Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-06-06

sail set he wants no Christ. he wants no help,
he wants no rescue: but if under the fash of
Gods 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
puts the sea glass to his eye and sweeps the
horizon, and at the first sign of help
want to be saved now. ! want to be saved
forever" No sense of danger, no applica-
ton for rescue
Oh, that Gods eternal spirit would flash
upon us a sense of our sinfulnessl The Bible
tells the story in letters of fire but weget used
TO it, We joke about sin. Wemake merry over
it. What is sin? Is it a trihing thing? Sin is
vampire that is sucking out the life blood of
your immortal nature. Sin? 1t is Bastile
that no earthly key ever unlocked. Sim It
is repatriation from God and heaven. SIM
1t is grand larceny against the AL
mighty, for the Bible asks the question:
''Will a man rob GodY' answering it in the
vim to recover property unlawfully detained
from God.
In the Shetland Islands there is man
with leprosy. The hollow of the foot has
swollen until it is fat on the ground. The
joints begin to fall away. The ankle
thickens until it looks like the foot of
a wild beast A stare unnatural
comes to the eye The nostril
is CONSTRUCTED. The voice drops to an
almost inaudible hoarseness. Tubercles blotch
the whole body, and from them there comes
an emulation that is unbearable to the be-
holder. That is leprosy, and we have all got
it unless cleased by the grace of God. See
Leviticus. See ii Kings See Mark. Sec
Luke. See fifty Bible illusions and confir-
nations.
The Bible is not complimentary in its Ian
guage. 1t docs not speak mincingly about
our sins 1t does not talk alphabetically.
There is no vermilion in its style II does
not cover up our transgressions with bloom
ing metaphor. 1t does not sing about
them in weak falsetto; but it thunders OUT
THE imagination of mans heart is evil
from his youth" Every one has gone back.
lie has altogether become filthy. He is
abominable and filthy, and drinketh in in
EQUITY like water" And then the Lord
initiating catalogue: "Out of the heart
Of men proceed evil thoughts adulteries,
fornication, murders, thefts, blasphemy."
There is text for your rational
lists to preach from. Oh, the dignity
of human nature! There is an
that the anthropologist never has had
the. courage yet to touch; and tho
Bible in all the ms and outs Of the
most forceful style, sets forth our natural
pollution, and repre- ents iniquity as fright
full thing, as an exbausting thing, as loath-
some thing 1t Is not mere bemiring of the
feet, it is not mere befouling of tho hands;
it is going down, head and ears under, in
ditch, until our clothes abhor us.
My brethren, shall we stay down where sin
thrusts usg l shall not If you do. We can
not afford to. have to-day to tell you that
there is something purer than snow water;
something more pungent than alkali, and
that is the blood Of Jesus Christ that
cleanseth from all sin. Ay, the river
of salvation, bright, crystalline and heaven
born, rushes through this audience with bill
Lowry tide strong enough to wash your sins
completely and forever away. oh, Jesus. let
the dam that holds il back now break, and
the floods of salvation roll over US.
Let the water and the blood,
From thy side a healing flood,
Be OF sin the double cnre,
Save from wrath and make me pure.
Let us get down on both knees and battle in
that blood of mercy. Ay, 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 blasphem-
les until there is not one sinful word left for
you 10 speak, though you have been sub
merged by the transgressions of lifetime
though you are SO far down in your sin that
no earthly help can touch your 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 a Christian
bootblack to another, when we come up TO
heaven it won't make any difference that
we've been bootbacks 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 fun aad 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 l
stood there and questioned you, and the
Gospel of Christ had made the right impress
sion upon your heart to-day, you would an
swer me as you went on, 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 Gospel merely for
footpads and Migrants and buc-
cancers; it is for the highly polished and tho
and the refined as well Except
man be born again, he cannot see the king
dom of God" Whatever may be your
associations, and whatever your world
ly refinements | must tell you, as
before God l expect to answer in
the last day, that If 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 empties
into deeper ditch. the ditch of the lost
But blessed be God for the lifting, cleansing,
power of His Gospel
The voice OF free grace cries. Escape to the noun
tain
For all that believe, Christ has opened fountain
10 The Lamb who has bought us our
pardon;
Wen praise him again when We pass over Jordan
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