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"a infinstA siandsr on the gospel of the San
Of God. Men who ssy thai know nothing
about praceical religion in thsly own hearts.
How many times vii God take hsck man
whe has falieni Well. esnnos givs you
the exact figures. bat can tell you 81 what
point he certainly viii take him back
-Four hundred and ninsty tiuss- Why do
cay tour hundred and ninety timssf h
cause the Bible asys seventy times seven
Now figure that out, you who do not think
. man can fall four tmes. eight times, ten
times, twenty times, one hundred times.
four hundred times. and Jet b saved.
Four hundred and ninety timesi Why.
there is great multitude before the throne
Of God who plunged into all the depths Of
iniquity. There werc no sins they did NOS
commit; but they were washed Of body
and washed of mind and washed Of soul,
and they are before the throne Of God now
forever happy. ! say that 70 encourage
any man who feels there y no chance for
him.
GOD ALONE CAN SAVE You.
Good Templars viii not save you. a
though they are grand institution. Sons
of Temperance will not save you. although
there Is no better society on earth. Sign
ing tho temperance pledge will not save
you, although it il grand thing TODD. No
ono 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 Godi After the church has
cast you of. and the bank has cast you Oh,
and social circles have cast you OF, and all
good society has cast you of, and father
has cast you OF, and mother has cast you
OF, ut your first cry for help God will bend
clean down to that ditch Of your iniquity
to help you out. Oh, what . God he isl
Long suffering and gracious!
There may be in this house some whose
hand trembles so with dissipation they
could hardly hold . hymn book. say to
such IL they are here: you will preach
the gospel yet. You will Jet, some Of you,
carry the holy communion through the
aisles, and you will be acceptable to every
body because everybody will know you
are saved and purified by the grace of God,
and q consecratcd man, wholly copse-
Grated. Your business has got to come up,
your physical health Is to be rebuilt, your
family is TO be restored, the Church of God
on earth and in heaven is to rejoice over
your coming. "Other sheep have which
are not Of this fold" II 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 indnity. l think
one reason why there arc not more people
saved is We do not swing the door wide
enough open.
Now there is only one class Of persons in
this house about whom have any despond.
ency, and that is those who have been
hearing the gospel for perhaps twenty.
thirty, forty years. Their outward life Is
moral, but they 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 hard
ened. The gospel has no moro effect upon
them than the shining Of the moon on the
city pavement The publicans and the
harlots go into the kingdom Of God before
they. They went through, some of them,
the revival of 1857, when 500, 900 souls were
brought to God. Some of them went
through great reviyals in individual
churches. Still urpardoned, unblessed,
unsaved. They were merely spectators
Gospel hardened! After awhile we will
hear that they are sick, and then that they
are dead, and then that they died without
any hope. Gospel hardened!
But l turn away from all such with .
thrill Of hope to those who are not gospel
hardened. Some of you have not heard,
perhaps, five sermons in five years. This
whole subject has been novelty to you
for some time. You arc not gospel hard
ened; you know you are not gospel hard
ened- The whole subject comes freshly to
your mind. hear some soul saying: "Oh,
my wasted life! Oh, the bitter past! Oh.
the graves I stumbled overt Whittier
shall fy' The future is so dark, 80 dark.
so very dark God help mep'
GOD GUARDS MS SHEEP.
Oh, am so glad for that last utterance!
That was a prayer, and as soon "a you be
gin to pray that turns all heaven this way,
and God steps in, and he beats back the
hounds Of temptation TO their kennels, and
be throws all around the pursued soul the
covert of bis pardoning mercy. / heard
something fall. What was it' 1t was the
bars around the shcepfoid, 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 brarnbles, and
others with feet lame from the dogs, but
bounding In Thank GodI "Other sheep
have which are not Of this fold"
God furbad that any of you should have
the lamentation Of the dying nobleman
who had had every opportunity OF saliva
ton, but rs3ccted ell, and who wrote or