Sharp County record., 1891-05-28

depths, all immensities. Chorus! Roll
on through the heavens in chariot ot
universal acclaim, over bridges Of
hosanna, under arches of coronation,
by the towers Ginning with eternal
jubilee. Chorus! Unto Him that loN ed
us and washed us from our sins in His
own blood, and made us kings and
priests unto God, to Him be glory.
All! there is one word of five letters
that would like to write; but | have
no sheet fair enough to write it on, and
no pencil good enough to inscribe it.
Give me sheet from the Heavenly rec
ords and some pencil used by an angel
in describing victory, and with hand
struck with supernatural energy, and
with pencil dipped in everlasting morn
ing, | will write it out in capitals OF
love-J-E-S-U-S Jesus! 1t is this One
that is waiting for you and for me, for
we are on the same platform before
God. How long He waited for me!
How long He has waited for you!
Waiting as a banqueter waits for his
delayed guests, the meats smoking,
and the beakers brimming, and
the minstrel with his finger on
the stiff string ready to strike at
the first clash of the hoofs at the gate
way. Waiting as mother waits for a
boy that ten years ago went off drag
4ggig giHgg her tbfgGdiIg i1oTf after him.
Waiting. Oh, can you not give me some
comparison intense enough, importu-
nate enough, high as Heaven, deep as
hell ANDY vast as eternity? Not expecting
that you can help me with such COM
parison, 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.
But remark again, not only Christ
is waiting, but the Holy Spirit is wait
ing, Why are some sermons dead
failure? Why are there songs that do
not get their wing under the people?
Why are there players that go no
higher up than hunters halloo? Be-
cause there is missing link that only
the Holy Spirit can make If that
spirit should come through this assem-
blage 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 mid
night into midnoon at the Pentecost
Do you notice that sometimes that
Spirit takes an insignificant agency to
save a soul? l 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
supernatural power Do you know
what it was that saved Martin Luther I?
1t was that one verse: "The just shall
live by faith" Do you know what it
was that brought Augustine from his
horrible dissipation 1t was that one
verse: "Put we 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 He'd
ley 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
Christ? 1t was the one passage: "Now
unto Him be glory forever and ever"
One Thanksgiving morning in church
I read my text, 80, 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
offering of gratitude to God in all my
life. Here, Lord, I am Thine forever" -"
By that one passage of Scripture he was
brought into the kingdom, and if |
might tell my own experience ! might
tell how one afternoon was brought to
the peace of the Gospel by reading of
the Syro-Ph9nician's cry to Christ
where he said: Gwen the dogs
eat of the crumbs that fall from the
masters table" Philosophic sermons
never saved anybody? Metaphysical
sermons 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. I suppose
the world thought that Thomas Chal-
mers preached great sermons in his
early ministry, but Thomas Chalmers
says he never preached at all until
years after he had occupied pulpit.
He came out Of his sick room,
and weak and cmaciatcd he stood
and told the story Of Christ TO the peo-
pie. And in the great day Of eternity
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, lie Is here this morning.
lie fills all the place. tell you, the
Holy Ghost is ready.
Do not say you have never been in
vited. invite you now to the Kings
feast. One and all. All All! But I
go further and tell you that the angels
are ready. Some people think when
we speak about angels we are getting
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