Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-07-02

IN that chopped sea- But do nor know
py what process you got astray: some in
one way, and some in another. and if Won
could really see the position some of Won
occupy before God this morning. your soul
would burst into an agony of tears and
you would pelt the heavens with the cry
God have mercyr Sinai's batteries have
been unlimbered above your soul. and at
times You have heard it thunder: "I'he
wages Of sin is death" "All have sinned
and come short of the glory of God" "By
one man sin entered into the world. and
death by sin. aud so death passed upop all
men, for that all have sinned." ''The soul
that sinneth it shall die"
When Sebastopol was being bombarded
two Russian frgates burned all night in
the harbor throwing a glare upon the
trembling fortress, and some of Won are
standing in the night of your souls trou-
BILE. The cannonade and the confagra-
ton, the multiplication of your sorrows
and troubles think must make the wings
OF Gods lowering angels shiver to the tin.
But the last part of my text opens a door
wide enough TO let us all out and to let all
heaven in. Sound it on the organ with all
the stops out Thrum it on the harps
with all the strings atune With all the
melody possible let the heavens sound il to
the earth and let the earth tell it to the
heavens. "The Lord hath laid on him the
iniquity of us all" | am glad that the
prophet did not stop to explain whom he
meant by ''hm." Him of the manger.
him of the bloody sweat, him of the resur-
reetion throne, him of the crucifxion
agony. ION him the Lord hath laid the
iniquity of ms all"
CHRIST COMES TO THE FALLEN.
"Oh," says some man, shat is not gener-
GUS that is not fair: let every man carry
his own burden and pay his own debts. /"
That sounds reasonable. If | have an OBJ
| legation aud have the means TO meet it,
and come to You and ask you TO settle
that obligation, you rightly say, "Pay your
own debts" If you and | walking down
the street, both bale. hea.y and well, ask
You to carry me, you say, and say rightly,
"Walk on your own feetp' But suppose
You and were in a regiment and | was
wounded in the battle and | fell uncon-
scious at your feet with gunshot fractures
and dislocations. what would yon dor You
would call to your comrades saying,
Come and help, this man is helpless;
bring the ambulance: let us take him to
the hospital" and ! would be a dead lift
In your arms, and you would lift me from
the ground where had fallen and put me
in the ambulance and take me to the hos
pital and have all kindness shown me.
Would there be anything mean in your do
ing that' Would there be anything be-
meaning in my accepting that kindnessy
Oh, no. You would be mean not to do it,
That is what Christ does.
II we could pay our debts then it would
be better to 20 up and pay them, saying
"Here, Lord, here is my obligation; here
are the means with which / mean to settle
that obligation. now give me receipt:
cross it all out" The debt is paid But
the fact is we have fallen in the battle, we
have gone down under the hot fire of our
transgressions, we have been wounded by
the sabers of sin, we are helpless we are
undone, Chist comes The loud clang
heard in the sky on that Christmas night
was only the bell, the resembling bell, Of
the ambulance Clear the way for the Son
of God He comes down to bind up the
wounds, and to scatter the darkness, and
TO save the lost Clear the way for the Son
of God.
Christ comes down TO see us, and we are
dead lift He does not lift us with the
tips of his fingers. He does not lift us with
one arm He comes down upon his knee.
and then with dead lift he raises us to
honor and glory and Immortality 1.-THE
Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of US
all. Why. then, will no man carry his
sinsi You cannot carry successfully the
smallest sin you ever committed. You
might as well put the Apennines on one
shoulder and the Alps on the other. How
much less can you carry all the sins OF your
lifetime! Christ comes and looks down in
your face and says: 81 have come through
all the decorations of these days and through
all the tempests of these nights. | have
come to bear your burdens, and to pardon
your sins, and to pay your debts. Put
them on my shoulder; put them on my
heart" "On him the Lord hath laid the
iniquity of us all. "
NO REST FOR THE WICKED
Sin has almost pestered the life out of
some of you. At times it has made you
cross and unreasonable, and it has spoiled
the brightness of your days and the peace
of your nights There are men who have
been riddled of sin The world gives them
no solace Gossamer and volatile the world,
while eternity, as they look forward to it,
is black as midnight. They writhe under
the stngs of a conscience which proposes
to give no rest here and no rest hereafter;
and yet they do not repent, they do not
pray, they do not weep They do not real
lie that just the position they occupy is
the position occupied by scores, hundreds
and thousands of men who never found
any hope.
II this meeting should be thrown open
and the people who are here could give
their testimony, what thrilling experiences
we should hear on all sidesl There is
man in the gallery who would say; Il had
brilliant surroundings, had the best edu-
cation that one of the best collegiate insti-
tutions of this country could give, and
observed all the moralities Of life, and l
was self righteous, and | thought was all
right before God as am all right before
men: but the Holy Spirit came to me one
day and said. You are sinner the Holy
Shirt persuaded me of the fact. While
had escaped the sins against the law of the
land had really committed the worst sin
a man ever commits-the driving back Of
the Son of God from my hearts affections.
And | saw that my hands were red with