The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-07-18

derstand how the boat eould live one holr /
in that chopped sea. But do not know /
by what process you got astray; some in
one way, and some in another, and II you I
could really see the position some of you
occupy before God this morning, your soul
would burst into an agony of tears and
you would pelt the heavens with the cry.
"God have mercyp' Sinai's batteries have
been unlimbered above your soul. and at
times you have heard it thunder: "The
wages of sin is DEATH .All have sinEel
and come short of the glory of God" by
one man sin entered into the world, and I
death by sin, and so death passed upon all
men, for that all have sinned." '"The soul
that sinneth it shall die"
When Sebastopol was being bonn bardied,
two Russian frigates burned all night in
the harbor throwing glare upon the
trent bling fortress, and some of you are
standing in the night of your souls trou
BILE The cannonade and the confaYra
ton, the multiplication of your SORROWS
and troubles think must make the wings
of Gods lowering angels shiver to the tip.
But the last part of my text opens a door
wide enough to let us all out and to let all
heaven in. Sound it on the organ with all
the stops out. Thrum it on the harPs
with all the strings atune. With all the
melody possible let the heavens sound 1t to
the earth and fes the earth tell it to ihe
heavens. ':The Lord hath laid on him the
iniquity of US ALL" l am glad that the
prophet did not stop to explain whom he
meant by "hirn.'' Him of the manger.
him of the bloody sweat, him of the res,ur
rection throne, him of the crucifixion
agony. "On him the Lord hath. laid the
iDiquity of us all"
CHRIST COMES TO THE FALLEN.
"Oh," says some man, that is not gener->
Gus. that is not fair; let every man carry
LII l,.e l.a1Nf
That sounds reasonable. If I have an OBJ
legation and have the means to meet 1t.
and l come to you and ask you to settle
that obligation, you rightly say, PAY your
own debts.' IL you and l walking down
the street, both hale. hearty and well, ask
you to carry me, you say, and say rightly,
walk on your own feetr' But suppose
you and were in a regiment and I was
wounded in the battle and fell uncon-
scious at your feet with gunshot fractures
and dislocations, what would oudo?. You
would call to your comrades saying,
"Come and help, this man is helpless;
bring the ambulance; let us take him to
the hospital" and would be a dead lift
in your arms, and you would lift me from
the ground where 1 had fallen and put me
in the ambulance and take me to the hos
pital and have all kindness shown me-
Would there be anything mean in your 10
ing that? Would there be anything be-
meaning in my accepting that kindness:
oh, no. You would be mean not to do it.
That is What Christ does.
If we could pay our debts then it would
be better to go up and pay them, saying,
"Here Lord, here is my obligation: here
are the means with which mean to settle
that obligation; now give me receipt:
cross it all out" The debt is paid But
the fact is we have fallen in the battle, we
have gone down under the hot fire of our
transgressions. we have been wounded by
the sabers of sin, we are helpless, we are
undone. Chist comes. The loud cl.inG
heard in the sky on that Christmas night
was only the bell, the resounding bell, OF
the ambulance. Clear the way for the Son
of God. He comes down to bind up the
wounds, and to scatter the darkness, and
to save the lost Clear the way for the Son
of God.
Christ comes down TO see us, and we are
dead lift. He does not lift us with the
tips of his fingers. He does not lift us with
one arm. He comes down upon his knee,
and then with dead lift he raises to
honor and glory and Immortality. "The
Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us
ALL Why. then, will no man carry his
sins! You cannot carry successfully the
smallest sin you ever committed. You
might we'll put the Apennines on one
shoulder and the Alps on the other. How
| nuCH iCSS Cc1A yOu garry ttlI tu6 SluS VI your
lifetimel Christ comes and looks down in
| your face and says: "I have come through
all the lacerations of these days and through
! all the tempests of these nights. 1 have
come to bear your burdens, and to pardon
your sins, and to pay your debts. Put
them on my shoulder; put them on my
heart" "On him the Lord hath laid the
| iniquity of us ALL"
l NO REST FOR THE WICKED.
Kin hna otr rsa1 thaI 70 <at
some of you. At times it has made you
cross and unreasonable, and it has spoiled
the brightness of your days and the peace
of your nights. There are men who have
been riddled of sin. The world gives them
no solace. Gossamer and volatile the world
while eternity, as they look forward to it
4 is black as midnight. They writhe under
the stings of conscience which proposes
to give no rest here and no rest hereafter
and yet they do not repent, they do moi
pray, they do not weep. They do not real
ize that just the position they occupy is
the position occupied by scores, hundreds
and thousands of men who never founC
any hope
If this meeting should be thrown opeE
, and the people who are here could. give
] their testimony, what thrilling experiences
, we should hear on all sidesi There is 1
man in the gallery who would say: 81 hat
, brilliant surroundings, had the best edu
cation that one of the best collegiate insti
tutions of this country could give, and
observed all the moralities of life, and
was self righteous, and thought / was al
right before God as l am all right bef0r
men; but the Holy Spirit came to me on
day and said. You are a sinner;' the Hol.
Spirit persuaded me of the fact. While
: had escaped the sins against the law of th
land had really committed the worst sil
a man ever commits driving back o
the Son of God from my hearts affections
| And ! saw that my hands were red witt
the blood of the Son of God, and began t.