Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-10


from this subject. You sea that you
are sold out. aud that Christ wants TO
buv you back. There are three per
sons who come after you today-God
the Father, God the Son, and God the
Holy Ghost. They unite their three
omnipotenees in one movement Tor
your salvation. You will not take up
arms against the triune God. will your
Is there enough muscle in your arm for
such combat BY the highest throne
In heaven, and by the deepest chasm in
hell. | beg you look out Unless you
allow Christ to carry away your sins,
they will carry you away. Unless you
allow Christ to lift you up. they will
drag you down. There is only one
hope for you, and that is the blood.
Christ, the sin offering, bearing your
transgressions. Christ, the surety, pay
ing your debts. Christ, the divine Cy-
rus. loosening your Babylouish captiv
ity.
DO YOU WANT TO BE FREEl
Would you not like to be free1 Here
is the price of your liberation-not
money, but blood. | tremble from
head to foot, not because fear your
presence, but because fear that you
will miss your chance for immortal res
cue. This is the alternative divinely
put. "He that believeth on the Son
shall have everlasting life; and he that |
believeth not on the Son shall not see
life, but the wrath of God abideth on |
him" In the last day, If you now reject
Christ, every drop of that sacriticial
blood, instead of pleading for your re-
lease as it would have pleaded If you
had repented, will plead against you.
o Lord God of the judgment day
avert that calamity Let us see the
quick fash of the scimeter that slays the
sin but saves the sinner. Strike, ON
nipotent God, for the souls deliver
ancel Beat, o eternal sea, with all thy
waves against the barren beach of that
rocky soul and make it tremble. Oh,
the oppressiveness of the hour, the
minute, the second, on which the souls
destiny quivers; and this is that hour
that minute, that secondl
Some years ago there came down a
fierce storm on the seacoast, and a yes
sci got in the breakers and was going to
pieces. They threw up some signal of |
distress, and the people on shore saw
hem. They put out in a lifeboat.
They came on, and they saw the poor
ailors, almost exhausted, clinging to
aft; and so afraid were the boatmen
hat the men would give up before they
-ot to them they gave them three
ounds of cheers, and cried Hold on.
here hold onl Well save your
After awhile the boat came up. One
nan was saved by having the boathook
,ut in the collar of his coat, and some
n one way and some in another, but
hey all got into the boat. Now"
ays the captain, 'for the shore. Pull
way now, pull" The people on the
and were afraid the lifeboat had gone
lown. They said; "How long the
ooat stays. Why, it must have been
and they have all perished
ogether." And there were men and
women on the pier heads and on the
beach wringing their hands, and while
hey waited and watched they saw
something looming up through the
mist, and it turned out to be the life
boat.
AS soon as it came within speaking
distance the people on the shore cried
out; did you save any of them2 Did
you save any of them2" And as the
boat swept through the boiling surf
and came to the pier head the captain
waved his hand over the exhausted
sailors that lay fiat on the bottom Of
the boat and cried; "All saved Thank
Godl All savedw So may it be to
day. The waves of your sin run high,
the storm is on you, but l cheer you
with this Gospel hope.
God grant that within the next ten |
minutes we may row with you into the
harbor of Gods mercy And when
these Christian men gather around to
see the result of this service, and the
glorified gathering on the pier heads
of heaven to watch and to listen, may
we be able TO report all saved Young
and old, good and bad All saved
Saved for time. Saved for eternity
"And so it came to pass that they all
escaped safe to land"