Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-05-14

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struck with supernatural energy, ana
with pencil dipped in everlasting morn
ing, | will write it out in capitals OF lQVe'
JESUS Jesus! 1t is this One that IS
waiting for you and for me, Tor we are
on the same platform before God. how
long He waited for me! How long lie
has waited for you! Waiting as BAN
oueter waits for his delayed guests, the
meats smoking, and the beakerS orlm-
ming, and the minstrel with his llnger on
stiff string ready to strike at the hrst
clash of the hoofs at the gateway. Walt
ing as mother waits for boy that ten
years ago went off dragging her bleed
ing heart after him. Waiting. ON, can
YOU not give me some comparison intense
enough, importunate enough, hlgh as
Heaven, deep as hell, aud vast as eter-
nifty? 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 u
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 a dead failure?
Why are there songs that do not get
their wing under the people? Why are
there players that go no higher up than
a 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 q power felt like that
when Saul was endorsed on the road to
Damascus, like as when Lydia's 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 q
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,
"Thc 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
was the one passage, "BelleVe 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, ''Oh, give thanks unto the
Lord. for He is good" and u young man
stood in the gallery and said to himself:
II have never rendered one acceptable
offering of gratitude to God in all my
life. Here, Lord / am thine forever
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 | was
brought to the peace of the gospel by
reading of the Syro-Phnnician's cry to
Christ where she said: Even the dogs
eat Of the crumbs that fall from the
masters table" PhiIosoDhic sermons
never saved anybody. Metaphysical SER
mons never saved anybody. An earnest
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 that
Thomas Chalmers preached great SER
mons in his early ministry, but Thomas
Chalmers says he never preached at all
until years after he had occupied a pull
pit he came out of his sick room- and,
weak and emaciated, he stood and told
the story of Christ to the people. And
in the great day of eternity it will be
found that not so much the eloquent
sermons brought men to Christ as the
story told perhaps by those unknown on
earth, the simple story of the SavioUr's
love and mercy, sent by the power OF
the Holy Ghost straight to the heart.
Come Holy Ghost. Ay, He is hero this
morning. He fills all the place. tell
you the Holy Ghost is ready.
Then go on and tell You the church
is ready There are those here who say,
''No one cares for my soul" We do
care for it. You see a man bowling his
head in prayer, and you say, THAT man
is Indifferent" That man bows his head
in prayer that the truth may go to every
heart The air is full of prayers. They
are going up this morning from this as
Sembly- Hundreds of prayers straight
to the throne Of listening God. The
air is full of prayers-prayerS ascending
noon by noon from Fulton street prayer
meeting, Friday night by Friday night
all over this land, going up from praying
circles. Yea, there is not minute of an
hour of amy day that there are not sup
plications ascending to the throne of
mercy. The church is ready. And if
you should this morning start for Your
Fathers house there would be hundreds
and thousands in this assemblage who
would say If they knew it, make room
for that man, make room for him at the
holy sacrament; bring the silver bowl
for his baptism, give him full right to all
the privileges of the church of Jesus
Christ
Oh. know there are those who say
the church is mass of hypocriteS, but
they do not really think So 1t is a
glorious church. Christ purchased it,
Christ built it. Christ swung all its
rates Christ cnrtained it with nphOlSt-