Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-05-21

dipped 10 everlasting morning, Twill write
IL out In capitals Of love- JESUS Jesusl
1t Is this One that is waiting for you and
for me, for we are on the same platform
before God How long be waited for mel
How long he has waited for youl Waiting
as banqueter waits for his delayed guests,
the meats smoking, and the beakers brim-
ming, and the minstrel with his finger on
stiff string ready to strike at the first clash
of the hoOfs at the gateway. Waiting as a
mother waits for a boy that ten years ago
went of dragging her bleeding heart after
him. Waiting. Oh, can you not give me
some comparison intense enough, impOrtu-
nate enough, high as heaven, deep as hell
and vast as eternityi Not expecting that
you can help me with such comparison, l
simply say he is waiting as only an all
sympathetic Christ knows how to wait for
wandering soul
Bow the knee and kiss the Son.
Come and welcome, sinner, come.
THE HOLY SPIRIT is WAITING.
But | remark again, not only Christ is
waiting, but the Holy Spirit is waiting
Why are some sermons dead failure9
Why are there songs that do not get their
wing under the people' Why are there
players that go no higher up than hunt
er's hallooi Because there is missing
link that only the Holy Spirit can make
If that Spirit should come through this as
semblage this morning there would be a
power felt like that when Saul was un-
horsed on the road to Damascus, like as
when Lydia's heart was broken in her fine
store, like as when three thousand souls
were lifted out of midnight into midnoon
at the Pentecost. Do you notice that some
times that Spirit takes an Insignificant
agency to save soul? | think it is very
often that at just one passage of Scripture,
just one word of Scripture, soul is saved
because the Holy Spirit gives it supernat-
ural power.
Do you know what it was that saved
Martin Luther2 1t was that one verse,
"The just shall Give by faith" Do you
know what it was that brought Augustine
from his horrible designations? 1t was
that one verse, "Put ye on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and make no provision for the flesh,
to fulfill the lusts thereof" Do you know
what it was that saved Hedley Wears, the
celebrated soldier? 1t was the one passage,
believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou
shalt be saved" Do you know what it
was that brought Jonathan Edwards to
Christi 1t was the one passage, "Now
unto him be glory forever and ever"
One Thanksgiving morning in church
read my text, "Oh, give thanks unto the
Lord for he is good" and a young man
stood in the gallery and said to himself: 81
have never rendered one acceptable offer
ing of gratitude to God in all my life Here,
Lord, am thine forever" BY that one
passage of Scripture he was brought into
the kingdom, and if l might tell my own
experience, might tell how one Sabbath
afternoon l was brought to the peace of the
gospel by reading of the Syro- Phenician's
cry to Christ where she said: even the
dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from the
masters table," Philosophic sermons
never saved anybody. Metaphysical SER
mons never saved anybody. An earnest
plea going right out of the heart blessed
of the Holy Ghost, that is what saves, that
is what brings people into the kingdom of
Christ.
suppose the world thought that Thom-
as Chalmers preached great sermons in his
early ministry, but Thomas Chalmers says
he never preached at all until years after
he mad occupied pulpit he came out of
his sick room, and, weak and emaciated,
he stood and told the story of Christ to
the people And in the great day of eter-
nifty it will be found that not so much the
eloquent sermons brought men to Christ
as the story told perhaps by those who
were unknown on earth, the simple story
of the Saviour's love and mercy, sent by
the power of the Holy Ghost straight to
the heart. Come, Holy Ghost. Ay. he is
here this morning. He fills all the place.
tell you the Holy Ghost is ready.
THE CHURCH IS WAITING.
Then go on and tell you the church is
ready There are those here who say, mo
one cares for my soul" We do care for it.
You see a man bowling his head in prayer,
and you say, "That man is Indifferent"
That man bows his head in prayer that the
truth may go to every heart The air is
full of players. They are going up this
morning from this assembly. Hundreds
of prayers straight to the throne of listen
ing God. The air is full of prayers-pray-
ers ascending noon by noon from Fulton
street prayer meeting, Friday night by
Friday night all over this land, going up
from praying circles. Yea there is not
minute of an hour of any day that there are
not supplications ascending to the throne
of mercy. The church is ready. And if
you should this morning start for your
Fathers house there would be hundreds
and thousands in this assemblage who
would say if they knew it, make room
for that man, make room for him at the
holy sacrament; bring the silver bowl for
his baptism; give him full right to all the
privileges of the church of Jesus Christ"
Oh know there are those who say the
church is mass of hypocrites, but they do
not really think so. 1t isl glorious church.
Christ purchased it. Christ built it. Christ
swung all its gates. Christ curtained it
with upholstery, crimson with crucifxion
carnage Come into it. Come into it. I
do not pick out this man or that man and
say, "You may come" say all may come
whatsoever will. "Come with us and we
will do you good. The Lord hath prom
ised good concerning Israel"
We are garden walled around,
Chosen and made peculiar ground,
A little plot inclosed by grace
Out of the worlds wild wilderness.
GOMEZ COME!
Do not say you have never been invited.
Invite you now to the Kings feast. One
and all. ALI ALI But go further and
tell you that the angels are ready. Some
people think when we speak about angels
we are getting into the region of fancy.
They say it is very we'll for man when he
has just entered the ministry to preach
about the angels in heaven, but after he
has gone ON further it is hardly worth
while My friends, there is not any more
evidence in the Bible that there is God