Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1891-07-03

Il had q Christian bringing up; / came
from the country to city life; / started
we'll; had good position, good com
mercial position, but one night at the the
alter met some young men who did me no
good. They dragged me all through the
sewers Of iniquity, and lost my morals
and / lost my position, and l was shabby
and wretched l was going down the
street, thinking that no one cared for me-
when young man tapped me on the
shoulder and said, George, come VT me
and / will do you good looked him
to see whether he was joking or not saw
be was in earnest and ! said, What you
mean, STRIP Well he replied, 4 n il
YOU will come TO the meeting tonigt will
be very glad to introduce You. Iw meet
you at the door. Will you Gomez i'd l.,
I will
II went TO the place where ] was AIRY
ing. fixed myself mp AS we'll as could.
l buttOned 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 heard an old man praying.
and he looked 80 much like my father /
sobbed right out; and they were all around
so kind and sympathetic that just 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 iniqnity of us ALL"
Oh, my brother without stopping TO look
as to whether your hand trembles or not,
without stopping 70 look whether your
hand is bloated with sin OF not, put 1t 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. | proclaim 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. and
/ stand aside He comes up these steps.
He comes to this place ] must stand
aside Taking that place he speads 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.
/ say. art thou weary?" Eyes" he says,
weary with the worlds woe" say,
'Vhence CONTEST thOuP He says, 81 come
from Calvary" | say, "WhO comes with
theey" He says, mo one; / have trodden
the winepress alonew l say, "Why CONTEST
thou hereY" "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. say, "Canst thou bear any
more, o Christi" He says, YEA, more. "
And gather up the sins of all those who
serve at these affairs, the officers of the
Church of Jesus Christi gather up all
their sins and put them on Christ's shout
ders, and / say, "Canst thou bear any
more?" lie says, Yea, more" Then
gather up all the sins of a hundred people
in this house, and l put them on the shout
ders 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 l say, "Canst thou bear them2"
YEA" he says, more"
HE HATH BORNE OUR TRANsGREssIoNs.
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
and bearing them away. We shall never
see them again. He throws them down
into the abysm, and you hear the long re-
verberating echo of their fall. ION him
the Lord hath laid the iniquity of us all"
VIII you let him take away your sins to-
day? Or do you say, 81 win take charge
of them myself; / will fight my own bat
ties; ] will risk eternity on my own ac-
COUNTY" A clergyman said in his pulpit
one Sabbath, Before next Saturday night
one 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 that
clergyman his falsehood." The man seated
next to him said, perhaps it will be your
self" "Oh, no." the other replied; Il
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 of. God never
destroys anybody. The man jumps off. 1t |
is suicide-soul suicide-if the man per
ishes, for the invitation is, "WhOsoever I
will, let him come" WhosOever, whose |
ever, whatsoever! In this day of merciful |
while many are coming into |
the kingdom of God, join the procession |
heaYenward.
Seated among us during a service was a |
man who came in and said, 81 don't know |
that there is any God" That was on Fri /
day night. l said, I'VE will kneel down /
and find out whether there is any God"
And in the second seat from the pulpit we
knelt. He said: Il have found him. There (
is a God, pardoning God. / feel him
here" He knelt in the darkness Of sin.
He arose two minutes afterward in the lib
erty Of the Gospel; while another sitting
under the gallery on Friday night said,
My opportunity is gone; last week l
might have been saved. not now; the door
is shut" And another from the very midst
Of the meeting, during the week, rushed
out of the front door Of the Tabernacle,
saying II am lost man" Behold the
Lamb Of God who taketh away the sin of
the world" Now is the accepted time.
Now is the day of salvation" 1T is ap-
pointed unto all men once to die. and after
that-the Judgment"