Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-05-11

as banaueter waits for his delayed guests,
the meats smoking, and the beakers brim
ming, and the minstrel with his finger on
stiff string ready to strike at the first clash
of the hoofs at the gateway. Waiting as
mother waits for a boy that ten years ago
went off dragging her bleeding heart after
him. Waiting oh, can you not give me
some comparison intense enough, importu-
nate enough, high as heaven, deep as hell
and vast as eternityp 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 foI
a wandering soul
Bow the knee and kiss the Son,
Come and welcome, sinner, come.
THE HOLY SPIRIT is WAITING.
But remark again, not only Christ is
waiting, but the Holy Spirit is waiting.
Why are some sermons a dead failurei
Why are there songs that do not get their
wing under the peoplel Why are there
players that go no higher up than hunt
er's hallooP Because there is Il missing
link that only the Holy Spirit can make.
II that Spirit should come through this as
semblage this morning there would be
power felt like that when Saul was un
horsed on the road to Damascus, like as
when Lydia's heart was broken in her fine
store, like as when three thousand souls
were lifted out of midnight into midnoon
at the Pentecost. Do you notice that some
times that Spirit takes an Insignificant
agency to save soulP / 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 supernat-
ural power.
Do you know what it was that saved
Martin Luther? 1t was that one verse,
'The just shall live by faith" Do you
know what it was that brought Augustine
from his horrible dissipationsS 1t was
that one verse, "Put ye 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 soldier? 1t was the one passage,
"Belieye in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou
shalt be saved" Do you know what it
was that brought Jonathan Edwards to
Christi It was the one passage, "Now
unto him be glory forever and ever"
One Thanksgiving morning in church
read my text, "Oh, give thanks unto the
Lord, for he is good" and a young man
stood in the gallery and said to himself 81
have never rendered one acceptable offer
ing 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 il l might tell my own
experience, might tell how one Sabbath
afternoon was brought to the peace of the
gospel by reading of the Syro- Ph9nician's
cry to Christ where she said; "Even the
dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from the
masters table" Philosophio sermons
never saved anybody Metaphysical ser
mons 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 Thorn
as Chalmers preached great sermons in his
early ministry, but Thomas Chalmers says
he never preached at all until years after
he had occupied pulpit he came out OF
his sick room, and, weak and emaciated
he stood and told the story of Christ tc
the people. And in the great day of eter
nifty it will be found that not so much the
eloquent sermons brought men to Christ
az the story told perhaps by those who
were unknown on earth, the simple story
of the Saviours love and mercy, sent by
the power Of the Holy Ghost straight tC
the heart. Come, Holy Ghost. Ay, he il
here this morning. He fills all the place
tell you the Holy Ghost is ready.
THE CHURCH Is WAITING.
Then go on and tell you the church Il
ready There are those here who say, "NC
one cares for my soul" We do care for 1t
You see man Sowing his head in prayer
and you say, "That man is Indifferent.
That man bows his head in prayer that TIN
truth may 90 TO every heart. The air 4
full Of prayers. They are going up thi
morning from this assembly Hundred
OF prayers straight TO the throne of listen
ing God The air is full of prayers-pray
ers ascending noon by noon from Fultoi
street prayer meeting, Friday night b.
Friday night all over this land, going N
from praying circles. Yea, there is not
minute of an hour of any day that there ar
not supplications ascending TO the thron
of mercy. The church is ready. And
YOU should this morning start for you
Fathers house there would be hundred
and thousands in this assemblage VIII
would say II they knew it, make roon
for that man, make room for him at th
holy sacrament; bring the silver bowl 70
| his baptism; give him full right to all th
privileges OF the church OF Jesus Christ"
oh, know there are those who say tn
church Is mass of hypocrites, but they d
not really think So 1t Is a glorious church
| Christ purchased it, Christ built it, Chris
swung all it's gates. Christ curtained
with upholstery, crimson with orucitixio
carnage. Come into II. Come into it.
do not pick out this man or that man an
say, "You may come" ! say all may com
whatsoever will "Come with us and W
will do you good. The Lord hath prom
ised good concerning Israel"
We are q garden walled around,
Chosen and made peculiar ground,
A little plot inclosed by grace
Out OF the worlds wild wilderness.
CoMEl ooMRl
Do not say you have never been invited
! invite YOU now 20 the Kings feast On
and all. All ALI But / so further AM
tell YOU that the angels are ready. Som
people think when we speak about angel
we are getting into the region OF fancy
| They say Il is very well for a man when h
has lust entered the ministry 20 prpac
about the angels in heaven, but after b
has gone on further II Is hardly wort
while Ny friends, there is not any NOR
evidence la the Bible that there Is Go
than that there are angels. Did they no
swarm around Jacobs ladderf Whe
Lazarus soul went up did they not esoor
itY Did not David say, "The chariots q
God are twenty thousand, even thousand
l OF angolsfn Are they not represented a
the chief haryesters OF the Judgment day
Did not one angel In one night clay lsO,0O
OF Sennaeherib's troopsl
oh, yes, our world Is Ia communicable
With Two other worlds An that eomm1
picatlou Is hy angels, When bad man
70 die. man " 10 has disguised God aud u
jscted the Gospel, the bad splTsis come o
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