The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-07-09

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the, farmer goes after it. There is
nothing 50 thoroughly lost as u
lost sheep. 1t may have been in 1857,
curing the financial panic or during
the financial stress in the fall of 1873,
When you got astray. You almost be-
came an atheist. You said: Where
Is Is God, that honest men go down and
thieves prosper" You were dogged
OF creditors, you We're logged OF the
panks, you were logged Of worldly
disaster, and some of you went into
mlsanthropy, and some Of you took
70 strong drink, and others of you
He'd out OF Christian association, and
you got astray. OF man, that was
the last time when you ought to have
iiorsaken God. Standing amid the
laundering OF your earthly fortunes
how could you get along without
GOD TO COMFORT YOU,
ana q God to deliver you, and God
70 help you, and a God to save you?
You tell me you have been through
enough business trouble almost to kill
you. l know it. / cannot understand
how the boat could live one hour in
that chopped sea. But do know by
what process you got astray: some in
one way and some in another, and if
you could really see the position some
OF you occupy before God this morn
ing, your soul would burst
into an agony of tears and you
would pelt the heavens with the cry:
'God have mercyp' Sinai's batteries
have been numbered aboveyour soul
and at times you have heard it thun-
DER: '"The wages Of sin is DEATH" CAL
have sinned and come short of the
glory Of God" 'By one man sin en-
tered into the world, and death bv
SIN; and SO death passed upon all men,
for that all have sinned." "The soul
that sinneth, it shall die"
When Sebastopol was being bonn
barded, two Russian frigates burned
all night in the harbor, throwing a.
glare upon the trembling fortress; and
some OF you are standing in the night
OF your souls trouble. The can
nonade and the conHagration, the
multiplication OF your sorrow and
troubles | think must make the wings
OF Gods lowering angels SILVER to the
tip.
But the last part OF my text opens
door wide enough to let US all out
| and to let all heaven in. Sound it on
the organ with all the stops out.
Ihrum it on the harps with all
| the strings atune. With all the melody
possible let the heavens sound it to
the earth and let the earth
TELL IT TO THE HEAVENS,
"The Lord hath laid on him the in
iquity Of us ALL" I am glad that the
prophet did not stop to explain whom
he meant by chin" Him OF the
resurrection throne, him of the cruel
NIXON agony. ''On him the Lord hath
laid the iniquity Of US ALL" ~.
Some one comes here this morning,
and stand aside. Hecomes up these
steps. He comes to this place. I must
stand aside. Taking that place he
spreads abroad his hands, and they
were nailed. You see hisfeet they were,
bruised. He pulls aside the robe and,
shows you his wounded heart. I say:
art thou weary?" eyes," he says,
weary OF the worlds woe" 1 say,
whence CONTEST thou?" He says, II
come from Calvary" I say, "Who
comes with thee?'' He says, ''No one;
| have trodden the winepress alone!"
| say, "Why CONTEST thou here?" "O!"
he says, II 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,
Q Christie. He says, s'Yea, more.''
And l 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 shoulders; and I say:
'Canst thou bear any more?" He
says, "Yea, more" Then gather up
all the sins of a hundred people in this
house and I put them -.
ON THE SHOULDERS OF CHRIST,
and say: "Canst thou bear more?"
He says, "Yea,, more" And Leather up
all the sins of this assembly and put
them on the shoulders OF the Son of
God and I say, "Canst thou bear
them?'' 'Yea," he says, "more."
But he is departing. Clear the way
for him, the son OF God. Open the
oAS eoilu leu Hill pass OuC. lo 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 rever-
berating echo OF their fall :'On him
the Lord hath laid the inquiry of us
ALL" Will you let him take away
your sins to-day? or do you say, II
Will take charge Of them myself I will
fight my own battles, I will risk etern-
ity on my own account?" A clergy
man said in his pulpit one Sabbath:
before next Saturday night, one of
this audience will have passed out Of
]lfe." A gentleman said to another
seated next to MIN: II don't believe
1T; i mean to watch, and if it dosen't
come true by next Saturday night, I
shall! tell that clergyman his false
hood" The man seated next to him
said: perhaps it will be yourself"
,..Oh, no." the other replied, s'I 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
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