Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-29

young man tapped me on the shoulder
and said: George, come with me and
will do you good I looked at him to see
whether ne was joking or not. saw he
was IN earnest, and l said:
WHAT DO Toe MELy, STRIP
We'll, he replied. I mean if yeu will
come to the meeting tonight l viii be very
glad to introduce you. l will meet you at
the door. VIII you Gomez Said I: Z will
went to the place where was tarrying. I
fixed myself up as well as I could. but
toned my coat over a ragged vest and vent
to the door of the church, and the young
man met me. and we went in; and as Invent
in / heard an old man praying, and he
looked SO much like my father. l sobbed
right out, and they were all around SO kind
and sympathetic that just there gave my
heart to God, and know this morning that
what yon say is true; believe it il my own
experience. 'On him the Lord hath laid
the iniquity of us ALL"
O!my brother, without stopping to look
as TO whether your hand trembles or not,
without stopping TO look whether your hand
Is bloaJed with SIN OF not, put it in my
hand. let me give you one warm, brotherly
Christian grip, and invite you right up to
the heart, TO the compassion, to the SYM
patty, to the pardon of him on whom the
Lord had laid the iniquity of US all. Throw
away your sins. Carry them no longer. /
proclaim emancipation this morning to all
who are bound, pardon for all sin, and
eternal life for. all the dead.
Some one comes here this morning, and l
stand aside. He comes up these steps. He
comes to this place. 1 must 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
HIS WOUNDED HEART.
say. cart thou wearyl" Yes" he says,
weary with the worlds woe'' 1 say,
from Calvary" say, ''Who comes with
thee?n He says, mo one; have trodden
the winepress alone!'' say, ssWhy contest
thou here2'' ''Or' he says, Il came here to
carry all the sins and sorrows of the peo-
pie" And he kneels and he says: Put
on my shoulders all the SORROWS and all the
SINS" And conscious of my own sins, first,
OF the Son Of God. l say, ''Canst thou bear
any more, o Christi" He says, Yea,
more" And 1 gather up the sins of all
those who serve at these affairs, the officers
of the Church of Jesus Christi gather up
all their sins and put them on Christ's
shoulders, and l say: '.Canst thou bear any
more2" He says, Yea, more Then
gather up all the sins OF "a hundred people
IN this house and put them on the shoul-
ders of Christ, and 1 say ..Canst thou
bear more2" 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 them?'
YEA" he says, "more!'' .
But he is departing. Clear the way Tor
him. the Son of God. Open the door and
let him pass out. He is carrying 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.
Son him the Lord hath laid the lniquity of
US all" Will you let him take away your
sins today or DO you say, Il will take
charge of them myself, 1 will fight my own
battles, viii risk eternity on my own
accounts" A clergyman said in his pulpit
one Sabbath: Before next Saturday
night, one of this audience will have passed
out of life A gentleman said to another
seated next to him: Il don't believe it; |
mean to watch, and if it doesn't come true
by next Saturday night, l shall tell that
clergyman his falsehood." The man seated
next to him said: perhaps it will be
YOURSELF 80! no. the other replied, 81
shall live to be an old man. That night he
breathed his last.
To-day the Savior 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 per-
ishes, for the invitation is, whatsoever
will, let him Gomez Whosoever, whose
ever, whosoever! In this day of merciful
visitation, while many are coming into the
kingdom of God, join the procession heaven
ward.
Seated among us during service was
man who came in and said: Il don't know
that there is God" That was ON Friday
night. said: I'VE will kneel down and
find out whether there is any Cod" And
in the second seat from the pulpit we
knelt. He said II have found him. There
is a God, a pardoning God. I feel him
here" He knelt in the darkness of sin.
He arose two minutes afterward in the
liberty of the Gospel; while another, sit
ting under the gallery on Friday night,
said: my opportunity is gone; last week
l 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
saying: II am lost man.
Behold! the Lamb of God, who taketh
away the sins of the world.'' ssNow is the
accepted time. Now is the day OF saliva
tion'' 1T is appointed unto all men once
to die, and after that-the Judgment"