New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-02-19

he will be cut to pieces What shallhe do?
ESCAPE through the window of God s mercy.
That sunshine has been pouring in for many
a day. Gods inviting mercy Gods par.
doning mercy. Gods all conquering mercy.
4 Gods everlasting mercy. But, you say, the
4 window is SO high All, there is a rope, the
very one with which the cross and its victim
were lifted That was strong enough to hold
Christ, and it is strong enough to hold you.
Bear all your weight u pom it, all your hopes
for this life, all your hopes for the lie that is
to come. Escape now through the window
But, you say, that cord is too small to
i save me; that salvation will never do at all
for such sinner as have been" SUPPOSE
that the rope with which Rahab let the two
spies to the ground was not thick enough
but they took that or nothing. And, my
dear brother, that is your alternative
i There is only one scarlet line that can
save you. There have been hundreds and
/ thousands who have been borne away
IN safety by that scarlet line and 1T
/ VIII bear you away in safety. Do you
notice what very narrow escape those spies
had? | suppose they came with fustered
cheek and with excited heart They had a
| very narrow escape. They went in the broad
door ofsin; but how did they come out?
by the stairs OF stone; they came down on a
slender thread. And so, my friends, we go
easily and unbashfully into sin, and all the
doors are open; but if we get out at all it
will be by being let down overprecipices, wrig-
| cling and helpless, the strong grip above
| keeping us from being dashed on the rocks
! beneath 1t is easy to get into sin, young
man. tbs not 50 easy to get out OF it.
young man goes to the marble counter
| Ola hotel. He asks for a brandy smash
! called so, suppose. because it smashes the
one that takes it.. There is no intoxication in
it. AS the young man receives it he does
otseem 70 be at all excited. It does not
| Olv any crls, to
home in beautiful apparel, and all his pros
poets are brilliant. That drink is not going
/ to destroy him, but it is the first step on
bad road. Years have passed on, and | see
that young man after he has gone the whole
length of dissipation. 1t is midnight and he
the first drink. A deirium is on him. He
rises from the bed and comes to the window
and it is easily lifted so he lifts it. Then he
pushes back the blinds and puts his foot on
the window sill. Then he gives one spring,
and the Waterman finds his distigured body,
unacceptable. on the pavement. Oh, if he
had only waited a little-if he had come
down on the scarlet ladder that Jesus holds
from the wall for him. and for you. and for
me; but no, he made one jump and was gone
minister ofChrist was not long ago dis
missed from his diocese for intoxcation,
! and in a public meeting he gave this accou mt
OF his sorrow: 81 had beautiful home
| once, but strong drink shattered it. l had
beautiful children: but this fend of rum
took their dimpled hands in his and led
them to the fgravc 1 had a
wle-to know her was to love her;
| hut she sits in Indebtedness tonight
while [ wander over the earth. had a
mother, aud the pride of her life was l; but
the thunderbolt struck her. | now have
scarcely friend in the world. Taste of the
bitter cup [ have asted, and then answer
me as to whether have any hatred for the
Loo Of La It L. IL
whole damning traffic. l would to God to-
night that every distillery was in fames for
then in the glowing sky / would write in the
smoke of the ruin: Woe to him that putt
eth the bottle to mis- neighbours lips" That
minister of the Gospel went in through the
broad door of temptations: he came out OF
the window. Ard when l see the tempta-
tions that are about us in all countries, and
when know the proclivities to sin in every
mans heart. see that if any of US escape it
VIII be very narrow escape. o, il we have,
| my friends, got off from our sin, let US tie
the scarlet thread by which we have been
saved across the window Let us do it in
praise of him whose blood dyed it that color.
Let 1T be IN announcement of the fact that
we shall no more be fatally assaulted
"There is now no condemnation to them
that are in Christ Jesus" Then let all the
forces of this world come up in cavalry
charge, and let spirits Of darkness come on
an internal storming party attempting to
take our hole, this rope twisted from these
words THE blood Of Jesus Christ ceanseth
from all sin, will hurl them back defeated
forever,
Still further We must take this red cord
| of the text and stretch it across the window
of our households. When the Israelitish
army came up against Jericho, they said,
what is that in the Window" Some one
said: chat is a scarlet line CO." said
some one else, that must be the house that
&c Ia, ha
line was thick enough, and long enough,
and conspicuous enough to 'save Bahab, her
father, her mother, her brothers, and her sis.
ters-the entire family. Have our house.
! holds as good protection? You have bolts
on the front door and on the back, and
| fastenings to the window and perhaps
burglar alarms, and perhaps an especial
/ Waterman blowing his whistle at midnight
| before your dwelling; but all that cannot
protect your household. Is there on our
| houses the sign Of a Savioul's sacrifice and
mercy? Is there scarlet line in the win.
| dow? Have your children been consecrated
/ to Christ? Have you been washed in the
| blood of the atonement? In what room do
you have family prayers? Show me where
| it is you are accustomed to kneel, The sky
is black with the coming deluge. Is your
| family inside or outside of the ark? 1t is a
| sad thing for q man to reject Christ but to lie
| down in the night of SIM across the path to
| heaven, so that his family come up and trip
over him-that is terrific. 1t is sad thing
| for mother to reject Christ; but to gather
her family around her, and then take them
| by the hand and lead them out into paths
| Of worldliness, away from God and heaven
| alas alas! There may be geranium and cac-
| tus in that family window. and upholstery
| lowering Overt it. and childish faces looking
out of it, but there is no scarlet thread
| stretched across it. Although that house
may seem to be on the best street in
all the town or city. it is really on the edge
/ ola marsh across which sweep most poison
Gus malarias, and it has sandy foundation
and its splendor will come down, and great
will be the fall OF it. A home without God
/ prayerIess father, An undevout mother!
/ Awful awful! Is that you! Will you keen
/ on. my brother, on the wrong road, and
| take your loved ones with you? lime is so
/ short that we cannot waste any of it on
! apologies, or indirections. or circumlocu.
i tions. You owe to your children, o father,
] Omother, more than food more than cloth
/ ing. more than shelter-you owe them the ex-
/ ample OF a prayerful, consecrated pro-
1 nounced, out-and-o ut Christian life You
/ cannot afford to keepit away from them.
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