The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-07-03

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atheist You said; Where is GOD,
that honest men go down and thieves
prosper" You were logged of credit
Ors, you were logged of the banks, you
were logged of worldly disaster, and
some of you went into TnisanthrOpy,
and some of you took to strong drink.
and others OF you fed ont of Christian
association, and you got astray.
o! man, that was the last time when
you ought to have fOrsaken God Stand
ing amid the laundering of your earthly
fortunes, how could you get along with
out God to comfort you, and God to
deliver you, and God to help yOu, and
have been through enough business
troubles almost to kill you. know it
I cannot understand how the boat could
live one hour in that chopped sea But
I do not know by what process you got
sStray; some in one way and some IN
another, and if you could really see the
position some of you occupy before
God this morning, your soul would
burst in agony Of tears and you
would pelt the heavens with the cry:
''GOd have mercy Sinai's batteries
have been unlim bered above your souls
and at times you have heard it thunder:
The wages of sin is DEATH ''Al
have sinned and come short of the glory
of Cod BY one man sin entered in
to the world, and death by sin; and so
death passed upon all men, for that all
have sinned-" The soul that sinneth,
it shall die
But the last part OF my text opens
door wide enough to let us all out and
to let all heaven in Sound it on the
organ with all the stops out. Thrum
1t the harps with all the strings
atune. With all the melody possible
let the heavens sound it to the earth
and let the earth tell it to the heavens,
THE Lord hath laid on Him the in
iquity of US ALL I am glad that the
prophet did not stop to explain whom
he meant by Him" Him of the
manger, Him of the bloody sweat, Him
| of the resurrection throne, Him of the
| cruci6xiOn agony. ''On Him the Lord
/ hath laid the iniquity of US all"
If you and I, walking down the street
! both hale, hearty and well. I ask you
to carry me, you say, and say rightly:
| walk on your own feetP But sup
pose you and I were in a regiment and
I was wounded in the battle and fell
unconscious at Your feet with gunshOt
| fractures and dislocatiOns, what would
| you do? You would call to your com
rades saying: Come and help; this
man is helpless; bring the ambulance;
let US take him to the hospital and !
would be a dead lift in your arms, and
YOU would lift me from the ground
am bulance and take me to the hospital
and have all kindness shown me
| Would there be anything mean in your
doing that? Would there be anything
| bemcaning in my accepting that kind
ness? Oh, no. You would be mean mo-
to do it. That is what Christ does. I.
we could pay our debts then it would
be better to go up and pay them, say
ing; Here, Lord, here is my obligation
| here are the means with which I NEAR
to settle that obligation; now give me
| receipt; cross it all out" The debt /.
| paid. But the fact is we have fallen in tn,
battle, we have gone down under the
hot fire of our transgressiOns, we have
been wounded by the sabers of sin, w,
are helpless, we are undone." Chris
! comes The loud ciang heard in tn
sky on that Christmas night was Onl7
I the bell, the resOunding bell of the am
bulance. Clear the way for the Son o
God. He comes down to bind up tn
4 wounds and to scatter the darkness
: and to save the lost Christ comes an
l looks down in your face and says: -
+ have come through all the laceratiOn
of these days and through all the ten
pests of these nights; I have come t
5 bear your burdens and to pardon you
1 sins and to pay your debts Put theT
! on my shoulder; put them on my heart
: / ION Him the Lord hath laid the iniquit
l ! of US all
If this meeting should be throw
! open and the people who are here cOul
: | give their testimony, what thrilling e.
| ESeriences we should hear on all side.
There is a man In the gallery VIII
{ would say: II had brilliant surround
Z ings, had the best education that on
q of the best collegiate institutions {
: this country could give, and I observe
+ all the nOralities of life, and I was sci
} righteous, and thought was all rigl
before God as am all right befoI
z men; but the Holy Spirit came to N
q one day and said: You are sinner
e the Holy Spirit persuaded me of tt
u fact While had escaped the sir
1! against the law of the land, had reall
1t committed the worst sin a man eve
g commits-the driving back of the So
e of God from my hearts affections Ar
u saw that my hands were red with Il
d blood OF the Son of God, and began
?, pray and peace came to my heart, ar
II I know by experience that what yC