Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-05-15


struck with supernatural energy. and
with pencil dipped in everlasting morn
ing, l will write tout in capitals of love
J-E-S-U-S Jesus! 1t is this One that is
waiting for you and for me, for we are
on the same platform before God. How
long lie waited for me! How long He
mas waited for you! Waiting as q ban.
queter waits for his delayed guests. the
meats smoking, and the beakers brim-
ming. and the minstrel with his finger on
SUN string ready to strike at the first
clash OF the hoofs at the gateway. Watt
ing as mother waits for boy that ten
years ago went off dragging her bleed
ing heart after him. Waiting. Oh, can
you not give me some comparison intense
enough, lmportunate enough, high as
heaven, deep as hell, and vast as etcr-
hlty! Not expecting that you can help
me with such a comparison, simply
say He is waiting as only an all SYM
pathetic Christ knows how to wait for a
wandering soul.
| Bow the knee and kiss the Son,
Come and welcome, sinner come
but remark again, not only Christ is
waiting, but the Holy Spirit is waiting.
why are some sermons dead failure?
why are there songs that do not get
tne'r wing under the people? Why are
there PLAYERS that go no higher up than
q hunters halo? Because there is a
missing link that only the Holy Spirit
can make. If that Spirit should come
through this assemblage this morning
there would be power felt like that
when Saul was endorsed on the road to
Damascus, like as when Lydias heart
was broken in her fine store, like as
when three thousand souls were lifted
out OF midnight into midnoon at the PEN
tecost. Do you notice that sometimes
that Spirit takes an insignificant agency
to save soul? l think it is very often
that at just one passage of Scripture a
soul is saved because the Holy Spirit
gives it supernatural power.
DO you know what it was that saved
Martin Luther? 1t was that one verse,
s'The just shall live by faith.'' Do you
know what it was that brought Angus
tine from his horrible dissipation? 1t was
that one Verse, ''Put We on the Lord Je-
sus Christ, and make no provision for the
flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof" Do
you know what it was that saved He'd
; ley Wears, the celebrated soldier? 1t
j was the one passage, ''Believe in the
Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be
saved" Do you know what it was that
brought Jonathan Edwards to Christ? 1t
was the one passage, 'Now unto Him be
glory forever and ever"
One Thanksgiving morning in church
read my text, sob, give thanks unto the
Lord. for He is good" and young man
stood i'll the gallery and said to himself
II have never rendered one acceptable
offering of gratitude to God in all my
T j
BY that one passage of Scripture he was
brought into the kingdom, and if ]
might tell my own experience, / might
tell how one Sabbath afternoon l was
brought to the peace of the gospel by
reading OF the Syro-Phpnician's cry tc
Christ where She said: s'llven the dogs
D eat Of the crumbs that fall from til,
masters table" Philosophic sermon.
never saved anybody. Metaphysical ser
mons never saved anybody. An earnes
0 plea going right out of the heart blessed
OF the Holy Ghost, that is what saves
that is what brings people into the king
: dom of Christ.
suppose that the world thought tina
\ Thomas Chalmers preached great ser
2 mons in his early ministry, but Thoma
!. Chalmers says he never preached at a
= until years after he had occupied a pu
i pit he came out of his sick room, and
c weak and cmaciated, he stood and toll
II the story of Christ to the people. An,
t in the great day of eternity it will b
o found that not so much the eloquen
3 sermons brought men to Christ as tn
c story told perhaps by those unknown OF
!, earth, the simple story of the Saviour
love and mercy, sent by the power o
1 the Holy Ghost straight to the heart
$ Come, Holy Ghost. Ay, He is here thi
! morning. He fills all the place. tel
| you the Holy Ghost is ready.
Then go on and tell you the churcl
> is ready. There are those here who say
, | mo one cares for my SOUL" We d,
care for it. You see a man bowling hi
head in prayer, and you say, THAT maj
: is Indifferent" That man bows his hea,
! in prayer that the truth may go to ever,
, heart The air is full of prayers. The.
, arc going up this morning from this as
scmbly. Hundreds of prayers straigh
to the throne of a listening God. Thu
air is full OF prayers-prayers ascendin:
, noon by noon from Fulton street prayer
} meeting, Friday night by Friday nigh
| all over this land, going up from praying
: circles. Yea, there is not minute of al
! hour of any day that there are not sup
plications ascending to the throne o
} mercy. The church is ready. And i
} you should this morning start for YOU
b Fathers house there would be hundreds
and thousands in this asscmblage who
: would say if they knew it, ''Male room
for that man, make room for him at the
holy sacrament; bring the silver bow
for his baptism, give him full right to al
} the privileges of the church of Jesu.
Christ"
Oh. know there are those who sa,
the church is a mass of hypocrites, bu
: they do not really think so. 1t is I;
} glorious church. Christ purchased it
) Christ built it. Christ swung all it:
; gates Christ curtained it with upholst
cry, crimson with cruciiiXion carnage
Come into it, Come into it. do no
pick ont this man or that man and say
''You may come" say all may come
| whosdcver will. ssComc with us and yol
will do good. The Lord hath promised
good concerning Israel"
We nre u garden walled around,
Il Chosen and made peculiar ground,
& a little plot Enclosed BY grace,
i Out Of tho worlds Wild Wilderness
II DO not say YOU have never been in
. vitcd invite you now to the King.
feast, One and all. All! All! But