Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-02

cannot understand how the boat could
live one hour in that chopped sea- But
| do not 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 morning, your soul would burst into
an agony of tears and you would pelt
the heavens with the cry, "God have
mercy!'' Sinais batteries have been I'M
limbered above your soul, and at
times - you have heard it thunder.
''The wages of sin is death. ''All
have sinned and come short of the glory
of Cod ''BY one man sin entered into
the world, and death by 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 glare
upon the trembling fortress, and some of
you are standing in the night of your
SOULS trouble. The cannonade and the
confagration, the multiplication of your
sorrows and troubles think must make
the wings of Gods lowering angels
SILVER to the tip.
But the last part of my text opens a
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. 1.-THE lord hath
laid on him the iniquity of US ALL" | am
glad that the prophet did not stop to ex-
plain whom he meant by ''him.' Him
of the manger, him of the bloody sweet,
him Of the resurrection throne, him OF
the cruCitiXiOn agony son 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 |
have an obligation and | have the means
to meet it, and | come to you and ask
you to settle that obligation, yon rightly
say, ''Pay your own debts" If you and
l walking down the street, both hale,
hearty and well, ask you to carry me,
you say, and say rightly, 'Walk on your
own foct!' But suppose you and | were
in regiment and | was wounded in the
battle and | fell unconscious at your
feet with gunshot fractures and diSloca
tons, what would you do? You would
call to your comrades saying, "Come and
help, this man is helpleas; bring the am
bulance; let us take him to the hospital"
and | would be a 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 bemeaning in my &C
Cepting that kindness? Oh, no. 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 the means with which | mean to
settle that obligation; now give me d re-
ceipt; 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 transgreSsions. 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 Christmas night was only the
bell the resounding bell, of the ambu
lance. 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.
Wonder is a woman who would say: 81
wandered off from my fathers house; |
heard the storm that pelts on a 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 and He said: Poor thing, go
home! your father is waiting for you.
Go home, poor thing" And, sir, | was
too weak to pray, and | was too weak to
repent, but just cried out; / Sobbed out
my sins and my sorrows on the shoulders
of Him of whom it is said, the Lord
hath laid on him the iniquity of us ALL"
There is Il young man who would say:
81 had a Christian bringing up; | came
from the country to city life; l started
we'll; l had a good position, but one night
at the theater | met some young men
who did me no good. They dragged me
all through the sewers of iniquity, and
lost my morals and / lost my position,
and l was shabby and wretched. | was
going down the street thinking that no
one cared for me, when a young man
tapped me on the shoulder and said,
George, come with me and | will do you
good | looked at him to see whether
he was joking or not. / saw he was in
earnest and said, What do you mean,
STRIP Well, he replied, 4 mean if you
will come to the meeting tonight | will
be very glad to introduce you l will
meet you at the door. Will you Gomez.
Said |, i will
II went to the place where / was tar
rying. | fixed myself up as we'll as
could. l buttoned my coat over ragged
vest and went to the door of the church,
and the young man met me and we went
in; and as | went in l heard an old man
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father | sobbed right OUT and they were
all around so kind and sympathetic that
just gave my heart to God, and | know
this morning that what you say is true;
/ believe it in my own experience. ON
him the Lord hath laid the iniquity of
us all"
OH NY brother without StOpping to