The Red Cloud chief., 1892-09-23

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Still further, this road spoken Of Is .
clean road. Many n fine road has be
come miry and foul because IL has no,
been properly cared for, but my text
says the unclean shall not walk on this
one. Room on either side TO throw
away your sins. Indeed, IL you want
to carry them along, you arc not on the
right road. That bridge will break,
those overhanging rocks will fall, the
night will come down, leaving you AT
the mercy of the mountain bandits, and
at the very next turn of the road you
Will perish. But IL you are really on
this clean road of which I have been
speaking, then you will stop ever and
anon to wash in the water that stands
In the basin of the eternal rock. Ay,
at almost every step Of the journey you
Will be crying ont: Create within me
a clean hearth If you have no such
aspirations as that 1t proves that you
rave mistaken your way, and IL you
Will only look up and see the finger
board above your head you may read
upon it the words. "There is a way
that scemcth right unto n man, but the
n thereof is death" without holt
ness no man shall see the Lord, and If
you have any idea that yon can carry
along your sins, your lusts, yoar world
illness and yet get to the end of the
Christian race, you are SO awfully mis-
taken that, In the name of God, I shat
ter the delusion. :
Still further, the road spoken Of is n
plain road. 1.-The wayfaring men,
though fools, shall not err therein"
That is, IL II man is three-fourths OF an
IDIOT he can n this road just rs well
as II he were n philosopher. The imbe-
Gle boy, the laughing stock of the
street, and followed by u mob hooting
Mt him, has only just to knock once Mt
the gate OF Heaven and 1t swings open;
while there has been many a man who
can lecture about the pneutnatics, and
chemistry, and tell the story of lara
days theory of electrical polarization,
n yet has been shut out of Heaven.
There has been many n man who stood
In the observatory and swept the
heavens with his telescope, and yet he
mas not been able to see the morning
star. Many II man has beer familiar
with all the higher branches of mathe-
mates, and yet could not do the
simple sum, what shall il profit
n man II he gain the whole world
and lose his w soul?" Many u
a has been u fine reader of tragedies
and poems, and yet could not ''read his
title clear to mansions in the skies"
Many n man has botanized across the
continent, and yet did not know the
Rose OF Sharon and the Lily of the
Valley" But il one shall come in the
right spirit, asking the way to Heaven,
he will find it in a plain way. The
pardon is plain. The peace is plain.
Everything is plain
He who tries to get on the road TO
Heaven through the New Testament
teaching will get on beautifully. He
who goes through philosophical discus
sion will not get on at all. Christ says:
Come to me and I will take all your
sins away, and l will take all your
troubles away" Now what Is the use
OF my discussing it any more? Is not
this plain? II you wanted TO go TO
London, and ! pointed YOU out a, high
way thoroughly laid out, would / be
wise in OBTAINING you by IL geological
discussion about the gravel you will
pass over, or n physiological discussion
about the muscles YOU will
have to bring into play? No.
After this Bible has pointed you
the way to Heaven, is IL wise for me to
detain you with any discussion about |
the nature of the human will or wheth.
CIR the atonement Is limited or unlim-
tied? There Is the road-go on IL. 1T
Is a plain way.
"This is n faithful saying, and worthy
OF all acceptation, that Jesus. Christ |
came II h world to save sinners"
And that is you and that is me-. ANY
little child here can understand this. as |
well as / car ''Unless you become us
a little child, you cannot see the King.
dom of God" If You are saved. it will
not be as a philosopher, it will be as,a
little child. ''Of such Is tho Kingdom
OF Heaven" Unless you get the spirit
Of little children, You will never come
out Mt their glorious destiny.
Still further: This road to Heaven Is a
save road. Sometimes the traveller in
those ancient highways would think
himself perfectly secure, not Knowing
there was II lion by the way, burying
his head deep within his paws, and
then, when the last moment came,
under the fearful spring, the mans life
was gone and there was n mauled car
cass by the roadside. But, says my
text, "No lion shall be there" I wish
l could make you feel this morning
security. L tell you plainly that
one minute after a man has become a
child of God he is rs safe as though he
had been 10000 years in Heaven. He
may slip, he may slide, he mag stuar-
BILE, but he cannot be destroyed. Kept
by the power of God, through faith, l
complete salvation. Evarl asaingly
safe.
The ~severest trial To which you can
subject a Christian man is To kill him,
and that Is glory. In other words, the
worst thing that can happen a child of
God is Heaven The body is ONLY the
old slippers that he throws, aside Just
before putting ON the sandals of light
His soul, You cannot hurt II. No fires
can IL No floods CON drown