News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-01-15


pieces on Mars Rock why did tina
brave minister of the gospel, of whom
we have all read, go out in l:cliieboat
Why did he not stay and LOOK after thu
passengers that got ashore, wrappin,
fiannels around them. and kinaiins
fires for them, and preparing then
food. There was plenty OF WORK to be
done on shore for those who had al
ready escaped All that brave maI
knew that there were others who woulJ
take care of these. and so he said
Man the lifeboat! Pull away, my
lads, pull away Yonder is a man
there is woman freezing in the rig
ging. Pull away ! see he oaI
blades bend in the strong pull OF the
oarsmen. Then they come up to the
wreck. The woman is frozen. She
drops into the wave-alas, poor WON
an-and washes out to SEQ. BAT then
Mr. Ancient says: There is man yet
hanging to the rigging. Pull away,
my lads pull away" They come up,
and he says Hold now there five
minutes and we viii save you Steady
steady Now give me your hand.
Leapl Thank God, he is saved
Thank God, he is savad!"
So there are men now in the break
ers. They have made a shipwreck OF
life While we come out to save them,
some are swept off-swept off before
we can reach them-and there are
others still hanging on. Steady there
among the slippery places! Steady
Leap into this lifeboat! Now is your
chance for heaven! This hour some of
you are going to be saved. Far away
from God, you are going to be brought
nigh, "Other sheep have / which are
not of this fold.
Christ says that ministers of the Cos
pei are to be fishers forsmen. Now,
whenzr go flshi7gL da=ass..ant to fish
in anybody else's pond. l do not wit
to go along EIoholcus creek, where there
are ten or fifteen men fishing, and drop
my line just about where they are drop
ping their lines. | should like to get in
Newfoundland fishing smack and
push out to sea fifty miles beyond the
breakers do not think the Church
of God gains a great deal when you
take sheep from one fold and put them
in another fold. 1t is the lost sheep on
the mountains you want to bring back
the lost sheep on the mountains. And
they are coming today.
You are now this hour in the tide Of
Christian influences. You are going to
be swept in; your voice is going to be
heard in prayer; you are going to be
consecrated to God; you are going to
live q life of usefulness, and your death
bed is going to be surrounded by Chris
tan syInpathizcrs, and devout men
will carry you to your burial when
your work is done, and these words
will be chiselad for your epitaph:
Precious in the sight of the Lord is
the death of his saints. And all that
history is going to begin today. Other
sheep have | which are not of this
fold"
Again | remark, the Heavenly Shep-
herd is going to find many of his sheep
those who are now reiecters of
Christianity do not know how you
came to reject Christianity. | do not
know whether it was through hearing
Theodore Parker preach, or whether it
was reading Remains Life of Jesus, )"
or whether it was through some sheptic
in the store or factory. Or it may be
probably is the case-that you were
disguised with religion and disguised
with Christianity because some man
who professed to be a Christian de
f'auded you, and he being a member
of the church, and you taking him as a
of the Christian religion,
you said, We'll, if that's religion, l
don't want any of it. !"
do not know how you came to re-
ject Christianity, but you frankly tell
me you do reject it; you do not think
tie Bible is the word of God although
there arc InaEx things "a It yed admire;
you do not think that Christ was a
divine being, although you think he
was very good man. You say, III
the Bible be true-the most of the
Bible be true-I nevertheless think the
earlier part of the Bible is an allegory."
And there are fifty things that l believe
yon do not believe. Nevertheless they
tell me in regard to you that you are
an accommodating, you are an obliging
person. If l should come to you and
ask of you q favor you would grant it
if it were possible 1t would be a Joy
for you to grant me favor. If any of
your friends came to you and wanted
an accommodation and you could ac-
them, how glad you would
bel
Now I am going to ask of you a
favor. l want you to oblige me. The
accommodation will cost you nothing,
and you will give me great happiness.
Of course you will not deny me. l
want you as an experiment to try the
Christian religion. If it does not stand
the test, discard it; if it does, receive it.
If you were very sick, and you had
been given up of the doctors, and l
came to you, and | took a bottle of
medicine from my pocket and said,
Here is medicine | am sure will help
you; it has cured fifty people" you
would say, "Oh, | haven't any conf
dence in it; they tell me all these med
icines will fail me- Well" l say,
will you not, as a matter of accom-
to myself, just try it,"
We'll, " you say, II have no objection
to trying it; if it will be any satisfac-
ton to you l will try it." You take it.
Now you are sick in disquietude, sick
in sin. You are not happy. You laugh
when you are miserable
There come surges 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 medicine?
ooh, 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 Physiciisn Why
you say, Il 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.
do not ask you to take my word for it.
do not ask you to take the advice of
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 | do
not ask You to take the advice of cIer-
gymen. ask you to take the advice
of very respectable laymen, such as
William Shakespeare, the dramatist;
as William Wherefore, the statesman;