Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-03-24

1t is the lost, after all, that can most
gloriiy God. The physician does not ask
for certificate from the man who was
cured of q slight headache, but from the
man who was lying at deaths door, who
was afflicted with a disease thought 10 be
incurable, and whom every man said mus
go. a certificate from such a man gives
the physician the reputation of being 9
great healer. Jesus Christ does not show 9
certificate from Angel Gabriel, but from the
sinful man and woman who were dying
and who by a single touch were raised &c
life.
More eloquent are the words of the dying
thief preaching tonight on the street cor
ners of the New Jerusalem than the ser
mons of the angelic hosts. Sweeter music
than ever trilled from angelic touch are the
chords made resonant by the paralytiC
hand. These are the ones that bear testi-
mony and give glory to Jesus.
This must be the burden of the song oil
the church. Jesus came TO seek and save.
The armies of salvation are led by Jesus
Christ. Her churches are her battlements,
their spires angelic bayonets. Jesus comes
to seek and save. Mount Calvary is not a
volcano pouring forth floods of burning
lava, but of flowing water, stream of sal
walton. Everywhere he has made his ar
engagements to save and redeem.
Our hotels, what magnificent palaces
they are. They are finished in accordance
with architectural beauty, they are fur
nished with all that goes to make elegance
and luxury, and in addition there hangs
from the outer wall fire escape, to enable
the guest to escape the burning flames in
case of a conflagration. God created this
world like grand hotel. He warmed ii
with the furnaces of the sun, he watered il
with crystal rivers and streams, he
decorated it with verdure and flora
and put Adam and Eve in its bridal
chamber. After the hotel was completed
it occurred to him that there should be a
fire-escape, so that the guests could escape
the flames. He planted the cross as his
tire-escape, so that every human soul might
escape this burning world,
Jesus has come to seek and to save, to
redeem and to love.
lspent one summer at a sanitarium in
central New York, where several hundred
of the sick from all portions of the Union
| came to be healed. One day, when LOOK
| ing at that establishment, | noticed moi
| only a stairway winding up from floor to
| floor, but l also noticed the elevator. The
stronger could climb the stairway, and
| those not able to do SO. were wheeled upon
| the elevator and raised to the highest floor
in the building.
So Jesus has built the stairway of holi-
ness up the sides of Mount Sinai. The ell
evator of his love has also been let down
and the vilest can be taken into the arms
of the Savior and carried to the highest
| heaven.
Jesus has come to seek and to save. He
does not stop along the milky way OF
| heaven where angels are riding IN their
bicycles. He stopped not there, but he
came lower and lower, to the world, even
descending to the depths of hell, seeking
in hades for the soul that was lost
Jesus is here tonight. He comes to save
who? Not that little angel on wheels that
never did a wrong. but the soul that was
lost Glory be to God The lost are the
ones that Jesus comes to tonight with his
message of love.
There are men and women here tonight
although Jesus has come to seek and save
them, will be lost. They will leap from
the very arms of Jesus. Oh blessed Jesus
come and speak to this people tonight!