Milford chronicle., 1891-08-14

the departed man appreciated not the OBJ
sequies.
want to persuade my audience that
this world is a poor Investment; that it
does not pay ninety per cent Of satisfac-
ton, nor eighty per cent, nor twenty per
cent, nor two per cent, nor one; that it
gives no sOlace when a dead babe lies on
your lap, that il gives no peace when con
science rings its alarm; that it gives no ex-
PLANTATION in the day Of dire trouble; and
at the time of your decease It takes hold OF
the pillow case and shakes out the feathers,
and then ioltS down In the place thereof
signs and groans and excavations, aud then
makes you put your head on it.
Oh ye who have tried this world, is It a
satisfactory portion? Would you advise
your friends to make the investment No
aye have sold yourselves for naught."
Your conscience went. Your hope went
Your Bible went. Your heaven went.
Your God went When sheriff under a
writ from the courts sells a man out the
officer generally leaves few chairs and a
bed, and a few cups and knives, but in
this awful veudue in which you have been
engaged the auctioneer'A mallet has come
down upon body, mind and soul-going
gonei "Ye have sold yourselves for
naught"
ONCE LOST 1T Is GONE FOREVER.
How could you do so? Did you think
that your soul was a mere trinket which
for few pennies you could buy in a toy
shop2 Did you think that your soul, II
once lost might be found again il you
went ont with torches and lanternsi Did
you think that your soul was short lived,
and that, painting, you would soon lie
y n D. l..
what your soul was WORTH Did you
ever put your forefngers on its eternal
pulses2 Have you not felt the CULVER Of its
peerless wing2 Have you not known that
after leaving the body, the first step Of
your soul reaches to the stars, and the next
step to the farthest outposts OF Gods uni
verse, and that it will not die until the day
when the everlasting Jehovah expires9
Oh, my brother, what possessed you that
you should part with your soul so cheap
Eye have sold yourselves for naught."
But have some good news to tell you.
want to engage in litigation for the recov-
cry of that soul of yours [ want TO show
that you have been cheated out of it. /
want to prove, rs | will, that you were
crazy on that subject, and that the world,
under such circumstances. had no right to
take the title deed from you; and if you
will join me | shall get a decree from the
High Chancery Court Of Heaven reinstat-
ing you ID the possession Of your soul.
"Oh," you say, ~ am afraid Of lawsuits;
they are so expensive, and ] cannot pay
the cost" Then have you forgotten the
last half Of my text "Ye have sold your
selves for naught; and ye shall be redeemed
without money"
Money is good for great many things,
but it cannot do anything in this matter
of the soul You cannot buy your way
through Dollars and pounds sterling
mean nothing ut the gate Of mercy. II
you could buy your salvation, heaven
would be a great speculation, an extern
sion of Wall street Bad men would go
up and buy ont the place, and leave us to
shift for ourselves But as money is not a
lawful tender what is? will answer
Blood Whosey Are we to 90 through /
the slaughter? Oh, no, it wants richer
blood than ours It wants a kings blood (
1t must be poured from royal arteries 1t
must be a siulcss torrent. But where is /
The king2
| see great many thrones and great 1
many occupants, yet none seem to be com
ng down to the rescue. But after awhile I
The clock Of night in Bethlehem strikes |
II, and the silver pendulum of star 1
swings across the sky, and | see the King /
If Heaven rising up, and he descends and |
iteps down from star TO star and from 1
loud to cloud lower and lower, until he 1
,ouches the sheep covered hills, and then 1
IN to another hill, this last skull shaped, /
md there, at the sharp stroke Of persecu- /
ion, a rill incarnadine trickles down. and /
We who could not be redeemed by money /
IRE redeemed by precious and imperial |
blood
so RELIGION or BRAINS.
We have in this day protested Christians
Who are so rarehcd and cthereaized that
hey do not want religion Of blood. What
10 you wautg You seem to want Il reli-
ZION of brains. The Bible says, In the
Hood is the life" No aJonement without
Hood. Ought not the apostle to knowl
What did be say2 ''He are redeemed not
With corruptible things. such as silver and
old, but By the precious blood Of Christ"
You put your lancet into the arm of our
.oly religion and Withdraw the blood and
gu leave it a mere corpse, tit only for the
rave. Why did God command the priests
+ old to strike the knife into the kid, and
he goat, and the pigeon, aud the bullock,
nd the lambl 1t was so that when the
he floor of the ancient tabernacle tue peo-
lie should be compelled to think of the
oming carnage Of the Son OF God No
lood, no a;ouement.
| think that God intended to impresss us
nth vividness Of that color. The green
{ the grass, the blue Of the sky, would not
ave startled and aroused us like this deep
rinson 1t is as il God had said: Now,
inner, wake up and see what tile Saviour
injured for you. This is not water. This
not wine This is blood 1t is the blood
my Son It is the blood Of the immacu-
lte Ia is the blood Of God. Without
be shedding Of blood is no remission
here has been many man who, in courts
( law. has pleaded mot guilty." who
evertheless has been condemned because
acre was blood found on his hands or
lood found in his room, and what shall
-e do IN the last day If il be fOurd that we
ave recrucifed the Lord Of Glory and
ave never repeated Of ity You must be
eve in the blOoi or die No escape Tn
ss you let the sacrifice OF Jesus 20 in your
cad yen yourself must suffer 1t Is either
hrist's blood or your blood.
"Oh" says some one. 'the thought Of
Icod sickens me- Good Gud intended
to sicken you with your sin DO not act I
J though you had nothing 10 do with that
alyarian massacre. You lG,l Your sins {
ere tie implements Of torture Those
nplements were not made Of steel and
on and wood so much as ont Of your
rs. Guilty OF this homicide, and this |
.gieide, and this decide, confess your I
lilttoday Ten thousand voices Of heaven
ing in the verdict against you Of guilty, q
lltyl Prepare to die or believe in that !
cod Stretch yourself out for the sacri !
e or accept the Savi0ui's sacrifice. Do
1t fling away your one chance
HEAVEN WANTS YOu.
It seems to me as il all heaven were try I
2 to bid in your soul The first bid It G
axes is the tears OF Christ at the tomb Of
azarus, but that is not a high enough Q
ice The next bid heaven makes Is the 4
geat OF Gethsemane, but it is too cheap $
ice The uext bid heaven makes seems Il
be the whipped back Of Pilates hall, but a
is not high enough price. Can it be pos {
bic that heaven cannot bny you int o
eaven tries once more 1t says II bid
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