Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-10-25

huOu lulS WORTH was not maze lOr us 10 resi-
in. In time of war you viii find around the
streets of some city, far from the scene of
conflict, men in soldiers uniform, who have
right 70 be away. They obtained q fur
Tough and they are honestly and righteously
off duty; but have to tell you that in this
Christian conflict, between the first moment
when we enlist under the banner of Christ
and the last moment in which we shout the
victory, there never will be single instant
in which we viii have n right to be off duty,
Paul throws all around this Christian life the
excitements of the old Roman and Grecian
games-those games that scnt man on a
race, with such a stretch of nerve
and muscle, that sometimes when
he came up to the goal, he dropped
down exhausted. Indeed, history tells
us that there were cases where men came up
and only had strength Just to grasp the
goal and then fall dead. Now, says this
apostle, making allusion TO those very games,
we are all to run the race, not to crawl it,
not to walk it-but run the race set before
us, looking unto jesus and just as in the
olden times, man would stand at the end
of the road with beautiful garland that was
to be put around the head or brow of the
successful racer so the Lord Jesus Christ
stands at the end of the Christian race with
the garland of eternal life, and may God
grant that by His holy spirit we may so run
as to obtain.
The distinguished Welliston, the chemist
was asked where his laboratory was and the
inquirers expected to he shown some large
apartment filed with very expensive appara-
tus; but Welliston ordered his servant to
bring on a tray q few glasses and retort,
and he said to the inquirers: THAT is all my
laboratory. l make all my experiments with
those" Now, know that there are great
manywho take whole libraryto express their
theology. They have so many theories on ten
thousand things; but l have to say that all
my theologyis compassed in these three.words:
Looking unto Jesus" and when we can
understand the height and the depth and the
length and the breadth and the infnity and
tho immensely Of that passage - can under
stand all.
/ remark in the first place, we must look to
Christ as our personal Saviour. Now, you
snow as well as !, that man is only blasted
S?:Iin CT what he once was. There is not so
much difference between vessel coming out
of Liverpool halbor, with pennants flying
and the deck crowded with good cheer, and
the guns booming, and that same vessel driv-
ing against Long Island coast, the drowning
passengers ground to pieces amid the timbers
of the broken up steamer, as there is be-
tween man as he came from the hands of
Cod equipped for q grand and glori-
GUS voyage, but afterward, through
the pilotage Of the devil, tossed and driven
dllu CIuSheu, INC COtCSJ VI Jue near luIuIG
st1ewn with the fragments of an awful and
eternal shipwreck. Our body is wrong. How
easily 1t is Tansacked Of disease Our mind
is wrong. How hard it is to remember, and
how easily to forget The whole nature dis
ordered, from the crown of the head to the
sole of the foot-wounds, bruises, putrefying
sores. "All have sinned and come short of the
glory of God" by one man sin entered
into the world and death by sin,
hnc Ill
men for that all have sinned." There
is in Brazil plant they call the murderer"
for the simple reason that it is so poisonous it
kills almost everything it touches. 1t begins
to wind around the root Of the tree, and
coming up to The branches reaches out to the
ends of the branches, killing the tree as it
goes along. When it has come to the tip end
of the branch the tree is dead. Its seed fall
TO the ground and start other plants just as
murderous.
And SO it is with sin. 1t is poisonous
plant that was planted in our soul long
while ago, and it comes winding about the
body and the mind and the SOUL poisoning,
poisoning, poisoning-killing, killing, killing
as it goes. Now, there would be no need Of
my discoursing upon this ii there were no
way of plucking out that plant. 1t is most
inconsideratG thing for me to come to man
who is in financial trouble and enlarge upon
his trouble if have 10 alienation to offer.
II is an unfair thing for me to come to man
who is sick and enlarge upon his disease
if / have no remedy to offer.
But have right to come
to man i'll financial distress
or physical distress if l have financial re-en-
forcement to offer OF a sure cure to propose.
Blessed be God that among the mountains of
our sin there rolls and reYerbrates a song of
salvation Louder than all the voices of
bondage is the trumpet of Gods deliverance,
sounding. "Oh, Israel, thou hast destroyed
thyself, but in Me is thy help" At the
barred gates of our dungeon, the conqueror
knocks and the hinges creak and grind at
the swinging open. The famine struck pick
up the mama that falls III the wilderness
and the foods clap their hands, saying
"Drink, oh thirsty soul, and live for
deep cut on the rocky bride path of sin
now come into n smooth place, and the
dry alders crnckle as the painting hart
breaks through to the water brooks,
and the dark night of the soul begins
TO grow gray with the morning, yea to
purple, yea to flame, from horizon to
horizon. The batteries Of temptation sill.
enced. Troubles that fought against us
captured and made to fight on our side. Not
as a result of any toll or trouble on our
part but only as result Of Looking unto
Jesus" "But what do you mean by Look
ing unto Jesus? some one inquiries. NEAR
faith. What do you mean by faith~
mean believing. "What do you mean by
believingY I mean this: If you promise tc
do certain thing for me, and have con
fidence in your veracity-if you say you viii
give me such thing and need it very
Iluch, come in confidence that you are al
| pnest man and will do what you say. Now
he Lord Jesus Christ says: "You are in
need of pardon and life and heaven, you can
nave them il you come and get them VI
You say: II can't come and ask first
am afraid You won't give it to me-
Then you are unbelieving. But you say: 81
Thou art in earnest about this matter.
come asking for pardon Thou has. prom.
ised to give it to me, Thou wilt give it to me,
Thou hast given it to me-" That is faith
Do you see it YETI "Oh,' says some one, 81
can't understand it." No man ever did
without divine help. Faith is the gift of
God. You say: THAT throws the response.
bility off my shoulders" No. Faith Is the
gift of God, but it comes in answer to prayer
All over glorious is my Lord
He must be loved and yet adoredt
His worth II all the nations knew,
: Sure the whole earth would love Him, too.
remark again. that we must look to Jesus
as an example. Now. O mere copyist you
know, is always failure If painter go X
portfolio or q gallery of art however ex
quisite, to get his idea Of the natural world
from these pictures, he will not succeed as
well as the artist who starts out and dashes
the dew from the grass and sees the morning
just as God built it in the clouds, or poured L
upon the mountain, or kindled it upon the
sea. People wondered why Turner, the
famous English painter, succeeded SC
well In sketching storm upon thu
ocean. 1t remained a wonder until il
was found out that several times he had beer
dashed to the deck in the midst of q tempest
and then looked out upon the wrath of The
sea, and coming home to his studio, he pic
tured the tempest. 1t is not the copyist who
succeeds, but the man who confronts the
natural world. So if man in literary com
position resolves that he will initiate the
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