The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-05-30

'afl set, he wants no Christ, he wants no holm.
ae wants no rescue; but II under the flash of
5ods convicting spirit he shall see that by
reason Of sin he is dismasted and water.
logged, and going down into the trough Of
the sea where he cannot live, how soon he
outs the sea glass TO his eye and sweeps tho
aoriEon, and at the first Sign Of help
ries out; u want 10 be saved. /
want To be saved now. | want to be saved
!orever." No sense of danger, no applica-
lion for rescue.
Oh, that Gods eternal spirit would fash
ipon US sense OF our sinfulness The Bible
ellis the story in letters OF fire, but weget used
oit, We joke about sin. Wemake merry over
Z. What is SIM Is il triHng thngp Sin is
Vampire that is sucking out the life blood OF
rour immortal nature. SIM IL Is a Bastile
hat no earthly key ever unlocked SIM It
= repatriation from God and heaven SIM
Is grand larceny against the AL
mighty, for the Bible asks the question:
viii man rob Cody answering IL i'm the
affirmative. This Gospel Is writ " reple-
yin to recover property unlawfully detained
rom God
In the Shetland Islands there is a man
with leprosy: The hollow Of the foot has
,wollen until IL is fiat ON the ground The
Joints begin TO fall away. The ankle
ihickens until IL looks like the foot of
wild beast. A stare unnatural
comes TO the eye. The nostril
s CONSTRUCTED. The voice drops to nm
almost inaudible hoarseness, Tubercles blotch
the whole body, and from them there comes
AN emulation that il unbearable TO the be-
holder. That Is leprosy, and we have all got
u unless cleascd by the grace Of God. See
Leviticul See III Kings. Sec Mark. See
Luke. See fifty Bible illusions and confir.
nations.
The Bible Is not complimentary in its Inn.
guage. IL does not speak mincingly about
our sins. 10 does not talk apologetically
There is no vermilion In its style IL does
not cover up our transgrcSsions with bloom
ing metaphor. IL does not sing about
them in weak falsetto; hut it thunders out
Ihe imagination of mans heart is evil
from his YOUTH Every one has gone hack
He has altogether become filthy. He IL
abominable and filthy, and drinketh in in.
EQUITY like water" And then the Lord
Jesus Christ filings down at our feet this hu.
initiating catalogue: "Out of the heart
Of men proceed evil thoughts adulteries,
tornication, murders, thcftS, basphcmy."
There Is text for your rational.
sts to preach from. Oh, the dignity
d human nature! There is an
element " your science Of man
hat the anthropologist never has had
thc courage yet To- touch: and the
Bible, in all the ms and outs of the
most forceful STYLE sets forth our natural
pollution, and represents niuuity as n fright.
some thing. IL is not mere bemiring of the
teet IL Is not n mere befouling of the hands.
u is going down, head and ears under. in
ditch, until our clothes abhor us
-, NY brethren, shau we stay down where sin
thrusts us' shall not If you do. We can
not afford TO. have to-day 10 tell Won that
there Is something purer than snow water,
something more pungent than alknli. and
That is the blood of Jesus Christ thnt
cleansoth from all sin. Ay the river
ot salvation, bright, crystalline and heaven
born, rushes through this audience with bil'
lowy tide strong enough to wash your sins
completely and forever away. Oh, Jesus, let
the dam that holds IL back now break, and
the Hoods Of salvation roll over us.
Let tue water and the blood.
From thy side healing hood,
he OF sin the double Cnrc.
Save from wrath and make me pure
Let US get down on both knees and bathe in
that blood OF mercy. Az strike out with
both hands and try to swim to the other shore
of this river of Gods grace. To you is the
word OF this salvation sent. Take this
largess Of the divine bounty. Though
you have gone down In the deepest ditch
OF libidinous desire and corrupt be
havior, though you have sworn all blnsphcm-
les until there is not one sinful word left for
you TO speak, though you have been sub
merged by the transgressions of a lifetime
though You are so far down in your sin that
no earthly help can touch yLIr case-
the Lord Jesus Christ bends over YOU
to-day, and offers you his right hand. pro-
posing to lift you up, first making you winter
than snow, and then raising you to glories
that never die Billy" said Christian
bootblack to another, when we come up to
heaven 1t 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, IL you only
knew how full aad free and tender is tho
offer Df Christ This 1ap oil
take Him without one single exception; and
II all the doors of this house were locked
save one, and you were compelled Ia
make egress by only one door, and |
stood there and questioned you, and the
Gospel of Christ had made the right impres.
sion upon your heart to-day, you would an
swer me ms YOU went ON, one and all: Jesus
Is mime and am His" Oh, that this might
be the hour when you would rccclvo
Him! II is not n Gospel merely for
footpads and vagrants and bur-
cancers; IL is for the highly polished and the
educated and the refined rs well Except
man be born again, he cannot see the king.
dom of Cod Whatever may be Your
associations and whatever your world
ly reiincmcnts, | must tell YOU, ~
before God | expect to answer in
the last day, that il 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; ditch that emptics
into deeper ditch, the ditch of the lost
But blessed b. God for the lifting, cleansing
illustrating power Of His Gospel,
The voice Of free grace cries Escape TO the noun.
Yor all that believe Christ has opened a fountain.
HaloluJah' To the Lamb who has bought our
Wen praise him again when we pass over Jordan.
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