Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-04-06

sprinkling or immersion, and what kind
of church he IS going to JOIN. Oh
my friends, II Is a poor time to talk
about Presbyterian catechisms and
Episcopal hturgies and Methodist love
feasts and baptistries to a man that is
coming out of the darkness /
of sin into the glorious light of
the gospel. Why, it reminds me of a
man drowning in the sea, and a life
boat puts out for him, and the man in
the boat says to the man out of the
boat; ~NOw,iif 1 get you ashore are
you going to live on my street ?" First
get him ashore, and then talk about
the nOnessentials of religion. Who
cares what church he joins, if he only
Joins Christ and starts for heaven?
Oh, you ought to have, my brother, an
illuminated face and hearty grip for
every one that tries to turn from his
evil way. Take hold of the same book
with him though his designations
shake the book, remembering that he
that Overcometh a sinner from the en-
TOR of his ways shall save a soul from
death and hide a multitude of sins
Now, 1 have shown you these OBJ
stacles because 1 want you to under
stand / know all the difficulties in the
way; but I am now to tell you how
Hannibal may scale the Alps, and how
the shackles may be unriyeted, and
how the paths of virtue fOrsaken may
be regained. First of all, my brother,
throw yourself on God Go to Him
frankly and earnestly and tell Him these
habits you have, and ask Him If there
is any help in all the resources of ON
nipOtent love, to give it to you. Do
not go with long rigmarOle people
call a prayer, made up of "Ohs, and
"ahs," and forever and ever, amens I"
Go to God and cry for help heIpl
help! and if you can't cry for help,
just look and live. I remember in the
late war I was at Antietam, and I went
into the hospital after the battle and
said to a man: Where are you hurt ?"
He made no answer, but held up his
| arm, swollen and splintered. saw
where he was hurt. The simple fact
is, when a man has a wounded soul, all
he has to do is to hold it up before a
! sympathetic lord and get it healed. It
does not take any long prayer. Just
| hold up the wound. Oh, it is no small
/ thing when a man is nervous and weak
and exhausted, coming from his evil
ways, to feel that God puts two ON
/ nipOtent arms around him and SAYS :
Young man, I Will stand by you. The
mountains may depart, and the
! hills be removed, but L viii never fail
! you" And then, as the soul thinks the
news IS too good to be true, and cannot
! believe it, and looks up in Gods face,
! God lifts His right hand and talks an
oath. an affidavit, saying: GAS I live,
/ saith the Lord God, have no pleasure
| in the death of Him that dieth." Bless
! ed be God for such a gospel as this.
| Cut the slices thin" said the wife to
/ the husband, cor there Will not be
enough to go all around for the children
cut the slices thin % Blessed be God
there is a full loaf for every one that
wants it Bread enough and to spare.
| No thin slices at the Lords table. I
remember when the Master street
hospital in Philadelphia was opened
during the war, a telegram. came, say
ing: ''There viii be 800 wounded men
tonight; be ready to take care of them,
and from my church there went in some
/ twenty or thirty men and women tC
! look after these poor wounded fellows
| As they came, some from one part OF
! the land, some from another, no one
| asked whether this man was from
Oregon, or from Massachusetts, or from
Minnesota, or from New York. There
was a wounded soldier, and the only
question was how to take off the rags
the most gently, and put on the band
age, and administer the cordial. AND
when a soul comes to God, he does no
ask where you came from or what YOU
ancestry was. Healing for your wounds
Pardon for all your guilt. COmfOr
for all your troubles.
| Then, also, 1 counsel you, if you wan
to get back, to quit all your bad assOcia
tiOns. One unhOly intimacy viii fl
your soul with moral distemper. In al
the ages of the church there has no
been an instance where a man kept one
evil associate and was reformed. GC
home today, open your desk, take GU
letter paper, stamp and envelope, anC
then write a letter something like this
MY Old Companions: I start thii
day for heaven. Until am persuaded
you viii join me in this, farewell"
Then sign your name, and send tn,
letter by the first post. Give up you
bad companions or give up heaven. L
is not ten bad companions that DESTROY
a man, nor five bad companions, no
three bad companions, nor two baC
companions, but one. What chance i
there for that young man I saw alOnl
the street, four or five young men will
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urging him to go in, he resisting, VIC
lently resisting, until after while the,
forced him to go in? It was a summe
night and the door was left open, and
saw the process. They held him fast
and they put the cup to his lips, an,
they forced down the strong drink
What chance is there for such a yOunI
man?
counsel you also, seek Christia
advise. Every Christian man is boun
to HELM Won. II YOU find no other hI