Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-01-12

everything 1 have been through the
whole curriculum of doubt, and you can
tell me nothing new about it. [ have
come out from great Sahara desert
into the calm, warm, sunshiny land of
the gospel. / know about the other
land. [ have been there. You can
tell me nothing new about it. And L
know all about the other condition of
which YOU do not know anything-the
peace, the comfort, the joy, the triumph
of Trusting in God and in Jesus Christ
whom he has sent. So | am not scott
ing in regard to it.
There are some things 1 believe that
Won do not, but there are some things
that [ believe and you do believe. You
believe in love-a fathers love,
mothers love, a wife's love, a child's
love Now let me tell you God loves
Won more than all of them together,
and YOU must come in, you will come
in. Christ looks in all tenderness, with
the infinite tenderness of the gospel,
into your soul, and he says, '"This is
vour time for heaven" and then he
waves his hand to the people of God,
and he says, "Other sheep have l
which are not of this fold"
Again I remark, the Heavenly Shep-
herd is going to get many of his sheep
among those who haKe been of evil
habit.
1t outrages me to see how soon Chris
tan people give up the prodigal l
hear Christian people talk as though
they thought the grace of God were a
chain of forty or fifty links and when
thew had run out then there was moth
ing to touch the depth of mans in
iuuity. If a man were out hunting for
deer. and got off the track of the deer,
he would hunt amid the bushes and the
brakes longer for the lost game than he
would look for lost soul.
They say if q man has had the de-
lirium tremens twice he cannot be cured.
| They say if a woman has fallen from
integrity she cannot be redeemed. All
of which is an infinite SANDER on the
gospel of the Son of God. Men who
say that know nothing about practical
religion in their own hearts. How many
times will God take back a man who
has fallen? Well, [ cannot give you
the exact figures, but I can tell you at
what point he certainly will take him
back. Four hundred and ninety times.
Why do l say four hundred and ninety
times? Because the Bible says seventy
| times seven.
Now figure that out, you who do not
think man can fall four times, eight
times, ten times, twenty times, one
hundred times, four hundred times, and
vet be saved Four hundred and nine
ty times! Why, there is great multi
tude before the throne of God who
plunged into all the depths of iniquity.
There were no sins they did not com
nit; but they We're washed of body and
washed of mind and washed of soul
and they are before the throne of Goo
now forever happy. [ say that to en-
courage any man who feels there is nc
chance for him.
Good Templars will not save you, al
though they are q grand institution.
Sons of Temperance will not save you,
although there is no better society on
earth Signing the temperance pledge
will not save you, although it is a
grand thing to do. No one but God
can save you. Do not put your conf
dence in bromide of potassium or any
thing that the apothecary can mix.
Put your trust in God! After the
church has cast you off, and the bank
has cast you off, and social circle:
have cast you off, and all good society
has cast you off, and father has cast
you off, and mother has cast you off
at your first cry for help God will benC
clean down to that ditch of you
iniquity to help you out. Oh, what {
God he is! Long suffering and gra
cious!
There may be in this house some
whose hand trembles SO with dissipa
ton they could hardly hold a hymn
book. | say to such if they are here
You will preach the gospel yet You
will yet, some of you, carry the holy
communion through the aisles, and yoU
will be acceptable to everybody be
cause everybody will know you art
and a consecrated man, wholly conse
Grated. Your business has got to come
up, your physical health is to be re
built, your family is to be restored, TIL
Church of God on earth and in HEAVIER
is to rejoice over your coming. 'Othe
sheep have I which are not of thi
fold" If this is not the gospel [ d,
not know what the gospel is. 1t cal
scale any height, it can fathom an.
depth, it can compass any infinity.
think one reason why there are no
more people saved is we do not swing
the door wide enough open.
Now there is only one class of person
in this house about whom l have an!
: dependency, and that is those VIII,
have been hearing the gospel for per
haps twenty, thirty, forty years. Thei
outward life is moral, but they tell yol
frankly they do not love the Lord Jesu
Christ, have not trusted him, have no
been born again by the spirit of God
They are gospel hardened. The gospe
, has no more effect upon them than tn
shining of the moon on the city pave
ment The publicans and the harlot
| go into the kingdom of God befOr
they. They went through, some c
, them, the revival of 1857, when 500, 90
souls were brought to God. Some c
= them went through great revivals i
, Individual churches. Still unpardoned
unblessed, unsaved They were merel
spectators. Gospel hardened! Afte
awhile we will hear that they are sick
and then that they are dead, and the
that they died without any hope. Cos
pei hardenedl
But I turn away from all such wit
/, a thrill of hope to those who are nc
gospel hardened. Some of you hav
, not heard, perhaps, five sermons in fiv
, years. This whole subject has been
T novelty to you for some time. You al
not gospel hardened; you know 20
are not gospel hardened. The Who'll
: subject comes freshly to your mind.
hear some soul saying: ooh, my waste
. lifel Oh, the bitter past! Oh, til
graves stumbled over! Whittier sha
I fly? The future is so dark, so dark