Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-06-29

way to greet me home and my house.
hold is a little heaven. I will tell you
Whist did all this for me. 1t was the
truth that this day you proclaim, On
him the Lord had laid the iniquity of
us all.
THE WORST OUTCAST MAY COME.
Yonder is a woman who would say
Il wandered OF from my fathers
house; I heard the storm that pelts on
a 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 home; your ia
ther is waiting for you, your mother is
waiting for you. Go home, poor thingr
And, sir. | was too weak to pray, and [
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 4 young man who would
say II had Christian bringing up;
came from the country to city life;
started well; | had a good position, a
good commercial position, but one
night at the theater L met some young
men who did me no good. They
dragged me all through the sewers Of
iniquity, and | lost my morals and l
lost my position, and [ was shabby and
wretched. Twas going down the street,
thinking that no ore cared for me,
when a young man tapped me on the
shoulder and said, George, come with
me and l will do you good I looked
at him to see whether he was joking
or not saw he was in earnest, and |
said, What do you mean, sir? We'll,
he replied, I mean if you will come to
the meeting tonight will be very glad
to introduce yon. l will meet you at
the door VIII you Gomez Said l. 4
will.
Il went to the place where l was
tarrying. fixed myself up as well as
Icould. | bu$toned my coat over a
ragged vest and went to the door of the
church, and the young man met me,
and we went in; and as | went in l
heard an old man praying, and he
looked so much like my father l sobbed
iiSlII OGI, tIii1 CI1Sy WSIS OH OChNi ~
kind and sympathetic that | just there
gave my heart to God, and know this
morning that what you say is true; |
believe it in my own experience. ON
him the Lord hath laid the iniquity of
us all e"
Oh! my brother, without stopping to
look as to whether your hand trembles
OrDO+ viii bo,1t c+oYoriDp TO look Uba+bar
your hand is bloated with sin or not
put it in my hand, let me give you one
warm, brOtherly, Christian grip, and
invite you right up to the heart, to the
compassion, to the sympathy, to the
pardon of him ON whom the Lord had
laid the iniquity of us all. Throw away
your sins: Carry them no longer l
proclaim emancipation this morning to
all who are bound, pardon for all sin
and eternal life for all the dead.
HE IS MIGHTY TO SAVE.
Some one comes here this morning,
and | stand aside. He comes up these
steps. He comes to this place Unjust
stand aside Taking that place he
spreads abroad his hands and they were
nailed. You see his feet, they were
bruised He pulls aside the robe and
shows you his wounded heart l say,
cart thou weary" Yes" he says,
weary with the worlds Woe" | say,
whence CONTEST thou?" He says, Il
come from Calvary" | say, "Who
comes with thee2" lie says, No one.
have trodden the winepress aIoner l
say, why CONTEST thou here" 'Oh!"
he says, Il came here to carry all the
sins and sorrows Of the people"
And he kneels and he says, Put on
my shoulders all the SORROWS and all
the sins" And conscious Of my own
sins first, | take them and put them on
the shoulders of the Son of God. l
say, "Canst thou bear any more, 0
Christi He says. Yea more. And
I gather up the sins of all those who
serve at these affairs, the officers of the
church of Jesus Christi gather up all
shoulders and say. ''Canst thou bear
any more| He says, Yea, more. -"
Then l gather up all the sins of a hun
dred people in this house and l put
them on the shoulders of Christ and |
say, 'Canst thou bear more? He says,
YEA, more, " And | gather up all the
sins of this assembly and put them on
the shoulders of the Son of God and 1
say, ''Canst thou bear them?" ''Yea,"
he says. ''morem
But he is departing. Clear the way
for him, the Son of God Open the
door and let him pass out He is car
rying our sins and bearing them away
We shall never see them again. He
throws them down into the abysm, and
you hear the long reverberating echo
of their fall ION him the Lord hath
laid the iniquity of us all VIII you
let him take away your sins today, or
do you say, Il will take charge of them
myself, l will fight my own battles,
will risk eternity on my own account?"
A clergyman said in his pulpit one Sab
bath, Before next Saturday night one
of this audience will have passed out
of life \ gentleman said to another
seated next to him. Il don't believe it;
l mean to watch, and if it doesn't come
true by next Saturday night shall tell
that clergyman his falsehood. The
man seated next to him said, Perhaps
it will be yourself ''Oh, no" the
other replied, II shall live to be an old
man" That night he breathed his
last.
Today the Saviour calls. All may
come. God never pushes a man off.
God never destroys anybody. The man
jumps off. 1t is suicide-soul suicide
if the man perishes, for the invitation
is, ''Whosoever will, let him come"
Whosoever, whosoever, whosoever. In
this day of merciful visitation, while
many are coming into the kingdom of
God, join the procession heavenward.
Seated among us during a service
was man who came in and said, Il
don't know that there is any God"
That was on Friday night. I said,
eve will kneel down and find out
whether there is any God" And in
the second seat from the pulpit we
knelt He said: 81 have found him.
There is a God, a pardoning God.
feel him here" He knelt in the dark
ness of sin. He arose two minutes af-
terward in the liberty of the GOSDel.