The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-02-11

vantages. They think that no one cares
for their souls. Many of them are on
small salaries. and they are cramped and
bothered perpetually, and sometimes
their heart fails them. Young man, to-
night, at your bedroom door on the third
floor, you will hear knocking. 1t will be
the hand of Jesus Christ, the young mans
friend, saying: 80, young man, let me
come in; l will help thee. / will comfort
thee, will deliver thee" Take the bible
out OF the trunk, il it has been hidden
away. If you have not the courage to
lay it on the shelf or table, take that bible
that was given to YOU by some loved one,
take it out OF the trunk and lay it down
beside it, and read and pray and pray and
read, until all your disturbance is gone
and YOU feel that peace which neither
earth nor hell can rob you OF. Thy
fathers God, thy mothers God, waits for
thee, . young man. Escape for thy
lifew Escape now zone thing thy
lackestr
But l apply this subject to the aged
not many here-not many in any assem-
blage People do not live TO get old.
That is the general rule. Here and there
an aged man in the house. j tell you the
truth. You have lived long enough in
this world to know that it can not satisfy
an immortal nature. l must talk to you
more reverentally than l do to these
other people, while ut the same time |
speak with great plainness. o, father of
the weary step; o, mother bent down I'M
der the ailments of life, has thy God ever
fOrsaken thee? Through all these years
who has been your best friend? Seventy
years of food and clothing o how many
bright mornings! How many glorious
evening hours you have seen! O father,
mother, God has been very good to you.
DO You feel it? Some of you have chill
dren and grandchildren the former
cheered your young lie, the latter Irvine
your gray locks in their tiny fingers. Has
all the goodness that God has been max
ing pass before you produced no change
in your feelings, and must il be said of
you, Notwithstanding all this: Zone
thing thou lackest"
Oh, if you could only feel the hand OF
Christ smoothing the cares out of wrinkled
faces. o. if You could only feel the warm
arm of Christ steadying your tottering
steps. l lift my voice loud enough to
break through the deafness of the ear
while I cry out: Zone thing thou lack
est" IL was an impOrtunate appeal
a young man made IN a prayer-meetlng
when ia rose up and said: do pray for
and he don't love Christ" That father
passed a few more steps on in life and then
be went down. He never gave any init
nation that he had chosen Jesus. 1t is q
very hard thing for an old man to become
a Christian. / know il is. 1t is go hard
thing that it cannot be done by any hu-
man work; but God Almighty can do it
by His omnipotent grace; He can bring
you at the eleventh hour-at half past
eleven-at one minute OF twelve he can
bring you to the peace and joys of the
glorious gospel.
/ must make application of this subject,
also, to those who are prospered. Have
YOU, my friends, found that dollars and
cents are no permanent consolation to the
soul? You have large worldly resources.
but have YOU no treasures in heaven? Is
an embroidered pillow all that you want
10 put your dying head on? You
heard people all last week talk about
earthly values. Hear a plain man talk
about the heavenly. Do YOU not know il
will be worse for you, o prospered man,
il You reject Christ and reject Him finally
that it will be worse for you than those
who had it hard in this world, because the
contrast will make the discontinue 80
much more appalling? AS the hart
bounds for the water brooks, as the roe
speeds down the hillside, speed thou to
Christ Escape for thy life, look not be-
hind thee, neither stay thou in all the
plain; escape to the mountain lest thou be
consumed
must make my application to another
class OF persons-the poor. When you
cannot pay your rent when it is due, have
you nobody but the landlord to talk to?
When the flour has gone out OF the barrel,
and you have not 10 cents with which 20
go To the bakery, and your children are
Juggling ut your dress for something to eat,
have you nothing but the worlds chart
ties to appeal to? When winter comes.
and there are no Goals, and the ash-bar-
rels have no more cinders, who takes care
of you? Have you nobody but the over
seer of the poor? But preach to you
poor mans Christ. II you do not have in
the winter blankets enough TO cover you
in the night, | want to tell You of Him
who had not where to lay His head. If
you lie on the bare floor, l want to
tell you of Him who had for a
pillow hard cross, and whose foot-bath
was the streaming blood of his own heart.
o you, poor man! o you, poor woman
Jesus understands your case altogether.
Talk it right out TO Him tonight Get
down on your floor and say: Lord Jesus
Christ, Thou vast poor, and l am poor.
Help me. Thou art rich now, and bring
me up TO Thy richest" Do you think God
would cast you off? Will He? You
might as well think that mother would
take the child that feeds on her breast
and dash its life out as to think that God
would put aside roughly those who have
fled to Him for pity and compassion. Yea,
the prophet says: "A woman may forget
her sucking child, that she should not
have compassion on the son OF her womb,
but l will not forget thee"
II you have ever been on the sea, you
have been surprised in the first voyage to
find there are so few sails in sight. Some
times you 90 along two, three, four. five,
six and seven days, and do not see single
sail but when a vessel does come in sight,
the sea glasses are lifted to the eye, the
vessel is watched, and if it come very near,
then the captain, through the trumpet,
cries loudly across the water, WHITTIER
bound?'
So you and | meet on this sea of life
We come and we 60. Some of us have
never met before. Some of us will never
meet again. But / hail you across the
sea, and with reference TO the last great
day, and with reference to the two great
worlds, cry across the water: "Whither
bound? Whittier bound?" 1 know what
service that craft was made for, but hast
thou thrown overheard the compass? Is