Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-01-29

them. how glad yea would be,
Now am going {; ask of you favor. I
want YOU 10 obligc re- TIE accommo-
dation will cost you Lothisg and will give
me great happiness, OF course you will
not deny me. | want You as an expert
mcnt to try the Christian religion. Ii it
does not stand the test. discard il: il it
does. receive it.
Again | remark, the Heavenly Shep-
herd is going TO get many of his sheep
among those who have been flung of evil
habit.
1t outrages me to see how soon Christian
people give up the prodigal: hear Christian
people talk as though they thought the grace
OF God were chain OF forty or fifty links.
ana when they had run out then there
was nothing TO touch the depth of mans
IulquIty. If IL man Wcr" out hunting for
deer. and got off the track of the deer he
would hunt amid the bushes aud the
brakes longer for the lost game than he
Will look for 4 lost soul.
They say if Il mau has had the delirium
/ trcmous twice he cannot be cured. They
say if a woman has fallen from integrity
! she cannot be 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
/
take back man who has fallen? Well.
| | cannot give you the exact figures. but |
can tell you 1T what point he certainly
will take rim back. -Four hundred and
ninety times Why dc l say four
hundred and ninety times Because the
Bible says seventy times seven. Now,
| figure that out. YOU who do not think
man can fall four times, eight
times. ten times. twenty times,
one hundred times, four hundred times.
ana yet be saved. -Four hundred aud nine
| ty times Why, there is Il great multitude
, before the throne of God who plunged into
all the depths of iniquity. There were no
sins they did not 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 to encourage any man who feels there
is no chance for him.
Good Tcmplars will not save YOU. al
though they are Il grand institution Sons
of Temperance will not save you, although
there is no better society on earth. Sign
ing the temperance pledge will not save
you. although it is a grand thing to do. No
one but God can save you. Do not put
your confidence in bromide of potassium,
on anything that the apothcca1y can mix.
Put your trust in God. After the Church
has cast you off, and social circles have
cast you off. ana the bank has cast
you off, and all good society has cast
YOU off, and father has cast you off,
and mother has cast you off, at
your first cry for help God will
bend clean down to that ditch of your in
EQUITY TO help you out. Oh. what u God he
is, Long suffering and gracous
There may be in this house some whose
hand trembies so with dissipation that they
could hardly hold hymn-book. l say 70
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 every
body, because everybody will know you
are saved and purified by the grace cf God
and a consecrated man, wholly consccratcd
Your business has got to come up, your
physical health is to be rebuilt, your family
TO be restored. the Church of God on
earth and In heaven is to rejoice over your
coming. ''Othcr sheep have l which are
not of this fold' If this is not the Gospel
1 do not know what the Gospel is. 1t caa
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 per-
; sons in this house about whom l have any
dependency and that is those who have
been hearing the Gospel for perhaps TWEEN
ty, thirty, forty years. Their outward
life moral, but they tell you frankly they
do not love the Lord Jesus Christ have
not trusted him, have not been born agaiu
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 pavement. The publicans and the har-
lots 60 into the kingdom of God before they.
, They went through. some Of them. the re
vival of 1867. when 500, 900 souls were
brought to God. Some of them went
through big rcvivals in individual churches.
Still unpardoned, unblessed, unsave3. They
were merely spectators, Gospel-hardened
: After awhile we will hear that they are
sick, and then that they are dead, and thor
that they died without any hope. Gospel
hardened. But turn away from all sucl
with thrill Of hope to those who arc moi
Z spel-hardened. Some of you have mol
) heard, perhaps, five sermons in five years
D This whole subject has been novelty t.
Il you for some time. You arc not Gospel
hardened; you know you are not Gospel
hardened. The whole subject comes fresh
$ ly to your mind. hear some soul saying
20 my wasted life ! O the bitter past
Q O the graves l stumbled over! Whittier
, shall fly? The future Is SO dark, SO dark,
so very dark. God help me.'
i Oh, am so glad for that last utterance
u That was prayer. as soon as you begin Il
. pray, that turns all Heaven this way, ant
y God steps in, and he beats back the hounds
Of temptation to their kennels, and b.
throws all around the pursued soul tn
= = covert Of bis pardoning mercy. l heart
. :, something fall. What was 1t? It was th
u bars around the sheepfold, the bars Of TIL
fence around the sheepfold. The Heavenl,
) Shepherd let them fall. and the huntet
q sheep Of the mountain come bounding in
8 some with fleece torn OF the brambles, AM
others with feet lame from the dogs, blu
bounding in. Thank God! 'Other shee
have which are not of this fold"
& God forbid that any Of you should hav
:. the lamentation Of the 0ymg noblema
y who had had every opportunity Of saliva
IL ton but rejected NIL, and who wrote o
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