Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-07-10

Oh, 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
tan 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 pro-
claim emancipation this morning To all who
ara bound, pardon for all sin, and eternal
life for all the dead
Some one comes here this morning, and l
stand aside. He comes up these steps He
comes to this place: 1 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 |
say, "Art Thou wearyfn YES" He says
weary with the worlds woe" say.
"Whence comest Thour He says, 'T come
from Calvary" | say, who comes with
the winepress aloneF say, why comest
Thou hereY' oh" He says, II came here to
carr, all the sins and sorrows of the people,
And He kneels and He says: Put on My
shoulders all the sorrows and all the sinsh
And, conscious Of my own sins first, / take
them and put them on the shoulders of the
Son of God. say: "Canst Thou bear any
LnOLet " CnFlstE Ile says ca, more.
And | gather up the sins of all those who
serve at these affairs, the officers of the
Church of Jesus Christi gather up all their
sins and put them on Christ's shoulders, and
l say: 'Canst Thou bear any more? He
says: " ca more" Then gather up all
the sins of hundred people In this house.
and put them on the shoulders OF Christ,
and say: "Canst Thou bear moreY he
says: Yea, more" And l gather up all
the sins of this assembly, and put them on
the shoulders Of the Son OF God and say;
"Canst Thou bear them?' "Yea,n He says,
more"
But He is departing. Clear tho way for
Him, the Son Of God. Open the door and
let Him pass out. He is carrying our sins
aud bearing them away. We shall never
see them again. He throws them down into
the abysm, and you hear the long reverber-
ating echo OF their fall ION Him the
Lord hath laid the iniquity of us an.n VIII
you let Him take away your sins to-dayf
Or do you say, ~ will take charge of them
myself; will fight my own battles: I will
risk eternity on my own account" 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, II don't believe 1t. l
mean to watch, and IL it doesn't come true
by next Saturday night | shalt tell that
clergyman his falsehood." The man seated
next to him said, Perhaps it will be your.
SELF" 'Oh, no" the other replied; II shall
live to be an old man" That night he
breathei his last
To-day the Saviour calls All may come.
God never pushes a man off. God never de-
stroys anybody. The man jumps of 1t Is
suicide-soul suicide-if the man perishes,
for the invitation is, "Whosoever viii, let
him come" Whosoever, whosoever whose
ever In this day of merciful visitation.
while many are coming into the kingdom
of God, join the procession heayenward-
Seated among US during a service was
man who came in and said, Il don't know
that there is any God" That was on Fri
day night. said 1--WE will kneel down
and find out whether there is any God"
And in the second seat from the pulpit we
knelt. He said: II have found Him.
There is God pardouing Got. feel Him
here" He knelt In the darkness of sin. He
arose two minutes afterward in the liberty
of the Gospel while another sitting under
the gallery on Friday night said, MY op-
portunity is gone; last week might have
been saved, not now; the door ia shut"
And another from the very midst OF the
meeting, during the week, rushed out OF the
front door of the Tabernacle saying, II am
a lost man." "Behold the Lamb OF God
who taketh away the sin OF tue world"
Now is the accepted time. Now is the day
of salvation" 1T is appointed unto all
men once to die and after that-the iu lg-
ment"