Connecticut western news., 1891-05-13
pearls Oh, what Christ-a Christ of beauty, Christ of powerl

There are not enough cups on earth to dip up this ocean of beauty. There are not ladders to scale those heights of love Oh, thou flower of eternity, thy breath is the perfume of heaven. Oh, | thou daybreak of the soul, let all na- tions clap their hands in thy radiance Chorusl Come men and angels and cherubim and seraphim and archangel, all heights, all depths. all immensities. Chorusl Roll on through the heavens in chariot of universal acclaim, over bridges of hosanna, under arches of coronation, by the towers chiming with eternal jubilee. Chorusl Unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and made us kings and priests unto God, to him be glory
 An! there is one word of five letters that would like to write. but l have no sheet fair enough to write it on, and no pencil good enough to inscribe it. Give lne sheet from the heavenly records. and some pencil used by angel in describing victory, and then with l hand struck with supernatural energy, and with pencil dipped in everlasting morning. will write it out in capitals of love, J-E-S US Jesusl It is this one that is waiting for you and for me, for we are on the same platform before God.
 How long he waited for mel How long he has waited for youl Waiting az banqueter waits for his delayed guests. the meats smoking. and the beakers brimming, and the minstrel with his finger on the stiff string ready to strike at the first clash of the hoofs at the gateway Waiting as mother waits for boy that ten years ago went of dragging her bleeding heart after him. Waiting. Oh, can you not give me some comparison intense enough. importunate enough, high as heaven, deep as hell and vast as eternity9 Not expecting that you can help me with such a comparison, l simply say he Is waiting as only an all sympathetic Christ knows how to wait for wan dering soul.
 Bow the knee and kiss the Son,
 Come and welcome sinner, come.
 COMB AND WELCOME.
 But I remark again. not only is Christ waiting. but the Holy Spirit is waiting. Why are some sermons dead failure? Why are there songs that do not get their wing under the peopleY Why are there players that go no higher up than hunters halloo2 Because there is a missing link that only the Holy Spirit can make If that Spirit should come through this assemblage this morning there would be power felt like that when Saul was unhorsed on the road to Damascus, like as when Lydia's heart was broken in her fine store, like as when three thousand souls were lift ed out of midnight into midnoon at the Pentecost. Did you notice that some times that Spirit takes an insignificant agency to save a soul9 think it is very often that at just one passage of Scripture. just one word of Scripture, a soul is saved because the Holy Spirit gives it supernatural power
 Do you know what it was that saved Martin Luther? It was that one verse, ''The just shall live by faith" Do you know what it was that brought August
 inc from his horrible dissipations2 It was that one verse, Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ. and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof. y Do you know what it was that saved Hedley Wears, the celebrated soldier It was the one passage, Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thon shalt be saved" Do you know what it was that brought Jonathan Edwards to Christi It was the one passage. "Now unto him be glory forever and ever"
 One Thanksgiving morning in church l read my text, 70 give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good" and young
 man stood in the gallery and said to himself: II have never rendered one acceptable offering of gratitude to God in all my life. Here, Lord, I am thine forever By that one passage ot Scripture he was brought into the kingdom. and if might tell my own experience. might tell how one Sab bath afternoon I was brought to the peace of the gospel by reading of the Syro- -Phmnician's cry to Christ, where she said, Even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from the Masters table, Philosophic sermons never saved anybody Metaphysical sermons never saved anybody. An earnest plea going right out of the heart blessed o1 the Holy Ghost, that is what saves, that is what brings people into the l,;nrdo,, of Christ I suppose the world thought that Thomas Chalmers preached great ser mons in his early ministry, but Thomas Chalmers says he never preached at all
 until years after he had occupied a pull pit he came out of his sick room, and weak and eInaciated he stood and told the story of Christ to the people And in the great day of eternity il will be found that not so much the elo quent sermons brought naen to Christ as the story told, perhaps, by those whe were unknown on earth, the simple story of the Saviour's love and mercy, sent by the power of the Holy Ghos1 straight to the heart. Come, Holy Ghost. Ay. he is here this morning He fills all the place. I tell you tht Holy Ghost is ready.
 TIIE AIR IS FULL OF PRAYERS. |. Then go and tell you the church Ii ready. There are those here who say ; No one cares for my soul" We dt , care for it. You see man lowing hi . head in prayer and you say, That mar :. is indifferent" That man bows hi head ill prayer that the truth may gt to every heart The air is full of pray