News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-07-02

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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
above your soul and at times you have
heard it thunder, 1.-THE wages of sin is
death" "All have sinned and come
short of the glory of God" ''By one
man sin entered into the world, and
death by sin; and SO death passed upon
all men, for that all have sinned. J"
''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 cannonade
and the confagration, the multiplica-
ton of your sorrows and troubles,
think, must make the wings of Gods
lowering angels SILVER to the tip.
THE INIQUITY OF Us ALL
But the last part of my text opens a
door wide enough to let us all out and
to let all heaven in. Sound it on the
organ with all the stops out. Thrum
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 iniquity
of us all" am glad that the prophet
did not stop to explain whom he meant
by chin" Him of the manager, him of
the bloody sweat, him of the resurrec-
ton throne, him of the crucifixion
agony. ION him the Lord hath laid
the iniquity of US all.
"Oh," says some man, that is not
generous, that is not fair; let every man
carry his own burden and pay his own
debts" That sounds reasonable. If l
have an obligation and | have the
means to meet it, and | come to you
and ask you to settle that obligation
you rightly say, PAY your own debts. "
If you and walking down the street,
both hale, hearty and well, ask you
to carry me, you say, and say rightly,
''Walk on your feetr' But suppose
you and l were in a regiment, and /
was wounded in the battle, and | fell
unconscious at your feet with gunshot
fractures and dislocations, what would
you do? You would call to your COM
rades saying, ''Come and help, this
man is helpless; bring the ambulance;
let US take him to the hospital" and !
would be dead lift in your arms, and
you would lift me from the ground
where had fallen and put me in the
ambulance and take me to the hospital
and have all kindness shown me-
Would there be anything mean in your
doing that? Would there be anything
bemeaning in my accepting that kind
ness9 Oh, mol You would be mean
not to do it. That is what Christ does.
If we could pay our debts then it
would be better to go up and pay
them, saying, Here, Lord, here is my
obligation; here are means with which |
| mean to settle that obligation; now
give me a receipt; cross it all out"
The debt is paid. But the fact is we |
have fallen in the battle, we have gone |
down under the hot fire of our trans |
gressions, we have been wounded by |
the sabers of sin, we are helpless, we
are undone. Christ comes. The loud /
clang heard in the sky on that Christ
mas night was only the bell, the re-
bell, of the ambulance. Clear
the way for the Son of God. He comes
down to bind up the wounds, and to
scatter the darkness, and to save the
lost Clear the way for the Son of |
God.
Christ comes down to us, and we are
a dead lift. He does not lift us with |
the tips of his fingers. He does not lift |
us with one arm. He comes down
upon his knee. and then with a dead
lift he raises us to honor and glory and |
1.-THE Lord hath laid on
him the iniquity of us ALL Why, |
then, will no man carry his sins? You
cannot carry successfully the smallest
sin you ever committed. You might
IS well put the Apennines on one shout
Ter and the Alps on the other-how
much less can you carry all the sins of
your lifetime. Christ comes and looks
Town in your face and says: 81 have
come through all the decorations of
hese days, and through all the tenn
pests of these nights. have come to
bear your burdens and to pardon your
ins and to pay your debts. Put them
IN my shoulder. Put them on my
leart." ''On him the Lord hath laid
he iniuuity of us ALL :"
FROM GODS LAW THERE IS NO ESCAPE.
Sin has almost pestered the life out
If some of you. At times it has made
you cross and unreasonable, and it has
spoiled the brightness of your days and
he peace of your nights. There are
men who have been riddled of sin. The
world gives them no solace. Gossamer
md volatile the world, while eternity,
IS they look forward to it, is black as
midnight. They writhe under the stings
If conscience which proposes to give
40 rest here and no rest hereafter; and
yet they do not repent, they do not
pray, they do not weep. They do not
realize that just the position they oc-
,upy is the position occupied by scores,
hundreds and thousands of men who
never found any hope.
If this meeting should be thrown
open and the people who are here could
give their testimony, what thrilling ex-
periences we should hear on all sides
There is man in the gallery who would
say: 81 had brilliant surroundings, |
had the best education that one of the
best collegiate institutions of this coun-
try could give, and | observed all the
moralities of life, and was self right
eous, and thought was all right be-
fore God as | am all right before men;
but the Holy Spirit came to me one
day and said, You are a sinner the
Holy Spirit persuaded me of the fact.
While had escaped the sins against
the law of the land, | had really com
mitted the worst sin man ever com
driving back of the Son of
God from my hearts affections. And
saw that my hands were red with the
blood of the Son of God, and | began
to pray, and peace came to my heart,
and know by experience that what
you say this morning is true 'On him
the Lord hath laid the iniquity of us
ALL. >"
Yonder is man who would say: 81
was the worst drunkard in New York;
went from bad to worse; l destroyed
myself, | destroyed my home; my chill
1ren covered when entered the house;
when they put up their lips to be kissed
struck them; when my wife protested
against the maltreatment l kicked her
INTO the street. | know all the bruises