News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-01-22

and green with foliage, and all a-sparkle
with fountains. and then not allow his
son to live in the house or walk in the
parks? Has God built this house of
gospel mercy. and will he then refuse
entrance to his children? Will a gov
eminent at great expense build life
saving stations all along the coast, and
boats that can hover unhurt like a
petrol over the widest surge, and then
when the lifeboat has reached the
wreck of ship in the offing not allow
the drowning to seize the lifeline or
take the boat for the shore in safety2
Shall God provide at the cost of his
only sons assassination escape for a
sinking world, and then turn a deaf
ear to the cry that comes up from the
breakers2
THEN YOU HAVE PASSED FROM DEATH
TO LIFE.
''But," you say, there are 50 many
things / have to believe, and SO many
things in the shape of a creed that l
have to adopt, that l am kept back"
No, moi You need not believe but
two things-namely that Jesus Christ
came into the world to save sinners.
and that you are one of them. But,
YOU say, Il do believe both of these
things!" Do you really believe them
with all your hearth yes" Why,
then you have passed from death into
life. Why, then you are son or
daughter of the Lord Almighty. Why,
then you are an heir or an heiress of
an inheritance that will declare divi-
dends from now until long after the
stars are dead! Hallelujah Prince
of God, why do you not come and take
your coronet? Princess of the Lord
Almighty, why do you not mount your
throne? Pass up into the light. Your
boat is anchored, why do you not go
ashore2 Just plant your feet hard
down, and you will feel under them the
Rock of Ages.
l challenge the universe for one in
stance in which a man in the right
spirit appealed for the salvation of the
gospel and did not get it. Man
alive! are you going to let all the
years of your life go away with you
your having this great peace
this glorious hope, this bright expect
ancy? Are you going to let the pearl
of great price lie in the dust at your
feet because you are too INDECENT or too
proud to stoop down and pick it up
VIII you wear the chain of evil habit
when near by you is the hammer that
could with one stroke snap the shacl1le?
VIII you stay in tise prison of sin when
mere is Il gospel key that could unlock
your incarceration? No; no! As the
Dne word Come" has sometimes
brought many souls to Christ, | will
Try the experiment of piling up into a
and then sending down in an
avalanche of power many of these Cos
house into the ark" Come unto me |
Ill We who labor and are heavy laden |
md [ will give you rest" Come, foI |
Ill Things are now ready THE Spirit |
md the Bride say Come and let him
hat heareth say Come and let him
hat is athirst come"
The stroke of one bell in a tower may
De sweet, but q score of bells well tuned |
md rightly lifted, and sbillfully swung
n one great chime fill the heavens with
music almost celestial And no one
who has heard the mighty chimes in
he towers of Amsterdam or Client or
can forget them. Now it
Gems to me that in this Sabbath hour
I'll heaven is Ginning, and the voices Of
departed friends and kindred ring down
he sky saying Gomez The angels
who never fell, bending from sapphire
thrones, are chanting Gomez Yea.
Ill the towers of heaven, tower of mar
yrs, tower of prophets, tower of apps
les, tower of evangelists, tower of the
emple of the Lord God and the Lamb,
ire Ginning Come, comet" Pardon
or all, and peace for all, and heaven
or all who will come.