The Bossier banner., 1891-09-03

said: ''Where is God, that honest men
go down and thieves prosper?" You were
dogged of creditors, you were dogged of
the banks, you were dogged of worldly
disaster, and some of you went
into misanthropy, and some of you
took to strong drink, and others of you
fed out of Christian association, and
you got astray. o! man, thai was the
last time when you ought to have for
saken God. Standing amid the found
ering of your earthly fortunes, how
could you get along without a God to
comfort you, and God to deliver you,
and God to help you, and a. God TO
save you? You tell me you have been
through enough businass trouble al
most to kill you. / know it. ! can not
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 mercyp' Sinais batteries
have been unlim bered above your soul
and at times have heard it thunder:
''The wages of sin is death" 'Au
have sinned and come short of the glory
of Gcd." By one man sin entered into
the world, and death by sin; and SO
death passed upon all naen, for that all
have sinned." 1.-The soul that sinneth,
| it shall die"
When Sebastopol was.being lombard
ed two Russian frigates burned all
night in the harbor, throwing a 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 l think must make
the wings of Gods lowering angels
shiver to the tip.
But the last part of my text opens a
door wide enough to let us all out and
to 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 lei
the earth tell it to the heavens. ''The
Lord hath laid on him the iniquity
of us ALL" am glad that the prophet
did not stop to explain whom he meant
by Him" Him of the manger Him
of the bloody sweat, Him of the resur
rection throne, Him of the crucifxior
agony. "On Him the Lord hath laid
the iniquity of us all"
''Ohp' says some man, that is not
generous that is not fair; let every mar
carry his own burden and pay his own
debts" That sc unds reasonable. If
have an obligation and have the mean:
to meet it, and l come to you and ask
you to settle that obligation, you right
ly say: "Pay your own debts" If yor
and walking down the street, botf
hale, hearty and well, ask you tC
carry me, you say and say rightly
"Walk on your own feet!" But sup
pose you and were in a regiment anC
l was wounded in battle, and l fel
unconscious at your feet with gunsho
fractures and dislocations, what would
you do? You would call to your com
rades, saying: Come and help; this MAJ
is helpless; bring the ambulance; let IL
take him to the hospital" and would b,
a dead lift in your arms, and you woulc
lift me from the ground where hat
fallen and put me in the ambulance ant
take me to the hospital and have al
kindness shown me. Would there b,
anything mean in your doing that
Would there be anything bemeanin,
in my accepting that l1indr ess? o! no
You would be mean not to do it. Tha
is what Christ does. If we could pa
our debts then it wonld be better to g,
up and pay them, saying: "IIere, Lord
here is my obligations; here are tn
means with which mean to settle tha
obligation; now give me receipt; eros
it all out" The debt is paid. But tn
fact is, we have fallen in the battle; w
have gone down under the hot fire O
our transgressions; we have beel
wounded by the sabers of sin, w
are helpless, we are undone.
Christ comes. The loud clan!
heard in the sky on that Christ
mas night was only the bell, the re
sounding bell of the ambulance. Clea
the way for the Son of God. He come
down to bind up the wounds, and t.
scatter the darkness, and to save tn
lost. Clear the way for the Son of God
Christ comes down to us, and we are
dead lift, He does not lift us with tn
tips of His fingers. He does not lift IL
with one arm. He comes down upol
His knee, and then with dead lift n,
raises us to honor and glory and I'm
mortality. ",rhe Lord hath laid Of
Him the iniquity of us ALL" Why
then, will no man carry hi
sins? You can not carry successful,
the smallest sin you ever committed
You might as well put the Apennine
on one shoulder and the Alps on tn
other-how much less can you carry al
the sins of your lifetime? Christ come
and looks down in your face and saws
81 have come through all the lacei a
tions of these days, and through all tn
tempests of these nights; l have com
to bear your burdens and to par
don your sins and to paw YOU
debts. Put them on my shoulder; pu
them on My heart" ION Him tn
Lord hath laid the iniquity of us all.