The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-01-16

wire, and another the parliamentary
scroll-they come out and commend
Christ as a comfort to all the people q
Christ that the world needs. Now
I do not ask you to take the
advice of clergymen-
They say if a man has had the deliri-
um tremens twice ne can not be cured.
They say that if woman has fallen
from integrity she can not be redeemed
All of which is an infinite Islander on
the Gospel of the Son of God. Men
who say that know nothing about
practical religion in their own hearts.
How many times will God take back a
man who has fallen? Wen, I can not
give you the exact figures, but I can
tell you at what point He certainly win
take him back Four hundred and
ninety times Why do I say 400 timesP
Because the Bible says seventy times
seven. Now, figure that out, you who
do not think a man can fall four time 5,
eight times, ten times, twenty times,
one hundred times, four hundred times,
and yet be saved Four hundred and
ninety times! Why, there is a great
multitude before the Throne of God
who plunged into all the depths of in
EQUITY.
Good Templars will not save you, al
though they are grand institution. Sons
of Temperance Will not save you, al
though there is no better society on
earth. Signing the temperance pledge
will not save you, although it is a grand
thing to do. No one but God can save
you. Do not put your confidence in
bromide of potassium, or any thing that
the apOthecary can mix. Put your trust
in God! After the church has cast you
off, and the bank has cast you off, and
| social circles have cast You off and all
good society has castYOu off, and father
has cast YOU off, and mother has cast
- FeaIv, CNr,1
will bend clean down to that ditch of
your iniquity to help you out. o. what
a God He is? Long suffering and gra-
cious!
There may be in this house some
w hose hand trembles so with dissipa-
ton they could hardly hold hymn
| book. I say to such, if they are here,
You will preach the gospel yet; you
will yet, some of you. carry the holy
communion through the aisles, and you
| will be acceptable to everybody, be-
cause every body will know you are
saved and purified by the grace of God,
| and a cOnSecrated man, wholly cOnse-
Grated. Your business has got to come
up, your physical health is to he re-
built, your family is to be restored, the
! church of God on earth and in Heaven
is to rejoice over your coming. ''Other
| sheep have 1 which are not of this fold. "
If this is not the gospel, do not know
what the gospel is. 1t can scale any
| height, it can fathOm any depth, it can
compass any infinity- think one
! reason why there are not more people
! saved is we do not swing the door wide
enough open.
Now there is only one class of per-
sons in this house about whom have
! any dependency, and that is those who
have been hearing the gospel for per-
haPs twenty, thirty, forty years; their
] outward life moral, but tnee-y9 tell you
| frankly they do not love the Lord Jesus
Christ, have not trusted Him, have not
! been born again by the Spirit of God
| They are gOspel-hardened. The gospel
has no more effect upon them than the
| shining of the moon on the city pave
ment. The pubIicans and the harlots
! go into the kingdoms of God before they.
This whole subject has been novelty
! to you for some time. You are not gOs-
pel-hardened; you know you are not
! gOspel-hardened. The whole subject
| comes freshly to your n1ind. hear
some soul saying: 20 my wasted life!
! o the bitter past! o the graves !
! stumbled over! Whittier shall I ay?
! The future is dark, so dark, so very
! dark. God help me!''
Oh, am so glad for that last utter
ance! That was a prayer, and as soon
as you begin to pray, that turns all
/ Heaven this way, and God steps in, and
he beats back the hounds of temptation
to their kennels, and he throws all
around the pursued the covert of his
pardOning mercy. 1 heard something
fall What was it? 1t was the bars
around the sheePfOld, the bars of the
| fence around the sheepfOld. The
Heavenly shepherd let them fall, and
the hunted sheep of the mountain come
| bounding in, some with fleece torn Of
the brambles, and others with feet lame
from the dogs, but all bounding in.
| Thank God! ''Other sheep have which
are not of this fOld.''
God forbid that any of you should
| have the lamentation of the dying
nObleman who had had every OppOr-
tunity of salvation but rejected all, and
| who wrote or dictated these words:
| Before you receive this my final state
| viii be determined 1 am throwing my
last stake for eternity, and tremble and
/ sfIuddeF for the important issue o, my
friend, with horror do recall the