Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-20

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sicianless. He died in cold sweat and
DIZZINESS and hemorrhage and agony
tLat have put Him in sympathy with all
tie diving. He goes through Chrlsten-
dom and He gathers up the strings out
of ali the death pillows and He puts
them under His own neck ana mead.
He gathers On His own tongue the burn I
ing thirsts of many generations. Inc
sponge is soaked in the sorrows of all
those who have died in their beds as
we'll as soaked in the sorrows OF all
those who persisted i'll icy or merry
martyrdom. While Heaven was plying
and earth was hooking and hell was de-
riding. He took the vinegar.
To all those in this audience to whom
life has been an acerbity-a dose they
could not swallow, draught that SET
their teeth on edge and a-rasping-ia
preach the omnipotent sympathy of
Jesus Christ. The sister of Herschei'
the astronomer. used to help him in his
work. He got all the credit; she got
none. She used to spend much of her
time polishing the telescopes through
which he brought the distant worlds
nigh. and it is my ambition now. this
hour, to clear the lens of your spiritual
vision, so that looking through the dark
night of your earthly troubles you may
behold the glorious constellation of
Saviour's mercy and Saviour's love. .,
my friends, do not try to carry all your
ills alone. Do notputyourpoor shoulder
under the Apeninnes when the Almighty
Christ is ready to lift up all your bur-
dens. When you have a trouble of any
kind, you rush this way, and that way;
and you wonder what this man will say
about it, and what that man will say
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and that prescription, and the other pre-
scription. Oh, why do you not go
straight to the heart of Christ, knowing
that for our own SHINING and suffering
race He took the vinegar!
There was vessel that had been
tossed on the seas Tor great many
weeks, and been disabled, and the sup
ply of water gave out, and the crew were
dying of thirst. After many days they
saw sail against the sky. They sig
naledit. When the vessel came nearer.
the people on the suffering ship cried
to the captain of the other vessel; Send
us some water. We are dying for wa
ter" And the captain of the vessel that
was hailed responded: Dip your buck
cts where YOU are. You are in the
mouth of the Amazon. and there are
scores of miles of fresh water all around
about you, and hundreds of feet deep"
And then they dropped their buckets
over the side of the vessel, and brought
upthe clear, bright, fresh water, and put
out the fire of their thirst. SO hail
you o-day, after a long and perilous
voyage, thirsting as you are for pardon,
and thirsting for comfort, and thirsting
for eternal life; and Task you what is the
use of your going in that death struck
CT Of 1y1, 10 oil Il &c no
clear, wide, sparkling food of Gods
sympathetic mercy. O. dip your buckets,
and drink, and live forever. Whose
ever will, let him come and take Of the
water Of life, freely"
Yet my utterance is almost choked at
the thought that there are people here
who will refuse this divine sympathy;
and they will try to fight their own
battles, and drink their own vinegar,
and carry their own burdens: and their
life. instead of being a triumphal march
from victory to victory, will be hob
bling on from defeat to defeat, until
they make final surrender to retributive
disaster. O, I wish l could to- day
gather up in mine arms all the woes Of
men and women-all their heartaches-
all their disappointments - all their
chagrins-and Just take them right to
the feet of a sympathizing Jesus. He
took the vinegar.
Mana Sahib, after he had lost his last
battle in India, fell back into the jun
giles of Ihera-jungles SO full of malaria
that no mortal could live there. He car
ried with him. also, a ruby of great lus-
ter and Of great value. He died in those
jungles; his body was never found, and
the ruby has never yet been recovered.
And fear that day there are some
that will fall back from this subject into
the sickening, killing jungle of their
sin, carrying gem of infinite value-a
priceless soul--to be lost forever. O,
that that ruby might fash in the eternal
coronation. But no. There are
some. fear, in this audience who turn
away from this offered mercy, and COM
fort, and Divine sympathy; notwith-
standing that Christ, for ali who would
accept His grace, trudged the long way,
and suffered the lacerating thongs. and
received in His face the expectations
of the filthy mob. and for the guilty,
and the discouraged, and the discom-
forted of the race. took the vinegar.
May God Almighty break the infatuation,
and lead you out into the strong hope,
and the good cheer, and the glorious
sunshine of this triumphant Gospel.