The Brookhaven leader., 1888-06-07

er. He said, though ne nau TeNcESeu INV
engine, it seemed as though 1t were going
at lightning speed, faster and faster
though il was really slowing up, and with
almost supernatural strength he caught
the child by the hair and lifted it up. and
when the train stopped and the passen'
gers gathered around to see what was the
matter, there the old engineer lay, tainted
dead away, the little child alive in his
swarthy arms.
"Uh!' you say, "that was we'll done"
But | want you to exercise some kindness
and some appreciation toward those in
community who are snatching the little
ones from under the wheels of temptation
and sin-snatching them from under
laundering rail-trains Of eternal dis
aster. bringing them up into respectable
i,y in this world and into glory for the
world 10 como. You appreciate what the
engineer did, why can you not appreciate
the grander work done by every sabbath
school teacher this afternoon?
OIL my friends, want 10 impress upon
myself and upon yourselves that 1t is not
the number of talents we possess, but the
use we make az them.
God has royal family in the world.
Now. if should ask:
"Who are the royal families OF his
tory" you would say: blouse of Haps-
burg. house OF StuartS, house of Bour-
Sons" They lived in palaces and had
great cquipag *. Eut who is the LORDS
royal familyf som, of them may serve
you in the household, some of them are In
unlightCd CorrctS, some Of them vii!
walk this afternoon down the street, on
their arm a basket Of broken food;
some of them are in the almShouse, de-
spised and rejected of men; yet in the
last great day while it will be found that
some OF us who Jared sumptuously every
day are hurled back into discontinue,
there are the lame that will take the prey.
One step further: There are great
many people discouraged about getting to
Heaven. You are brought up in good
families, you had Christion parentage;
but You frankly tell me that you are
thousand miles away from the right
track.
Ny brother, you src tho one I want to
preach To this morz NJ. Ihavc been look
ing for you. Wi, ELL you how you got
astray. II was not righteousness on your
part. It was perhaps through the genial
i'y and sociality OF your nature that yon
fell into sin. You wandered away from
your duty, you unconsciously left the
house of God; you admit tn" Gospel 10 be
true. and vet YOU have so grievously aud
so prolongedly wandered You say re- cue
is impossible.
1t would take week to count up the
names of those in Heaven who were Oh
earth worse than yuu tell me you are.
They went the whole round of iniquitY,
thcg disgraced them selves, they di-
graccd their household, they de paired of
return because their reputation was gone,
their property was gone, every thing was
gone; but in some hour like this they
heard the voice of God, and threw
themselves on the d ivine compassion, and
they rose up more than conquerors. And
| tell You there is the same chance tor
You. That is one reason why | Ike to
preach this Gospel, so free Il Gospel, so
tremendous Gospel. 1t takes man all
wong, and makes him all right.
In former settlement where preached
n member Of my congregation quit the
house of God. quit respectable circles,
went into all styles Of sin, and was slain
of his iniqIity. The day for his burial
came, and his body was brought to the
house of God. Some of his comrades
who had destroyed him were overheard
along the stree I, on the way To the burial
saying: Come, let Us 60 and hear Tai
mage damn this old sinner",,' Oh. I had
nothing but tears fer the dead and had
nothing but invitations for the living
You see | could not 60 otherwise
Christ Jesus came To seek and save that
which was lost" Christ in His dying
PRAYER said: Father, forgive them,
and that was n prayer Cor you and for me.
Oh, start on the road to Heaven to-day
You are not happy. The thirst Of your
soul will never be slakcd by the fountains
Of sin. You turn everywhere but to GOD
for help. Right whore you are, call on
Him. He knows you, He knows all about
YOU, He knows all the odds against which
You have been ContenGing in life. Do 70
go to Him with Il long rigmaro}e of a
prayer, but just look up and say: Help,
help"
But you say: my hand trcmb,cs SC
from my designations, | can't even take
hold of a hymn book to sing" Do not
worry about that, my brother; 1 will give
youa hymn ut the close so familiar you
can sing it without a book. But You say:
81 have such terrible habits on me, ]
can't get rid of them" My answer is.
Almighty grace can break up that habit
and will break it up. Bat you say:
The wrong did was to one dead aa(
IN Heaven now, and | can't correct thai
wrong"
You can correct it. BY the grace o!
God, 90 into the presence of that one, and
the apologies You ought to have mado on
earth make in Heaven.
son" says some man, off should try
to do right, if | should turn away from my
evil doing unto the Lord, l would be
jostled, would be driven back, nobody
would have any sympathy for me-"
You are mistaken. Here in the presence
of the church on earth aud in Heaven, ]
give You to-day the right hand Of Chris
tian fellowship. God sent me here to day
to preach this, and He sent you here to
hear this:
Let the wicked forsake his ways. ANA the un,
righteous man his thoughts and let him return
unto the Lord, who will have mercy, and unto
our God, who will abundantly pardon.
Though you may have been tho worst
sinner, you may become the best saint,
and in the great Day of Judgment it will
be found that "Whcre sin abounded, grace
does much more abound" and while the
spoils of an everlasting kingdom are be-
ing awarded for your pursuit it will be
found that the lame took the prey.
Blessed be God that we are, this Sabbath,
one week nearer the ObliteratiOn of all the
inequalities of this life and all its dis.
quietudes.
Years ago, on Il boat on the Nortl
River, the pilot gave very sharp ring tc
! the bell for the boat to slow up. The en-
| gineer attended to the machinery, and
! then he came up, with some alarm, or
deck to sec what was the matter He saw