Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-02

| young man tapped me on the shoulder
| and said: George. come with me and
| will do you good looked at him to see
| whether he was joking or not. / saw he
| was in earnest, and / said:
WHAT DO YOU MEAN. sIRa'
| Well he replied ! mean if you will
| come to the meeting tonight I will be very
! glad to introduce you. l viii meet you at
| the door. VIII you Gomez Said l: 4 will. ;
| l went to the place where 1 was tarrying.
| fixed myself up as well as l could. but
| toned 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 went
! in I 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 just there gave my
beart to God, and / know this morning that
| what you say is true; believe it il my own
experience. On him the Lord hath lad
the iniquity of us all. -
O!my brother, without stopping to look
| as to whether your hand trembleS or not,
without stopping 10 look whether your hand
is bloated with sin or not, put II IN my
hand, let me give you one warm, brotherly
Christian grip. and invite you right up to
the heart, to 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. |
proclaim emancipation this morning TO all
who are bound, pardon for all sin, and
| eternal life for all the dead.
Some one comes here this morning, and l
stand aside. He comes up these steps. He
comes to this place. [ must stand aside
Taking that place he spreads abroad his
hands, and they were nailed. You see his
feet, they were bruised. He pulls aside the
robe and shows
HIS WOUNDED HEART.
say, cart thou weary!' Yes" he says,
weary with the worlds Woe" | say,
whence contest thou9'' He says, II come
thee" He says, No one: have trodden
the winepress alone!' l say, Why contest
thou herc!'' or nc says, Il came here TO
carry all the sins and SORROWS of the peo-
ple.'' And he kneels and he says: Put
on my shoulders all the sorrows and all the
sins And conscious of my own sins, first,
/ take them and put them on the shoulders
of the Son of God. say, "Canst thou bear
any more, o Christi He says, Yea,
more" And ! gather up the sins of all
those who serve at these affairs, the officers
of the Church of Jesus Christi gather up
all their sins and put them on Christ's
shoulders, and | say: "Canst thou bear any
gather up all the sins Of hundred people
in this house and put them on the Shout
derS Of Christ, and l say: ''Canst thou
bear more" He says, Yea, more And
/ gather up all the sins of this assembly and
l put them on the shoulders OF the Son OF
God and | say, ''Canst thou bear them2"
Yea, = he says, ''more!''
But he is departing. Clear the way for
him, the Son of God. Open the door and
let him pass out. He is carrying our sins
and
BEARING THEM AWAY.
We shall never see them again. He throws
them down into the abysm, and you hear
the long reverberating echo of their fall
ION him the Lord hath laid the lniquity of
US ALL VIII you let him take away your
sins to-day? or do you say, Il will take
charge of them myself. l will fight my own
battles, l will risk eternity on my own
account" A clergyman said in his pulpit
one Sabbath: Before next Saturday
night, one of this audience will have passed
ont of life A gentleman said to another
seated next to him: Il don't believe 1t:
mean TO watch, and if it doesn't come true
by next Saturday night, l shall tell that
clergyman his faisehoOd." The man seated
next to him said: Perhaps it will be
yourself 20! no. the other replied, II
shall live to be an old man. That night he
breathcd his last.
To-day the Savior calls All may come.
God never pushes a man off. God never
destroys anybody. The man jumps off. 1t
is suicide-Soul suicide-if the man per-
ishes, for the invitation is, "WhosoeVer
will, let him come" WhOSoever. whose
ever, whatsoever! In this day of merciful
visitation, while many are coming into the
kingdom of God, join the procession heaven
ward.
Seated among us during service was
man who came in and said L don't know
that there is God" That was on Friday
night l said: We will kneel down and
find out whether there is any God" And
in the second seat from the pulpit we
knelt. He said: Il have found him. There
is a God, a pardoning GOO. l feel him
here" He knelt in the darkness Of sin.
He arose two minutes afterward in the
liberty of the Gospel; while another, sit
ting under the gallery on Friday night,
said: My opportunity is gone; last week
/ might have been saved; not 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: Il am 4 lost man.
Behold! the Lamb of Cod, VINO taketh
away the sins of the world ''Now is the
accepted time. Now is the day of saliva
tion.'' at is appointed unto all men once
to die, and after that-the Judgment"