The Red Cloud chief., 1891-05-22

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q comparison. ! simply say he Is wait
ing as only an all sympathetic Christ
knows how to wait for . wandering
soul.
Bow The knee and L iss the Ron
Come and welcome. sinner. come,
But ] remark again, NOT only Christ
Is waiting, but the Holy Spirit is wait
ing. Why are some sermons q dead
failure? Why are there songs that do
not get their wing under the people?
Why are there prayers that get no
higher up than . hunters halloo7 Be
cause there is . missing link that only
the Holy Spirit can make. II that
Spirit should come through this as
semblsge this morning there would
be q power felt like that when Saul
was endorsed on the road TO Damascus.
like as when Lydia's heart was broken
in her fine store. like as when three
thousand souls were lifted out of mid.
night into midnoon at the Pentecost
Spirit takes an Insignificant agency TO
save q soul2 I think 1t Is very often
that at Just one passage Of Scripture,
just one word Of Scripture, . soul is
saved because the Holy Spirit
gives il supernatural power. Do
you know what II was that
saved Martin Luther? 1t was that
one verse: The just shall live by faith"
Do you know what it was that brought
Augustine from his horrible dissipation?
II vas that one verse: Put We on the
Lord Jesus Christ, and make no pro-
vision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts
thereof" DO you know what it was
that saved Hedley Wears, the celebrated
soldier? II was the one passage: Be
lieve in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou
shalt be saved" DO you know what it
was that brought Jonathan Edwards TO
Christ? II was the one passage: Now
unto Him be glory forever and ever"
One thanksgiving morning in church
! read my text 20, give thanks unto
the Lord, for He is good" and a young
man stood in the gallery and said Ia
himself, II have never rendered one ac-
ceptable offering Of gratitude to God in
all my life. "Here, Lord, l am
Thine forever" by that one pas
sage of Scripture he was brought
into the Kingdom, and II I
might tell my own experience, l
might tell how one Sabbath afternoon
I was brought to the peace of the Cos
pei by reading Of the Syro-P henician's
cry to Christ where she said: Even
the dogs eat of the crumbs that fall
from the masters table" Philosophic
sermons never saved anybody. Meta
physical sermons never saved anybody.
An earnest plea going right out Of the
heart blessed of the Holy Ghost that is
what saves; that is what brings people
into the kingdom of Christ suppose
that the world thought that Thomas
Chalmers preached great in
his early ministry, but Thomas Chal-
mers says he never preached at all I'M
Til years after he had occupied a pulpit
he came out Of his sick room, and weak
and emaciated he stood and told the
story of Christ TO the people.
And in the great day of eternity it
will be found that MOI SC much the elo-
quent sermons brought men TO Christ
as the story told, perhaps, by those who
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story of the Saviour's love and mercy,
sent by the power OF the Holy Ghost
straight to the heart Come, Holy
Ghost Az. he is here this morning.
He fills all the place. / tell You the
Holy Ghost is ready.
Then l go on and tell You the church
is ready. There are those here who
say: mo one cares for my soul" We
do not are for it You see q man bow
ing his head in prayer and you say:
THAT man is Indifferent" That man
bows his head in prayer that the truth
may go to every heart The air is full
Of prayers. They are going up this
morning from this assembly. Hun
dreds of prayers straight to the throne
of a listening God. The air is full of
prayers-prayers ascending Doon by
noon from Fulton street prayer meet
ing, Friday night by Friday night all
over this land, going up from praying
circles. Yea, there is lot a minute of
an hour of any day that there are
not ~supplications ascending to the
throne of mercy. The church is ready.
And if you should this morning start
for your Fathers house, there would
he hundreds and thousands in the as
scmblage who would say if they knew
il: Make DON for that man, make
room for him at the holy sacrament;
bring the silver bowl for his baptism;
give him full right to all the privileges
Of the church of Jesus Christ"
O, ! know there are those who say the
church is a mass of hypocrites, but they
do not really think so. 1t is a glorious
church. Christ purchased it Christ
built it. Christ swung all its gates.
Christ curtained II with upholstery.
crimson with crucifxion carnage.
Come into it Come into it. ! do not
pick out this nan or that man and say:
"You may come" Isay all may come
whatsoever will. Come with us and
we will do you good The Lord hath
promised good concerning Israel"
We are n garden walled around
Chosen and made peculiar ground,
A little pot inclosed by grace
Out OF the worli IS Wild wilderness
DO not say you have never been in
vitcd. i invite You now TO the Kings
feast All, All! But I go further and
tell you hat the angels are ready.
Some people think when we speak
about angels We are getting into the
region of fancy. They say it is very
well for q mar when he has Just en-
tered the ministry TO preach about the
angels OF Heaven, but after he has gone
on further il is hardly worth while.
My friends, there is not any more evil
dence in the Bible that there is a God
than that there are angels Did they
not swarm around Jacobs ladder?
When Lazarus soul went up did they
not escort it? Did not David say: The
chariots Of God are twenty thousand.
even thousands Of angels" Are they
not represented rs the chief harvesters
Of the Judgment day? Did not n an
gel in one night slay $50, 900 Of SIENNA
cherib's troopsf @. yes. our world is In
communication with two other worlds.
All that communication is by angels
When q bad man is TO die, q man who
has despised God and rejected the Cos
pei, the bad spirits come on sulphurous