Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-05-11


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TIE HOLY Spirit Is WAITING
Bat renaAfk again. not only Christ Is
waiting. bat the Holy Spirit Is waiting.
Why are some sermons a dead failnrr,
by are there soags that DO not get their
Wing Gsder tina people, Why are there
players that 80 40 higher up than hunt
ey's haiioos Because there Is a missing
Ink that only TIE Holy Spirit can make
IL thai op4Tit snoald eoase taTo4gh this as
ssmotass this morning there wosid Be .
power felt Ike that when saul Was ua-
h0rsed on the road 10 Damascus, Ike as
when Lydia heart WAS broken In her ine
store. like as when three thousand souls
were lifted our OF midnight into midnooa
at the Peatecost. DO you notice that some
times that Spirit takes an insignificant
agency 10 save a soaly | think Il h very
often that at Just one passage OF Scriptnre.
Just one word OF Scripture a soul Is saved
because the Holy Spirit gives il supernAt-
urai power.
Do yoa know what IL was that saved
Martin Luther, IL was that one verse,
The Just shall live by faith" Do you
know what il was that brought Augustine
from his horrible dissipationss IL was
that one verse, Put ye on the Lord Jesus
Christ. and maks no provision for the flesh,
to fulfill the lusts thereof" DO you know
what ii was that saved Hedley Wears, the
celebrated soldier' TWAS the one passage
Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ aud thou
was that brought Jonathan Edwards to
Christi IL 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 young man
stood in the gallery and said TO himself: II
have never rendered one acceptable offer
ing of gratitude To God in all my life. Here,
Lord. l am thine forever BY that one
passage OF Scripture he was brought into
the kingdom, and II l might tell my own
experience. l might tell how one Sabbath
afternoon was brought 10 the peace of the
gospel by reading Of the Syro- Phenician's
cry 10 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
lsuppose the world thought that Thom-
rs Chalmers preached great sermons in his
early ministry. but Thomas Chalmers says
be never preached at all until years after
he had occupied q 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 meu to Christ
a. tho 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 10
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 IL WAITING.
Then go on and tell you tho church Is
ready. There are those here who say, mo
one cares for my soul" We do care for it.
You see q man bowling his head I'm 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 a
minute of an hour of any day that there are
not supplications ascending to the throne
Of mercy The church is ready. And II
you should this morning start for your
Fathers house there would be hundreds
and thousands in this assemblage who
would say IL 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 a mass Of hypocrites, but they do
not really think so. IL is a glorious church.
Christ purchased it. Christ built it. Christ
swung all its gates. Christ curtained II
with upholstery. crimson with crucifixion
carnage. Come into it. Come into IL.
do not pick out this man or that man and
say, lyon may come" say all may come
-whosoever will "Come with ms and we
will do you good. The Lord hath prom
ised good concerning Israel"
We are a garden walled around.
Chosen and made peculiar ground.
A little plot Enclosed by grace
Out Of the worlds wild wilderness
= GOMEZ GOMEZ
Do not say you have never been invited
invite you now TO the Kings feast. One
and all. ALI ALI But 40 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 well 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. Ny friends. there il not any more
evidence in the Bible that there Ia God
than that there are angels Did they not
swarm around Jacobs LADDER When
Lazarus soul went up did they not escort
IT, Did not David say. The chariots Of
God are twenty thousand, even thousands
81 angeis," Are they not represented as
the chief harvesters of the Judgment day'
Did net one angel in one night stay $50. 600
Of Seunacherib's trcopsi
Oh, yes. our world is In communication
with two other worlds. All that commu-
nication j. by angels. When bad man Is
TO die. man who has despised God and re-
jected the Gospel. the bad spirits come on
sulphurous wing and they shackle him,
aud try to push him Oh the precipices into
the ruin. and they lift guffaw OF diaboli-
81 .xuitatinn PIT there Ia a line nf ANGELS