The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-06-13

that can do" But how are you going to
lest your love, and test your earnestness?
NY text gives a test. it says that while
Christ carried cross for you, you must be
willing to carry cross for Christ. well,
you say, 81 never could understand that.
There are no crosses to be carried in this
land; those prosecutions have passed; and
in all the land there is no one to be cruci-
fed, and vet in the pulpit and in the
prayer-meeting youall keep talking about
carryinga cross. What do you mean, sir
1 mean this: That is a cross which Christ
calls you to 90, which is unpleasant and
hard. ooh" YOU say, latter hearing the
story OF this Christ and all that He has
endured for me, / am ready 10 do any
thing for him. Just tell me what | have
TO do and I'll 90 it. L am
ready to carry any cross. Sup
pose should ask you at the close of re-
hgious service to rise up announcing your
self on the Lords side, could you do it :?
90 no, you say, Il have a shrinking and
a sensitive nature and it would be impOs-
sible for me to rise up before large as
semblage, acknowledgements on the Lords
side" Just as l feared. You cannot stand
that cross. The first one that is offered you
you reject Christ carried a mountain,
Christ carried a Himaaya, Christ carried
a world for you, and you cannot lift
an ounce for Him. But here is n
man whose cross will be TO an
nounce among his business asso-
ciateS tomorrow morning on exchange
that he has begun a new life, that while
he wants to be faithful in his worldly
duties, he is living for another world, and
he ought to advise all those who are his
associates, so far as he can influence them,
to begin with him the Christian life Could
you do that. my brethren? ooh, no. you
say, 'not just that. / think religion is re-
ligiOn and business IS business, and it
would be impossible for me to recommend
the Christian religion in places of worldly
business" just as / feared. There is a
second cross offered you and YOU can
not carry it. Christ lifted a mountain
for you; you cannot lit an ounce
for Him. There is some one whose
cross will be to present religion
in the home circle. Would YOU dare to
kneel down and pray il your brother and
sister were looking at you? Could you
ask blessing at the tea table2 Could you
take the bible and gather your family
around you and read OF Christ and heaven
and your immortal soul2 Could you then
kneel and pray for a blessing on your
household? "Ohw you say, mot exactly
that l couldn't quite do that, because L
have a very quick temper, and If | pro-
fessed religion and tried 10 talk religion
in my household, and then after that l
should lose my temper they would scott
at me and say: You are pretty
Christian = So You are cowed down
and their sarcasm keeps YOU out
OF heaven and away from Christ, when
under God you ought to take your whole
family into the kingdom. Christ lifted
a mountain, lifted a world for you; you
cannot lit an ounce for Him. / see how
ii is, you want TO BE favorable TO religion,
you want 10 support Christian institutions,
you like TO be associated with those who
love Jesus Christ, but as to taking posi-
tive step on this subject you cannot, you
cannot, and my text, like a gate of a hun
dred bolts, bars you away from peace on
earth and glory in heaven. An officer of
a neighboring church told me that he was
In a store in New York ust happened
in-where there were many clerks, and a
gentleman came in and said to a Young
man standing behind the counter: Are
you the young man that arose the other
night in the Brooklyn Tabernacle and
asked for prayers?" Without any flush
of cheek he replied: 81 am. j haven't
always done right and I have been quite
bad, but since / arose for prayers | think
j am better than | was" 1t was
only his way OF announcing that he had
HldIltu III Iilt nAEllfi lllts hUu Will uOb
cast out man who is brave enough TO
take a step ahead like that. / tell you
these things this morning because, my
dear friends, / want TO show you how
light the cross is that we have to carry
compared with that which Christ carried
for us. You have not had the flesh torn
off for Christ's sake in carrying your cross.
He tainted dead away under His cross
You have not carried the cross until it
fetched the blood. Under His there was
q pool of carnage that FLASHED the horses
fetlocks. You have friends to sympathize
with you in carrying the cross. Christ
frod the wine press OF Gods wrath alone,
alonel The cross that you and / ought TO
carry represents only a few days OF few
years OF trial. The cross that Christ carried
for Us had compressed into it the agonies
OF eternity There has someone come here
to-day whom you have not observed. He
did not come through the front door; He
did not come down any OF these aisles, yet
i know He is here He is from the East,
the far East. lie comes with blistered
foot and broken heart and cheeks red, not
with health, but with blood from the tenn
pies. I take hold of His coat and say
TT does not seem to fl Thee" mo" He
says. st is not mine: 1t Is borrowed: it