Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-08-11

ent. Now, what Is the common
thing for us TO do in view of these
three factsl You will all agree with me
TO quit sin, take Christ and take him
now. Suppose some business ma in
whose skill you had perfect confidence
should tell you that tomorrow Mon
day. morning between II and l2 o'clock
you could by a certain financial trans
action make five thousand dollars, but
that on Tuesday perhaps you might
make it, but there would not be any
positiveness about il, and Oh Wednes-
day there would not be so much, aud
Thursday less, Friday less, and so on
less and less-whch would you attend
to the matterl Why, your common
sense would dictate: Immediately !
will attend To that matter between
IL and IL o'clock tomorrow Mon.
day. morning, for then ] can surely
accomplish il, but on Tuesday |
may not, and on Wednesday there
is less prospect. ! will attend 10 IL To
morrow Now let us bring Il con
mon sense in this matter of religion.
Here are the hopes Of the Gospel. We
may get them now. Tomorrow we
may get them and we may not Next
day we may and we may not. The
prospect less and less and less aud less.
NOW Is THE ACCEPTED TIME.
The only sure time now-now. |
would not talk TO you in this way if |
did not know that Christ was able TO
save all the people, and save thou.
sands as easily rs save one. | would
not go into u hospital and tear CIT the
bandages from the wounds IL | had no
balm 10 apply. | would not have the
face To tell Il man he is a sinner unless
| had at the same time the authority
Of saying he may be saved. Suppose
in Venice there is a Raphael, a faded
picture. great in its time. bearing some
marks Of its greatness. History de-
scribes that picture. II is nearly faded
away. You say: "Oh, what a pity
that SO wonderful a picture by Ra-
phael should be nearly defaced" After
a while a man comes up, very unskill-
full in art. and he proposes TO retouch
it. You say: Stand off | would
rather have il just as il is; you will
only make il worse" After a while
there comes an artist who was the
equal of Raphael. He says: II will
retouch that picture and bring out all
its original power" You have full
confidence in his ability. He touches
il here and there. Feature after feat
ure comes forth. and when he is done
with the picture it is complete in all
its original power. Now God i'm
pressed his image or our race, but
that image has been defaced for hun
dreds and for thousands Of years, get
ting fainter and fainter. Here comes
up a divine Raphael. He says: II can
restore that picture" He has all power
in heaven and on earth. He is the
equal of the One who made the pic.
ture, the image Of the One who drew
the image of God in our soul. He
touches this sin and il is gone, that
transgresSion and itdisappears, and all
the DETACHMENT vanishes, and where
sin abounded grace doth much more
abound" Will you have the deface-
ment or will you have the restorationl
| am well persuaded that if | could by
a touch Of heavenly pathos in two min
utes put before you what has been
done 10 save your soul. there would
be an emotional tide overwhelming.
Mamma" said a little child to her
mother when she was being put TO bed
at night, mamma, what makes your
hand SO SCARED and twisted and unlike
other peoples hands2' "WeR," said
the mother, my child. when you were
younger than you are now, years ago,
one night after ! had put you to bed |
heard a cry, a shrek upstairs. | came
up and found the bed was on fire, and
you YER on fire, and | took hold Of you
and tore off the burning garments,
and while | vas tearing them off and
trying TO get you away | burned my
hand, and it has been burned and
Scared ever since, and hardly looks
any more like a hand; but | got that,
my child. in trying TO save you" o
mani U womanl | wish today |
could show you the burned hand of
Christ-burned in plucking you out of
the fire, burned in snatching you away
from the flame. Aye, also the burned
foot and the burned brow, and the
burned heart-buued for you. BY
his stripes ye are healed.