The Forrest City times., 1891-01-23

comingf Will . father at vast outAy construct Q mansion for his son, and lay out parks white with statues, and green with foliage, and all a-sparklc with fountains, and then not allow his son to live in the house, or walk in the parks? Has God built this house of Gospel mercy and will he then refuse entrance to his children? Will government at great expense build life-saving g stations all along the coasts and boats that can hover unhurt like a petrel over the widest surge, and then when the life-boat has reached the wreck of ship in the offing not allow the drowning to seize the lifeline or take the boat for the shore in safety? Shall God provide at the cost of his only Sons assassination escape for sinking world, and then turn deaf ear to the cry that comes up from the breakers?
 But" you say, ''there are so many things have to believe and so many things in the shape of creed that have to adopt. that I am kept back" No; no! You need believe but two things; namely, | that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners and that you are one of them. But" you say, II do believe both of them with all your heart? "Yes." Why, bltAl, ycu AhNC pdooSu 1AOlh uCoIu uiieO lAS. Why. then, you are a son or daughter of the Lord Almighty. Why, then, you are an heir or an heiress of an inheritance that will declare dividends from now until long after the stars are dead. Hallelujah Prince of God, why do you not come and take your coronet? Princess of the Lord Almighty, why do you not mount your throne? Pass up into | the light Your boat is anchored, why do you not go ashore? Just plant your feet hard down and you will feel under them | the Rock of Ages. l challenge the uni- verse for one instance in which man in | the right spirit appealed for the salvation of the gospel and did not get it. Man alive! Are you going to let all the years of your life go away with you without your having this great peace. this glorious hope, this bright expectancy? Are you going to let the pearl of great price lie in the dust at your feet because you are too indolent or too proud to stoop down and pick it up2 Will you wear the chain of evil habit when near by you is the hammer that could with one stroke snap the shacl1le? Will you stay in the prison of sin when here is Gospel key that could unlock your incarceration? No; no, As the one word, 'sCome," has sometimes brought many souls to Christ, I will try the experiment of piling up into mount ain and then send down in an avalanche of power many of these | Gospel ''Comes." "Come thou and all thy house into ark" Come unto me all ye who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest" Come for all things are now ready" ''Come with us and we will do you good;" .'Come and see;" ''The Spirit and the Bride say Come and let him that heareth say come and let him 1 that is athirst come." The stroke of one bell in tower may be sweet, but score of bells we'll tuned and rightly lifted and slxillfully swung in one great chime fill the heavens with music almost celestial. And no one who has heard the mighty chimes
 in the towers of Amsterdam, or Ghent or Copenhagen, can forget them. Now it seems to me that in this Sabbath hour all heaven is chiming, and the voices of l departed friends and kindred ring down the sky saying. "Come!' The angels who never fell, bending from sapphire thror es, are chanting Come" Yea all the towers of heaven, tower of martyrs. tower of prophets, tower of Apostles, tower of evangelists, tower of the temple of the Lord God and the Lamb, are chiming Come! Comer' Pardon for all, and peace for all, and heaven for all who will come.
 When Russia was,in one of her great wars, the suffering of the soldiers had been long and bitter and they were wait | ing for the end of the strife. One day . messenger in great excitement ran among the tents of the army shouting, 'Peace! Peacel" The sentinel on guard asked,
 ''Who says 'Peace?" And the sick sol dier turned on his hospital mattress and asked, ''Who says 'Peace?" And all up and down the encampment of the Rus sians went the question, ''Who says 'Peace"" Then the messenger responded
 ''The Czar says 'Peacep" That was enough. That meant going home. That meant the war was over. No more wounds and no more long marches. So today, as one of the Lords messengers, move through these great encampments of souls and cry, '.Peace between earth and heaven! Peace between God and man! Peace between your repenting soul and pardoning Lordw If you ask mo who says peace, I answer, Christ our King declares it. My peace I give unto youp Peace of God that passeth all un- derstanding. Everlasting Peace~