Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-02-06

safety. When you die, where are you
going to? When we leave all these scenes
upon what scenes will we enter? When
we were on shipboard ana we all felt that
we must go TO the bottom, was / right in
saving TO one next me: II wonder II we
will reach Heaven if we do go down to-
night" Was | wise or UNIV Sc in asking
that question? / tell you that man is "a
fool who never thinks of the great future
! apply my subject To several classes of
people before me- First, TO that great
multitude of young people in this house
Some Of these young men are in boarding.
houses. They have but few social advan-
tages They think that no one cares for
their souls. Many of them are on small
salaries. and they are cramped and bother
ed perpetually. and sometimes their heart
fails them. Young man. tonight. at your
bedroom door on the third floor, you will
hear a knocking. 1t will be the hand of
Jesus Christ, the young mans friend, say
ing: 20, young man. let me come in; /
will comfort thee, / will deliver thee"
Take the bible out of the trunk if it mas
been hidden away. If you have not the
courage to lay it on the shelf or table, take
that Bible that was given to you by some
loved one. take ii out of the trunk and lay
it down on the bottom OF the chair then
kncel down beside il, and read and pray.
and pray aud read, until all your disturb
ance is gone. and you feel that peace which
neither earth nor hell can rob you Of Thy
fathers God. thy mothers God, waits for
thee. o young man, Escape for thy life"
Escape now. Zone thing thou lackest!"
But / apply this subject to the aged. O
father of the weary step, o mother, bent
down under the ailments of life, has thy
God ever forsaten thee? Through all
these years, who has been your best friend?
Seventy years of mercics. Seventy years
of food and clothing! O, how many bright
mornings. How many glorious evening
hours you have seem o father, mother,
God has been very good TO you. Do you
feel it? Some of you have children and
grandchildren; the former cheered your
young life. the latter Irvine your gray locks
in their fingers. Has all the goodness that
God has been making pass before you pro-
duced no change in your feelings, and must
ii be said of you. Notwithstanding all this:
zone thing thou lackest?'
must make application Of this subject,
also, to those who are prospered. Have
you. my friends. found that dollars and
cents are no permanent consolation to the
soul? You have large Worldly resources but
have you no treasures in heaven? Is an
embroidered pillow all that you want TO put
you dy ng head on? You have heard people
all last week talk about earthly values
Hear plain man talk about the heavenly.
DO you not know it will be worse for you
. prosposcd man, if you reject Christ, and
reject him finally-that it will be worse for
YOU than those who had it hard in this
world. because the contrast will make the
discontinue so much more appalling? As
the hart bounds for the water brooks. as
the roe speeds down the hillside, speed
thou 10 Christ. Escape for thy life. look
not behind thee. neither stay thou IN all the
plain; escape 20 the mountain lest thou be
consumed
must make my application to another
class of personS-the poor. When you
cannot pay your rent when it is due, have
YOU nobody but the landlord to talk to?
When the flour has gone out of the barrel,
and you have not ten cents with which TO
go to the bakery. and your children are
tugging at your dress for something to eat,
have you nothing but the worlds chart
ties to appeal to? When winter comes,
and there are no Goals. and the ash-bar-
reis have no more cinders. who takes care
of you? Have you nobody but the over
seer of the poor? But | preach to you a
! poor man Christ II you do not have in
! the winter blankets enough TO cover You in
/ the ght, / want TO tell you Of him who
had not whore 10 lay his head. If you lie
! on the bare floor, ! want 10 tell you OF him
who had for a pillow hard cross, and
! whose foot bath was the streaming blood OF
/ his own heart. O you poor man. . you
| poor woman. Jesus understands Your
/ case altogether. Talk it right ouS TO him
/ tonight. Get down on Your foor and say:
Lord Jesus Christ, Thou vast poor and
| am poor. Help me. Thou art r.oh now,
! and bring me up 10 Thy riches Do YOU
think God would cast you OF? VIII he?
! You might as well think that mother
would take the child tnat feeds on her
! breast and dash Is life out, as to think
that God would put aside roughly those
who have fed to him for pity and com
| passion Yea, the prophet says: "A
! woman may forget her sucking child, that
she should not have compassion on the son
! OF her womb but ! VIII not forget thee.
If you have ever been on the sea. you
| have been surprised in the first voyage 10
| find there are so few sails in sight. Some
times you go along two three. four, FIVE,
six and seven days, and do not see single
sail; but when vessel does come in sight
the sea glasses are lifted to the eye, the
| vessel is watched. and If il come very near.
| then the captain. through the trumpet,
I cries loudly across the water: WHITTIER
! bound?' SO you and | meet CIV this sea OF
| life. We come and we go. Some OF Us
! have never met before. Some of US will
never rect again But ! hail you across
| the sea. aud with reference to the last
| great day. and with reference to the two
! great worlds, | cry across the water
! ''Whither bound? Whittier bound?'
! know what service that craft was made
! Tor. but hast thou thrown overheard the
| compass? Is there no helm to guide IL?
\ Is the ship at the mercy of the tempest? Is
| there no gun of d stress booming through
| the storm? With priceless treasures
| with treasures aboard worth more than all
! the Indies wilt thou never come up out OF
! the trough OF that sea? . Lord God. lay
! holj Of that mani Son of God. if thou
! vert ever needed anywhere, Thou art
needed here. There are so many SINS 70
be pardoned. There are so many wounds
/ TO toe healed There are so many souls 10
! be saved. Help. Jesus. Hep Holy
! Ghost. Help, ministcring angels from
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