The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-30

man. You are standing on the deck he
side the captain. Who shall it be2 You
or the captain? The captain says:
"You."
You lump and are saved. He stands
there and dies. Now, you believe that
CAPTAIN Braveheart sacrificed himself
for his passengers, but you believe ID
with love, with tears, with hot and
long-continued EXPLANATIONS, with grief
at his loss and 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 sermons; ave. the
salvation Of your immortal soul.
You often go across a bridge you know
nothing about. You do not know who
built the bridge. you do not know what
material it is made OF; but you come to
it, and walk over it, and ask no ques'
tions. And here is an arched bridge,
blasted from the Rock of Ages" and
built by the Architect of the whole
universe, spanning the dark gulf be-
tween sin and righteousness, apd all
God asks you is to walk across it; and
you &C little way on and you stop, and
YOU fall back and you experiment. You
say:
How Go know that bridge will hold
me?"
Instead Of marching o. with firm
step, asking no questions, Gut feeling
that the strength of the eternal God is
under YOU. o, was there ever prize
offered so cheap as pardon and Heaven
are offered to you? For how much2 A
million dollars? 1t is certainly worth
more than that But cheaper than that
you can have it. Ten thousand dol
lars? Less than that One dollar?
Less than that. One farthing? Less
than that without money and with
out price" No money to pay. No jour
ney to take. No penance to suffer-
Only just one decisive action of the
soul,
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, ana thor
shalt be saved.
Shall try to tell you what it is to be
saved? / can not 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 saved" 1t means hap
Ply life here, and peaceful death and u
blissful eternity. 1t is grand thing to
go to sleep at night. and to get up in
tie morning, and to do business all day
feeling that all is right between my
heart and God. No accident, no sick
ness, no persecution, no peril, no sword
can do me any permanent damage. |
am forgiven child of God, and He is
bound to see me through. The mount
aims may depart, the earth may burn,
the light of the stars may DO blown out
by the blast of the Judgment hurricane;
but life and death, things present and
things to come, are mine. Yea, further
than that-it means peaceful death.
All, do not point down to the hole in
the ground, tho grave, and call it a
beautiful place; unless there be some
supernatural illumination, l shuddet
back from it. But now this glorious
lamp is lifted above the grave, and ali
the darkness is gone, and the way il
clear. look into it now without sin
gle shudder. Now my anxiety is not
about death; my anxiety is that | may
live Alright for know that my life is
hour, and this voice is silent, and
these eyes are closed, and these hands
with which l beg for your eternal sal
walton to-day are folded over the still
heart, that then l shall only begin to
live. What power is there in any thing
to chill me in the last hour if Christ
wraps around me the skirt of his own
garment? What darkness can fall upon
my eyelids then, amid the Heavenly
daybreak? Odeath, l will not fear thee
then. Back to the Cavern of darkness,
thou robber of all on earth. Fly, thou
despoiler of families. With this battle
axe / how thee in twain from helmet to
sandal, the voice of Christ sounding
all over earth, and through the heavens:
80 death, l will be thy plague. OgraVe,
l will be thy destruction"
To be saved is to wake up in the pres
ence of Christ. You know when Jesus
was uponsearth how happy He made
every house He went into, and when He
brings us up to His house how great our
glee. His voice has more music in it
than is to be heard in all the oratorios
of eternity. Talk not about banks
dashed with efIlorescence. Jesus is the
chief bloom of Heaven. We shall sec
the very face that beamed sympathy in
Bethany, and take the very hand that
dropped its blood from the short beam of
the cross. o, l want to stand in eternity
with Him. Toward the harbor steer. To
ward that goal ! run. / shall be salts
fed when | awake in His likeness. Oh,
broken-hearted men and women, how
sweet it will be in that good land to pour
all your hardships, and bereavements,
and losses into the loving ear of Christ,
and then have Him explain why it was
best for you to be widowed, and why it
was best for you to be tried, and have
Him point to an elevation proportionate
to your disquietude here, saying: 'You
suffered with me on earth, come up now
and be glorified with me in Heaven"
Some went into a house where there
had been a good deal of trouble and said
to the woman there:
"You seem to be lonely"
Eyes" she said, II am lonely"
"How many in the famliy?"
''Only myself"
"Have you had any children?"
81 had seven children"
"Where are they?"
"Gone."
"All gomez"
GAIL" Then she breathed a lona
sigh into the loneliness, and said: 80,
sir, have been a good mother to the
grave"
And so there are hearts here that are
utterly broken down by the bereave-