Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-07-11

| What power was it that washed his tongue
| clean of profanities and made him a psalm
| singer? Conversion by the holy Spirit
| There IRE thousands of people in this as
| scmblaCe today who are no more what
| hey once were than waterlily is a night
| Shade, or u morning lark is vulture, or
day is night.
NOT ASHAMED OF JESUS.
| Now, if | should demand TINT all those
| people here sent who have felt the con
| vertin4 power of religion should RISE so
| far from being ashamed they would spring
| to heir feet with more alacrity than they
| ever spranc to the dance, the tears ming
| ling with their cXhilaration us they cried,
| eve are witnesscs,n And if they tried to
| sing the old Gospel hymn they would
| break down with emotion by the time they
got to the second line.
| Ashamed OF Jesus that dear Friend
| On whom my'nOpes of heaven depend9
No! When blush be this my shame:
That no more revere his name
GOD lIGurENs OUR BURDENS.
Again | rcmarl; that we are witnesses
Of the Gospels power to comfort. There
are Christian parents here who arc willing
to testify to the power of the Gospel to
comfort Your son had Just graduated
from school or college and was going into
| business, and the Lord took him Or your
! daughter had just graduated from the
,.a,,T[, 1adiog, ec,,ino1,,. md ,,n,, tl,n,,,ht
| sbe u.au GOING "a i've a uspfl1 woman and
| of 1opol ifo, Int the Lord tool, her and Won
were tempted to say: All this culture of
twenty years for nothing" Or the little
| child came home from school with the hot
fever that stopped not for the agonized
prayer or for the skillful physician, and
the little child was taken. Or the babe
was lifted ont of your ni.n7s bv some ouicI1
endemic. and Won stood wondering why
| God ever gave YOU tbat child ut all if so
| soon he wa o take it away. And vet Won
arc not repininp. Won are not frptfuI. Won
| are not fi.!htfn, AGAINST God.
What has enabled Won TO stand all the
! trial. cob " Won saw. Il took the medicine
| that Cod rave nv sick soul In INV dis
| tres4 threw myself at the feet of n SYM
pathiziup God: and when 7 was too weak
to pray. or to look up. ne breathed into me
n upaca that think must he the foretaste
! Of that heaven where there i neither -
fear nor a farewell. nor a qravev Come
all We vyho.huve been ont To the grave to
veep there-come. all We conferred souls.
yet ilp off your knees. Is there no power
in this GOSPEL 20 soothe the heart? Jstbere
no uover in this religion toouiet the worst
paroyvsm of oricfs There comes mn nm
answer from coufortpd ,yidowhood and
ornbunagc and chi}dlessness SAVING CAV
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