Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-09-10

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home from him. All the bright sur.
roundings of your life from him,
O man, what dost thou
with that hard heart? Canst
thou not feel one throb of gratitude to-
ward. the God who made you, and the
Christ who came to redeem you, and
the Holy Ghost who has all these
years been importuning you? If you
could sit down five minutes under the
tree of the Saviour's martydrom, and
feel his warm life tricllling on your
forehead and cheek and hands, me
thinks you would get some apprecia-
ton of what you owe TO crucified
Jesus.
Heart OF stone. relent, relent
Touched by Jesus cross subdued;
See his body, mangled, rent
Covered with II gore OF blood. !.
sinful soul, what, hast thou done2
Cruciiied the eternal Sor.
Jacob with good deal of tug and
push took the stone from the wells
mouth, so that the fiocks might be
watered. And | would that to-day my
word blessed of God, might remove the
hlndrances to your getting up to the
Gospel well. Yea, | take it for granted
that the work is done, and now like
Oriental shepherds, proceed to water
the sheep.
Come all ye thirsty! You have an
underlined longing in your soul. You
tried monev-making; that did not sat-
isfy YOU. You tried Office under gov
ernment; that did not satisfy you.
You tried pictures and sculptures,
but works of art did not satisfy
You. You are as much discontented
with this life as the celebrated
French author who felt that he could
not any longer endure the misfortunes
of the world, and who SAID: "At four
O'Clock this afternoon, | shall put an
end to my own existence. Mean
while, | must toll on up to that
time for the sustenance of my family
And he wrote on his book until the
clock struck four, when he folded up
his manuscript and, by his own hand
concluded his earthly life. There
are men here who are perfectly discon-
tented, Unhappy in the past, I'M
happy to-day, to be unhappy forever,
unless You come to this Gospel-welL.
This satisfies the soul with high,
deep, all-absorbing and eternal salts
faction. 1t comes and it offers the
most unfortunate man so much of
this world as is best for him, and
throws all heaven into the bargain.
| The wealth of Croesus, aud all of the
RothschIlds is only p or, miserable
shilling compared with the eternal
fortunes that Christ offers you to-day.
! In the far East there was king who
used once a year to get on scales
while on the other side the scales were
| placed gold and silver ard gems: in
| deed, enough were placed there to bal
ance the king; then, at the
close of the weighing, all those
! treasures were thrown among the
| populacc But Christ to-day steps on
one side the scales, and on the other
side are all the treasures of the uni
verse, and he says: "All are yours
all height, all depth, all length, all
breadth, all eternity: all are yours. "
! We don't appreciate the promises ofthe
gospel When an aged clergyman was
dying--a man very eminent in the
/ church--a young theological student
stood by his side, and the aged
man looked up and said to him, cant
You give me some comfort in my dying
! hour?" " No" said the young man;
- / can't talk to YOU on this subject;
! yOu know all about it and have known
( ii SO long. Well said the dying man,
Just recite to me some promises. The
young man thought a moment, and he
came to this promise; The blood of
jesus Christ cleanseth from all SIM
and he old man Tapped his hands and
/ in his dying moment said: That's
/ just the promise | have been waiting
! for The blood of Jesus Christ cleans
! eth from all SIM" Oh, the warmth,
! the grandeur the magnifcenee of the
promises
But some one saws, in the audience:
Notwithstanding all You have said
this morning, | find no alienation for
my troubles. Well | an not through
yet. | have left the most potent con.
| siGeratiOn for the last. | am
! going to soothe you with the
thought of Heaven. However, talka-
tive we may be, there will come a
time when the stoutcst and most en-
phatic interrogation will evoke from
us no an wer- AS soon as we have
closed our lips for the final silence, no
power on earth can break that tacitur-
nifty. But where, O Christian, will be
your spirit? In scene of infinite
gladness. The spring morning
of heaven waving its blossoms
in the bright air Nictors fresh
from battle showing their scars ] he
rain of earthly sorrow struck through
with the rainbow of eternal Joy In
one group, God and angels and the re-
deemer-Paul and Silas, Latimer and
Ridley, Isaiah and jeremiah, Payson
and John Milton, Gabriel and Michael,
the archangel. Long line of choris-
tiers reaching across the hills, Seas
of JOY dashiug to the white
beach. Conquerors marching from
gate to gate. You among them.
Oh, what great flock of sheep God
win gather around the celestial well.
No stone on the wells mouth, while
the shepherd waters the sheep There
Jacob will recognize Rachel the shep
hcrdess. And standing on one side
of the well of eternal rapture,
your children; and standing on the
other side of the well of cter-
nal rapture, your Christian ancestry
you will be bounded on all sides by ii
joy SO keen and grand that no other
world has ever been permitted to ex-
perience ii. Out of that one deep we'll
of heaven, the Shepherd will dip re-
union for the bercaved, wealth for the
poor, health for the sick, rest for the
weary. And then all the ilocks of the
Lords sheep will lie down in the
green pastures, and world without
end we will praise the Lord that on
this first autumnal Sabbath OF 1891 we
were permitted TO study among the
bleating focks and lowing herds of
this fair ground the story of Jacob and
Rachel the shepherdess at the wall in
Mesopotamia. oh plunge Your buckets
into this great Gospel we'll and let
them come up dripping with that water
of which if a man drink he never again
shall thirst.