Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-07-25

voice, harden not your hearts" There
is way Of opposing the mercy of God
too long, and then there remaineth no
more sacrifice for sin, but fearful look
ing for Judgment and fiery indignation
which shall devour the adversary. My
friends, my neighbors, what can | say
to induce you to attend to this matter
to attend to it now! Time is flying, f.y-
ing-the city clock joining my voice this
moment, seeming to say to you: "Now
is the time? Now is the timer Oh, put
it not off!
Why should l stand here and plead
and you sit there? 1t is your immortal
soul. 1t is soul that shall never die
1t is soul that must soon appear before
God for reviewal. Why throw away
your chance for heavenp Why plunge
off into darkness when all the gates of
glory are open? Why become cast
away from God when you can sit upon
the throne? Why will ye lie miserably
when eternal life is offered you, and it
will cost you nothing but just willing
ness to accept it? Come, for all things
are now ready" Come, Christ is ready.
pardon is ready! The church is ready.
Heaven is ready. You will never find
more conv enient season if you should
live fifty years more than this very one
Reject this and you may die in your sins.
TIE PERIL AND THE ESCAPE.
Why 10 say this? Is it to frighten
your soul? Oh, no. 1t is to persuade
you. | show you the peril. show you
the escape. Would | not be a coward
beyond all excuse if, believing that this
great audience must soon be launched
into the eternal world, and that all who
believe in Christ shall be saved, and that
all who reject Christ will be lost-would
not be the veriest coward on earth to
hide that truth or to stand before you
with cold or even a placid manner?
My dear brethren, now is the day of
your redemption.
1t is very certain that you and must
soon appear before God in Judgment.
We cannot escape it. The Bible says,
every eye shall see hiua, and they also
which pierced him, and dill the kindreds
of tle earth shall wall lecause of him"
On that day all our advantages will
come up for our glory or for our discom-
fiture-every prayer, every sermon,
every exhortftory remark, every re-
proof, every Gill of grace; and while the
heavens are rolling away like a scroll,
and the world is being destroyed, your
destiny and my destiny will he an
nounced. Alas! alas! ii on that day it
is found that we have neglected these
matters. We may throw them off now.
We cannot then. We will all be in
earnest then. But no pardon then. No
offer of salvation then. No rescue then.
Driven away in our NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ished, exiled forever
Have you ever imagined what will be
the soliloquy Of the soul on that day I'M
pardoned, as it looks back upon its past
life3 "Oh," says the soul, II had glor-
ious Sabbaths! There was one Sabbath
in antumn when was invited to Christ. |
There was Sabbath morning when
Jesus stood and spread out his arms and
invited me to mis- holy heart. l refused
him. l have destroyed myself l have |
no one else to blame. Ruin complete. |
Darkness Implying, deep, eternal! l am
lost. Notwithstanding all the opportuni- |
ties have had of being saved, am lostl |
Oh, thou long suffering Lord God AL
mighty, l am lostl Oh, day of judg-
ment, / am lost! Oh, father, mother,
brother, sister, child in glory, am lostr'
And then as the tide goes out your soul
goes out with it-farther from God.
farther from happiness, and l hear your
voice fainter and fainter and fainter,
Lost! Lost! Lost! Lost! Lost" O
ye dying, yet immortal men! Seek the
Lord while he may be found"
But want you to take the hint of the
text that | have no time to dwell on
the hint that there is time when he
be found. There was a man in This
city, eighty years of age, who said to n
clergyman who came in, do YOU think
that a man at eighty years of age can
get pardoned" "Oh, yes," said the
The old man said: II can't.
when was twenty years of age-I am
now eighty years-the spirit of God came
to my soul, and felt the Importance of
attending TO these things, but | put il
)h. l rejected God, and since then I
have had no feeling" well" said the
wouldn't You like to have mo
pray with you? Eyes" replied the old
nan, "but it will do no good. You can
pray with me if you like to-"
The minister knelt down and prayed
md commended the mans soul to God
{ seemed to have no effect upon him
After awhile the last hour of the mans
ife came, and through his delirium
park of intelligence seemed to fash
md with his last breath he said, IL shall
lever be forgiven" 30 seek the Lord
While he may be found"
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