Orange County observer., 1891-07-18

Oh, my brother. without stopping to look |
as 70 whether YOUR hand trembles or not |
without stopping 70 look whether your hand |
: bloated with sin or not, put it in my hand, |
1T me give YOU one warm. brotherly Chris
tian grip and invite you right up to the
heart, to the compassion. 70 the sympathy,
TO the pardon of Him on whom the Lord had
laid the iniqulty Of Us ALL Throw away
your sins. Carry them no longer. / pro-
claim emancipation this morning to all who
are bound. pardon for all sin, and eternal
life for all the dead
Some one comes here this morning, AMI |
stand aside. He comes up these stems He
comes u this place, [ must stani aside.
Taking that place He spreads abroad His
hands and they were NAILED You sea His
feet they were br0isei. He pulls aside the
robe and shows you His wounded heart
say. Art Thou weary YES He says,
weary with the worlds Woe | say,
w hence comest Thou He says, i come
from Calvary I say. Who comes with
Thee" He SAYS no one: I have1trodden
the winepress aloner say, Why comest
Thou hera:" oh" He says. Il came here to
carry all the sins and sorrows of the people
And lie 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. say: "Canst Thou bear any
more, o Christi He says: Yea more
And gather up the sins Of all those whb
serve at these affairs, the officers of tie
Church of Jesus Christi gather up all their
sins and put them on Christ's shoulders, and
l say: ''Canst Thou bear any more?' He
says: Yea, more" Then I gather up all
the sins of hundred people In this house,
anl put them on the shoulders OF CHRIST,
and | say: ''Canst Thou bear nores' He
says: ca, more" And I gather up all
the sins of this assembly, and l put them Oh
the shoulders of the Son Of God, and say:
"Canst Thou bear themT' YEA" He says,
more"
But He is departing. Clear the way for
Him. the Son of God. Open the door and
let Him pass out. He is carrying our sins
ana bearing them away. We shall never
see them again. He throws them down into
the abysm and you hear the long reyerber-
atlng echo Of their fall. ION Him the
Lord hath laid the iniquity Of US all Will
you let Him take away your sins to-day?
Or do you say, Il will take charge Of them
myself; / will fight my own battles: | will
risk eternity on my own account A
clergyman said in his pulpit Sab
bath, Before next Saturday night on
OF this audience will have passed out
OF life" A gentleman said to another
seated next to him, Il don't believe it.
mean to watch, and if it doesn't come true
| by next Saturday night | shall tell tina,
| clergyman his falsehood" The man seate5
next to him said, ''Perhaps it will be your
self "Oh, no." the other replied; L shall
live to be an old man." That night he
| breathed his last.
To-day the Saviour calls. All may come
| God never pushes a man off God never de
stroys anybody. The man jumps of. It i
| sulcide-soul suicde-if the man IerisheS
| for the invitation is, ''Whosoever will, le
| him come" WhOsoever, WuoSoeyer, whose
| ever! In this day OF merciful visitation
While many are coming into the king glon
Of God, join the procession heavenward
Seated among us during a service was
man who came in and said, Il don't knos
| that there is any God" That was on Fri
| day night. | said, 1--WE will kneel dow
| and find out whether there is anY & Gol.
And in the second seat from the pup!t W
kueIt. He said Il have found Him
There is God pardoning God / feel Hin
! here" He knelt i'll the darkness OF sin. II
| arose two minutes afterWard III the libert
Of the Gospel; while another sitting unde
the gallery on Friday ght said My pp
portunity IS gone; last week might hav
| been saved not now; the door Is shut.
| And another from the very midst of til
meeting during the week rushed out Of tn
front door OF the Tabernacle saying, II al
| a lost man.. Behold! the Lamb Of Go
who taketh away the sin Of the world
"NCw IS the accepted time. Now is the da,
OF salvation' 1T IS appojnte | unto al
men once to die and after tnat-the judg
mentn