Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-12-11


nature crushed.l liza started for the
lefty of Daf,fasSds 1fof the one PURPOSE Of
assassinatinR Christ's followers, but since
that fall from his horse l:hel has entirely
changed. nAuailias steps up to The sight
less man, pits his right thin B ON One eye
and the left tfitiin5 IN the other eye. and in
an outburst 81 sympathy and love and
faith Says ~ Brother saul. Brother SAUL
the Lord, even Jesus that appeared into
| theefin thea way as thou caniest, has sent
me that thou niayst receive thy sight and
4 he filed wftHthe Holy Ghost Z sInstslntly
something like scales fell from the find
isInafi,s eyes, andiiie arcg9from ltliaBseat the
Y mightiest evangeP 6f AL. Tire ages, a Sir
William Hamilton for rnetapf yslcal ahaly-
sis, John Milton fqE sublimity of thought.
! . Wbitefield for popular ,eloqnepce, a John
i Howard for, widespread, philanthropy, but
4 more than all of them put together inspired,
thupderboIted, mqltipotept, apostolic. Did
Judas. the Find host Of this blind msn, or
.Ananias, the visitor, see scales drop from
the sightless. eyes, y i think ppt,o But Paul
1 ,knew they. had fallen, and that is all that
happens to any Of us when we are convert
ed. The binding scales drop from ourieyes
! and we see things differently. -aa.,r aaf
r a Christian woman. missionary among
! a most degraded tribe, whose religion was
never to wash or improve personal appear
ance, was trying to persuade pne, Of those
heather women not only OF need ef change
of heart but change of habits, which
would result in change Of appearance but
the effort failed until the miss ionary had
| PLACED ia her own hallway . looking glass,
and when the .baTbaFic, woman passing
through the hall saw herself in the mir
ror for the first time, she exclaimed, ftCan
/ itibepossible J look like uhatyp andlap-
palled ather OWE appearance sheFg aouneed
herold religicp and asked TO be instructed
ia the Christian raligion. ) And 50 we feel
that we are all right in our sinful and1un-
9ehanged condition until the scales fall
from our eyes chd In the looking glass of
Gods word we see on selves as We really
are, until divine grace transforms us.
MANY PEOPLE ARE BLIND. ~
salThere are many people in this house to-
day AS blind ms Paul was before Anaf1ils
touched his eyes. And there are many
here from whose eyes the scales have al
ready fallen. You see all subjects and all
things diiIcrently--God and Christ and
eternity and your own immortal SPIRIT
Sometimes the scales do not an fall at
once, When was boy, at Mount Pleas
ant. one Sunday afternoon reading Dodd-
ridges Rise and Progress Of Religion in
the Soul, " that afternoon some of the scales
fell from my eyes aud saw a little. After
4 had been 10 the ministry about a year,
one Sunday afternoon in the village par
sonage reading the Bible story Of the Syro-
phenician's faith, otaer scales fell from
my eyes md | saw better. Two Sunday
evenings ag5, while preparing for the even
ing service IN New York ! picked up a
book THAT / did not remember 70 have seen
before and after / had read a page about
RECONSIDERATION 10 God think the remain
ing scales fell from my eyes, Shall not
our visit to Damascus today result, like
Paul's wish, in vision TO the blind andin-
creased visionafor those who saw SOME
what befores Dsgiasa
! was realizing of n painters child who
became blihd in infancy. But after the
child was nearlygrown a surgeon removed
the blindness. When told that this could
be done, the aehild,s chief thought. her
mother being dead. was she watsl d he able
TO see her father, who had watched over
her with greIt Tenderness When night
came she was in raptures, and ran her
bands over her fathers face, and shut her
eyes as il to assure herself that this was
really the father whom she had only
known by touch, and NOW looking updn
him, nsble man as he was in appearance
as well as in reality, she cried out; Just
to think that had this father so many
years and never knew hiinr' AS great and
greater is the SOULS joyful surprise wien
The scnles fall from the eyes and the long
spiritual darkness is ended, and we LOOK
up into oar ihther's face always radiant
and loving but now for the first revealed
md our blindness forever gone, we cry.
Abba father' lia''.i.' r d itt PIE
To each one-of this vast, multitude OF
auditors / s'Iy as Aiialias did to Saul Of
farsus wheA his synipathetic- fingers
euche'lthe closed eyelhls 'iBrother SAUL
Brother SAUL The Lord, even Jesus that
'ppearess nata thee intbe way that thou
amest. hath sent me that thou lnightest
eceiye thy sight and be filled with the
Holy Ghostl'e1 go s.r.. ssa.F5 81