0 SAVED BY THE GOOD SHEPHERD.
e You are not gospel hardened You have no
E heard many sermons during the last feV
b | years. As you came into religious meetin,
: to-day everything was novel, and all tn
y services are suggestive of your early days
!, How sweet the opening hymn sounded in you
e ears, and how blessed 1t Is in this place
q | Everything suppestiye of heaven You do no