News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-07-02

was, and l said, God have mercy ant
he had mercy on me. My home is re
stored, my wife sings all day long dur
ing work, my children come out long
way to greet me home and my house
hold is n little heaven. will tell yor
what did all this for me. 1t was the
truth that this day you proclaim, Or
him the Lord had laid the iniquity Of
us all. ;"
THE WORST OUTCAST MAY COME.
Yonder is q woman who would say
II wandered Off from my fathers
house; | heard the storm that pelts or
a lost soul; my feet were blistered on
the hot rocks. / 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 ia
Their is waiting for you, your mother is
waiting for you. Go home, poor thing!
And, sir, was too weak to pray, and |
was too weak to repent, but l just
cried out; | sobbed out my sins and my
sorrows on the shoulders of him oil
whom it is said the Lord hath laid on
him the iniquity of us ALL"
There is a young man who would
say: 81 had q Christian bringing up;
came from the country to city life;
started well; | had good position, d
good commercial position, but one
night at the theater met some young
men who did me no good. They
dragged me all through the sewers OF
iniquity, and l lost my morals and ]
lost my position, and was shabby and
wretched. Twas going down the street,
thinking that no one cared for me,
when a young man tapped me on the
shoulder and said, George, come with
me and l will do you good l looked
at him to see whether he was joking
or not. saw he was in earnest, and
said, What do you mean, sira' We'll,
he replied, 4 mean if you will come to
the meeting tonight T. will be very glad
to introduce you. l will meet you at
the door, VIII you Gomez Said l, 4
will
81 went to the place where l was
tarrying. fixed myself up as well It's
I could. l buttoned my coat over a
ragged vest and went to the door of the
church, and the young man met me,
and we went in; and as l went in /
heard an old man praying, and he
looked so much like my father sobbed
right out, and they were all around so
kind and sympathetic that l just there
gave my heart to God, and | know this
morning that what you say is true; |
believe it in my own experience. On
him the Lord hath laid the iniquity of
us ALL"
Oil my brother, without stopping to
look as to whether your hand trembles
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, to the
to the sympathy, to the
pardon of him on whom the Lord had
aid the iniquity of us all. Throw away
your sins. Garry them no longer. /
proclaim emancipation this morning to
Ill who are bound, pardon for all sin
md eternal life for all the dead.
HE Is MIGHTY TO SAVE.
Some one comes here this morning,
md stand aside. He comes up these
steps He comes to this place Unjust
'tand aside. Taking that place he
spreads abroad his hands and they were
lailed. You see his feet, they were
bruised. He pulls aside the robe and
shows you his wounded heart. I say,
Art thou weary" Yes" he says,
weary with the worlds Woe" l say,
whence contest thou2" He says, II
come from Calvary" L say, "Who
comes with theeY He says, t'No one.
have trodden the winepress alonep l
say, why contest thou here's" "Oh"
lie says, II came here to carry all the
'ins and sorrows of the people"
And he kneels and he says, 'Put on
ny shoulders all the sorrows and all
he sins" And conscious of my own
ins, first, | take them and put them on
he shoulders of the Son of God.
dy, SebiloL tliOu otSh any iHOTe, ~
Christi" He says, Yea, more" And
gather up the sins of all those who
erve at these affairs, the officers of the
hurch of Jesus Christi gather up all
heir sins and put them on Christ's
houlders and | say, 'Canst thou bear
my more?" He says, Yea, more"
Then gather up all the sins of hun
lred people in this house and | put
hem on the shoulders of Christ and /
ay, "Canst thou bear more?" He says,
Yea, more" And I gather up all the
ms of this assembly and | put them on
he shoulders of the Son of God and
ay, 'Canst thou bear themY "Yea,"
lie says, ''morew
But he is departing. Clear the way
or him, the Son of God. Open the
loor and let him pass out. He is car
ying our sins and bearing them away.
We shall never see them again. He
hrows them down into the abysm, and
,ou hear the long reverberating echo
# their fall ION him the Lord hath
aid the iniquity of us all" VIII you
ct him take away your sins today, or
10 you say, II will take charge of them
myself, | will fight my own battles, l
will risk eternity on my own accountT'
\ clergyman said in his pulpit one Sab
path, Before next Saturday night one
If this audience will have passed out
If life" A gentleman said to another
aota1 pav+ 70 him, ct 1o,,,t JOoI;o,-o -
mean to watch, and if it doesn't come
rue by next Saturday night l shall tell
hat clergyman his falsehood." The
nan seated next to him said, perhaps
will be yourself. ''Oh, no." the
'ther replied, 81 shall live to be an old |
man," That night he breathed his
asst.
Today the Saviour calls. All may
ome. God never pushes a man off. |
Tod never destroys anybody. The man
jumps off. 1t is suicide-soul suicide
the man perishes, for the invitation |
s, 'Whosoever will, let him come"
whatsoever, whosoever. In
his day of merciful visitation, while |
many are coming into the kingdom of
Tod, join the procession heavenward.
Seated among us during a service
vas man who came in and said, Il
lon't know that there is any God"
That was on Friday night | said,
we will kneel down and find out
whether there is any God" And in
he second seat from the pulpit we
melt He said: 81 have found him.
There is a God, pardoning God. l
eel him here" He knelt in the dark
less of sin. He arose two minutes af-
erward in the liberty of the Gospel;
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