The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-01-15

would say, sch, l haven't any conf
dence in it; they tell me all these med
icines will fail me-" "Well," | say,
twill you not, as matter of accom-
mediation to myself, just try itr
WELL" you say, 81 have no objection
to trying il; il it will be any satisfac-
ton to you | will try it," You take it,
Now you are sick in disquietude, sick
in sin, You are not happy You laugh
sometimes when you are miserable.
There come sllrges of unhappiness over
your soul that almost swamp you. You
are unhappy, struck through with I'M
rest, Now, will you not try this solace,
this febrifuge, this anodyne, this. Cos
pei medicine2
sob, " you say, II haven't any faith
in it," AS n matter of accommodation,
let me introduce you to the Lord Jesus
Christ, the Great Physician. why"
you say, 81 haven't any faith in him."
Well, now, will you not just let him
come and try his power on your soul?
just let me introduce him to you. l
do not ask you to take my word for it.
do not ask you to take the advice of
clergymen, Perhaps the clergymen
may be prejudiced; perhaps we may be
speaking professionally; perhaps we
may give you wrong advice; perhaps
we are morbid on that subject; so I do
not ask you to take the advice of cler
gymen, ! ask you to take the advice
of very respectable laymen, such as
William Shakespeare, the dramatist;
as William Wilberforce, the statesman;
as Isaac Newton, the astronomer; as
Robert Boyle, the philosopher; as
Locke, the metaphysician; KS Morse,
the electrician.
These men never preachcd-they
never pretended to preach.-but they
come out, and putting down, one his
telescope, and another the electricians
WIRE and another the parliamentary
scroll-they come ont, and they com
mend Christ as comfort to all the peo-
Pile, a Christ that the world needs
Now | do not ask you to take the ad-
vice of clergymen. Take the advice of
these laymen. 1t does not make any
difference to me at this juncture what
you have said against the Bible; it
does not make any difference to me at
this juncture how you may have carl
catured religion. Take the advice of
men who are prominent in secular af-
fairs, as these men whom have men
toned and others who Immediately oc-
cur to your mind. You see | do not
scoff at skepticism. never scoffed at
skepticism. | have been natural
skeptic. lido not know what the first
word was that uttered after entering
the world, but think it must have
been "whyg
There were times when doubted the
existence of God, when doubted the
divinity of Christ, when doubted the
immortality of the soul, when doubted
my own existence, when | doubted
everything. have been through the
whole curricullsn of doubt, and you can
tell me nothing new about it, l have
come out from great Sahara desert
into the calm, warm, sunshiny land of
the gospel. know about the other
land. | have been there. You can
tell me nothing new about it. And l
know all about the other condition of
which you do not know anything-the
peace, the comfort, the JOY, the triumph
of trusting in God and in Jesus Christ
whom he has sent. So am not scott
ing in regard to it.
There are some things believe that
you do not, but there are some things
| that | believe and you do believe. You
believe in love-a fathers love,
mothers love, wife's love, a child's
love. Now let Inc tell you God loves
you more than all of them together,
and you must come in, you will come
in Christ looks in all tenderness, with
the infinite tenderness of the gospel
into your soul, and he says, ''This is
your time for heaven" and then he
waves his hand to the people of God,
and he says, 'Other sheep have l
which are not of this fold"
Again I remark, the Heavenly Shep-
herd is going to get many of his sheep
among those who have been of evil
habit.
1t outrages NE to see how soon Chris
tan people give up the prodigal. l
hear Christian people talk as though
they thought the grace Of God were a
chain of forty or fifty links, and when
| they had run out tllen there was moth
ing to touch the depth of a mans in
| EQUITY. If a.nan 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 lost soul
They say if man has had the de-
| lirium trcmens twice he cannot be cured.
They say if 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 own hearts How many
times will God take back a man who
has fallen2 Well, | cannot give you
the exact figures, but can tell you at
what point he certainly will take him
back. Four hundred and ninety times.
WHY d. coy four hundred and ninety
| times? Because the Bible says seventy
times seven.
Now figure that out, you who do not
think a man can fall four times, eight
times. ten times, twenty times, one
hundred times, four hundred times, and
vet be saved Four hundred and nine
ty times! Why. there is great multi
tude before the throne of God who
plunged into all the depths of iniquity.
There were no sins they did not COM
nit; 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 en-
courage any man who feels there rs no
chance for him.