Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-01-09

You come home some night and find the
mark Of muddy feet on your front step.
You hasten in and find an excited group
around your child. He fell into pond, and
had 1t not been for brave lad, who plunged
IN and brought him out and carried him
home to be resuscitated, You would have
been childless. You feel that you cannot do
enough for the rescuer You throw your
arms around him. You offer him any com
pensation. You say TO him: Anything
that You want shall be yours. will never
cease to be grateful But my Lord Jssu;
1t ashore, and you not only refuse Him
thanks. but stand on the beach and saw.
drop that soul. Ii 1 want it saved, | viii
save it myself"
wish you might know what Job Jesus
undertook when He Carried your cass to
Calvary. They crowded Him to the wall.
Thsy struck Him. Tnsy spat on Him. They
at Him. They scourged Him. They muir.
dere1 Him. Blood blooi As He stoops
down to lift you up ths 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 tia hunger, the
thirst, the thorn sting, ths sufocatio1, the
struggle, tia death.
A great plague came in Marseilles. The
doctors held consultation an decide that
a corpse must be diSsected or they would
never know how to stop the plague. A Dr.
Guyon said, Tomorrow nlorliny | will
proceed to dissection" He male his will;
prepared for death; went into the hospitals
dissacred bodyi wrote out the results OF the
dissection and died in twelve hours Bsauti-
full self sacrifice You say. Our Lord Jesus
looked out from heaven and saw plague
stricken race. Sin must be dissecte1 He
made His will, giving everything to His pao-
pie. He comes down into the resking hos
pital of earth. He lays His hani to the
work. Under our pa que He dieS-ths
healthy for the sick the pure for the pol
luted, the innocent for the guilty. Behold
the lovel Behold the sacrificed Behold tbs
rescued
Decide on this first Sabbath Of the year
whether or not you will nave Jesus. He
will not stani forever begging for your love.
With some here His plea ends right speedily.
This year thou shalt die"
This great salvation of the Gospel l now
offer to every man, woman and child. YOU
cannot buy it. You cannot earn it, A
Scotch writer says that a poor woman one
cold winters day looked through the win
dow of a kings conservatory and saw
bunc of grapes hanging against the glass.
She said, sob, if | only had that bunch of
grapes for my sick child at homer At her
spinnins wheel she earnst few shillings
and went to buy the grapes. The king
said he had no grapes to sell. She went OF
and sold blanket AMI got some more shil-
lings, and ca ne back AMI triei to buy the
grapes. But the gardener rou ghly assaulted
her aud tod her to be OF. The
kings daughter was walking in the garden
at thu time, AMI she heard ths excitement,
and seeing the poor woman, said to her,
MY father is no6 nercha1t to sell, but hs
is a king an gives Then she reached up
and pluckei the grapes aud dropped taem in
the poor woman's apron. So Christ is a
king, and all the fruits OF His pardon Hs
freely gives. They may not be bought.
Without money an with put price, take this
sweet cluster from the vineyards o. God.
am coming TO the close OF nay s.r.non.
sought for text appropriate for the occa-
sion. | thou ght OF tn SIM one in JOBS MY
days hy as a weaver's snustie;" OF a taxi ID
Psalms. 80 tsa IN US 70 nlmber our days
that we NAV apply gu, hearts unto WIS.,
DON'T of the prayer OF the v.ne dresser:
Lord let it a one this year a'so;' but pressed
upon my attention tirSd of AL, aal last OF all.
and above all were the words: This yeat
thou shalt die
Perhaps it may mean me-, Though in per
feet health now, it Goes not take COD one
week to bring down the stron rest physical
institution. [ do not want to die this year.
