Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-29


/ sobbed Que my slhB and MY Sorrows 81 tht
shoulders of him of whom it is said, the
Lord hath laid on him the iniquity OF us
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There is young man who would say;
II had a Christian bringing up; came
from the country TO city life; started
well; had good position, a good com
mercial position, but one night at the the
alter | 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 / was shabby
and wretched. | was going down the
! street, thinking that no one cared Tor me,
when young man tapped me on the
shoulder and said, George, come with me
and will do you good looked ut him
to see whether he was joking or not saw
he was in earnest and / said, What do you
mean, sirP Well he replied, Il mean il
you will come to the meeting tonight will
be very glad to introduce you. will meet
you at the door Will you Gomez Said |,
Il will
II went to the place where was tarry-
ing. l fixed myself up as well as could.
buttoned my coat over a ragged vest and
went to the door of the church, and the
as l went in heard an old man praying,
and he looked so much like my 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, my brother, without stopping to look
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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, Christian 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 proclaim emancipation this
morning to all who are 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 | 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 wearyS" eyes, he says,
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whence contest thou" He says, 81 come
from Calvary" | say, "Who comes with
thee?" He says, "No one; have trodden
the winepress alone" say, "Why contest
thou hereS" "Oh," he says, 81 came here
to carry all the sins and sorrows of the
people,"
And he knees and he says, "Put on my
shoulders all the sorrows and all the sins"
Of my 81 inc | fol
them and put them on the shoulders of the
Son of God say, "Canst thou bear any
more, o Christ" He says, "Yea, 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 shout
ders, and | say, "Canst thou bear any
more?" He says, "Yea, more" Then |
gather up all the sins of hundred people
in this house, and put them on the Shout
ders of Christ, and say, "Canst thou bear
morew He says, yea, more" And |
gather up all the sins of this assembly, and
| put them on the shoulders of the Son of
God and 1 say, "Canst thou bear themP"
YEA" he says, "morew
HE HATH BORNE OUR TRANSGREsSIoNs.
But he is departing Clear the way for
let him pass out. He is carrying our sins
and bearing them away. We shall never
see them again. He throws them down
into the abysm, and you hear the long re
verberating echo of their fall. "On him
the Lord hath laid the iniquity of us all "
Will you let him take away your sins to
day2 Or do you say, 81 will take charge
Of them myself; | will fight my own bat
ties; | will risk eternity on my own &C
countW A clergyman said in his pulpit
one Sabbath, "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 it.
mean to watch, and if it doesn't come true
by next Saturday night | shall tell that
clergyman his falsehood" The man seated
next to him said perhaps it will be your
self" ooh, no." the other replied; 81
shall live to be an old man." That night
he breathed his last.
Today the Saviour calls. All may come.
God never pushes a man off. God never
destroys anybody. The man jumps off. 1t
Ii suicide-soul suicide-if the man per
ishes for the invitation is, "Whosoever
will, let him come" Whosoever whose.
ever, whosoeverl In this day of merciful
visitation, while many are coming into
the kingdom of God, join the procession
heavenward.
Seated among us during n service was
man who came in and said, 81 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; 81 have found him. There
is God, n pardoning God. | feel him
here" He knelt in the darkness of sin,
He arose two minutes afterward in the lib
erty of the Gospel; while another sitting
under the gallery on Friday night said
MY opportunity is gone; last week !
might have been saved, not now; the door
is 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
the world" "Now is the accepted time.
Now is the day Of salvation" at " APP
pointed unto all men once to die, and after
that-the Judgment"
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