Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-07-02
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Yondcr Is a woman who would say:
II wandered off from my fathers
house; | heard the storm that pelts on
a lost soul; my feet were blistered on
the hot rocks. / went on and on,
thinking that no one cared for my
soul, when one night Jesus met me and
he said, Poor thing, go home! your
father is waiting for you, your moth er
is waiting for you. Go home, poor
thing" and. sir, I was too weak ia
pray, and | was too weak to repent,
but | just cried out, / sobbcl out my
sins and my sorrows on the shoulders
of him of whom it is said: the Lord
hath laid on Kim the iniqu.ty of II;
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There isa young man who would say:
Il had q Christian bringing up; ] cama
from the country 10 city life: | starte
we'll; | had n good p )sition, a good
commercial position, but on, night al
the thelter met some yo ung men who
did me no good. They dragged me all
through the sewers of iniquity, and
| lost my morals and | lost
my position, AMI | was shabby
AID wretched. | was going down tho
street, thinking that no one cared for
me, when q young man tapped me on
the shoulder and said: George, coma
with me and | will do you good
looked ut him to see whether he was
joking or not. ! saw he was in earnest,
and ! said: What do you mean, STRIP
Well he replied, Il mean if you VIII
come to the meeting tonight | will 10
very glad to introduce you.
will meet you at the door. Win You
come y Said !, Il will / went to thu
place whcro was tarrying. AS | went
IN heard an old man praying, and ha
locked so much like my father, | sobbcd
right out and they were all around 81
kind and sympathetic that just there
gave my heart to God, and / know thia
morning that what you say is trac; [
believe it i'll my own experience.
On him the Lord hath laid
the iniquity of us all"
Oh! my bro her, W it'll, IL stopping 10
look as to whether your hand tenn hlcs
o. not, without stopping t. look
whether your hand is bloated with sin
OF not, put it in my hand, let me give
you one warm, brothcrly Christian
grip and invite you right up to the
heart, to the compassion, to the syu-
patty, 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 arc bound, pardon
for all sin, and eternal life for al! TIE
dead.
To-day the Savior calls. Az may
come. God never pushes IL IN; off. |
God never destroys anybody. The !
man jumps off. 1t is suicide-soul sui.
cide-if the man perishes, for the invi |
tation is: whatsoever will, may come"
Whosocvcr, whosocvcr, whatsoever! In |
this day of mcrciful visitation, while |
many arc coming into the kingdom of |
God, join the procession heavenward. |
Seated among us during a service was
II man who came in and said Il don't |
know that there is any God" That
was on Friday night. / said: ave will |
kneel down and find out whether there |
is any God" And in the second seat OF |
the pulpit we knelt. He said: Il have
found him. There is God, pardon.
ing God | feel him here" He knelt in |
the darkness of sin. He arose two min !
utes afterward in the liberty of the |
CospeE while another sitting under the
gallery OH Friday night and said: ''My |
is gone; last week might |
have lc N saved, but now the door is
shut And another from the very
midst of the meeting. during the week,
ri shed out of the front door of the |
saying: II am lost man"
''l5chold! the Lamb of God who taketh
away the sins of the world" "Now is
the accepted time Now is the day OF
at is appointed unto all
men once to die, and after that--the
Judgment"