Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-27

gone back. He has altogether become filthy
He is at0minable and filthy, and drinketh IN
iniqu1ty 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, foundations
murders thefts blasphemy." There is q text
for your rationalists to preach from. oh, the
dignity Of human nature There is an ele-
ment OF your
SCIENCE OF MAN
that the anthropologist never has had yet the
courage to touch; and the Bible, in all the ms
and outs of the most forceful style, sets ferth
our natural pollHtaon. and represents iniquity
as frightful thing, as an exhausTing thing
loafhsome thing. It is not mere bemiring OF
the feet; it is not mere befeulfng of the
hands; it is going down, head and ears under,
in ditch until our clothes abhor Us.
Ny brethren. shall we stay down where SIN
thrusts usS l shall not II you do. We cannot
afford to. have to-day TO tell you that tbese
is something purer than snow water, some
thing more pungent than alkah, and that Is the
blood of Jesus Christ that cleanseth from all
sin. Ay, the river of salvation, bright, crys-
talline and heaven born, rushes through tnls
audience with billowy tide strong enough 70
wash your sins completely and forever away.
o Jesus let the dam that holds it back now
break. and the floods of salvation Toll over US
Let the water and the blood,
From Thy side healing flood,
Be Of sin the double cure,
Save from wrath and make me pure.
Let MS get down on both knees and bathe in
that food of mercy. Ay, strike out with DoIn
hands and try to swim to the other shoIe OF
this river of Gods grace; 10 you IS the woro
of this salvation sent Take this largess of the
divine bounty. Though yea have gone down
in the deepest ditch of lbidinous desire and
corrupt behavior, though you have sworn all
blaSphemies until there is not one sinful word
left for you to speak. though you have been
submerged by the transgressions OF q lifetime,
though you are SO far down in your sin that no
earthly help can touch your caSe-the Lord
you his right hand, proposing to lift you up,
first making you whittier than snow, and tnen
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 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 I stood there and questioned
you, and the gospel of Christ had made the
right impression upon your heart to-day. you
would answer me as you went out, one and all:
Jesus is mine, and / am His!' oh, that this
might be the hour when you would receive Elm!
1t IS not a gospel merely for footpads and
vagrants ana buccaneers; it is for the
highly polished and the educated and
the refined as well. Except man be born
again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God"
Whatever may be your associations, and what
ever your worldly refnements, must tell you,
as before God 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 condemna-
rion; dftcn that empties into deeper ditch.
the ditch of the lost. But blessed be God for
the lifting, cleansing, Illustrating power of His
Gospel
The voice of free grace cries. Escape to the mount
ain;
For all tlIRt believe Christ has opened fountain.
to the Lamb who has bought us our
pardon;
Wei. praise Him again when we pass over Jor-
dan.
7. DE WITT TALMAGE.