Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-06-08

thing. 1t is not a mere bemiring Of tn,
feet, 1t is not q mere befouling Of tn
hands; 1t is going down, head and ear!
under, IN a ditch, until our clothes abho,
U.s."
My brethren, shall we stay down where
sin thrusts us? ! shall not If you do.
we cannot afford 20. | have today 70
tell you that there is something purer
IMAM snow water, something more pun
gent than a.kali, and that is the blood Of
Jesus thar cleanseth from all sin. Aye,
the river OF salvation, bright, crystalline
and heaveh born, PUSHES through this
audience with billowy tide strong enough
ID waeh your sins completely and forever
away. Jesus, let the dam that holds
IL back now break, and the floods of sal
walton roll over us.
Let the water and the blood,
From thy side a healing too!,
Be Of sin the double cure,
Save from wrath and mahe re pure.
Let Us get down on both knees and
baiLe IN that flood of mercy. Ay, strike
oUt with both hands and try t. swim 20
the otaer shore OF this river of . DIS
grace. To you is the word Of thss saliva
ton sent. Take this largest Of the
divine bounty. Though you have gone
down in the deepest ditch Of iiDidinous
desire and corrupt behavior, though you
have sworn al blasphemies until there is
not one single word left for you 10 speak,
though you have been submerged by the
transgres.ions OF a lifetime, though you
are 50 lar down IN your sin that nc
eafihiy help Can touch yonr Case-the
! ,A.A Lr,,n 4. Nh,,, l~.
and offers you his right hand, proposing
to lift you up, first making you white.
than snow, and her raising you &c
glories that never die. Billy" said O
Christian bootblack 10 another, when
we come up to heaven il won't make any
difference that we've been bootblacks
here, for we shall get in, not somehow or
other, but, Billy, we shall get straight
through the gate Oh, if you only
knew how full and free and tender is the
offer Of Christ, this day you would all
take him without one single exception: and
If all the doors of this house were locked
save one, and you were compelled to
make egress by only one door, and |
stood there and questioned you, and
the gospel of Christ had made the right
impression upon your heart today, you
WOuIu answer NE as yOu went out, one
and all; Jesus is mine and / am hisr'
Oh, that this might be the hour when
you would receive him. 1t is not a Cos
pei merely for foot pads and Migrants and
buccaneers; 1t is for the highly polished
and the educated and the refined as well.
Except a man be born again, he cannot
see the kingdom Of God" Whatever
may be your associations, and whatever
your worldly refinements, must tell you,
as before God ! expect to answer in the
last day, that i you are not changed by
the grace Of God, you are still down in
the ditch of sin, in the ditch of sorrow,
in the ditch of condemnation; a ditch
that empties into q deeper ditch, the
ditch of the lost. But blessed be God for
the lifting, cleansing, Illustrating power Of
his gospel.
The voice OF the free grace cries, Escape 70
the mountain;
For all that believe, Christ has opened a
fountain.
Hallellujah TO the lamb who has bought us
our pardon;
Well praise him again when we pass over
Jordan.