Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-29


weeks when you remained sober my life has
been one of sorrow. Many of the nights l
have sat by the window, with my face
bathcd in tears. Watching for your coming.
1 am broken-hearted, 1 am sick. Mother
and father have been here frequently and
begged me TO come home but nv love for
you and my hope for brighter days have
always made me refuse them. That hope
seems now beyond realization, and 1 have
returned to them. 1t is hard, and battled
long before doing it. May God bless and
preserve you, and take from you that ac-
cursed appetite and hasten the day when we
shall be again living happily together. This
will be my daily prayer, knowing that he has
said: Come unto me all ye that labor ana
are arch heavy laden, and nd, l will give y9g rest"
"And so I wandered on and wandered or" !"
says that man. ''untl one night passed q
Methodist meeting house, and said to my,
self, IN go in and see what they are doing
and got to the door, and they were slnglng'
All may come. whoeverwin,
This Man receives poor sinners still.
"And dropped right there where was
and said, God have mercy and he had
mercy on me. Ny home is restored, my wife
come out long way to greet me home, and
my household is a little heaven. Will tel
you what did all this for me. 1t was the
truth that this day you proclaim: On HIM
the Lord hath laid the iniQuity of us all.
Yonder is a woman who would say;
wandered off from my fathers house, L
heard the storm that pelts on lost soul; my
feet were blistered on the hot rocks. went
on and on, thinking that no one cared for my
soul, when one night Jesus met me ana he
said, Poor thing, go home, your father Is
waiting for you, your mother is waiting Tor
you. Go home, poor thingr and, sir was
too weak to pray, ana 1 was too weak to
repent, but Just cried out, 1 sobbed out my
sins and my sorrows on the shoulders Of
Him ofwhom it is said: The Lord hatn lalo
on Him the iniQuity OF us all"
Tale of a Young Man.
There is young man who would say: 81
had Christian bringing up: came from
the country to city life; started well; had
a good position, good commercial position,
but one night at the theater met some
young men who did me no good. They
dragged me all through the sewers of in
iquity, and lost my morals and lost my
position, and 1 was shabby and wretched.
was going down the street. thinking that
no one cared for me, when young man
tapped me on the shoulder and said: George,
come with me and will do you good l
looked at him to see whether he was joking
or not 1 saw he was in earnest and said:
What do you mean, sir?' We'll, he replied,
4 mean if you will come to the meeting to-
night will be very glad to introduce you;
Said 1, i WILL 1 went to the place where l
was tarrying. fixed myself up as well as !
could. L buttoned my coat over q ragged
vest ana went TO the door OF Une cnuTCu, anu
the young man met me, and we went In; and
as went in heard an old 1nan praying,
and he looked so much like my father l
sobbed right out and they were all around
so kind and sympathetic that just there
gave my heart to God, and know this
morning that what you say is true: L be-
heve it in my own experience. On him the
Lord hath laid the iniquity of us ALL"
Throw Away All Your Sins.
o. my brother, without stopping to look
as to whether your hand trembles or not,
without stopping to look whether your hand
is bloated with sin or not, put it in my hand,
let me give you one warm, brotherly, Chris
tian 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. l proclaim
eman cipatfon 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 spreads 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 l
say. Art thou weary" Yes" He says,
weary with the worlds Woe" l say,
"whence cometh thou?" He says, 81 come
thee?" He says, 'No one; have trodden
the winepress aloner' say, why comest
carry all the sins and sorrows of the peo-
ple" And He kneels and He says: put on
my shoulders all the sorrows and all the
sins.n And, conscious of my own sins first,
of God. say: "Canst thou bear any more,
o Christi" He says, "Yea, more" And l
gather up the sins of all those who serve
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sins and put them on Christ's shoulders, and
say: 'tCanst thou bear any more?" He
in hhen the
on the shoulders of Christ, andI say: "Canst
thou bear more3" He says, YEA, more"
And gather up all the sins of this assembly
of God and say. 'Canst thou bear them?''
''Yea," He says, more"
To-Day the Savior Calls.
A clergyman said in his pulpit one Sab
bath: Before next Saturday night one of
this audience will have passed out of life
A gentleman said to another seated next to
him: 'T don't believe it; 1 mean to watch,
ana if it doesn't come true by next Saturday
night, l shall tell that clergyman his false
hood" The man seated next to him said:
Perhaps it will be yourself" 30! no." the
other replied, 81 shall live to be an old man."
That night he breathed his last.
To-day the Savior calls All may come.
stroys anybody. The man jumps off. 1t is
sulcide-soul suicide-if the man perishes,
for the invitation is, "Whosoever will, let
him come. Whosoever, whosoever, whose
eyerI 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 a
man who came in and said: 81 don't know
that there is any God" That was on Friday
night. i said: I'VE will kneel down and find
out whether there is any God" And in the
second seat from the pulpit we lSnelt He
said: II have found Him. There is a God, a
pardonfng God. Ifeel Him here" He knelt
in the darkness of sin. He arose two min
utes afterward in the liberty of the gospel;
while another sitting under the gallery on
Friday night said: MY opportunity is gone;
last week might have been say ed, 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 Taber-
nacle, saying: 81 am a 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" ''It is ap-
pointed unto all men once to die, and after
Judgment"