Milford chronicle., 1891-01-16

z together, and you must come IN, you. VIII
4 come in. Christ looks in all tenderness,
with the infinite tenderness Of the gospel,
into your SOUL and be says, "This is your
time for heaven, and then he waves his
/ hand to the people of God, and he says,
"Other sheep have which are not of this
fold"
Again I remark, the Heavenly Shepherd
/ ig going to get many Of his sheep among
those who have been Of evil habit.
1t outrages me to see how soon Christian
people give up the prodigal. I hear Chris
tian people talk as though they thought
the grace of God were a chain of forty or
! fifty links, and when they had run out
then there was nothing to touch the depth
/ Of a mans iniquity. If a man were out
/ hunting for deer, and got off the track of
| the deer, he would hunt amid the bushes
and the brakes longer for the lost game
than he would look for a lost soul.
They say if a man has had the delirium
tremens twice he cannot be cured. They
say il a woman has fallen from integrity
she-cannot be redeemed. All Of which is
an infinite slander on the gospel of the Son /
/ of God. Men who say that know nothing |
about practical religion in their own hearts. |
How many times will God take back man
who has fallen? Well, cannot give you
the exact figures, but can tell you at what /
point he certainly viii take him back. |
-Four hundred and ninety times Why dc /
say four hundred and ninety timesg Be /
cause the Bible says seventy times seven.
E,Ny figure that out, you who do not think |
a man can fall four times. eight times, ten
times, twenty times -
four hundred times,
Four hundred and nil.
there is great multitudeS lore
Of God who plunged int1 all the 49,.
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.
GOD ALONE CAN SAVE you.
Good Templars will not save you, al.
though they are grand institution. Sons
of Temperance viii 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 todo. No
one but God can save you. Do not put your
confidence in bromide Of potassium or any
thing that the apothecary can mix Put
your trust in Godl After the church has
cast you off, and the bank has cast you off,
and social circles have cast you of, and all
good society has cast you of, 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 iniquity
to help you out. Oh, what a God he isl
Long suffering and graciousl
There may be in this house some whose
hand trembles so with dissipation they
could hardly hold a hymn book. 1 say to
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 of God,
and a consecrated man, wholly conse-
Grated Your business has got to come up,
your physical health is to be rebuilt, your
family is to be restored, the Church of God
on earth and in heaven is to rejoice over
your coming. "Other sheep have which
are not Of this fold" II this is not the
gospel / do not know what the gospel is.
It can scale any height, it can fatbOm any
depth, it can compass any inanity. 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 persons in
this house about whom have any despond
ency, and that is those who have been
hearing the gospel for perhaps twenty,
thirty, forty years. Their outward life is {
moral, but they tell you frankly they do
not love the Lord Jesus Christ, have not {
trusted him, have not been born again by I
the spirit of God. They are gospel hard
ened. The gospel has no more effect upon I
them than the shining of the moon on the ]
city pavement. The publicans and the t
harlots go into the kingdom of God before t
they. They went through, some of them, I
the revival of 1867, when 100000 souls were c
brought to God. Some of them went 2
through great revivals in individual d
churches Still unpardoned, unblessed,
They were merely spectators. v
Gospel hardenedl After awhile we will @
hear that they are sick, and then chat they t
are dead, and then that they died without q
any hope Gospel hardened r
But I turn away from all such with a d
thrill of hope to those who are not gospel C
hardened. Some of you have not heard, D
perhaps, five sermons in five years. This o
whole subject has been a novelty to you a
Tor some time. You are not gospel hard q
sned; you know you are not gospel hard
sned. The whole subject comes freshly to
your mind. I hear some soul saying: "Oh,
ny wasted lifel Oh, the bitter pastl Oh, o
,he graves I stumbled overl WHITTIER 4
ihall flyi The future isso dark, so dark, a
70 very dark! God help mel' 4
GOD GUARDS HIS SHEEP. a
Oh, am so glad for that last utteranceil &
That was prayer, and as soon as you be D
,in to pray that turns all heaven this way, Il
md God steps in, and he beats back the Il
hounds of temptation to their kennels, and D
le throws all around the pursued soul the a
overt Of his pardoning mercy. heard O.
omething fall. What was it, It was the h
3 l.. II 4 ~. . ansN -
ence around tho sheepfOld. The Heavenly 8,
shepherd let them fall, and the hunted a
heep of the mountain come bounding in, e
ONE with fleece torn Of the brambles, and le
theirs with feet lame from the dogs, but Il
ounding in. Thank GodI "Other sheep 81
ave I which are not Of this fold.n
God forbid that any Of you should have C,
he lamentation of the dying nobleman "
rho had had every opportunity Of saliva b.
ion, but rejected all, and who wrote or Il
ictated these words: Before you receive W
his my final state will be determined. II
m throwing my last stake for eteTnif-
nd tremble andshudder for theimP'
ssue Oh, my friend, with wb'
o l recall the hours of vani,
7asted together; but / have
assags to the grave. 1 die in stat.
anguish under a gilded canopy. am
iring on soft and dOwny pillows, and
attended by my servants
hysicians. My dependents sigh, my
ers weep, my father bends beneath
( years and grief But oh, whie'
ill answer my summons at
unal? And which Of thr
rom the arrest of de
altering panegyric
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