We have plans aud projects Oh foot that
want TO see co npletec: bu: Col knows best,
AMI BE has thousand better men than | to
60 the WORK vet uldone | have a hope
that, Notwithstanding ali my sins and
wa1derings l shall. through the iii
finite mercy OF my Saviour. come out at the
right pace. | nave nothing to brag of
by way OF Christian experience; but two
things | have learne3-.ny utter helpleSsness
before Sod and the all Astounding grace OF
the Lord Jesus. l the text means some of
YOU. my hearers l do not want You to be
caught unprepared. ! would like to have
you, either through money You had laid up
or life insurance" be able to leave the
world feeling that your fan My need not be-
come paupers. But if you have done your
best AMI you leave not one dollars worth OF
estate, you may confidently trust the Lord
who nath promised to cara for the widow
and fatheriess. l would like to have your
morning or noon or evening or night OF
these three hundred and sixty-five days,
death should look in AMI ask, Are you
ready| you might, with an outburst of
Christian triumph, answer, Aye, aye! all
ready
know not what our last words may be.
Lord Chesterfield prided himself on MS po-
likeness, and said in his last moment, Give
Dayrolles cdair.n Dr.. Adam, a dying
schoomaster, said. sit grows dark. The
boys may Gismss' Lord Tenterden. sup
posing hi 1lseif on the bench of courtroom,
said in ais last moment, Gentlemen of the
jury YOU will now consider your verdict
A dying play actor said: Drop the curtain.
Tde farce is p aged out" | would rather
have for my dying words thosa OF one greater
than Chesterfield or DR.. Adam or Lord Ten
terdeu. Il am now ready to be offered. and
the time of my departure is at hand. l HAYS
fought a good fight, | have finished my
course. have kept the faith hence ortiz
there is laid up for me crown of righteous
ness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge.
shalt give me-"
The sooner the last hour consS the better
il we are fitted for entrance in the celestial
world. There is no CLOCK in heaven, because
it is an everia sting day; yet they keep an
account OF the passing years, because they
are all the time hearing from our worl1.
The angels flying through heaven report
how many times Ghs earth has turned on its
axis, and IN that way tue angels can keep a
diary; au1 they say it is almost time now
for father to come up, or for mother to come
up. Some day they see a cohort leav.ng
heaven, aui they say, WHITTIER boundy'
and the answer is. 80 bring up soul from
eartb;" aud ths question is askei, What
sou" Aud family circle III heaven find
that it is one OF taer owl number that is to
be brou shJ W. au1 they come out TO watcl,
as on thu beacl we now watch for ship
that is to bring our friends hom'. After a
Will the coiors will heave in sight, flying
! nearer an nearer. Until with a great Gang
1 the gates hoist an with an EN- 0ra-e, witt
with the ecstAcy of heaven, Old fren Is
! meet az ain. Away vita your stiff, for nal
] heavell / want nDls OF it. Give ma u
pace OF infinite AMI eternal sociaiity. Ny
feet freq from the Go is of earth, L shalt
bound the hills with gladuess AMI break forth
! ia a laugh OF triumph. Aha anal We wee
now. hue than we shall laugn. "Abraaam's
bosom means that heaven mas opsn arms to
take US in. Now we fold our arms over our
heart, and tell the world to stand bacs, as
though our bosom was two barred gate tn
| keep the world out. Heaven stands not
| with folded arms, but with nelrt open, Ii
| is tAbraham'S bosom l see mother ami
her child me ting at the foot of the tarona
/ after some years aosenca. Toe chilli died
! twenty years ago but it is a chilli yet
! / think the little ones who die will remain
| children through all eternity. 1t would be
| no heaven without tas Little darin IS | do
! not want those that are in heaven to grow
up. We need their infant voices in the great
/ song. And when we walk out in the fields
/ of light we want them to run ahead and
! clap raeir hands and PICK out the brightest
| of the fed flowers Yes, here is a chIld AMI
/ its mother meeting. The chIl1 long il CORY
the mother just arrived. How change
! Won are, my darling" says the mother.
Yes" says the child, This is such happy
I place, ami Jesus has taken such care of me,
and heaven is so kind. / got rignt over tbs
! fever with which died The skies are So
! far, mother The flowers are SO sweet
moGherl Ths temple is so beautiful
/ mother! Cone, take me up in your arms as
| you used to-" Ga, | do not know how we
shall stand the first day in heaven. Do YOU
| not think We will break down in the song
4 from ovsrdelight! once gave out in church
{ the HYMN.