Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-07

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lift there came fash of lightning through
the fog, and the man who had jeered and
| laughed was stunned and fell to the deck.
The fog lifted Yonder was Cape Hgtteras
lighthouse. The ship was put on the right
course, and sailed on to the harbor OF safety.
When in seaport the captain spends most
OF his time in evangelical work. He kneels
down by one who has been helpless in the
bed for many months. and the next day she
walks forth in the streets well. He knees
beside one who has long been decrepit, and
he resigns the crutches. He kneels beside
one who had not seen enough to be able TO
read for ten years, and she reads the Bible that
| day. Consumptions go away, and those who
had diseases that were appalling to behold
| come up to rapid convalesceuce and to COM
plcte health. am not telling you anything
second-handed. have had the story from
the lips of the patients in this very house.
those who were brought to health of body
while at the same time brought to
| God. No second hand story this. 1 have
heard the testimony from men and
women who have been cured
You may call it faith-cure, or you may call
it the power Of God coming down in ans yer
| TO prayer; do not care what you call it; it
is fact The soothing sea captain. his heart
full of hatred for Christianity, now becomes
a follower Of the meek and lowly Jesus. Civ
| ing all the time TO evangelical labors, or all
the time he can spare from other occupations.
That Is regeneration, that IS regeneration.
Man all made over again.
There is your absurd doctrine of vicari-
Gus sacrifice" say these men who have
chewed up the little book OF creeis and have
the consequent embittered stomach. ''Vicari-
Gus sacrifice Let every man suffer for him.
self Why do want Christ to suffer for me
I'll suffer for myself and carry my own bur-
dens.o They scott at the idea Of vicarious
sacrifice, while they admire it everywhere
nv In Chrcf Ia caaf - ham fxy
when a mother suffers for her child. People
see its beauty when patriot suffers for his
country. People see its beauty when a man
denies himself for a friend. They can see
the beauty OF vicarious sacrifice in every one
but Christ.
buttons was teacher. She was very reti.
cart and retired in her habits, and she formed
no companionships in the new position she
occupied, and her dress was very plain
sometimes it was very shabby. After
while she was discharged from the place for
that reason. but no reason was given. In
answer to the letter discharging her from
tho position, she said: SWELL If have
failed to please, ] suppose it is my own
faultn She went here and there for employ
nleat and found none, and In desperation
and in dementa she ended her life by suicide.
Investigation was made and it was found
that out Of her small means she had supported
ing the way for her brother in Yale College
on his way to the ministry. 1t
WAS found that she had no blanket on
the bed that winter, and she had no fire
on the very coolest day OF all the
season. People found it out, and there was
large gathering at the funeral the largest
ever at any funeral in that place. and the
very people who had scoffed came and looked
upon the pale face of the martyr. and all
honor was done her; but it was too late.
Vicarious sacrifice. All are thrilled with
such instances as that But many are not
moved by the fact that Christ paid His pow
erty for our riches, His sslf-abnegation for
our enthronement, and knelt on the sharp
edges of humiliation that we might climb
over His lacerated shoulder into peace and
heaven.
Be it ours to admire and adore these doc
tr,nes at which others leer. Oh the depths
OF the riches both of tho wisdom and knowl-
edge OF God How unsearchable is His wis
dom. and His ways are past finding out Oh
the height, the depth, the length, the breadth,
the infinity, the immensely, the eternity of
that Lowell Let our earnest prayers go out
in behalf of all those who scott at these doc
trines OF grace. When the L-ndon plague was
raging in the year 1865, there was hotel
near the chief burial ace that excited much
comment England was in fright and be-
reavement. The dead carts went through
the streets day and night. and the cry:
6-lDE out your was dueNeIt4 Nv
the bringing out OF the forms OF the
loved ones, and they were put twenty
or thirty in a cart, and the wagons went
on to the cemetery; and these dead were
not buried in graves, but IN great trenches.
in great pits; in one pit e'even hundred and
fourteen burialsl The carts would come up
with their great burden Of twenty or thirty
10 the mouth of the pit. and the front of the
cart was lifted and the dead shot into the pit.
All the churches in London were open for
prayer day and night, and England was in
great anguish At that very time at
hotel, at wayside inn near the CHIEF
burial-places, there was a group o.
hardened men. who sat day after
day and night after night disappearing God
and initiating the griefstruck who went by
to the burial-place. These men sat there day
after day and night after night, and they
scoded at men, ami thsy scofei at women,
and they scoffed at Col. But aftsr while
one OF them was struck with the piague, and
in two weeks all of the group were down in
the trench from the margin of which they had
uttered their ribaidry. My friends, greater
plague is abroad in the world. Millions have
died of it. Millions are smitten with il now.
Plague of sin, plague of sorrow. plague OF
wretchedness, plague of woe And conse-
Grated women and men from all Christendom
are going out trying 10 stay the plague and
alleviate the anguish, and there is
group OF men in this country bass
enough to sit and deride the work.
They soft at the Bible, and they scoif
at evangelism, and they scot at Jesus
Christ, and they scott at God II these
words shall reach them. either while they are
sitting here to-day, or through the printing
press, let me tell them 70 remember the fate
of that group in the wayside inn while the
plague spreads its two black wings over the
doomed city of London Oh, instead of be-
ing scoffers let us be disciples, BLESSED is
the man that walketh not in the counsel OF
the ungodly. nor standeth in the way of
sinners, nor sitted in the seat Of the scorn-
full