Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-07-10

S'u iiButlf say, Il ay your own ueots- III
you and | 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 a
regiment and was wounded In the battle
and fell unconscious at your feet with gum
shot fractures and dislocations, what would
you dor You would call to your comrades
saying, Come and help, this man is help
| less; bring the ambulance; let us take him
TO the hospital" and would be q 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 Iii your doing that?
Would there be anything bemeaning in my
accepting that kininesSf Oh, no. You would
be mean not TO do it. That is what Christ
does
IL we could pay our debts then It would be-
better to go up and pay them, saying
| "Hero, Lord, here Is my obligation; hero are
the means with which mean 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 battle, we have gone down
| under The hot fire Of our trausgressions, we
have been wounded by the sabers OF sir, we
are helpless, we are undone. Christ comes
The loud clang heard in tho sky on that
Christmas night was only the bell. the re-
sounding bell, o: 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 tho
way for the Son Of God
Christ comes down to see us, and we are a
| 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 dead lift He raises us to honor
and to glory and immortality. THE Lord
hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all"
Why, then, will no man carry his sins2 You
cannot carry successfully the smallest sin
| you ever committed. You might as well put
the Apennines 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 and says: "a
have come through all the laoerations OF
these days aud through oil the tempests Of
these nights. Ihave come to bear your bur
! dens and to pardon your sins and TO pay
| your debts. Put them on Ny shoulder; put
| them on My heart" "On Him tho Lord
hath laid the iniquitytof us alln
| Sin has almost pestered the life out of some
| OF you. At times 1t has made you cross and
unreasonable, and 1t has spoiled the bright
ness OF your days and the peace of your
nights. There are men who have been rid
died of sin. The world gives them no salace
| Gossamer and volatile the world, while eter-
| nifty, as they look forward to II, is black as
midnight They writhe under the stings OF
conscience which proposes to give no rest
| here and no rest hereafter; and yet they do
not repent they do not pray. thoy do not
| weep. They do not realize that Just the po-
sition they occupy is the position occupied
by scores hundreds and thousands OF men
| who never found any hope.
III this meeting should be thrown open AMI
| the people who are here could give their testi-
| mony, what thrilling experiences we should
| hear on all ST ieSl There Is a man in the gal
| lery who would say: II had brilliant sur
roul.dingS | had the best education that one
Of the best collegiate institutions of this
| country could give, and | observed all the
moralities OF he, and was self righteous,
| and thought was all right before God as
am all right bsfore men; but the Holy
| spirit came to me one day and said, You are
II sinner; the Holy Spirit persuaded me Of
the fact. While | had escaped the sins
against the law Of the land had really CON-
| mitted 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,
ald / 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 iniuuity of us ALL
Yonder is man who would say: ~ was
the worst drunkard In New York; / went
from bad to worse; | destroyed myself, [
destroyed my home; my children covered
when | entered the house; when they put up
their lips to be kissed struck them; when
my wife protested against the matreatment,
| | 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 the day got a letter saying:
my DEAR HUsBAND-I have tried every
way. done everything, and prayed earnestly
and fervently for your reformation, but it
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with the exception of those few happy weeks
when you remained sober my life has been one
of sorrow. Many OF tho nights | have sat
by the window, with my face bathed in
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 aud
my hope for brighter days have always made
me refuse them. That hope seems now be-
yord realization, and I have returned to
them. 1t Is hard and | batted long before
doing it May God bless and preserve you,
and take from you that accursed 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 mo all ye that labor and are
heavy laden aud will give you rest From
your loving wife, MARY.
"And SO | wandered on and wandered
on" sayo that man, until one night
passed Methodist meeting house, and
said to myself, 'lll 60 in and see what they
are doing, and got to the door, and they
were singing:
All may come. whoever win,
This man receives poor sinners still.
"And dropped right there where was
and said, God have mercy aud He had
mercy on me. My homo is restored, my
wife sings all day long during work, my
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home. and my household is a little heaven
will tell you what did all this for me. II
was the truth that this day you proclaim
On Him the Lord had laid the iniluity of Us
all"
Yonder is a woman who would say: 81
wandered off from my fathers house;
heard the storm that pelts on a lost soul; my
feet were blistered ON the hot rocks l went
on and on, thinking that no one cared fol
my soul, when one night Jesus met me anC
He said: Poor thing, go home your father Il
waiting for you, your motheris waiting 10
you. Go home, poor thing And, sir,
was too weak to pray, and | was too weak +
repent but just cried out; sobbed out m
sins and my sorrows on the shoulders of Hin
of whom 1t Is said, the Lord hath laid o.
Him the iniquity OF us all. ;"
There is young man who would say: 81
had a Christian bringing up; | came frou
the country to city life; | started well; haC
a good position, n good commercial position
but one night at the theater mot SON
young men who did me no good. The
dragged me all through the sewers of inquit,
and lost my morals and lost my position
and was shabby and wretched. was &C
ing down the street, thinking no one care
for me, when a young man tapped me o
the shoulder and said, George, come wit
me and will doyou good looked at hi
TO see whether he was joking or not Isa
, he was in earnest aud said, What do yc
! mean, sir? 'Well,' he replied, Il mean IL yc
! will come to tho meeting tonight
, will be very glad to introduce you. l vi
meet you at the door. Win you come
Said |, 4 will
fixed myself up as well as could. bu
| fcpod my cont nuar n ra nnad unat nuI xuns