The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-05-14

TO this. Yes, be has been waiting. He
is waiting now. Other kings wrap
themselves in robes of beauty and n
power before they come into q banquet
So does Christ. Oh, he is the fairest
OF the fairl In his hand is the omnipo-
tent surgery that opened blind eyes,
and Strengthened crooked limbs, and :,
hoisted the pillars of heaven, and swung r
the twelve gates which are twelve
pearls. Oh, what Christ-a Christ OF !.
beauty, Christ of powerl \
There are not enough cups on earth 1
to dip up this ocean of beauty. There i
az not ladders to scale those heights OF
lore. Oh, thou flower of eternity, tiny +
breath is the perfume of Ieaven. oh, 1
thou daybreak of the soul, let all ma
ii ms clap their hands in thy radiance.
G .5orus! Come men and angels and
ci.arubim and seraphim and archangel,
| all heights. all depths, all immensities
| Chorus! Roll on through the heavens
in chariot of universal acclaim, over
bridges of hosanna, under arches OF
| coronation, by the towers Ginning
with eternal jubilee. Chorusl Unto
| him that loved us and washed us from
our sins in his own blood, and made us
kings and priests unto God, to him be
glory
Ah! there is one word of five letters
that would like to write, but l have |
no sheet fair enough to write it on, |
and no pencil good enough to inscribe
it. Give me a sheet from the heavenly
records, and some pencil used by angel
in describing a victory, and then with
hand struck with supernatural energy,
and with pencil dipped in everlasting
| morning, will write it out In capitals
of love, JESUS Jesus! 1t is this
one that is waiting for you and for me,
for we are on the same platform before
God
How long he waited for me! How
long he has waited for you'll Waiting
, as a banqueter waits for his delayed
guests, the meats smoking, and the
beakers brimming, and the minstrel
, with his finger on the stiff string ready
/ | TO strike at the first clash of the hoofs
r at the gateway. Waiting as mother
q | waits for a boy that ten years ago went
/ off dragging her bleeding heart after
g him. Waiting Oh, can you not give
t me some comparison intense enough,
e importunate enough, high as heaven,
b | deem as hell and vast as eternity? Not
e expecting that you can help me with
It such a comparison, simply say he Is
# | waiting as only an all sympathetlc
n | ebr;st knows how to wait for g wan.
y | deripg soul.
n = Dow TIC &IIso ,.id kiss the Scn,
n Come and welcome. sinner, come.
# COME AND WELCOME.
n But remark again, not only is Chris
waiting, but the Holy Spirit is waiting
,e | whv are some sermons q dead failure
t. WHY are there songs that do not ge
ID | their wing under the peoplea Why ar
pit | there players that go no higher up thal
at | a hunters halloo2 Because there is
IN missing link that only the Holy Spiri
VI can make. If that Spirit should com
lie through this assemblage this mornin
I'd there would be power felt like tina
nd ! when Saul was unhorsed on the roa
de to Damascus. like as when Lydia
DIS heart was broken in her fine store, lie
nd | as when three thousand souls were LII
Ter ed out of midnight into midnoon at III
,es | Pentecost. Did you notice that som
ng times that Spirit takes an lnslgn1caI
of agency to save a soul2 think 1t
he very often that at just one passage
lat | Scripture. Just one word of Scriptur
sey a soul is saved because the Holy Spii
o;vas IL s,1Dernatural power.
Do YOU know what it was that save
), L Martin L,utherl 1t was that one vers
Mt 'srhe just shall live by faith" Do y
er, | know what it was that brought Angus
all inc from his horrible dissipationss
Ais | was that one verse, Put ye on the Lo
md Jesus Christ, and make no provlsl
un- for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof
zee, | Do YOU know what it was that say
sic, | Hedley Wears, the celebrated soldlt
ID I 1t was the one passage, Believe In
nth Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt
oh, saved" Do you know what it
the that brought Jonathan Edwards
and Christi 1t was the one passage, N
ing unto him be glory forever and ever.
are One Thanksgiving morning in chul
II read my text, 20 give thanks III
dis the Lord, for he is good" and yor
vine | man stood in the gallery and said
,een himself: 81 have never rendered
led, acceptable offering of gratitude to {
ting in all my life. Here, Lord, 1 am tn
find forever" By that one passage
,pen Scripture he was brought into
and kingdom, and if I.might tell my G
experience, might tell how one {
d in bath afternoon l was brought to
[esus neace of the gospel by reading OF
did Syro- -Phanician's cry to Christ, WI
un- she said, Even the dogs eat OF
and crumbs which fall from the Aas'
rred, table" Philosophic sermons NJ
him, saved anybody. Metaphysical serIr
ban never saved anybody. An earnest
les in going right out of the heart biesse'
y, he the HOLY Ghost, that is what sa
iting that is what brings people into
dting kingdom of Christ
hand I suppose the world thought
with Thomas Chalmers preached great
iting, mons in his early ministry, but Tho
Chalmers says he never preached
r did until wears after he had occupied a
door mir he came out of his sick room,
10, he weak and emaciated he stood
is in told the story of Christ to the Pc
,ather And in the great day of eterm'
cheek will he found that not so'much the
chan onent sermons brought men To
j and as the story told, perhaps, by those
q. I we're unknown on earth, the 81
from story of the Saviour's love and IN
er and sent by the power of the Holy {
toone STRAIGHT to the heart Come.
,sthat Ghost. Az. he is here this NOR
r into He fills all the place. tell 20
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