The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-05-21

glory.
Ali there is one word of five letters
that would like to write, but ! have
no sheet fair enough to write it on,
and no pencil good enough to inscribe
IL. Give me sheet from the heavenly
records, and some pencil used by angel
in describing victory, and then with
hand struck with supernatural energy,
and with pencil dipped in everlasting
morning, / will write it out in capitals
of love, J-E-S us Jesusl 1t is this
one that is waiting for you and for me,
for we are on the same platform before
God
How long he waited for mel How
long he has waited for you'll Waiting
as a banqueter waits for his delayed
guests, the meats smoking, and the
beakers trimming, and the minstrel
with his finger on the stiff string ready
to strike at the first clash of the hoofs
at the gateway. Waiting as a mother
waits for boy that ten years ago went
off dragging her bleeding heart after
him. Waiting, Oh, can you not give
me some comparison intense enough,
importunate enough, high as heaven,
deep as hell and vast as eternityl Not
expecting that you can help me with
such comparison, simply say he is
waiting as only an all sympathetic
Christ knows how to wait for a wan
dering soul.
Bow the knee and kiss the Son,
Come and welcome, sinner, come.
COME AND WELCOME.
But remark again, not only is Christ
waiting, but the Holy Spirit is waiting.
| Why are some sermons dead failure2
Why are there songs that do not get
their wing under the people2 Why are
there players that go no higher up than
a hunters halloo2 Because there is
missing link that only the Holy Spirit
can make. If that Spirit should come
| through this asscmblage this morning
| there would be power felt like that
| when Saul was endorsed on the road
to Damascus, like as when Lydia's
heart was broken in her fine store, like
as when three thousand souls were lift
ed out of midnight into midnoon at the
| Pentecost. Did you notice that some
times that Spirit takes an insignificant
agency to save n soul? | think it is
very often that at just one passage of
Scripture, Just one word of Scripture,
a soul is saved because the Holy Spirit
gives it supernatural power.
Do you know what it was that saved
Martin Luther2 1t was that one verse,
'"The just shall live by faith" Do you
know what it was that brought August
inc from his horrible designations? 1t
was that one verse, Put We on the Lord
Jesus Christ, and make no provision
for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof"
Do you know what it was that saved
Hedley Wears, the celebrated soldier9
1t was the one passage, believe in the
| Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be
| saved" Do you know what it was
that brought Jonathan Edwards to
Christi 1t was the one passage, "Now
unto him be glory forever and ever"
One Thanksgiving morning in church
| read my text, 90 give thanks unto
the Lord, for he is good" and young
man stood in the gallery and said to
himself: 81 have never rendered one
acceptable offering of gratitude to God
in all my life. Here, Lord, | am thine
forever" By that one passage of
Scripture he was brought into the
kingdom, and if might tell my own
experience, might tell how one Sab
bath afternoon l was brought to the
peace of the gospel by reading of the
Syro-Phmnican' cry to Christ, where
she said, Gwen the dogs eat of the
crumbs which fall from the Masters
table" Philosophic sermons never
saved anybody. Metaphysical sermons
never saved anybody. An earnest plea
going right out of the heart blessed of
the Holy Ghost, that is what saves,
that is what brings people into the
kingdom of Christ.
| suppose the world thought that
Thomas Chalmers preached great ser
mons in his early ministry, but Thomas
Chalmers says he never preached at all
until years after he had occupied pull
pit he came out of his sick room, and
weak and emaciated he stood and
told the story of Christ to the people
And in the great day of eternity it
will be found that not so much the elo-
quent sermons brought men to Christ
as the story told, perhaps, by those who
were unknown on earth, the simple
story of the Saviour's love and mercy,
sent by the power of the Holy Ghost
straight to the heart Come, Holy
Ghost. Az, he is here this morning
He fills all the place. I tell you this
Holy Ghost Is ready.
THE AIR IS FULL OF PRAYERS.
Then go and tell you the church is
ready. There are those here who say,
"No one cares for my soul" We do
care for it. You gee man bowling his
head in prayer and you say, ''That man
is indifferent" That man bows his
head in prayer that the truth may go
to every heart. The air is full of pray
ers. They are going up this morning
from this assembly. Hundreds of
prayers straight to the ,throns of a lis
tening God The air is full of prayers
prayers ascending noon by noon from
Fulton street prayer meeting, Friday
night by Friday night all over this land,
going up from praying circles. Yea,
there is not minute of an hour of any
day that there are not supplications
ascending to the throne of mercy The
church is ready. And if you should
this morning start for your Fathers
house there would be hundreds and
thousands in this assemblage who
would say if they knew it, Make room
for that man, make room for him at the
5 holy sacrament; bring the silver bowl
} for his baptism; give him full right to
all the privileges of the church of Jesus