The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-07-02


you say, 1T is only a man" Can q
nature like that be fed Ola husks of tht
wilderness?
Substantial comfort will not grow
On natures barren soil:
All We can bcast till Christ We know
Is vanity and toll
Some of you got astray by looking
for better pasturage; others by being
scared of the dogs. The hound get
over into the pasture field The poor
things fly in every direction. In n few
moments they are torn of the hedges
and they are FLASHED of the ditch, and
the lost sheep never gets home unless
the farmer goes after it. There d
nothing so thoroughly lost as a los,
sheep. 1t may have been in 1857. dur
ing the financial panic, or during the
financial stress in the fall of 1873,
when you got astray You almost be
came an atheist. You said, "Where
is God, that honest men go down and
thieves prosperT You were logged OF
creditors, you were logged of the
banks, you were logged of worldly dis
aster, and some Of you went into mis-.
anthropy, and some of you took to
strong drink, and others of you fed out
OF Christian association, and you got
astray. o man, that was the last
time when you ought to have forsaken
God.
Standing amid the laundering 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. youl
You tell me you have been through
enough business trouble almost to kill
you. know it. cannot 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
Sinai's batteries have been unlimbered
above your soul and at times you have
heard it thunder, 1.-The wages of sin il
death" 'All have sinned and come
short of the glory Of God" 'By one
man sin entered into the world, and
death by sin; and so death passed upoE
all men, for that all have sinned.
The soul that sinneth. it shall die"
When Sebastopol was being bonn
barded two Russian frigates burned al
night in the harbor, throwing a glare
upon the trembling fortress; and somf
of you are standing in the night Of
your souls trouble. The cannonade
and the confiagration, the multiplied
ton of your sorrows aud troubles,
think, must make the wings of Code
lowering angels shiver to the tip.
''THR INIQUTTY OF Us ALL"
But the last part of my text opens @
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 let the earth tell it to the heavens
1.-THE Lord hath laid on him the iniduity
of us ALL" am glad that the prophe,
did not stop to explain whom he meant
by chin" Him of the manager, him Oh
the bloody sweat, him of the resurreo
ton throne, him of the crucifixior
agony. ION him the Lord hath laid
the iniquity of us all" .t.l
"Oh," says some man, ''that is not
generous, that is not fair; let every mar
carry his own burden and pay his owr
debts" That sounds reasonable. If
have an obligation and 1 have tn,
means to meet it, and l come to yor
and ask you to settle that obligation
you rightly say, Pay your own debts.
If you and 1 walking down the street
both hale, hearty and well, I ask 20,
to carry me, you say, and say rightly
Walk on your feetp But suppose
I you and l were in a regiment, and
was wounded in the battle, and fel
unconscious at your feet with gunsho
fractures and dislocations, what would
you doe You would call to your com
rades saying, Come and help, thi
man is helpless; bring the ambulance
let US take him to the hospital" and
would be a dead lift in your arms, ant
you would. lift Inc from the groun<
where had fallen and put me in tn
ambulance and take me to the hospita
and have all kindness shown me
Would there be anything mean in you
doing that? Would there be anythins
bemeaning in my accepting that kind
ness? Oh, no! You would be mea,
not to do it. That Is what Christ does
If we could pay our debts then
would be better to go up and pa,
them, saying, Here, Lord, here is M
obligation; here are means with whiel
mean to settle that obligation; nov
give me receipt; cross it all out.
The debt is paid. But the fact is "
have fallen in the battle, we have gon
down under the hot fire of our trans
gressions, We have been wounded b
the sabers of sin, We are helpless, W
are undone. Christ comes. The lou,
clang 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 Q
God
Christ comes down to us, and we az
a dead lift. He does not lift us wit
The tips of his fingers. He does not ID
US with one arm He comes dow
upon his knee, and then with dea
lift he raises us to honor and glory an,
Immortality. THE Lord hath laid O
him the iniquity of us ALL Why
then, will no man carry his sins2 70
cannot carry successfully the smailes
SIN you ever committed. You rnfCf,
as Wen put the Appearances ON one MOS
) DEL. and the Alps on the, other-ho,
much less can you carry all the sins g
your lifetime. Christ comes and. look
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