Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-01-17

nEEIlnnInllll
trust In Godr After the church has
cast you of, and the bank has cast you
of, and all good society has castyou OF,
and father has cast you of, and mother
has cast you of, at your first cry for
help God will bend clean down to that
ditch OF your iniquity to help you out.
o, what God He is? Long suffering and
gracious!
THE GOSPEL FOR ALL CLASSES.
There may be in this house some
whose hand trembles 30 with dissipa-
ton they could hardly hold q hymn
book. / say to such, II they are here,
"You will preach the gospel yet; you
will yet, some Of you, carry the holy
communion through the aisles, and you
will be acceptable to everybody, because
everybody will know you are saved and
purified by the Grace Of God, and con-
secrated man, wholly consecrated. Your
business has got to come up, your ply
steal health Is to be rebuilt, your family
Is to be restored, the church OF God on
earth and In heaven is to rejoice over
your coming. ''Other sheep have /
which are not OF this fold" II this Is
not the gospel, do not know what the
gospel Is. It can scale any height, 1t
can fathom any depth, it can compass
any infinity. / think one reason why
there are not more people saved L. we
do not swing the door wide enough open:
Now there Is only one class OF
persons in this house about whom /
have any dependency, and that is those
who have been hearing the gospel for
perhaps twenty, thirty, forty years;
their outward life moral, but they tell
you frankly they do not love the Lord
Jesus Christ, have not trusted Him,
have not been born again by the Spirit
of God. They are gospel hardened.
The gospel has no more effect upon
them than the shining Of the moon on
the city pavement. The publicans and
the harlots 90 into the kindgdom OF
God before they. They went through,
some of them, the revival Of 1857, when
100000 souls were brought to God.
Some Of them went through great re-
viyals in individual churches. Still
unpardoned, unblessed, unsaved. They
we're merely spectators, Gospel-harden-
edl After awhile we will hear that
they are sick, and then they are
dead and then that they died without any
hope. Gospel-hardened But turn
away from all such with thrill Of hope
to those who are not gospel-hardened.
Some of you have not heard perhaps,
five sermons in five years. This whole
subject has been q novelty to you for
some time. You are not gospel harden-
ed; you know you are not gOspel-hard-
ened. The whole subject comes freshly
to your mind. | hear some soul saying,
30 my wasted life! 0 the bitter past!
o the graves stumbled over! Whittier
shall fly? The future Is 30 dark, so
dark so verv dark. God help me"
THE BARS OF THE FOLD OPEN.
Oh, am 30 glad for that last utter.
ance! That was prayer, and as soon
as you'll begin to pray, that turns all
Heaven this way, and God steps in, and
he beats back the hounds Of temptation
to their kennels, and he throws al
aroundssthe pursued soul the cover Oi
his pard0ning mercy. / heard some
thing fall. What was 1t? 1t was the
bars around the sheepfold, the bars o.
the fence around the sheepfold. The
Heavenly Sheperd let them fall, and the
hunted sheep of the mountain come
bounding in, some with fleece torn o.
the brambles, and others with feet lame
from the dogs, but bounding in. Thank
God! "Other sheep have l which are
not OF this fold"
God forbid that any OF you should
have the lamentationiof the dying noble
man who had had every opportunity o.
salvation but rejected all, and who wrote
or dictated these words: Before You
receive this my final state will be de
termined. am throwing my last stake
for eternity, and tremble and shuddel
for the important issue. o, my friend
with horror do recall the hours o.
vanity we have wasted together; but
have splendid passage to the grave
die in state and languish under q gid.
ed canopy. am expiring on soft and
downy pillows, and respectfully attend.
ed by nv servants and physicians. My do
pendants sigh, my sisters weep, my
lather bends beneath g load OF years and
grief: but o, which Of these will answer
nv summons at the high tribunal? And
which of these will bail me from the
arrest of death? While some fiatterine
panegyric Is pronounced at my inter
ment, I may be hearing my just con-
demnation at q supreme tribunal
Adieu!"
Parnen wiling 60 Retire.
Limerick, January I'm his speech