The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-08-12

Pork of Ages" Take hold of Christs
hand and draw Him to your soul with
perfect abandonment and hurl yourself
into the deep sea of His mercy. ne
comes and says. ~ will save you" IL
you do not think lie is hypocrite and
n liar when lie says that. believe Him
and say: Lord Jesus, believe; here is
my heart. Wash it. Save IL DO IL
now. Aye. it is done; for l obey thy
promise and come. | can do no more.
That is all Thou hast asked. j come.
Christ is mine. Pardon is mine. Heaven
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 To 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; more trust in all these things
than in Christ, although he stands this
moment Offering without limit, and
without mistake, and without excep-
ton. universal pardon to all who want
il. Now, is not that cheap enough-all
things for nothing?
This is the whole of the Gospel rs
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. No more doubt
about it than that you have right
hand. No more doubt about it than that
there is God If YOU had com mitted
five hundred thousand tranSgrcssions,
Christ would forgive YOU just rs freely
as If YOU had never committed but one;
though YOU had gone through the whole
catalogue of crimeS-arSon. blasphcmy
and murdcr-Christ would pardon you
just as freely, you coming To Him, rs
though you had committed only the
slightest sin of the tongue. Why. when
/ Christ comes 10 pardon IA soul He stops
7 for nothing. Height Is nothing. Depth
Is nothing. Enormity is nothing. Pro-
tractcdnCSS is nothing.
DER sins like mountains for their size,
The seas OF sovereign grace expand
The seas OF sovereign grace arise.
Lord Jesus, give mp all other props,
give up all other expectations. Ruined
AMI undonc, | lay hold Thee. plead Thy
promises. fly To Thy arms. Lord save
me, | perish" When the Christian COM
mission went into the army during the
war there were a great multitude of
hungry men and only few loavcs of
/ bread and the delegate of the com
mission was cutting the bread and Civ
/ ing it out To wounded and dying men,
/ Some one came no and said: Cut those
/ slices thinner or there will not be
/ enough 10 30 around" And then the
J 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 economy in
THIS Gospel. Bread for all, bread enough
and To spare. Why perish with hunger?
Again. | advise you, as one of the best
things YOU can do with Christ, To take
him into your love. Now there are
two things which make us love any one
inherent attractivcncss and then what
he does in the way of kindness toward
us. Now Christ is in both these posi-
tons. Inherent attractivenesS-faire
than the children of men, the luster of
the morning in his eye, the glow of the
setting sun in his check, myrrh and
franliincensc in the breath of his lip.
In a Heaven of holy beings, the best.
In n Heaven of mighty ones, the strong
est. In Heaven of great hearts, the
tcndercst and the most sympathctic.
/ Why, sculpture has never yet been able
TO chiScl his form. nor painting 20 pre-
sent the flush Of his cheek, nor music To
strike his charms: and the greatest SUR
prise of eternity will bc the first mo
mcnt when we rush into his presence
and with upliftcd hands and streaming
eyes and heart bounding with rapture,
we cry out, This is JcSus!'
All over glorious is my Lord
He must ne loved and yet adorcd
His worth. II all the nations knew,
Sure, tho whole earth would love him too.
Has lie not done enough 20 win our
affections? Peter the Great, laying
aside royal authority, went down among
the ship carpenters To help them, but
Russia got the chief advantage of that
cundcScCnSion. John Howard turned
his back upon the rctincmentS and went
around prisons To- spy out their sorrows
and relieve their wrongs, but English
that ministry. But when Christ comes,
it IS for yo'' aud me. The sacrifice FOR
YOU and me. ne tears for you and me.
The crucifNion for you and me.
Ii | were hopelcssly in debt, and
some one camea and paid my debts and
gave me n receipt in full, and called of
the pack of bounding creditors; If
were on a laundering ship, and YOU