Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-07-03

their testimony. what thrilling expert
ences we should hear on all sidesl There
is man in the gallery who
would say: 81 had brilliant surround
ings, had the best education that one
of the best collegiate institutions of
this country could give, and observed
oil the moralities of life, and was self
righteous, and thought l was all right
before God as l am all right before
men; but the Holy Spirit came to me
one day and said, you are sinner
the Holy Spirit persuaded me of
the fact. While had capped
the sins against the law of the land, 1
had really committed the worst Gin
man ever commits-the driving back of
the Son of God from my hearts affec-
tions. And saw that my hands were
red with the blood of the Son of God,
and began to pray and peace came to
my heart, and / know by experience
| that what you say this morning is true.
'On him the Lord hath laid the iniquity
of us all. 4"
Yonder is man who would say: "I
was the worst drunkard in New York;
L went from bad to worse; l destroyed
myself, destroyed my home; my chill
dren covered when / entered the house;
when they put up their lips TO be kissed
l struck them; when my wife protested
against the maltreatment, kicked her
into the street. know all the bruises
and all the terrors of drunkard's
| Woe"
Yonder is q woman who would say:
81 wandered off from my fathers
| house; heard the storm that pelts on
"A lost soul; my feet were blistered on
the hot rocks. l went on and on,
| thinking that no one cared for my
soul, when one night Jesus met me and
he said, Poor thing, go home! your
father is waiting for you, your mother
is waiting for You. Go hone, poor
| thing" and. sir, ! was too weak to
pray, and l was too weak to repent,
but l just cried out, sobbed out my
sins and my sorrows on the shoulders
of him of whom it is said: the Lord
hath laid on him tho iniquity of Us
ALL"
There Isl young man who would say:
81 had Christian bringing up; came
| rom the country to city life; l started
well; / had a good position, a good
commercial position, but one night at
the theater l met some yo ung men who
did me no good. They dragged me all
through the sewers of iniquity, and
L lost my morals and l lost
my position, and l was shabby
and wrctched. l was going down the
street, thinking that no one cared for
me, when young man tapped me on
| the shoulder and said: George, come
with me and j will do you good l
| looked at him TO see whether he was
| joking or rot. saw he was in earnest,
and | said: What do you mean, STRIP
Well he replied, Il mean if you will
come to the meeting tonight / will be
very glad to introduce you. l
will meet you at the door VIII you
come :? Said /, Il will 1 went to the
/ place where L was tarrying. AS l went
| in heard an old man praying, and he
locked SO much like my father, sobbed
right out and they were all around so
kind and sympathetic that just there
| gave my heart to God, and know this
morning that what you say is true; l
believe it in my own experience.
the iniquity of us ALL"
Oh! my brother, w ithout stopping TO
look as to whether your hand tremblcs
or not, without stopping to look
whether your hand is bloated with sin
or not, put it in my hand let me give
you one warm, brotherly Christian
grip and invite you right up TO the
heart, 20 the compassion, to the SYM
pathy, TO the pardon of him on whom
the Lord had laid the iniquity of us all
| Throw away your sins Carry them no
! longer. l proclaim emancipation this
morning to all who are bound, pardon
for all sin, and eternal life for ali the
dead.
To-day the Savior calls. All may
come. God never pushes a man off.
God never destroys anybody. Tae
man jumps off. 1t is suicide-soul sui
cide-if the man perishes, for the invi-
tation is: "'Whosoever will, may come"
| Whosoever, whatsoever, whosoever In
this day of merciful visitation, while
many are coming into the kingdom OF
God, join the procession heavenward.
Seated among us during a service was
a man who came in and said Il don't
know that there is any God" That
was on Friday night. ! said: 1--WE will
lSneel down and find out whether there
is any God" And in the second seat of
the pulpit we knelt. lie said: Il have
found him. There Is God, n pardon
ing God. feel him here" He knelt in
the darkness of sin. lie arose two min
utes afterward in the liberty of the
Gospel; while another sitting under the
gallery on Friday night and said: my
opportunity is gone; last week might
have been saved, but now the door is
shut" And another from the very
midst of the meeting, during the week,
rushed out of the front door of the
Tabernacle, saying: 81 am lost man. !"
"Behold! the Lamb of God who taketh
away the sins of the world" "Now Is
the accepted time Now is the day of
salvation" at is appointed unto all
men once to die, and after that-the
Judgment"