The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-02-04

due, have you nobody bat the landlord
to talk to? When the -four has gone out
Of the barrel, and you have not ten cents
with which to go to the bakery, and
your children are tugging at your dress
for something to eat, have you nothing
but The worlds charities to appeal to?
When winter comes, and there are no
Goals, and the ash-barrels have no
more cinders, who takes care of you?
Have you nobody but the overseer OF
the poor? But preach to you OF q
poor mans Christ II you do not have
In the winter blankets enough to cover
you in the night, want to tell you OF
Him who had not where TO lay His
head. II you lie on the bare floor,
want to tell you of Him who had for a
pillow q hard cross, aud whose foot
bath was the streaming blood of His
own heart. o you poor man! o you
poor woman Jesus understands your
case altogether. Talk it right out to
Him tonight. Get down on your
floor and say; Lord Jesus Christ,
Thou vast poor and am poor Help
me. Thou art rich now and bring me
up to thy richesp DO you think God
would cast you off? win he? You might
as well think that a mother would talte
the child that feeds on her breast and
dash its life out as to think that God
would put aside roughly those who have
fed to Him for pity and compassion.
Yea, the prophet says: "a woman may
forget her sucking child, that she should
not have compassion on the son OF her
womb, but will not forget thee"
II you have ever been on the sea. you
have been surprised in the first voyage
to find there are so few sails in sight
Sometimes you go along two. three,
four, five, six and seven days and do
not see single sail; but when vessel
does come in sight, the sea glasses are
lifted TO the eye, the vessel is watched,
and il it come very near, then the
captain, through the trumpet, cries
loudly across the water: "Whithcr
bound?" So you and / meet on this
sea Of life. We come and we go. Some
of us have never met before. Some of
us will never meet again. But l hail
you across the sea, and with reference
to the last great day, and with refer
ence TO the two great worlds, cry
across the water: "Whither boundf
Whittier bound?" know what service
! that craft was made for, but hast
thou thr wn overheard the compassi
Is there no helm to guide it? Is the
ship at the mercy OF the temp
est? Is there no gun of distress
booming through the storm? With price
less treasures-with treasures aboard
worth more than all the Indias-wil
thou never come up out of the strength
of that sea? o, Lord God, lay hold o.
that man! Son of God, II Thou wer
ever needed anywhere, Thou art needed
here. There are so many sins to b'
pardoned. There are so many wounds Il
be healed. There are so many souls Il
be saved. Help, Jesus! Help, Holy
Ghost! Help, ministerirS angels from
the throne! Help, all sweet memories
of the past! Help, all prayers for ou
future deliverance o, that now, il
this the accepted time and the day o
salvation, you would hear the voice o
mercy and live. Tastt and SCI
that the Lord is gracious. In this clos
ing moment Of the service, when ever.
thing in the house is so favorable, whei
oyery thing is 50 still, when God iss
loving, and Heaven is sc near, dro
your sins and take Jesus. Do otchea
yourself out OF Heaven. no not do that
God forbid that at the last, when II
too late to correct the mistake, voic
should rise from the pillow, or drol
from the throne, uttering just fou
words-four sad, annihilating words
'One thinu thou lackest."