Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-07


/ advise, also, that You be busy in Chris
tian work How many Sabb,ths in the
yearP Fifty-two. If the text be true Of
you 1t does not say at what time you may
CO. and therefore it is unsafe to count on
all of the fiftyt Sundays AS you are
as likely to 20 in the first half of the year
as in the last half think we had better
divide the fifty-two into halves and calcu-
late only twenty-siX Sabbaths. Come,
Christian men, Christian women, what can
you do in twenty-six Sabbaths? Divide the
three hundred and sixty-fve days into two
parts what can you do In one hundred and
eighty-two days? What, by the way of saw
ing your family, the church and the world?
You " i'll not, through all the ages of eter-
nifty in heaven, get over the dishonor and
the outrage of going into glory, and having
helped none mp to the same .place. 1t will
be found that many ~Dbath school
teacher has taken into heaven her whole
class. that Daniel Baker, the evangelist
took thousands into heaven; that bod
bridge has taken in hundreds of thousands;
that Paul took in hundred millions. How
many will you take in? IL you get into
heaven and find none there that you sent
and that there are none to COM through
your instrumentality, beg of you to crawl
under some seat in the back corner and
never come out lest the redeemed get their
eyes on you and some one cry out, THAT is
the man who never lifted hand or voice for
the redemption of his fellows. Look at
him, all heaven" Better be busy. Better
put the pillow in deep. Better say what
you have to say quickly. Better cry the
alarm. Better fall on your knees. Better
lay hold with both hands. What you now
leave undone for Christ will forever be
updona "TbiS vaar hon shalt 1iaW
GET READY.
In view of the probabilities mentioned,
advise all the men and women not ready
for eternity to get ready. If the text be
true you have no time to talk about nom
essentials, asking why God let sin come
into the world; or whether the book Of
Jonah is inspired; or who Melchisedec was;
or what about the eternal DEGREES. If you
are as near eternity as some of you seem to
be, there is no time for anything but the
! question, what must do to he savedt"
The drowning man, when plank is thrown
him, stops not to ask what sawmill made
| it, or whether it is OAK or cedar, or who
| threw it. The moment it is thrown, he
clutches it. If'thissYear you are to die
there is no time for anything but immedi-
ately laying hold on God 1t is high time
to get out of your sins. You say, Il have
!
are you not aware that your life has been
! sinful? The snow comes down on the Alps
| flake by flake, and it is so light that you
may hold it on the tip of your finger with
/ out feeling any weight; but the flakes
| gather; they compact, until some day Il
| travellers foot starts the slide, and it goes
down in an avalanche, crushing to death
the villagers So the sins of your youth,
and the sins of your manhood, and the sins
of your womanhood may have seemed only
| slight inaccuracies or tri1ing divcrgences
| from the rght-so slight that they are
hardly worth mentioning, but they have
been piling up and piling up, packing to-
! gether and packing together, until they
make Il mountain of sin, and one more step
/ of your foot in the wrong direction may
| slide down upon you an avalanche of ruin
| and condemnation.
a man crossing desolate and lonely
plateau a hungry wolf took after him. He
| brought his gun to his shoulder and took
aim, and the wolf howled with pain and
| the cry woke up a pack of wolves, and they
came ravening ont of the forest from all
sides and horribly devoured him. Thou
art the man. some one sin of your life
summoning on all the rest, they surround
thy soul and make the night of thy sin ter
rible with the assault of their bloody muz-
zles, Oh, the unpardoned, clamoring raw.
ening, all devouring sins of thy lifetimc
A maniac was found pacing along the
road with Il torch in one hand and pail of
water in the other, and some one asked
him what he meant to do with them. He
answered, with this torch mean to burn
down heaven, and with this water | mean
to put out the fires Of hell" He was a
maniac, He could do the one thing just as
well as he could do the other. No time to
lose if you want to escape your sins for
This year thou shalt die"
Let me announce that Christ, the Lord,
stands ready to save any man who wants
to be saved. He waited for You all last
year, and all the year before, and all your
life. He has waited for You with blood on
his brow and tears in hiseye, and two out
stretched, mangled hands of love
You come home some night and find the
mark of muddy feet on your front steps.
You hasten III and find an excited group
around your child. He fell into pond,
and had it not been for brave lad who
plunged in and brought him out and car
ried him home to be resuscitated you
would have been chiidless. You feel that
you cannot do enough for the rescuer.
You throw your arms around him. You
! offer him any compensation. You say to
|
yours. Will never cease to DO grateful"
But my Lord Jesus sees your soul sinking
and attempts to bring it ashore, and you
not only refuse him thanks, but stand on
the beach and say: Drop that SOUL If |
want it saved, will save it myself"
wish you might know what job Jesus
undertook when he carried your case to
Calvary. They crowded him to the wall.
They struck him. They spat on him. They
kicked him. They cuffed him. They scoffed
at him. They scourged him. They muir
dered him Blood blood AS he Stops
down to lift you up the crimson drops upon
you from his brow from his side, from his
hands Do you not feel the warm current
on your face' Oh, for thee the hunger, the
thirst, the thorn sting, the suffocation, the
darkness, the groan, tho sweat, the
struggle, the DEATH
A great plague came in Marseiles The
doctors held Il consultation and decided
that corpse must be dissected or they
would never know how to stop the plague.
a DR.. Guyon said, Tomorrow morning
will proceed to dissection" He made his