News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-01-15

been ''why?"
There were times when doubted the
existence OF God, when | doubted the
divinity OF Christ, when | doubted the
immortality Of the soul, when l doubted
my own existence when | doubted
everything. have been through the
whole curriculum of doubt, and you can
tell me nothing new about it. | have
come out from a great Sahara desert
INTO the calm, warm, sunshiny land of
the gospel know about the other
land. have been there. You can
tell me nothing new about it, And |
know all about the other condition of
which you do not know anything-the
peace, the comfort, the JOY, the triumph
OF trusting in God and in Jesus Christ
whom he has sent. So l am not scoff-
ing in regard to it.
There are some things I believe that
| you do not, but there are some things
that believe and you do believe. You
believe in love-a fathers love, a
mothers love, a wife's love, child's
love. Now let me tell you God loves
you more than all of them together,
and you must come in, you will come
in. Christ looks in all tenderness, with
the infinite tenderness of the gospel,
into your sorl, and he says, "This is
your time for heaven" and then he
waves his hand to the people of God,
and he says s,9aher fsarep have I
which are not Of ehis forStH
Again | remark, the Heavenly Shep-
herd is going to get many IF .s;ss sheep
among those who have been. of evil
habit
1t Outrages me to see how 5000 Chris
tan people give up the prodigalN :
hear Christian people talk as though
they thought the grace OF God were a
chain of forty 9a1iftX- links, and when
they haS-.s~seA there vas moth.
ing to touch the depth of a mans in
iquity. If a nlaa were out hunting for
deer, and got off the track of the deer,
he woald hunt amid the bushes al i'd the
brakes longer for the lost game than he
would look for lost soul
They say if man has had the de-
1rium tsemens twice he cannot be cured.
They say II a woman has fallen from
integrity she capnot ;pe redeemed. All
of which is an infinite SANDER 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? Well, l cannot give you
the exact figures, bat can tell you at
what point he certainly will take him
back. -Four hundred and ninety times.
Why do | say four hundred and ninety
times? Because the Bible says seventy
times seven.
Now figure that out, you who do not
think q man can fall four times, eight
times, ten times, twenty times, one
hundred times, four hundred times, and
yet be saved. -Four hundred and nine
ty times! Why, there is a great multi
tude before the throne of God who
plunged into all the depths of iniquity
There We're no sins they did not com
nit; but they were washed of body and
washed of mind and washed of soul.
and they are before tho throne of God
now forever happy. say that to en-
courage any man who feels there is no
chance for him.
Good Templars will not save you, al
though they are a grand institution.
Sons of Temperance will not save you,
although there is no better society on
earth. Signing the temperance pledge
viii not save you, although it is a
grand thing to do. No one but God
can save you. Do not put your conf
dence in bromideof 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 of, and social circles
have cast you off, and all good society
has cast you of. and father has cast
you off, and mother has cast you off
sou. i.-ss {. -. !. T.sll, <ioti-,-iH bend
clean down to that ditch of your
iniquity to help you out. Oh, what a
God he isl Long suffering and gra-
cious!
There may be in this house some
whose hand trembles SO with dissipa-
ton they could hardly hold a hymn
book. 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 everybody 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 be 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 | 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 persons
In this house about whom l have any
dependency, and that is those who
have been hearing the gospel for per
haps 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 hardened. The gospel |
has no more effect upon them than the |
shining of the moon on the CITY pave |
ment. The publicans and the harlots |
go into the kingdom of God before |
they They went through, some of |
them, the revivalof 15iss when 500, 900 |
souls were brought to God Some of
them went through great revivals in |
individual churches Still unpardoned, |
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. Cos
pei hardened -.
But | turn awas frofu all such with |
thrill of hope to those who are not
gospel hardened. Some of you hove
not heard, perhaps, five sermons in five i
years. This whole subject has en- a /
novelty to you for some time. Iou are
not gospel hardened; you know you
are not gospel hardened. Thamhole
subject comes freshly to your mind
hear some soul saying: "Oh, my wasted
life Oh, the bitter p; stl Oh, the
graves stumbled over! Whittier shall
| fly3 The future is SO dark, so dark,
so very dark Cod help mel"
Oh, | am SO glad for that last utter
ance! That was a prayer, and as soon