Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-02-05


started. or the first heart broken, or the
first accident happened. or the first for
tune vanished. Those of who have
Felt the consolatory power of religion have
right to speak out OF our own expert
ences, and say Come
But" says someone. "you Christian
people keep telling us TO come yet you DC !
not tell us how to come That charge !
shall not be true on this occasion. Cons |
believing, Come repeating. Come pray |
ing. After all that God has been doing !
for six thousand years, sometimes through |
patriarchs and sometimes through !,
prophets. and at last through the culInina- |
ton of all tragedies on Golgotha, can any
one think that God will not welcome your
coming? Will a father at vast outlay
construct Il mansion for his son, and lay
out parks white with statues and green
with foliage, and all a-sparklc with
fountains, ard then not allow his son to
live in the house, or walk in the parks
Has God built this house of Gospel mercy
and will he then refuse entrance to his
children? Win IA government at great
expense build life-savng stations all along
the coasts and boats that can hover unhurt
like petrol over the widest surge, and
then when the lfe-boat has reached the
wreck Of a ship in tho ofng not allow the
drowning to seize the life-l line or take the
boat for the shore in safety? Shall God
provide at the cost of his only Sons
assassination escape for sinking world,
and then turn deaf ear to the cry that
| comes up from the breakers?
But" you say, ''thero are so many
things have to believe and so many things
in the shape of creed that l have to
adopt. that l am kept back" No; no!
| You need believe but two things; namely,
that Jesus Christ came into the world to
save sinners and that you arc one OF them.
But" you say, Il do believe both Of
those things" Do you. really, believe
| them with all your heart? YES" Why,
then, you have passed from death unto life
Why, then. you are son or a daughter Of
tho Lord Almighty. Why, then, you are
an heir or an heress Of an inheritance
that will declare dividends from now
until long after the stars art
dead. Halelujah! Prince Of God, why
do you not come and take your coronet?
Princess Of the Lord Almighty, why do
you not mount your throne? Pass up into
the light. Your boat is anchored, why do
you not go ashore? Just plant your feet
hard down and you will feel under them
tho Rock of Ages. l challenge the uni
verse for one instance in which man in
the right spirit appealed for the salvation
of the gospel and did not get it. Man
alive! Are you going to let all the years
Of your life go away with you without
your having this great peace, this glorious
hope, this bright expectancy? Are you
going to let tho pearl Of great price lie in
the dust at your feet because you are toe
indolent or too proud to stoop down ant
pick it upn Will you wear the chain o.
| hob, hon NV 10 hayn m M
that could with one stroke snap The
shackle? Will you stay in the prison o.
sin when here is Gospel key that could
unlock your incarceration? No; no! A:
tho one word, Come" has sometime.
brought many souls to Christ, will try
the experiment of piling up into mount
ain and then send down in III
avalanche of power many of thes
Gospel 'Comes." ''Come thou an,
all thy house into ark" Come unto IN
, all We who labor and are heavy laden an,
I will give you rest" "Comc. for all thing
are now ready" "Come with us and w
will do you good;" ''Come and see;" 9Th
Spirit and the Bride say Come and lie
him that heareth say come and let hir
> that is athirst come" The stroke Of on
!. bell in tower may be sweet, but scor
of bells well tuned and rightly lifted an
+ !
, heavens with music almost celestial. An
no one who has heard the mighty chime
. in the towers Of Amsterdam, or Client. c
!. Copenhagen, can forget them. Now
;, seems to mo that in this Sabbath hour q
- heaven is Ginning, and the voices {
u departed friends and kindred ring dow
o the sky saying, Come" The angels VIII
: never fell, bending from sapphire thror g.
are chanting Come" Yea all the tower
- Of heaven, tower Of martyrs. tower I
prophets, tower Of Apostles, tower I
y cvangelists, tower of the temple of Il
, Lord God and the Lamb, are chimin
~ ''Come. Come" Pardon for all, and peat
!. for all, and heaven for all who will com
~ When Russia was in ono of her gree
, wars, the suffering Of the soldiers ha
. been long and bitter and they were wal
!. ing for the end Of the strife. One day
. . messenger in great excitement ran amor
!, the tents of the army shouting, 'Peac
"a Peace!" Tho sentinel on guard aske
..Who says .PeaceY" And the sick &C
~ asked, 'Who says 'Peace?'" And all ,
70 and down the encampment of the Ru
!" SLAMS went the question, 'Who So
:. 'Peace?" Then the messenger responde
- 1.-The Car says 'Peacev" That W
- enough. That meant going home. Th
10 meant the war was over. No mo
- - wounds and no moro LONG marches.
~ today, as one Of the Lords messengers
=. move through these great cncampmer
20 Of souls and cry, "Peace between car
20 20 and heaven! Peace between God q
- man! Peace between your repenting &
~, u, and pardoning Lordw II you ask !
"a who says peace, answer, 'Christ o
a. King declares it. My peace give III
% your peace Of God that passeth all l
w denstandingv Everlasting Peacew
nd Victoria Doesn't Like Smol
d, ing.