Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-02

narOoT, Throwing Rldre upon inc trelilp-
ling fortress: and some of you are standing
in the night of your souls trouble The
cannonade and the coniiagration, the multi
plication of your SORROWS and troubles l
think must make the wings of Gods hover
ing angels shiver to the tips.
But the last part os my text opens 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
possible let the heavens sound it to the
earth and let the earth tell it TO the heavens.
'The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of
US all ! am 81 ad that the prophet did not
stop to explain whom ne meant by 'him. y
Him Of the manger, Him of the bloody
sweat. him of the resurrection throne, Him
of the crucifixion agony. ''On Him the
Lord hath laid the iniquity Of Us ALL
"O'' says some man, THAT is net gener-
Gus, that is not fair: let every man carry
his own burden and pay his own debts. y
That sounds reasonable. II have an OBJ
legation and l have the means to meet it,
and I come to you and ask YOU to settle
that obligation, you rightly say,
PAY YOUR OWN DEBTs."
IF Won and l, walking down the street,
both hale, hearty and well, l ask you to
carry me, you say and say rightly: ''Walk
on your own feet,; But suppose you
and / were in regiment and I was
wounded in the battle and l fell uncon-
sciOus at your feet with eunshot fractures
and dislocations, what would you do? You
would call to your comrades, saying, Come
and help, this man is helpless; bring the
ambulance: let Us take him TO the hos
pital," aud | would be 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 hospital
and have all kindness shown me. Would
there be anythin. mean in your doing that!
Would there be anything bemeaning in my
accepting that kindness o. no. You
would be mean not to do it. That
is what Christ does. If we could
pay our debts, then it would be bet
ter TO 90 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 not fire of our
trausgressions. we have been wounded by
the sabers of sin. we are helpless, we are
undone. Christ comes. The loud clang
heard in the sky on that Christmas night
was only the bell. the resounding
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 u 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 a dead lift, He raises US 20 honor
and glory ana Immortality. The Lord
hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all. y
Why. then. will no man carry his
sins, You cannot carry successfully the
smallest sin you ever committed. You
might as well put the Apprentices 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 ana says: Il have come through
al the decorations of these days. and through
all the tempeSts of these nights; | have
come 10 bear your burdens and to pardon
YOUR sins, ami to pay your debts. Put
them on my shoulder; put them on my
heart" son Him the Lord hath laid the
iuiguity of US all
Sin has almost pestered the life out of
some of Nou. At times it has made you
cross and unreasonable, and ii has spoiled
the brightness of your days and the peace
been riddled of sin. The world gives them
10 solacc Gossamer and volatile the
world, while eternity. as they look forward
to it,
is BLACK AS MIDNIGHT.
They writhe under the stings of con-
science which proposes 10 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 realize 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 sides! 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-
buttons of this country could give, and OBJ
scrvcd all the moralitieS of life, and | 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 Il Sinner;' the Holy Spirit
persuaded me Of the fact. While ! had es-
capped the sins against the law of the land,
] had really committed the worst sin man
ever comnitS-the driving back of the Son
of God from my hearts affections. And
saw that my hands were red with the blood
of the Son of God, and / began TO pray, and
peace came TO my heart, and | know by ex-
perience that what you say this morning is
true. On him the Lord hath laid the
iniquity of US all
wIFE's LETTER.
Yonder is man who would say: II was
the worst drunkard in New York: went
from bad to worse: ! DESTROYED myself, de-
stroyed my home; my children covered
when | entered the house; when they put
up their lips TO be kissed l struck them;
when my wife protested against the NAL
treatment, ! kicked her into the street |
know all the bruises and all the terrors of
woe. | went on further and fur
Their from God until one day | got letter
saying:
My DEAR HCsBAND-I have tried every
way. done everything. and prayed earnestly
and ferventiy for your reformation, but it
seems Of nc avail. Since our little Henry
died. with the exception OF those few happy
weeks when YOU remained sober, my life
has been one of sorrow. Many of the nights
have sat by the window, with my face
bathed i'll tears, watching for your coming.
am broken-hearted, l am sick. Mother
and father have been here frequently and
begged me TO come home. but my love for
you and my hope for brighter days have al
ways made me refuse them. That hope
seems now beyond realization, and | have
now returned to them. 1t is hard, and bat
tied long before doing it. May God bless
and preserve YOU and take from you that
lccursed appetite and hasten the day when
we shall be again living happily together.
This Will be my daily prayer, knowing that
He has said: Come unto Me al We that
abor and are heavy laden, and l will give
you rest From your loving wife,
MARY"
''And so I wandered on and wandered on"
says that man, until one night l passed a
Methodist meeting house, and l said 10 my
self: IN go in and see what they are do
ne, and got to the door and they were
singing:
All may come whoever will,
This Man receives poor sinners still.
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