Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-07-04


you to come and put both feet on the
Crock of Ages rI,ll-e hold of Christs
hands al>:l draw him to your soul with
perfect abandon,4c lt.;nd hisrl yourself
into the deep sea of his mercy lie
comes and says, 4 will save you. Ii
you do not think be is a hypocrite and
a liar when he says that, believe him
and say: Lord Jesus, | believe: here is
my heart Wash it. Save it. DO 1t
now Aye, it is done; for | obey thy
promise and come. l can do 70 more.
That is all thou hast asked. | come
Christ is mine. Pardon is mine. Heav-
en- is mine"
Why, my friends, you put more trust
in everybody than you do in Christ, and
in everything; more trust in the bridge
crossing the stream, in the ladder up to
the loft; more trust in the stove that
confines the fire; more trust in the cook
that prepares your food; more trust IN
the clerk that writes your books, in the
druggist that makes the medicine, in
the bargain maker with whom you
trade-1nore trust in all these things
than in Christ, although he stands this
moment Offering without limit and
without mistake and without exception
universal pardon to all who want 1t.
Now is not that cheap enough-all
things for nothing?
This is the whole of the Gospel as l
understand it-that if you believe that
Christ died to save you you are saved.
When? Now. No more doubt about it
than that you sit there. Nomore doubt
about it than that you have a right
/ L Ia hon
! that there is a God. If you had COM
mitted five hundred thousand transgres-
sions, Christ would forgive you just as
freely as if you had never committed
but one; though you had gone through
the whole catalogue Of crimes-arson,
and blasphemy, and murder-Chrlst
would pardon you just as freely, you
coming to him, as though you had COM
mitted only the slightest sin Of the
tongue.
THE BOUNDLESS LOVE.
Why. when Christ comes to pardon a
soul he stops for nothing. Height is
nothing. Depth is nothing. Enor1nlty
is nothing. Protractedness is nothing.
Der sins like mountains for their size,
The seas to sovereign grace expand,
The seas of sovereign grace arise.
Lord Jesus, give up all other props,
give up all other expectations. Ruined
and undone, l lay hold thee. l plead
: thy promises. fly to thy arms. Lord,
save Inc; l perish.
When the Christian commission went
into the army during the war there
were q great multitude of hungry men
and only few loaves of bread, and the
delegate of the commission was cutting
the bread and giving it out to wounded
and diving men. Some one came up and
said, Cut those slices thinner, or there
will not be enough to go around" And
then the delegate cut the slices very
thin and handed the bread around until
they all had some, but not much. But
blessed be God, there is no need Of econ
omy in this Gospel. Bread for all; bread
enough and to spare Why perish with
hunger?
Again, [ advise you, us one of the bes
things YOU can do with Christ, to take
him into your love. Now there are two
things which make us love any One-in
herent attractiveness, and then what III
does in the way Of kindness toward us
Now Christ is in both these positions
Inherent attractiveness-faire than thu
children of men, the luster Of the morn
inc in his eye, the glow of the setting
sun in his cheek, nyrrh and franklin
cense in the breath Of his lip In
heaven of holy beings, the best, Ii
heaven Of mighty ones, the strongest
In q heaven Of great hearts, the tender
est and the most sympathetic
Why. sculpture has never yet beer
able to chisel his form nor painting t.
present the flush of his cheek nor musi
to strike his charms; and the creates
surprise of eternity will be the first mo
ment when we rush into his presenc
and with uplifted hands and streaming
ewes and heart bounding with raptur
we cry out, This is Jesus!'
All over glorious is my Lord,
He must be loved and yet adored;
His worth, if all the nations knew,
Sure, the whole earth would love him too
THE SUBLIME SACRIFICE.
Has he not done enough to win on
affections? Peter the Great, laying asld
royal authority, went down among tn
ship carpenters to help them, but Russi
got the chief advantage of that condo
scension. John Howard turned his BAG
! upon the refnements and went aroun
prisons to spy out their sorrows and
relieve their wrongs, but English erin
inals got the chief advantage of tia
, ministry But when Christ comes it
for YOU and me. The sacrifice for yO
+ and me. The tears for you and me. Th
f crucifxion for Cou and me.
If were hopelessly in debt and som
I one came and paid my debts, and gay
I me receipt in full, and called off til
+ pack of bounding creditors; if [ were Q
| a laundering ship, and you came in
I lifeboat and took me off, could I eve
! forget your kindness? Would l eve
allow an opportunity to pass withop