Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-13

unto onr W CO save; who is the god like
Oh WI 1"r Iod, that pardoneth iniunitv9
liey.s i iS Jesus is TO the soul that ba.
Chr;st. ~ nm nm. The soul looks up into
Will a., aace ana says: TO what extent
back ' ;mta forgive 70? me?' And Jesus look
termost.' The soul saws: @w;n Q = tne ut
De brought up again" "N Sasi 1t never ever
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AZ a, the Judgment Day?' NO. 's sara
W WIS.,, never in the Judgment Dov"
nat bread is to the hungry. what nv.
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~ olnd, what liberty is To the cant;~ w
that' and more than that, is Christ to NJ
man that trusts Him. ~ sno
r, yust TRY to get Christ away from that
ohrlstlan n Put on that man the thnmh.
S S. Twist it until the bones cracl,
~, ~ .llat loot INTO the iron boot of perse-
s S4 until it is mashed to a puln.
n,,;s;.; .i'o man on the rack of the In
d de 81 ana louder than all the uproar
VI .ne prosecutors you will hear bis
voice, like the voice of Aleyondar Io
erolS, above the cracking faoots, nc be
cried out: oh. Jesus! Oh, my blnssad
Jesus! Oh, divine Jesus. who wo,,ld ,'ot
die for thee?" ~ "e'''' NOT
AGAIN: L remark that Christ is pre-
slous TO the believer, as a friend. You
nave commercial friends, and YOU have
family friends. To the commercial
friend You go when you have business
troubles. You can look back to soma
day-it may have been ten or twenty
Years ago-when, if you had not had
that friend. you would have been en-
1lrely overthrown in business. But I
want to tellyou this morning of Jesus.
1ne pest business friend a man ever had.
he can pull YOU out of the worst per-
piexlties: There are people in this au-
ting down all their worldly troubles at
the feet of Jesus. Why, Christ meets
the business man on the street and says:
y, business man, I know all thy
troubles. I will be with thee. I will
see thee through" Look ont how YOU
try to corner or trample on a man who is
backed up by the Lord God Almighty.
Look out how you trample on him. o.
there is o fnancier that many of our
business men have not found out. Christ
owns all the boards Of trade, all the in
snrance companies, and all the banking
houses. They say that the Vanderbilts
own the railroads; but Christ owns the
Nanderbilts and the railroads, and all
the plottings of stock gamblers shall be
put to confusion, and God with his lit
projects. How often it has been that we
have seen men gather up the riches by
fraud, in a pyramid of strength and
beauty. and the Lord came and blew on
it and it was gone; while there are those
here to-day who, if they could speak out
in this assemblage, or dared to speak
out would say: "The best friend l had
in 1887; the best friend had in 1857; the
best friend l had at the opening Of the
war; the best friend l ever had has been
the Lord Jesus Christ. l would rather
give up all other friends than this one"
But we have also family friends. They
come in when We have sickness in the
household. Perhaps they say nothing;
but they sit down and they weep as the
light goes out from the bright eyes, and
in the blast of death. They watch
through the long night by the dying
couch, and then, when the spirit has
gone, soothe you with great comfort.
They say: Don't cry. Jesus pities you.
All is we'll. You will meet the lost one
again" Then, when your son went off,
breaking your heart, did they not come
and put the story in the very best shape,
and prophesy the return of the prodigal?
Were they not in your house when the
birth angel tapped its wings over your
dwelling? And they have been there at
the baptisms and at the weddings.
Family friends! But ! have to tell you
that Christ is the best family friend. Oh,
blessed is that cradle over which Jesus
bends. Blessed is that nursery where
Jesus walks. Blessed is that sick brow
from which Jesus wipes the dampness.
Blessed is that table where Jesus breaks
the bread. Blessed is that grave where
Jesus stands with his Scared feet on the
uptnrned sod. saving: Il am the resur-
rection and the life; he that believeth
in me, though he were dead, yet shall he
live" Have you a babe in the house?
Put it into the arms Of the great Child
Lover. Is there sick one in the house?
Think of Him who said: "Damsel,
arise. Are you afraid you will come to
want? Think of Him who fed five thou
sand. Is there little one in your house
that yon are afraid will be blind OF deaf
or lame? Think Of Him who touched
boy from epileptic CONFUSION. Oh, He
is the best friend. Look over your fam
lily friends to-day and find another that
can be compared to Him. When we
want our friends, they are sometimes out
of town. Christ is always i'll town. We
find that some will stick to us in pros
perity who will not in adversely. But
Christ comes through darkest night, and
amid ghastliest sorrow, and across
roughest seas, to comfort you. There
are men and women here who would
have been dead twenty years ago but for
Jesus. They have gone through trial
enough to exhaust ten times their ply
steal strength. Their property went.
their health went, their families We're
scattered. God only knows what they
suffered. They are an amazement to
themselves that they have been able to
stand it. They look at their once happy
home, surrounded by all comfort. Gone!
They think of the time when they used
to rise strong in the morning, and walk
vigorously down the street. and had eN-
perienced a health they thought mex
haustible, Gone! Everything gone but
Jesus. He has pitied them. His eye
has watched them. His omnipotence
has been with them. They have gone
through disaster, and he was a pillar of
fire by night. They have gone
across stormy Galilee, but Christ
had his foot on the neck of the storm.
They felt the waves of trouble coming
up around them gradually. and they be-
gan to climb into tie strong rock OF
Gods defense, and then they sang. rs