The southern argus., 1891-07-02

deliver you, and God to help you, and
a God to save you? You tell me you
have been through enough business
troubles almost to kill you. know 1t:
cannot understand how the boat could
live one hour in that chopped sea. But
| do not know by what process you got
astray; some in one way and some in
another, and If you could really see the
| position some of you occupy before
| God this morning, your soul would
burst in an agony of tears and you
would pelt the heavens with the cry;
God have mercy" Sinais batteries
have been unlimbered above your ills
and at times you have heard it thunder;
"The wages of sin Is death" "Au
have sinned and come short of the glory
of God" "By one man sin entered iti=
to the world, and death by sini and 50
death passed upon all men, for that all
| have sinned" The soul that sinneth,
| it shall die.''
But the last part of my text opens a
door wide enough to let us all out and
to let all heaven in Sound it on the
organ with all the stops out. Thrun
it on the harps with all the strings
atune With all the melody possible
let the heavens sound it to the earth
and let the earth tell it to the heavens,
THE Lord hath laid oh Him the In
| iquity of us ALL" / am glnd that the
prophet did not stop to explain whom
he meant by "tIim." Him Of the
manger, Him of the bloody sweat Hin
of the resurrection throne, Him of the
crucifxion agony. 'On Him the Lord
hath laid the iniquity of us all"
If you and |, walking down the street,
both hale, hearty and well, I ask you
to carry me, you say, and say rightly:
walk on your own feet' But sup
pose you and | were in regiment and
| was wounded in the battle and fell
unconscious at your feet with gunshot
fractures and dislocations. what would
you do? You would call to your COM
rades, saying: Come and helps this
man is helpless; bring the ambulance;
let us take him to the hospital" and |
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 anything mean In your
doing that? Would there be anything
bemeaning in my accepting that kind
ness? Oh, no. You would be mean not
to do it. That is what Christ does. If
we could pay our debts then it would
be better to go up and pay them, say
ing: Here, Lord, here is my obligation;
| -, hn ial, I N
to settle that obligation; now give me a
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
hot fire of our transgresSions, we have
been wounded by the sabers of sin, we
arc helpless, we are undone." Christ
comes. The loud clang heard in the
sky on that Christmas night was only
the bell, the rcsQunding boil of the am
bulancc. 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. Christ comes and
looks down in your face and says: II
have come through all the decorations
of these days and through all the tenn
pests of these nights; | have come to
bear your burdens and to pardon your
sins and to pay your debts. Put them
on my shoulder; put them on my heart. "
'On Him the Lord hath laid the iniquitv
of us all.
If this meeting should be thrown
open and the people who are here could
| give their testimony, what thrilling ex-
periences we should hear on all sides.
/ &c ~
would say: Il had brilliant surround
ings, had the best education that one
of the best collegiate institutions of
this country could give, and ! observed
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 a sinner
the Holy Spirit persuaded me Of the
fact. While ! had escaped the sins
against the law of the land | had really
committed the worst sin man ever
commits-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 experience that what you
say this morning is true. On Him the
Lord hath laid the iniquity of us all"
Yonder is man who would say: Il
was the worst drunkard in New York:
| went from bad to worse; | DESTROYED
mvself; destroyed my home; my chill
dren covered when entered the house:
when they put mp their lips TO be kissed
| struck them: my wife protested
against the maltreatment, | kicked her
into the street | know all the bruises
and all the terrors Of drunkard's woe.
| went on further and further from
God until one day ] got letter saying:
My dear husband; | have tried
every way, done everything, and
prayed earnestly and ferventlv for
your reformation, but it seems of no
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. May of the nights