The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-30

supposed him to be the criminal That
young man died for his own mother. You
say; at was wonderful that he never OK
posed her" But ] tell you Of grander
His mother, not for His father, but for His
sworn enemies. o, such Christ as that-so
loving, so self sacrifcing-can you not trust
HimS
l think there are many under the spirit OF
God who are saying; VI will trust Him If you
will only tell me how" and the great ques.
ton asked by thousands in this assemblage
is: "HowS howr And while answer your
question look up and utter the prayer which
of his sermons MASTER helpp How are
you to trust in Christi Just as you trust
any one. You trust your partner in bust
ness with important things. If COM
mercial house give you a note payable
three months hence, you expect the pay.
months You have perfect confidence
In their word aud in their ability. You go
home to-day. You expect there will be food
on the table. You havo confidence in that.
Now, ask you to have the same confidence
in the Lord Jesus Christ. He says: ''You
believe; take away your SINS" and they are
all taken away. "Whatp you say, 'beforeI
pray any more? Before read my Bible any
moreS Before l cry over my sins any moreY
Yes, this moment Believe with all your
heart aad you are saved. Why, Christ is
only waiting to get from you what you give
to scores Of people every day. What is that?
Confidence If these people whom you trust
day by day are more worthy than Christ, IL
they are more faithful tlan Christ, if they
have done more than Christ ever did, then
give them the preference, but il you really
think that Christ is as trustworthy as they
are, then deal with Hin as fairly. "Oh,"
says some one in light way, II believe that
Christ was born in Bethlehem, and | believe
that He died on the cross" Do you believe
1t with your head or your heart2 Z
I will illustrate the difference You
are in your own house. In the morning you
open newspaper, and you read how Cap
tain Braveheart on the sea risked his life
for the salvation of his passengers. You
sayi What grand fellow he must have
BEEN His family deserves very well of the
country You fold the newspaper and sit
down at the table, and perhaps do not think
OF that incident again. That is historical
faith But now you are on the sea, and
it is night, and you are asleep.
and are awakened by the shrek Of
"Firew You rush out on the deck.
You hear amid the wringing of the
hands and the faintins, the cries: mo
hopel we are lostl we are lostm The sail
puts out its wings of fire, the ropes make a
burning ladder in the night heavens the
spirit OF wreck Kisses in the waves, and on
the hurricane deck shakes out its banner of
smoke and darkness. Down with the life
boatsm cries the Captain. Down with the
life boatsr' People rush into them The
boats are about full. Room only for one
more man. You are standing on the deck
or the Captain? The Captain says: you"
You jump and are saved. He stands there
and dies, Now, you believe that Captain
Braveheart sacrificed himself for his passen.
gers, but you believe it with love, with tears
with hot and long continued EXPLANATIONS,
with grief at his loss aud with joy at your
deliverance. That is saving faith. In other
words, what you believe with all the heart,
and believe in regard to yourself. On this
hinge turns my sermon; aye, the salvation
of your immortal soul.
| You often go across bridge you know
nothing about. You do not know who built
the bridge, you do not know what material
tits made of; but you come to it, and walk
| over it, and ask no questions. And here is
an arched bridge blasted from the ''Roci of
Ages" and built by the architect of the
whole universe, spanning the dark gulf be-
tween sin and Righteousness, and all God
asks you is to walk across it; and you
start, and you come to 1T, and You
stop, and you go little way on and
YOU stop, and you fall back and you
experiment. You say: How do l know
that bridge will hold me% instead of march
ing on with firm step, asking no questions,
but feeling that the strength Of he eternal
! God is under you. o, was there ever a prize
offered SO cheap as pardon and heaven are
offered to you? For how much? A million
dollars? It is certainly worth more than
that But cheaper than that you can have
it, Ten thousand dollars? Less than that.
| Five thousand dolars2 Less than that. One
dollar? Less than that. One farthing2 Less
than that, without money and without
price" No money to pay. No journey to
take. No penance to suffer. Only just one
decisive action of the soul: "Believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shall be saved"
Shall try to tell you what it is to be saved?
I cannot tell you. No man, no angel
can tell you. But | can hint at it. For
my text brings me up to this point: Thou
shalt be savedn Itmeans o happy life here,
and peaceful death and blissful eternity.
1t is a grand thing to go to sleep at
night and to get up in the morning, and
to do business all day feeling that all
God. No accident no sickness, no
persecution, no peril, no sword can do Inc
any permanent damage I am a forgiven
child of God, and He is bound to see me
through He has sworn He will see me
through. The mountains may depart, the
earth may burn, the light of the stars may
be blown out by the blast of the judgment
and things to come are mine. Yea, farther
than that-it means peaceful death.
Mrs. Hemans Mrs. Sigourney, DR.. Young
and almost all the poets have said handsome
things about death, There is nothing beau'
tiful about it. When we stand by the white
and rigid features Of those whom we love,
and they give no answering pressure OF the
hand, and no returning kiss OF the lip.
we do not want anybody poetizing around
about us. Death is loathsoneness and mid
night, and the wringing of the heart until the
tendrils snap and curl in the torture UNI
less Christ be with lis. | confess to you tc
an infinite fear, consuming horror, oil
death unless Christ shall be with me-
I would rather go down into a cave of wild
beasts or jungle Of reptiles than into the
grave unless Christ goes with me. viii you
tell me that am to be carried out from my
bright home, and put away in the dsrknessi
I cannot bear darkness. At the first coming
of the evening must have the gas lit, aud
the further on in life l get, the more | like
to have my friends around about me. And
am to be put off for thousands OF years IN
dark place, with no one to speak to? When
the holidays come, and the gifts are dis
trbuted, shall / add no JOY to the
,.''Merry Chr stmas' or the 'Happy New
Year" All, do not point down to the ole
in the ground, the grave, and call it a beauti-
~ place; unless there be some supernatur j
wnole nature revol5s a it. But ow this
glorious lamp is lifted above the grave, an
all' the darkness is gone, and the way
is clear l look into it now without 9
single shudder Now my anNetS j,
not about DEATH my anxiet is that
nv live Alright, for l know that il
my life is consistent when come to the last
hour, and this voice is silent, and these eye
are closed, and these hands with which | beg
for your eternal salvation to-day are folded
over the still heart that then shall only be-
gin to live. What power is there in anything
to chill me in the last hour if Christ wraps
around me the skirt of OF Hi:
own garment? What darkness cal
fall upon my eyelids then, amid
the heavenly daybresk? o death, will moi
fear thee thenl Back to thy cavern of dark
ness, thou robber of all the earth Fly, thou
despoiler of families. With this battle ak
hew thee in twain from hemlet to sandal tbs
voice of Christ sounding all over the earth
and through the heavens; 30 death, l will
be thy plague. grave, will be thy de
struction."
GOOD COOKING VS.. WHISKY.
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