Milford chronicle., 1891-05-15
simply say he is waiting as only an all
sympathetic Christ knows how to wait for
a wandering soul
Bow the knee and kiss the Son,
Come and welcome, sinner, come.
nm, r,orx err15r4 Ts WATTTNG


Come and welcome, sinner, come
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS WAITING.
But remark again, not only Christ is
waiting, but the Holy Spirit is waiting.
Why are some sermons dead taluret
Why are there songs that do not get their
wing under the peopleg Why are there
players that go no higher up than a hunt
er's halloo? Because there is missing
link that only the Holy Spirit can make.
If that Spirit should come through this as
semblage this morning there would be
power felt like that when Saul was I'M
horsed on the road to Damascus, ike as
when Lydia's heart was broken IN her nne
store, like as when three thousand souls
were lifted out of midnight into midnoon
at the Pentecost. Do you notice that some
times that Spirit takes an Insignificant
agency to save soul2 | think 1t Is very
often that at Just one passage Of Scripture,
just one word Of Scripture, soul IS saved
because the Holy Spirit gives it supernat-
ural power.
Do YOU know what it was that saved
Martin Luther? 1t was that one verse,
sThe lust shall live by faith" Do you
know what it was that brought Augustine
from his horrible designations? 1t was
that one verse, ''Put We on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and make no provision for the flesh,
to fulfill the lusts thereof" Do you know
what it was that saved Hedley Wears, the
celebrated soldier? 1t was the one passage,
believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou
shalt be saved" Do you know what 1t
was that brought Jonathan Edwards to
Christ? It was the one passage, Nov
unto him be glory forever and ever"
One THANKSGIVING morning in church
read my text, "Oh, give thanks unto the
Lord, for he is good, and young man
stood in the gallery and said to himself Il
have never rendered one acceptable offer
ingof gratitude to God in all my life. Here,
Lord. / am thine forever" By that one
massage of Scripture he was brought into
the kingdom, and if l might tell my own
experience, / might tell how one Sabbath
afternoon l was brought TO the peace OF the
gospel By reading of the Syro-Phoenlcian's
cry to Christ where she said: Even the
dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from the
masters table" Philosophie sermons
never saved anybody. Metaphysical ser
mons never saved anybody. An earnest
plea going right out of the heart blessed
of the Holy Ghost, that is what saves, that
is what brings people into the kingdom Of
Christ.
1 suppose the world thought that Thorn
as Chalmers preached great sermons in his
early ministry, but Thomas Chalmers says
he never preached at all until years after
he had occupied pulpit he came out OF
his sick room, and, weak and emaciated,
he stood and told the story of Christ to
the people. And in the great day of eter-
nitv it win be found that not so much the
+ eloquent sermons brought men to Christ
as the story told perhaps by those who
were unknown on earth, the simple story
/ Of the Saviour's love and mercy, sent by
/ the power of the Holy Ghost straight TO
/ the heart. Come, Holy Ghost. Ay, he is
/ here this morning. He fills all the place.
/ I tell you the Holy Ghost is ready.
THE CHURCH IS WAITING.
4 Then I 90 on and tell you the church is
ready. There are those here who say, mo
one cares for my soul' We do care for it.
You see a man bowling his head in prayer,
and YOU say, '"rhat man is Indifferent" "
That man bows his head in prayer that the
truth may 90 to every heart. The air is
full of prayers. They are going up this
morning from this assembly. Hundreds
of PRAYERS straight to the throne Of a listen
ing God. The air is full of prayers-pray
ers ascending noon by noon from Fulton
street prayer meeting, Friday night by
Friday night all over this land, going W
from DravinQ circles. Yea, there is not d
minnie of an hour of any day that there are
not supplications ascending to the throne
of mercy. The church is ready. And Il
YOU should this morning start for your
Fathers house there would be hundreds
and thousands in this assemblage who
would say if they knew it, Make room
for that man, make room for him at the
holy sacrament: bring the silver bowl fol
his baptism; give him full right to all th'
privileges of the church of Jesus Christ"
Oh. know there are those who say the
church is a mass of hypocrites, but they dc
not really think so. 1t is a glo-'ous church
Christ purchased it. Chriss Chrisl
swung all its gates. Christ curtalned Il
with upholstery, crimson with cruclilMoI
carnage. Come into it. Come into 1t.
do not pick out this man or that man anc
say, ''You may come" say all may CONT
4 -whosoever will. "Come with us and W.
will do you good. The Lord hath prom
ised good concerning Israel"
We are a garden walled around,
Chosen and made peculiar ground,
A little plot inclOsed by grace
Out Of the worlds wild wilderness.
COME! COME!
Do not say you have never been invited
invite you now to the Kings feast. One
and all ALI ALI But go further and
tell YOU that the angels are ready. Some
people think when we speak about angels
we are getting into the region OF fancy
They say it is very well for a man when h'
| has lust entered the ministry to preael
about the angels in heaven, but after h'
has gone on further it is hardly worti
while. Ny friends, there is not any NOR
evidence in the Bible that there is Go'
, than that there are angels. Did they no
swarm around Jacobs ladder? Whel
Lazarus soul went up did they not escor
n ltg Did not David say, "The chariots Q
/ God are twenty thousand, even thousand
I of anRels?" Are they not represented a
, the chief harvesters Of the Judgment day
! Did not one angel in one night Stay lSO,OO
! of Sennacherib's trOops2
Oh. yes. our world is in communication
. with two other worlds. All that commu
nication is by angels. When bad man
to die. A man who has despised God and re
I, iected the Gospel, the bad spirits come OF
I sulphurous wing and they shackle him
/ and try to push him off the precipices int
: the ruin. and they lift guffaw of diaboli
cal exuitation. But there is line of angels
o bright and beautiful and loving angels
! mighty angels, reaching all the way from
!, earth to heaven, and when others gathe
! like them 1 suppose the air is full OF them
= They hover They Git about. They pusl
r down iniquity from your heart. They al
e ready to rejoice.
= Look There is an angel from the throu
!. Of God. One moment ago it stood befoI
4 Christ and heard the doxology Of the n
> ieemed. 1t is here now. Bright Immortal
r what news from the golden city, Speal
l. spirit blest. The answer comes melting o
O the air, Come, come, for all things al
r now ready" Angels ready to bear the ti'
S ings. Angels ready to drop the benedi
tion. Angels ready to lSindle the JOY. A
t ready. Ready, cheruIdm and seraphin
+ Ready. thrones and municipalities and pov
il ers. Ready, Michael the archangel
a NO SYMPATHY WITH MODERN sPRITUA
e ISM.
= Yes, go further and say that your q
b rifed kindred are ready. have not an
b sympathy with modern spiritualisnl.
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