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ISby tie architect. Of the wholeliiiiverse,
spanning tile. dark gulf between sin
| and Righteousness, and all God asks
you is 10 walk across.i and you start.
and you come to it, and you stop, and
you go little way OH and you stop,
and you fall back, and you expert
nlent. You say, How do know
that bridge will hold met" instead OF
marching on with firm step, asking
no questions, but feeling that the
strength of the eternal God is under
you. Oh, was there ever a prize prof
fered so cheap as pardon and heaven
are offered to you2 For how much2
A million dollars? 1t is certainly
worth more than that. But cheaper
than that you can have it. Ten thou,
sand dollars? Less than that. Five
thousand dollars? Less than that
One dc:lar9 Less than that: One
farthing2 Less than that. Without
money and without price. No money
to pay. No journey to take. No pen
ance 10 suffer. Only just one decisive
action of the soul: Believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be
saved" Shall try to tell you what
it is TO be savedl l cannot tell you.
No man, no angel can tell you. But
can hint at it. For my text brings
me up to this point Thou shalt be
saved" 1t means happy life here,
and a peaceful death and a blissful
eternity. II is a grand thing to go
10 sleep at night and to get up in
the morning, and to do business all
day feeling that all is right between
my heart and God. No accident, no
sickness, no persecution, no peril, no
sword can do me any permanent dam
age. am a forgiven child OF God.
and he is bound to see me through.
The mountains may depart, the earth
may burn, the light of the stars may
BE blown out by the blast of the judg-
ment hurricanes; but life and death,
things present and things to come, are
mine. Yea, further than THAT 1t
means a peaceful death. Mrs. He
mans, Mrs. Sigourncy, DR.. Young,
and almost all the poets have said
handsome things about death. There
is nothing beautiful about it. When
we stand 6y tile White and rigid fea-
lures of those whom VIC love, and
thoy give no answering pressure Of
the hand and no returning kiss of the
lip, we do not want anybody poetizing
around about u.s. Death is loatlrsone.
moss, and midnight, and the wringing
of the heart until the tendrils snap
and curl in tic torture, unless Christ
shall be with us. confess TO you an
infinite fear, consuming horror OF
death, unless Christ shall be with nc.
would rather go down into cave of
wild beasts ora jungle OF reptiles than
into the grave, unless Christ goes
with ME. Will you tel me that ] am
to be carried out from my bright home
and put away yin the darkness. | cal-
not bear darkness. At tho first conf
ing Of the evening | must have the
gas lighted, and the further on in life
| get the more like to have my
friends round about me.
DO NOT FEAR DEATH.
And ann to be put Off for thousands
OF years III Il dark place with no one
10 speak to- When the holidays come
and the gifts are distributed, shall |
add no JOY to the Merry Christmas "
or the Happy New Year?" ALI, do
not point down 10 the hole in the
ground, the grave, and call it n beau
tirul place. Unless there be some SUI
pernatural illumination | slluddcr
back from it. My whole nature re-
volts at it. But now this glorious lamp
is lifted above the grave, and all the
darkness is gone, and the way is clear.
look into it now without a single
shudder Now my anxiety is not
about death; my anxiety is that may
live Alright, for l know that if my life
is consistent when | come to the last
hour, and this voice is silent, and
these eyes are closed, and these
hands with which beg for Your eter-
nal salvation today arc folded over
the still heart, that then l shall only
begin 10 live. What power is there i'll
anything to chill mo in the last hour
if Christ wraps around me the skirt of
his OWE garment? What darkness
can fall upon my cyelitls then amid
the heavenly daybreak? Q Death, !
will not fear thee then. Back to thy
cavern ofdarkness, thou robber OF all
the Garth. Fly! thou dcspoiler OF
families. With this battle ak | hew
thee in twain from helmet to sandal.
the voice of Christ sounding all over
the earth and through the heavens:
20 Death. | will be thy plague. .
Grave, will be thy destruction:
To be saved is to wake up in the
presence OF Christ. You know when
Jesus was upon earth how happy he
made every house he went into, and
when he brings us up 10 his house i'll
heaven low great shall be our glcc.
His voice has more music i'll 1t than
is to be heard in all the oratorlos OF
eternity.
JESUS is HEAVENS BLOOM.
Talk not about banks dashed with
effloresccnce. Jesus is the chief bloom
of heaven. We shall see the very
face that beamcd sympathy in Beth
any. and take the very hand that
dropped its blood from the short beam
of The cross. Oh, want TO stand I'D
eternity with him. Toward that har-
Dor steer. Toward that goal run.
| shall be satisfied when awake in
his likeness.
THEN YOU WILL KNOW.
Oh, broken hearted men and wo.
men, how sweet it will be in that good
land to pour all Of your hardshiips and
bereavements and losses into the low
ing ear OF Christ, and then have him
explain whyit was best for you to be
sick. and why it was best for you to
l,a u.;lnu-ad aud why il was best for