Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-07-28


10 the house Of God a man with marks
Of dissipation upon him, people throw
up their hands In horror, as much as
10 say, Isn't It SAOckingt How
these dainty, fastidious Christians in
all our Churchu, are going 30 get into
heaven ] don't know, unless they have
an especial train Of cars. cushioned
and upholstered each one car TO
himself. They cannot 20 with the
great herd Of puJ!icaHs and sin
ncrs, Oh, ye, who curl your lip Of
sCoru at the fallen. tell you plainly,
If you had been surrounded br the
same influences. instead Of sitting to-
day amid the cultured and the refined
and tue Christian, you would have
been crouching wretch in stable or
ditch, covered with flth and abomi-
nation. II is not because you are nat
urally any better, but because the
mercy OF God has protected you. Who
are you, that brought up in Christian
circles, and watched By Christian pa
rentage, you should be 50 hard on the
fallenl
think men also are often hindered
from return by the fact that churches
are too anxious about IA cir member
ship and too anxious abo 1t their de-
nomination, and they rush out when
they see man about TO rive up his
sin and return to God, and SIX him how
he is going TO he baptized, whether by
sprinkling or by immersion, and what
kind Of a church he is going 10 join.
Oh, my friends! II is poor time TO
talk about Presbyterian cnechisms,
and Episcopal liturgies, and Methodist
love feasts, and baptisteries 10 a man
that is coming out Of the darkness of
sin into the glorious light Of the
Gospel. Why, it reminds US Of a
man drowning in the sea, and life
boat puts out for him, and the man
in the boat says TO the man out Of the
boat: NOW, If ! get you ashore. are
| you going 10 live in my Streetf
First get him ashore, aud then talk
about the non-essentials Of religion.
Who cares what church he Joins, if
he only joins Christ aud starts for
heavenf Oh, you ought 10 have. my
brother an illumlned face, and a
hearty grip for every one that tries TO
turn from his evil way. Take hold
of the same book with him. though
his dissipations shake the book, re-
membering that he that converteth a
sinner from the error Of his ways
shall save a soul from death. and hide
a multitude Of sins.
HOW THE sHAcKLEs MAY BE LoosED.
Now. have shown you these OBJ
stacles because | want you 10 under
stand know all the difficulties in the
way; but am now 10 tell you how
Hannibal may scale the Alps and how
the shackles may be unriveted and
how the paths of virtue forsaken may
be regained. First of all, my brother,
throw yourself on God. Go to him,
frankly and earnestly, and tell him
these habits you have, and ask him, If
there is any help in all the resources of
omnipotent love, 10 give il to you. Do
not gowith long rigmarole people call
prayer, made up Of "ohs" and "ahs"
and forever and forever amens"
Go 10 God and cry for helpl helpl
help aud If you cannot cry for help,
just look and live. | remember in the
war j was at Antietam, and | went
into the hospitals after the battle,
and ] said TO a man, Where
are you hurtE lie made no answer.
but held up bis arm swollen and
splintered. / saw whore he was hurt.
The simple fact is, when man has a
wounded soul, all be has to do is 10
hold it up before a sympathetic Lord
and get il healed. Il does not take any
long prayer Just hold up the wound
Oh, it is ~ mall thing when man is
nervous and weak aud exhausted,
coming from his evil WAYS. to feel that
God puts two omnipoteut arms around
about him and SAYS, Young man, /
will stand by you The mountains
may depart aud the hills he removed,
but / will never fail you" And then,
as the soul thinks the news is too good
10 be true, and cannot believe IT, and
looks up in Gods face. God lifts his
right hand and takes an oath. an affi-
davit, saying, LAS | live, saith the
Lord God, have no pleasure in the
death Of him that dieth."
THANK GOD FOR THE GOSPEL
Blessed be God for such Gospel as
thisl ''Cut the slices thin, said the
wife TO the husband. "or there will moi
be enough TO Go all around for the
children; cut the slices thln.' Blessed
be God, there is full loaf for every
one that wants il; bread enough and
TO spare. No thin slices at the Lords
table. / remember when the Master
Street hospital, in Philadelphia, was
opened during the war, telegram
came saying, There will be three
hundred wounded men tonight; be
ready 70 take care of them" and from
my church there went in some twenty
or thirty men and women TO look af
ter these poor wounded fellows. AZ
they came, some from one part Of The
land, some from another, no ons
asked whether this man was from Ore
gon, or from Massachusetts,, or from
Minnesota. or from New York. Their,
, was wounded soldier, and the onl,
: question was how 10 take off the rag
most gently, and put on the bandaee
. and administer the cordial. And whe,
soul comes to God he does not asI
/ where you came from or what you
/ ancestry was. Healing for all you
wounds. Pardon for all your gull,
I Comfort for all your troubles.
) Then, also, | counsel you, IL yo
. want TO get back, TO quit all your ba'
associations One unholy intimac,
. will gil your soul with moral disteu'
Q per. In all the ages Of the churcl
|. there has not been an instance whs'