West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06

guagc IL does not speak mincingly about
our sins. IL does not talk apologeticaliy
There is no vermilion in it, style: II does
not cover up our transgressions with bloom
ing metaphor. IL does not sing about
them in weak falsetto; but IL thunders, out:
The imagination OF mans heart Is evil
from his youth" Every one has gone back.
He has altogether become filthy. He Is
aboninable and filthy, and drinkcth I'm in
EQUITY like water" And then tho Lord
jesus Christ filings down at our feet this hu-
initiating catalogue: "Out OF tho heart
OF men proceed evil thoughts adulteries.
fornication, murders, thefts blasphemy.S
There is text for your rational
ists TO preach from. Oh, the dignity
u ,lemsn human =, n Tann 1.-The, There is an
that the anthropologist never has had
inc, me courage yet TO touch; and the
Bible, I'm all the ins and outs OF the
most forceful style, sets forth our natural
pollution, and represents iniquity as a fright
tul thing, as an exhausting thing, as a loath-
some thing. IL is not mere beniring of the
feet, IL is not a mere befouling of the hands:
u Is going down, head and ears under, In q
ditch. until our clothes abhor us
My brethren, shall we stay down where sin
thrusts US? 1 shall not II you do. We can
not afford to. have to-day to tell you that
there Is something purer than snow water.
spInetning more pungent than alkaI, and
that IS the blood Of Jesus Christ that
cleanseth from all sin. Ay, the river
OF salvation, bright crystalline and heaven
born, PUSHES through this audience with hill
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 floods of salvation roll over us.
Let the water and the blood,
From thy side a healing flood.
DO 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 r. river err. OF Gods grace To You is the
largess of tho divine bounty. Though
you have gone down in the deepest ditch
of hbidinous desire and corrupt be-
havior, though you have sworn all blasphem-
les until there is not one sinful word left for
you to speak, though you have bcen sub
merged by the transgressions of a lifetime
though you are so far down in your sin that
no earthly help can touch yIr case
the Lord Jesus Christ bends over Won
to-day, and offers you his right hand. pro-
posing to lift you up, first making you winter
than snow, aud then raising YOU TO plories
that never die. Billy" said Christian
bootblack to another, "when we come I'M 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, il You only
knew how full 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 I
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 HisP Oh. that this might
De the hour when you would receive
HimI 1t Is not a Gospel merely for
footpads and vagrants and buo-
cancers; it is for the highly polished and the
educated 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 / 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.
illustrating power of His Gospel.
tain; ~
For al that believe, Christ has opened fountain.
Haheln1ahl to the Lamb who has bought US our
Wen prafae him AGAIN xvhov, -. x,.., 49,, 49,