Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-05-11

waits Tor q boy lt11t Ken ears ago went
off dragging her bleeding heart after
him. Waiting Oh, can you not give
me. some comparison intense enough,
importunate enough, high as heaven,
deep as hell and vast Us eternity? Not
expecting that you can help me with
such a comparison, | simply say he is
waiting as only an all sympathetic
Christ knows how to wait for wan
dering soul
Bow the knee ard kiss the Sen,
Come and welcome. sinner, come.
COME AND WELCOME.
But l remark again, not only is Christ
waiting. but the Holy Spirit is waiting
Why are some sermons a dead failure?
Why are there songs that do not get
their wing under the people? Why are
there players that go no higher up than
2 hunters halloo? Because there is a
missing link that only the Holy Spirit
can make. If that Spirit should come
through this assemblage this morning
there would be power felt like that
when Saul was endorsed on the road
to Damascus, like as when Lydia's
heart was broken in her fine store, like
as when three thousand souls were lift
ed out Of midnight into midnoOn at the
Pentecost Did you notice that some
times that Spirit takes an insignificant
agency to save Il soul? | think it is
very often that at just one passage of
/ Scripture, just one word of Scripture,
q soul is saved because the Holy Spirit
! gives it supernatural power.
Do you know what it was that saved
! Martin Luther? 1t was that one verse,
THE just shall live by faith" Do you
| know what it was that brought August
iae from his horrible dissipations? It
was that one verse, Put ye on the Lord
! Jesus Christ, and make no provision
! for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof"
! Do you know what it was that saved
| Hedley Wears, the celebrated soldier3
| 1t was the one passage, "Believe in the
Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be
! saved" Do you know what it was
! that brought Jonathan Edwards to
Christ? 1t was the one passage, Now
| unto him be glory forever and ever"
One Thanksgiving morning in church
l read my text, 80 give thanks unto
the Lord, for lie is good" and young
man stood in the gallery and said to
! himself: Il have never rendered one
! acceptable Offering of gratitude to God
in all my life, Here, Lord, | am thine
| forever" By that one passage of
Scripture he was brought into the
kingdom, and if l might tell my own
! experience, | might tell how one Sab
I H.
peace of the gospel by reading of the
| Syro- Ph9nician's cry to Christ, where
! she said, Even the dogs eat of the
crumbs which fall from the Masters
table" PhiIosophic sermons never
saved anybody. Metaphysical sermons
never saved anybody. An earnest plea
| going right out of the heart blessed of
| The Holy Ghost, that is what saves,
that is what brings people into the
kingdom of Christ.
| | suppose the world thought that
| Thomas Chalmers preached great ser
mons in his early ministry, but Thomas
! Chalmers says he never preached at all
until years after he had occupied pull
! pit he came out OF his sick room, and
weak and emaciated he stood and
told the story Of Christ to the people.
And in the great day of eternity it
will be found that not 50 much the elo-
| quent sermons brought men to Christ
as the story told, perhaps, by those who
were unknown on earth, the simple
story of the Saviours love and mercy
sent by the power Of the Holy Ghost
straight to the heart Come, Holy
Ghost. Ay. lie IS here this morning
He fills all the place tell you the
Holy Ghost is ready.
THE AIR Is FULL OF PRAYERS.
Then go and tell you the church is
ready. There are those here who say,
mo one cares for my soul" We do
care for it. You see man bowling his
head in prayer and you say, ''That man
is Indifferent" That man bows his
head in prayer that the truth may go
to every heart The air is full of pray
ers. They are going up this morning
from this assembly. Hundreds OF
prayers straight to the throne of lis
tening God. The air is full of prayers
prayers ascending noon by noon from
Fulton street prayer meeting, Friday
night by Friday night all over this land,
going up from praying circles. Yea,
there is not a minute of an hour of any
day that there are not supplications
ascending to the throne of mercy. The
church is ready And if you should
this morning start for your Fathers
house there would be hundreds and
thousands in this assemblage who
would say if they knew it, Make room
for that man, make room for him at the
holy sacrament; bring the silver bowl
for his baptism; give him full right to
all the privileges of the church of Jesus
Christ ="
Oh, I know there are those who say
the church is Il mass of hypocrites, but
they do not really think so. 1t is a
glorious church. Christ purchased it.
Christ built it. Christ swung all its
gates. Christ curtained it with uphol-
stery. crimson with crucifixion carnage.
Come into it Come into it. do not
pick out this man or that man and
say, You may come" [ say all may
come-whosoever will. "Come with
us and we will do you good. The
Lulu 4ittUll IiOIllISCu SOOQ COuCSIu1I1S
Israel"
We garden walled around
Chosen and made peculiar ground,
A little plot inclosed by grace
Out of the worlds wild Wilderness.
Do not say you have never been in
vited. I invite you now to the Kings
feast One and all. All! All But
go further, and tell you that
the angels are ready. Some people
think when we speak about angels we
gre getting into the region of fancy
They say it is very well for man
when he has just entered the ministry
to preach about the angels of heaven,
but after he has gone on further it
is hardly worth while. My friends,
there il not any more evidence in the
Bible that there is God than that
there are angels. Did they not swarm
around Jacobs ladder? When Lag
arus soul went up did they not escort
it2 Did not David cav ssTba cbor;o+c