Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-02

place. All, did they 60 to the same place? It
is an infinite absurdity to suppose them DOTH In
the same place. If the miser had & harp VIVA wnat
mend to you this religion as the only personal
safety. When you die where are you gong TO!
When we leave all these scenes, upon wnat
scenes will we enterf When we were on snip-
board, and We all felt that we must go to tine
bottom. was right in saying to one next me:
u wonder If We will reach Heaven IL we 90 go
ing that question: / tell you that man is q fool
who never thinks of the great future.
Not Many Persons Get Old.
But I apply this subject to the aged-not
many here-rot many in any assemblage. Peo-
pie do not live to get old. That is the general
rule Here and there an aged man in the
house. tell you the truth. You have lived
long enough in this world to know that it can
not satisfy an immortal nature. must talk to
you more reverentially than do to these other
people, while at the same time 1 speak with
great plainness- o, father of the weary step,
0, mother, bent down under the ailments of
life, has thy God ever forsaken thee! Through
all these years. who has been your best friend !
Seventy years OF mercies Seventy years OF
food and clothing! o, how many bright morn
ingsl How many glorious evening hours you
very good to you. Do you feel it? Some of
you have children and grandchildren; the
former cheered your young life. the latter
twine your gray locks in their tiny fingers. Has
all the goodness that God has been making
pass before you produced no change in your
feelings and must it be said of you, notwlth-
standing all this: "One thing thou lackest 2"
Oh. if you could only feel the hand of Christ
smoothing the cares out of wrinkled faces. Oh,
if you could only feel the warm arm of Christ
steadying your tottering steps lift my voice
loud enough 10 break through the deafness of
the ear while cry out: Zone thing thou lack
est" 1t was an importunate appeal q young
man made in prayer-meeting when be rose
up and said: "Do pray for my old father. He
is 20 years OF age and he don't love Christ"
That father passed few more steps on in life
and then he went down. He never gave any
intmatiou that he had chosen Jesus. 1t is a
very hard thing for an old man TO become a
Christian. know it is. 1t is SO hard thing
that it cannot be done by any human work; but
God Almighty can do 1t by His omnlpotent
grace; He can bring you at the eleventh hour
at half-past lat one minute of II He can
bring you to the peace and the Joys of the
glorious Gospel.
Some Other Plain Applications.
/ must make application of this subject, also,
to those who are prospered. Have you, my
friends, found that dollars and cents are no per-
manent consolation to the soulf You have
large worldly resources but have you no treas
ures in heavenf Is an embroidered pillow all
that you want to put your dying head on? Y ou
have heard people all last week talk about
the heavenly. Do you not know it will be worse
for you, o prospered man, If you reject Christ
and reject him finally-that 1t will be worse for
you than those who had it hard in this world,
because the contrast will make the discontinue
so much more appalling? AS the hart bounds
for the water brooks, as the roe speeds down
the hillside, speed thou to Christ. Escape
for thy life, look not behind thee, neither stay
thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain
lest thou be consumedr
/ must make my application to another class
your rent when It is due, have you nobody but
the landlord TO talk TOT When the -four has
gone out of the barrel. and you have not 10
cents with which to 60 to the bakery, and your
children are tugging at your dress for some
thing to eat, have you nothing but the worlds
charities to appeal to? When winter comes,
and there are no Goals, and the ash bar
rels have no more cinders. who takes care of
you? Have you nobody but the overseer of the
Door? But preach to yon poor mans Christ.
If you do not have in the winter blankets enough
to cover You in the night, want to tell you of
Him who had not where to lay His head. If you
lie on the bare floor want TO tell you of Him
who had for pillow hard cross, and whose
foot-bath was the streaming blood of his own
heart. o you poor mani o you poor woman
Jesus understands your case altogether. Talk
it right out to him tonight. Get down on your
floor and say: Lord Jesus Christ, Thou vast
poor and l am poor. Help me. Thou art rich
now, and bring me up to Thy riches !" Do yo1
think God would cast you Off Will he? You
might well think that a mother would take
the child that feeds on her breast and dash its
life out as to think that God would put aside
roughly those who have fed to him for pity
and compassion. Yea, the prophet says: "A
woman may forget her sucking child, that she
should not have compassion on the SON of her
womb, but will not forget thee"
More Than the Whole Universe.
My hope in Christ is not so bright as many
Christians, know; but would not give it up
for the whole universe, in one cash payment, If
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fort to me in ntime OF trouble, it has been SO
mucn strength to me when have been as
sailed, it has been so much rest to me when 1
have been perplexed. and 1t is around my
heart such an encasement of satisfaction and
blessedness that can stand here before God
and say: Take away my health, take away my
life, take syeryfhlng rather than 1.hioS rob me OF
in Jesus Christ my Lord. l must have this
robe when the last chill strikes through
me. must have this light when all
that COMES up from tho cold Jordan.
1 must have this sword with which
to fight my way through all those foes
on my way heayenward. When 1 was
IN London l saw there the wonderful ar
NOR of Henry VIII, and Edward III. And yet
have to tell you that there is nothing in chain
mail or brass plate, or gauntlet, or halberd that
makes man so safe as the armor in which the
Lord God clothes his dear children. o, there
is a safety in religion. You will ride down all
your foes Look out for that man who has the
strength of the Lord God with him. In olden
times the horsemen used to ride into battle with
lifted lances, and the enemy fed the field. The
Lord on the white horse of victory, and with
lifted lances of divine strength. rides into the
battle and down goes the spiritual foe; while
the victor shouts the triumph through the Lord
Jesus Christ As a matter of personal safety,
nv dear friends, you must have this religion.
/ apply my subject to several classes of peo-
pie before me. First. to that great multitude
of Young people in this house. Some of these
young men are in boarding houses. They have
but few social advantages. They think that no
one cares for their souls. Many of them are on
small salaries, and they are cramped and both
cred perpetually, and sometimes their heart
fails them. Young man. tonight at your bed
room door the third floor, you will hear a
knocking 1t Will be the hand of Jesus Christ,
the young mans FRIEND saying:"O, young man,
let Me come in; will help thee, / will comfort
thee, will deliver thee" Take the Bible ont
of the trunk. if it has been hidden away. If
you have not the courage to lay 1t on the shelf
table, take that Bible that was gwen to you
by some loved one take it out of the trunk and
lay it down the bottom of the chair, then
kneel down beside it, and read and pray, and
pray and read, until all your disturbance is
gone, and you feel that peace which neither
earth nor hell can rob you of. Thy fathers
God, thy mothers God, waits for thee, o
young man. Escape for tiny life!' Escape
now! zone thing thou lackestp