Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-08-04

tion OF it in your family. Sometime;
the physician has called, and he has
looked at the patient and said:
.rhat case was simple enough; but
the crisis has passed. If you had
called me yesterday, or this morning,
l could have cured the patient. 1t is
to late now; the crisis has passed."
Just 80 it isin the spiritual treatment
of the soul-there is crisis 4 Before
that, life! After that, death!"0 my
dear brother, as you love your soul
do not let the crisis pass unattended
to!
There are some here who can i
member instances in life when, if they
had bought q certain property, they
would have become very rich. A few
acres that would have cost them al
most nothing were offered them.
They refused them. Afterward a
large village or city sprang up on
those acres OF ground and they see
what,a mistake they made in not
buying the property. There was an
opportunity of getting it. It never
came back again. And so it is in re-
gard to q mans spiritual and eternal
fortune. There is chance; if you let
that 90. perhaps it never comes back.
Certainly, that one never comes
back.
There is time which mercy has set
for leaving port. If you are on board
before that you will get a passage to
heaven. If you are not on board, you
miss your passage for heaven.
The diamond districts OF Brazil are
CAREFULLY GUARDED,
and a man does not get in there ex-
cept by pass from the government;
but the love of Christ is q diamond
district we may all enter, and pick up
treasures for eternity. o cry for
mercy! "Today, if We hear his voice
harden not your hearts," There is q
way OF opposing the mercy OF God too
long, and then there remaineth no
more sacrifice for sin, but o fearful
looking for Judgment and fiery indig-
nation, which shall devour the adver-
sary. Friends, my reighbors, what
con say to induce you to attend
to this matter-to attend to it now?
Time is flying, tlying-the city clock
joining my voice this moment, SEEM
ing to say to you, "Now is the time!
Now is the time!'' O put it not off.
1t is your immortal soul. It is a
soul that shall never die. 1t is q soul
that must soon appear before Godfor
revival. Why throw away your
chances for heaven? Why plunge off
into darkness when all the gates OF
glory are open? Why become a cast
away from, God when you can sit up
on the throne? Why will we die mis-
erably when eternal lite is offered you,
and it will cost you nothing but
Just willingness 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 conven-
lent season, if you should live SO
years more, than this very one.
Reject this and you may die in your
sins.
Why do I say this? Is it to fright
en- your soul? Oh, no. 1t is to per-
suade YOU. I show you the peril. I
show you the escape. Would 1 not
be q coward beyond all excuse, if be-
lieving that this great audience must
soon BE- launched into the eternal
world, and that all who believe in
Christ shall be saved, and all who re-
ject Christ will be lost-would I not
be the verest coward on earth to hide
that truth or to stand before you
with q cool, or even placid manner?
My dear brethren, now is the day of
your redemption.
1t is very certain that you and l
must soon
APPEAR BEFORE GOD
in Judgment. We cannot escape it.
Have YOU ever imagined what will
be the soliloquy Of the soul ON the day
of judgment unpardoned, as it looks
back upon its past life? "Oh." says
the soul, ~ had glorious Sabbaths.
There was one Sabbath in autumn
when ] was invited to Christ. There
was n Sabbath morning when Jesus
stood and spread out his arms and
invited me to his holy heart. l re-
fused him. I have destroyed myself.
/ have no one else to blame. Ruin
complete. Darkness Implying, deep
eternal! am lost! Notwithstanding
all the opportunities I have had ofbe
ing saved. l am lost! O thou long
suffering Lord God Almighty, I am
lost! 0 day OF judgment, 1 am lost! O
father, mother, brother, sister, child
in glory, am lost" And then as the
tide goes out, your soul goes out with
it-tarther from God, farther from
happiness, and I hear your voice faint
er, and fainter, and fainter; Lost!
Lost! Lost! Lost! Lost! Lost! o We
dying, yet immortal men, "Seek the
Lord while he may be found.
THE USEFUL TELEGRAPH.