Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

astray; some in one way, and some in
another, and it you could really see the
position some of you occupy before God
this morning, your soul would burst into
an agony of tears and you would pelt
the heavens with the cry, "God have
mercy!" Sinai's batteries have been UNI
limbered above your soul, and at
times you have heard it thunder.
1.-The wages of sin is death" ''All
have sinned and come short of the glory
of Cod 'sBy one man sin entered into
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
| When Sebastopol was being bonn
barded, two Russian frigates burned all
night in the harbor throwing a glare
upon the trembling fortress, and some of
you are standing i'll the night of your
SOULS trouble. The cannonade and the
conflagration, the multiplication of your
sorrows and troubles l think must make
| the wings of Gods lowering angels
| shiver to the tip.
/! But the last part of my text opens
door wide enough to let us all out and
| let all heaven in. Sound it on the organ
with all the stops out. Thrum it on the
niTpS WIFI dll Vic SUI lIlSS uUuuC. w iCL
all the melody possible let the heavens
| tell it to the heavens. "The lord hath
glad that the prophet did not stop to ex-
plain whom he meant by Chin" Him
of the manager, him of the bloody sweet,
him of the resurrection throne, him of
the crucifixion agony. ''On him the Lord
hath laid the iniquity of us ALL
''Oh," says some man, ''that is not
generous; that is not fair; let every man
carry his own burden and pay his own
| debts" That sounds reasonable. If l
have all obligation and have the means
to meet it, and l come to you and ask
you to settle that obligation. you rightly
say, 'Pay your own debts" If you and
/ walking down the street, both hale,
hearty and we'll, ask you to carry me,
you say, and say rightly, sWalk on your
own feet!' But suppose you and were
in regiment and was wounded in the
battle and l fell unconscious at your
feet with gunshot fractures and disloca-
tions, what would you do? You would
call to your comrades saying, "Come and
help, this man is helpleas; bring the am
bulance; let us take him to the hospital"
and would be dead lift in your arms,
and you would lift me from the ground
where | had fallen and put me in the
ambulance and take me to the hospital
and have all kindness shown me. Would
there be anything bemcaning in my ac-
cepting that kindness? Oh, no. You
| would be mean not to do it. That is
what Christ does.
If we could pay our debts then it would
be better to go up and pay them, saying,
''Here, Lord, here is my obligation; here
are the means with which l mean to
settle that obligation; now give me re-
ceipt; cross it all OUT The debt is
paid. But the fact is we have fallen in
| the battle, we have gone down under the
hot fire of our transgressions. we have
been wounded by the sabers of sin, we
are helpless, we are undone. Christ
comes. The loud clang heard in the sky
on that Christmas night was only the
bell the resounding bell, of the ambu-
lance Clear the way for the Son of God.
He comes down to bind up the wounds,
and to scatter the darkness. and to save
1 the lost. Clear the way for the Son of
God.
! Yonder is woman who would say: 81
wandered off from my fathers house; l
heard the storm that pelts on lost soul;
my feet were blistered on the hot rocks
l went on and on, thinking that no one
cared for my soul, when one night Jesus
met me and He said: Poor thing, go
home! your father is waiting for YOU
Go home, poor thing!' And, sir, l was
i too weak to pray, and l was too weak to
repent, but just cried out; l sobbed out
my sins and my sorrows on the shoulders
OF Him of whom it is said, the Lord
hath laid on him the iniquity of us ALL -
There is young man who would say:
81 had a Christian bringing up; l came
from the country to city life; l started
we'll; had a good position, but one night
at the theater [ met some young men
who did me no good They dragged me
all through the sewers of iniquity, and
lost my morals and l lost my position,
and was shabby and wretched Twas
going down the street thinking that no
one cared for me, when a young man
tapped me on the shoulder and said,
George, come with me and will do you
good looked at him to see whether
he was joking or not l saw he was in
earnest and said, What do you mean,
slr?' WELL he replied, 4 mean if you
will come to the meeting tonight will
be very glad to introduce you. l will
meet you at the door. Will you Gomez.
Said I, I will
81 went to the place where was tar
rYing. I fixed myself up as we'll as
could. | buttoned my coat over a ragged
vest and went to the door of the church,
and the young man met me and we went
in; and as went in heard an old man
praying, and he looked so much like my
father sobbed right out; and they were
all around so kind and sympathetic that
just gave my heart to God, and know
this morning that what you say is true;
| l believe it in my own experience. 'On
him the Lord hath laid the iniquity of
US ALL"
Oh, my brother without stopping to
look as to whether your hand trembles
or not, without stopping to look as to
whether your hand is bloated with sin or
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 sympathy, to the
pardon of him on whom the Lord had
laid the iniquity of us all Throw away
your sins. Carry them no longer. I
proclaim emancipation this morning to
| all who are bound, pardon for all sin,
and 1ifn fI,o lo,l