Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-06-29

aBd be SAID Poor thing. g. bczzae, ycCr
father = waiting for you. your a-etEer =
wasting Tor yea. Gro home. poor thing.
4 nj. sIr, Vas LOO weak 10 pray, and ws@s
too weak 70 repeur, bat ! j2ss erisd OFT. l
sobhed oas ny sans aud nay soTrows on she
shoulders Of him Of whom II j. said, The
Lord hath lad Oh Rim the lniQuIIy OF us
all"
There Is young man who would say
Il lad Christian bringing ups | came
from the country 70 city life; | started
wei, had good position. good COM
nlercsag positloi.. Dut one nisbt al the ths-
ateE nast some youn. msn sLo did me DO
good. They dragged the al through the
sewers of inlQuity. and | lost my morals
and l lost nay position, and 1 Was shabby
and wretched. | WIS going down the
street, thinking that no one cared Tor ne.
when . young maa tapped me on the
shoulder aud SAID. George. COME with me
aud | viii do you good l looked al him
20 see whether DC was joking or not saw
he Was IN earnest and said, What do you
mean, siri' Well. he replied. i mean il
yoa will come To the meeting tonight Will
be very glad TO introduce you. viii meet
yoa at the door. Will you comet Said l.
Il WILL
Il went 10 the place where ! was tarry-
ing | fixed myself up as we'll as | could.
l battoned my coat over a ragged vest and
went 10 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 SO much like my father |
sobhed right out; and they were all around
so kind and sympit he,.c that just gave
my heart 10 God, and | know this morning
that what you say Is true; | believe 10 In
my own experience. 'On him the Lord
hath laid the iniquity of as all. >"
oh, my brother, without stopping TO look
as 10 whether your hand trenbles or not,
without stopping TO look whether your
hand is bioa.ed with sin or not, put 10 in
my hand, let me give Au one warm,
brotherly. Christian grip, and invite you
right up to tho heart, To the compassion,
10 the sympathy. To the pardon of him on
whom the Lord had laid the iniquity of US
all Throw away your sins. Garry 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
l stand aside. He comes up these steps.
He comes 10 this place. / must stand
aside. Taking that place he spreads abroad
his hands, and they were nailed. You see
his feet, they were bruised. He pulls aside
tho robe and shows you bis wounded heart.
say, Art thou weary" EYES," he says,
weary with the worlds Woe" / say,
"Whence contest thou," He says, 81 come
from Calvary" i say, "Who comes with
thee'" He says, 'No one; have trodden
the winepress alonew say, why CONTEST
thou heres" "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, l 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 1T 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," He says. "Yea, more" Then 1
gather mp all the sins of hundred people
in this house, and 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 themT'
Yea" he says, 'more"
HE HATH BORNE OUR TRASsGIRssIONS.
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. p"
Will you lcs him take away your sins to-
day, Or do you say, II will take charge
Of them myself; l will fight my own bat
ties; l will risk eternity on my own ac-
count?" 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: II don't believe it.
mean to watch, and il it doesn't come true
by next Saturday night l shall tell that
clergyman his falsehood." The man seated
next to him said, perhaps it will be your
self" '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 man off. God never
destroys anybody. The man jumps of. 1t
Is suicide-soul suicide-if the man per-
ishes, for the invitation is, "Whosoever
will. let him come" whatsoever, whose
| ever, whosoever! In this day of merciful
visitation, while many are coming into
the kingdom of God. join the procession
| heavenward.
| Seated among us during service was
man who came in and said, IL don't know
that there is any God" That was on Fri
day night. said. 1--WE 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. a pardoning God. feel him
here" He knelt In the darkness OF sin.
lie arose two minutes aftcrward 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
/ il 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 - the accepted time.
| Now h. the day of salvation" 1t Is ap-
/ ,,,,nterl unfo all men once to die, and after