Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-06-29

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W ragged vest and went to the dcor of Il
If church, and the young man met IN
Is and we weuS in; and as ! went in
Q heard an old man praying, and |
# looked 50 much like my father | sobbe
l. right out. and they were all around s
o kind and sympathetic that just thel
r gave my heart to God. and know tn
u morning that what you say is true;
y believe it in my own experience. %
] him the Lord hath laid the iniquity {
us all. >"
/. Oil my brother, without stopping t
t look as to whether your hand trenble
e or not, without stopping to look whethe
5 your hand is bloated with sin or not
| put it in my hand. let me give you on
} warm. brotherly, Christian grip, ant
, invite you right up to the heart, to tn
+ compassion, to the sympathy, to th'
pardon of him on whom the Lord haC
laid the iniquity of US all Throw ava!
} your sins. Carry them no longer
. proclaim emancipation this morning tC
all who are bound. pardon for all sir
and eternal life for all the dead
HE is MIGHTY TO SAVE.
Some one comes here this morning
and stand aside. He comes up these
steps. He comes to this place Imus
stand aside Taking that place he
spreads abroad his hands and they were
nailed You see his feet, they were
bruised He pulls aside the robe and
shows you his wounded heart. say.
"Art thou wGSryW YES. he says,
weary with the worlds Woe" l say,
Whence comest thouT He says, 81
come from Calvary" l say, "Who
comes with theer He says. No one.
/ have tr dden the winepress alonel" l
say, why comest thou hereT oh
he says, II came here to carry all the
sins and sorrows of the people
And he kneels and he says. Put on
my shoulders all the sorrows and all
the SINS" And conscious Of my own
sins, first, take them and put them on
the shoulders of the Son of God.
say, "Canst thou bear any more o
Christi He says, YEA, more" And
| gather up the sins of all those who
serve at these altars, the officers of the
church of Jesus Christi gather up all
their sins and put them on Christ's
shoulders and say, "Canst thou bear
any more" He says, Yea, more"
Then gather up all the sins of a hun
dred people in this house and l put
them on the shoulders of Christ and |
say, "Canst thou bear more? He says,
Yea, more" And | gather up all the
sins of this assembly and put them on
the shoulders of the Son of God and l
say, "Canst thou bear them2" yea,
he says, ''morel"
But he is departing. Clear the way
for him, the Son of God Open the
door and let him pass out He is car
rying our sins and bearing them away
We shall never see them again He
throws them down into the abysm, and
you hear the long reverberating echo
of their fall. "On him the Lord hath
laid the iniquity of us all" Will you
let him take away your sins today, or
do you say, 81 will take charge of them
myself, will fight my own battles,
will risk eternity on my own accountp
A clergyman said in his pulpit one Sab
bath, Before next Saturday night one
of this audience will have passed out
of life" A gentleman said to another
seated next to him, II don't believe it
mean to watch, and if it doesn't come
true by next Saturday night shall tell
that clergyman his falsehood The
man seated next to him said. Perhaps
it will be yourself" "Oh, no." the
other replied, 81 shall live to be an old
man." That night he breathed his
last.
Today the Saviour calls. All may
come. God never pushes a man off.
God never destroys anybody. The man
jumps off. 1t is suicide-soul suicide
if the man perishes, for the invitation
Is "Whosoever will, let him come. "
Whosoever, whosoever, whosoever. In
this day of merciful visitation, while
many are coming into the kingdom of
God, join the procession heavenward.
Seated among us during a service
was man who came in and said, IL
don't know that there is any God
That was on Friday night. said,
I'VE will kneel down and find out
whether there is any God" And in
the second seat from the pulpit we
knelt. He said; II have found him.
There is a God, pardoning God. /
feel him here" He knelt in the dark
ness of sin. He arose two minutes af.
terward in the liberty of the Gospel;
while another sitting under the gallery
on Friday night said, MY opportunity
is gone; last week / might have been
saved, not now; the door is shut
And another from the very midst OF
the meeting, during the week, rushed
out of the front door of the Tabernacle,
saying, II ann lost man" Behold
the Lamb of God who taketh away
the sins of the world" Now is the
accepted time. Now is the day of sal
vation." lit is appointed unto all men
once to die, and after that--the judg-
mentl"
Rebuking PomPosity.