The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03

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to the hospital" and l would be a dead lift
In your arms, and you would lift me from
the ground where / had fallen and put me Ia
the ambulance and take me to the hospital
and have all kindness shown me. Would
there be anything mean In your doing thati
Would there be anything hemeaning in my
accepting that kindnesss Oh, no. You would
be mean not to do 1t. That is what Christ
does.
II we could pay our debts then 1t would be
bettW to go up and pay them, saying,
"Here, Lord, here is my obligation; hero are
the means with which 1 mean to settle that
obligation; now give me a receipt; cross it
all out" The debt Is paid. But the fact Is
we have fallen in battle, we have gone down
under the hot fire of our transgressions, we
have bean 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 re-
sounding bell, OF the ambulance. Clear the
way for the Son Of God. He comes down
TO bind up the wounds, n TO scatter the
darkness, and to save the lost. Clear the
way for the Son OF God.
Christ comes down to see us, and we are a
Head lift. He does not lift US with the tins
Of His fingers. He does not lift us with one
arm. He comes down upon His knee, and
then with a dead lift He raises US to honor
and to glory and Immortality. The Lord
hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all"
Why, then, will no man carry his sinsy You
cannot carry successfully the smallest sim
you ever committed. You 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 you lifetimei Christ comes
and looks down In your face and says: II
have come through ali the decorations Of
these days and through all the tempests OF
these nights. Ihave come to bear your bur-
dens, and to pardon your sins, and to pay
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them IN My heart" 'On Him the Lord
hath laid the iniquityjpf us ALL"
Sin has almost pestered the life out of some
Of you. At times it has made you cross and
unreasonable, and it has spoiled the bright.
ness Of FOUR days and the peace of your
nights. There are men who have been rid
died of sin. Tn world gives them no solace.
Gossamer and volatile the world, while eter-
nifty. as they look forward to 1t, is black as
midnight. They writhe under the stings Of
q conscience which proposes to give no rest
here and no rest hereafter; and yet they do
not repent, they do not pray, they do not
weep. They do not realize that just the poj
sition they occupy is the position occupied
by scores, hundreds and thousands OF men
who never found any hope.
Ii this meeting should be thrown open and
the people who are here could give their testi-
mony, what thrilling experiences we should
hear on all sidesi There is a man In the gall
lery who would say: II had brilliant sur
roundings, / had the best education that one
of the best collegiate institutions Of this
country could give, and / observed all the
moralities Of life, n | was self righteous,
and l thought l was all right before God as
l am all right before men; but the Holy
Spirit came to me one day and said, you are
q sinner the Holy Spirit persuaded me Of
the fact. While / had escaped the sims
against the law Of the land I had really COM
mitted 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 I began to pray, and peace came to my
heart, and / know by experience that what
you say this morning Is true, On Him the
Lord hath laid the iniquity of US ALL"
Wonder Is a man who would say. ~ was
the worst drunkard in New York; l went
from bad to worse, I destroyed myself, n
destroyed my home; my children covered
when / entered the house; when they put up
their lips to be kissed l struck them; when,
my wife protested against the maitreatment,
/ Kicked her into the street. ! know all the
bruises and all the terrors Of a drunkard's,
woe. / went on further and further from
God until the day 1 got a letter saying:
my DEAR HUsBAND-I ave tried every
way, done everything, and prayed earnestly
and fervently for your reformation, but it,
seems Of no avail. Since our little henry died,
with the exception of those few happy weeks
WQ6u YOU EtiuhIucu HuDoTt hly ~ ~ oon ou0
of sorrow. Many Of the nights ! have sat
by the window, with my face bathed in|
tears, watching for your coming. l am
broken hearted, l Am sick. Mother and
father have been here frequently and begged
me to come home, but my love for you and
my hope for brighter days have always made
me refuse them. That hope seems now be-
yond realization, and l have returned to
them. 1t is hard, and l battled long before
doing it. May God bless and preserve you,
and take from you that accursed appetite
and hasten the day when we shall be again
living happily together. This will be my
daily prayer, knowing that He has said,
Come unto me all ye that labor and are
heavy laden, and will give YOU rest, From
your loving wife, MARY.
"And 30 I wandered on and wandered
on" says that man, until n night
passed . Methodist meeting house, and !
said to myself, Pm go in and see what they
are doing and l got to the door, and they
were singing
All may come; whoever viii,
This man receives poor sinners still.
And I dropped right there whore I was
and / said, Cox have mercy and He had
mercy on me. My nome Is restored, my
wife sings all day long during work. my
children come out a long way to greet me
l will tell you what did all this for me. II
was the truth that this day you proclaim,
On Him the Lord had laid the iniquity of us
ALL"
Yonder is a woman who would say: 81
wandered of from my fathers house;
heard the storm that pelts On q lost soul; my
feet were blistered on the hot rocks. ! went
on and on, thinking that no one cared for
my soul. when one night Jesus met me and
He said. Poor thing, go homei your father is
waiting for you, your mother is waiting for
you. Go home. poor thing And, sir, I
was too weak to pray, and l was too weak to
repent, but / just cried out; ! 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; started we'll; had
q good position, a good commercial position,
young men who did me no good. They
dragged me all through the sewers of iniquity,
and I lost my morals and lost my poatioD,
and I was shabby and wretched. Twas go
ing down the street, thinking no ons cared
for me, when a young man tapped no On
me and I will do you good Hooked at hin
to see whether he was joking or not Law
he was in earnest and l said, What do you
mean, sir1 Well he replied, i mean Il you
will come to the meeting tonight
will be very glad to introduce you. VIII
meet you ~ tho hoOs "M J0e O
Said 1, 4 will
II went to the place whore was carrying.
/ fxed myself up as well as | could. I but-
toned my coaI over a ragged vest and wont
to the door of the church, and tho young
man met me and we went in, and as ! went
in I heard an old man praying, and he looked
50 much like my father / sobbed right out,
and they were all around 50 kind and sym.
pathetic hat I just gave my heart to
God, and ] Know this morning that what you
say is true, l believe it in my own expert
enca. On Him the Lord hath laid tie iniqui'
ty Of US ALL"
oh, my brother, without stopping to lool
as to whether your hand trembles or not
without stopping to look whether your hand
is bloated with sin or not, put it in my hand
let me give you one warm, brotherly, Chris
tan grip, and invite you right up to thu
heart, to the COMPASSION, 10 the sympathy
to the pardon of Him on whom the Lord had
laid the iniquity OF us all. Throw away
your sins. Garry them no longer. l pro
claim emancipation this morning to all whs
are bound, pardon for all sin, and etsrns
life for all the dead.
Soma oua cnmea hare THE unrniuo and I