News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-05

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into the battle and down goes tn
spiritual foe, while the victor shout
the triumph through the Lord Jesu
Christ. As Il matter of personal safety
my dear friends, you must have thi
religion
THE YOUNG HAVE THEIR TRIALS.
| apply my subject to several classe
of people before me. First, to tina
great multitude of young people in thi
house. Some of these young men are
in boarding houses. They have bu
few social advantages. They thinL
that no one cares for their souls. Many
of them are on small salaries. and they
are cramped and bothered perpotually
and sometimes their heart fails them
Young man, tonight, at your bedroom
door on the third floor you will hear g
knocking. 1t will be the hand of Jesus
Christ. the young mans friend. saying,
'Oh, young man, let me come in; will
help thee. | will comfort thee. will
deliver thee"
Take the Bible out of the trunk il
it has been hidden away. If you have
not the courage to lay it ON the shelf
or table, take that Bible that was
given to you by some loved one, take
it out of the trunk and lay it down on
the bottom of the chair, then kreel
down beside it, and read and pray,
and pray and read, until all your dis
turbance is gone, and you feel that
peace which neither earth nor hell can
rob you of. Thy fathers God, thy
mothers God, waits for thee, on, young
man. Escape for thy life" Escape
now "Onc thing thou lackesUr'
But apply this subject to the aged
not many here-not many in any
assemblage. People do not live to get
old. That is the general rule Here
and there an aged man in the house
tell you the truth. You have lived
long enough in this world to know that
it cannot satisfy an immortal nature. !
must talk to you more reverentially
than | do to these other people, while
at the same time | speak with great
plainness.
o father of the weary step, o moth
er bent down under the ailments of
life, has thy God ever forsaken thee2
Through all these years who has been
your best friend2 Seventy years of
mercies Seventy years of food and
Oh, how many bright morn
ingsl How many glorious evening
hours you have seen. o father, moth
eE, God has been very good to you.
Do you feel it, Some of you have
children and grandchildren; the former
cheered your young life, the latter
Irvine your gray locks in their tiny
fingers. Has all the goodness that God
has been making pass before you pro-
duced no change in your feeling, and
must it be said of yen, notwithstanding
all this, "One thing thou lackest"
Oh, if you could only feel the hand
of Christ smoothing the cares out of
faces! Oh, if you could only
feel the warm arm of Christ steadying
your tottering steps! l lift my voice
loud enough to break through the deaf
ness of the ear while l cry out, "One
thing thou lackest." 1t was an impor-
tunate appeal u young man made in a
prayer meeting when he rose up and
said: do pray for my old father. He
is 20 years of age, and he don't love
Christ. That father passed a few
more steps on in life, and then he went
down. He never gave any intimation
that he had chosen Jesus 1t is a very
hard thing for an old man to become
Christian. | know it is. 1t is so hard
a thing that it cannot be done by any
human work; but God Almighty can
do it by his omnipotent grace; he can
bring you at the eleventh hour-at half
past lat one minute of ~ he can
bring you to the peace and the joys of
the glorious gospel.
l must make application of this sub
iect also to those who are prospered
Have you, my friends, found that dol
airs and cents are no permanent con
ISOLATION to the soul? You have large
worldly resources, but have you moi
treasures in heaven! Is an embroid- |
red pillow all that you want to put |
Tour dying head on? You have heard |
people all last week talk about earthly |
ralues. Hear IL plain man talk about |
he heavenly. Do you not know it |
will be worse for you, o prospered |
nan, if you reject Christ, and reject
lin finally-that it will be worse for
on than those who had it hard in this
World, because the contrast will make
he discontinue so much more appall-
ng? As the hart bounds for the water
rooks, as the roe speeds down the
illside, speed thou to Christ. ''Es-
ape for thy life, look not behind thee.
either stay thou in all the plain; es-
ape to the mountain, lest thou be con
lmed y
FOR THE POOR ALSO.
must make my application to an
Their class of persons-the poor. When
Oh cannot pay your rent when it is
ue, have you nobody but the landlord
talk tol When the flour has gone
1t Of the barrel, and you have not ten
'nts with which to go to the bakery,
Id your children are Juggling at your
'ess for something 10 eat, have you
'thing but the worlds charities to an
al to- When winter comes, and
ere are no Goals, and the ash barrels
I've no more cinders, who takes care
your Have you nobody but the
'erseer of the poor2 But preach to
u poor mans Christ. If you do
It have in the winter blankets enough
cover you in the night, want to tell
u of him who had not where to Law
) head. If you lie on the bare floor.
want to tell you of him who had fora
low hard cross, and whose foot
tn was the streaming blood of his
n heart.
Oh, you poor man! Oh, you poor
imam! Jesus understands your case
ogether. Talk it right out to him To-
;ht. Get down On your floor and
:: Lord Jesus Christ, thou vast
or and ] am poor. Help me. Thou
rich now, and bring me up to tny
hes Do you think God would cast
1 otfF VIII her You might as well
nix that a mother would take the
Id that feeds on her breast and dash
life CUt as to think that God would
aside roughly those who have fled
him for pity and compassion Yea,
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