The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-29

world, and death by SIN; ana so deatn
passed upon all men, for that all have
sinned.n "The soul that sinneth shall die"
When Sebastopol was being bombarded,
two Russian frigates burned all night In
the harbor, throwing a glare upon the
trembling fortress; and some of you are
standing in the night of your souls trouble.
The cannonade and the conhagration. the
multiplication Of your sorrows and troubles
think must make the wings of Gods how
ring angels shiver to the tip.
But the last part of my text opens door
wide enough to let us all out and 20 let all
heaven in. Sound it on the organ with all
the stops out Thrum it on 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 tho heavens
"The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity OF
us all" l 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 crucihxioh agony. ION him the
Lord hath laid the iniquity of US all.
"Of" says some man. ''that is not gener-
GUS, that is not fair; let svery man carry
his own burden and pay his own debts"
That sounds reasonable. II have an obli
cation and l have the means 20 meet it, and
/ come to you and ask you to settle the OBJ
debts.n If you and /, walking down the
street, both hale. hearty and WELL I ask you
20 carry me. YOU say, and say rightly:
ssWalk on your own feeti" But suppose
you and l were in a regiment and was
wounded in the battle and / fell uncon-
scious at your feet with gunshot fractures
and dislocatlons. what would you dos You
would call to your comrades saying,
"Come and help, this man Is helpless;
bring the ambulance; 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 mean in your doing that?
Would there be anything bemeaning in my
accepting that kindnessl Oh no. You would
be mean not to do it. That is what Christ
does. II we could pay our
debts then it would be better to go
here is my obligation; here are the means
with which l mean to settle that OBJ
legation; now give me receipt; 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 transgres-
sions, we have been wounded by the sabres
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 am
bulance. Clear the way for the Son
of God. He comes down to bind up the
wounds, and to scatter the darkness. and to
save the lost. Clear the way for the Son
of God. Christ comes down to us, and we
are dead lift. He does not lift US with
the tips of his fingers. He does not lift us
with one arm. He comes down upon his
knee and then with dead lift he raises us
honor and glory and Immortality. "The
Lord hath laid on him the 1niquity Of us
ALL" Why, then, will no man carry his
ginsl You cannot carry successfully the
might as well put the ApennInes on one
shoulder and the Alps on the other-how
much less can you carry all the sins OF your
lifetime Christ comes and looks down in
your face and says: II have come through
all the decorations of these days, and through
all the tempests of these nights; have
come to bear your burdens and to pardon
your sins and to pay your debts. Put them
on my shoulder put them on my heart
''On him the Lord hath laid the inquiry of
us all"
Sin has almost pestered the life out of
some of you. At times 1t has made you
cross and unreasonable, and it has spoiled
the brightness of your days and the peace of
your nights. There are men who have been
riddled of sin. The world gives them no
solace. Gossdmer and volatile the world,
while enternity, as they look forward to it,
is black as midnight. They writhe under
the stings of a conscience which proposes to
give no rest here and no rest hereafter; and
yet they do not repent, they do not pray,
they do uot weep. They do not realizs that
just the position they occupy is the position
occupied by scores, hundreds. and thous-
ands of men who never found any hope.
If this meeting should be thrown open
and the people who are here could give
their testimony, what thrilling ex~
periences we should hear on all sidesl There
is man in the gallery who would say: 81
had brilliant surroundings, bad the best
education that one of the best collegiate
institutions of this country could give, and
I observed all the moralities of life, and
was self-righteous, and l thought was
all right before God as I am all
right before men; but the Holy
and said, You are a sinner the Holy
Spirit persuaded me of the fact. While /
had escaped the sins against the law of the
land, / had really committed the worst sin
a man ever commits-the driving back of
the Son of God from my hearts affections.
And / saw that my hands were red with
the blood of the Son of God, and began TO
pray, and peace came to my heart, and l
know by experience that what you say this
morning is true On him the Lord hath
laid the iniquity of us ALL 4"
Yonder is a man who would say: al
was the worst drunkard in New York; /
went from bad to worse destroyed my
self. destroyed my homei my children
covered when / entered the house: when
they put mp their lips to be kissed l struck
them; when my wife protested against the
maltreatment, kicked her into the street.
/ know all the bruises and all the terrors of
drunkard's VICE. l went on further ana
further from God until one day got let
ter saying:
my Dear Husband: l have tried every
way, done everything, and prayed earn
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