News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-08-13


of guilty, guilty. Prepare to die, OF
believe in that blood. Stretch your
self out for the sacrifice, or accept the
Saviour's sacrifice. Do not fling away
your one chance.
1t seems to me as if all heaven were
! trying to bid in your soul. The first
J bid it makes is the tears of Christ al
the tomb of Lazarus; but that is not a
high enough price. The next bid
heaven makes is the sweat of Geth
semane; but it is too cheap a price.
| The next bid heaven makes seems to be
the whipped back of Pilates hall; but
it is not a high enough price Can it
be possible that heaven cannot buy you
| in2 Heaven tries once more. 1t says
81 bid this time for that mans soul the
fortunes of Christ's martyrdOm, the
blood on bis temple, the blood on his
check, the blood on his chin, the blood
on his hand, the blood on his side, the
blood on his knee, the blood on his
foot-the blood in drops, the blood in
rills, the blood in pools coagulated be-
meath the cross; the blood that wet the
tips of the soldiers spears, the blood
that FLASHED warm in the faces of his
enemies"
Glory to God that bid wins it! The
highest price that was ever paid for
anything was paid for your soul. Moth
ing could buy it but blood. The es-
tranged property is bought back. Take
it. Eye have sold yourselves for naught;
and We shall be redeemed without
money" O atoning blood, cleansing
blood, life giving blood, sanctifying
blood, clarifying blood of Jesusl Why
not burst into tears at the thought that
for thee lie shed it--for thee the hard
hearted for thee the lost9
HIS BLOOD BE ON US.
No" says some one; 81 will have
nothing to do with it except that, like
the enemies of Christ, put both my
hands into that carnage and scoop up
both palms full, and throw it on my
head and cry, His blood be on us and
on our childrenr" Can you do such
a shocking thing as that? Just rub
your handkerchief across your brow
and look at it. 1t is the blood of the
Son of God whom you have despised
and driven back all these years. Oh,
do not do that any longer Come out
boldly and frankly and honestly, and
tell Christ you are sorry. You cannot
afford to SO roughly treat him upon
whom everything depends.
l do not know how you will get away
from this subject. You see that you
are sold out, and that Christ wants to
buy 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
completeness in one movement for
your salvation. You will not take up
arms against the triune God, will you2
Is there enough muscle in your arm for
such a combat By the highest throne
In heaven, and by the deepest chasln in
hell, beg you look out. Unless you
allow Christ to carry away yc1r 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 Babylonish captiv-
ity.
DO YOU WANT TO BE FREE2
Would you not like to be free2 Here
is the price of your iberation-not
but blood. l tremble from
head to foot, not because l 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 sacrificial
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 flash of the scimeter that Stays the |
in but saves the sinner. Strike, ON |
lipotent God, for the souls deliver
noel Beat, o eternal sea, with all thy
waves against the barren beach of that
ocky soul and make it tremble. Oh,
he oppressiveness of the hour, the
minute, the second, on which the souls
estiny quivers; and this is that hour,
hat minute, that second
Some years ago there came down a
erce storm on the seacoast, and YES
ell got in the breakers and was going to
'ieces. 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 a
aft; and so afraid were the boatmen |
hat the men would give up before they
got to them they gave them three |
ounds of cheers, and cried: Hold on,
herel hold onl Well save you!"
After awhile the boat came up. One
nan was saved by having the boathook
put in the collar of his coat, and some |
n one way and some in another but |
hey all got into the boat. "Now,"
Jays the captain, for the shore. Pull
away now, pull" The people on the
and were afraid the lifeboat had gone |
Town. They said: GLOW long the
0oat stays. Why, it must have been
and they have all persisted
;ogether." And there were men and |
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 them" And as the |
BOAT swept through the boiling surf
md came to the pier head the captain
waved his hand over the exhausted |
'ailors that lay fiat on the bottom of |
he boat and cried: ''All saved Thank |
9odi All savedr' So may it be to-
lay. The waves of your sin run high, |
he storm is on you, but 1 cheer you
with this Gospel hope.
God grant that within the next ten
minutes we may row with you into the
larbor of Gods mercy. And when
.hese Christian men gather around to
zee the result of this service, and the
yloritied gathering on the pier heads
If heaven to watch and to listen, may
We be able to report all saved Young
md old, good and badl All savedl
10 va1 fOr t;,no GoyoJ F,n ola.z.4