The Red Cloud chief., 1892-08-05

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Heaven ur hell?
But | comc now to the last part Of
my text II tells us when t. seek tho
Lord. "While lie may be found"
When Is that? Old age? You may not
sec old age. Tomorrow? You may
not see tomorrow. Tonight? You
may not see tonight Now! O, IL I
could only write on every heart In three
capital letters that word NOW now!
Sin Is an awful disease. ] hear peo-
pie say with II toss of the head and with
n trivial tanners: 30. yes, I'm a sim
ncr." Sin Is an awful disease. IL 10
lcprosy. IL Is dropsy. II Is consump-
ton. IL Is oil moral disorders In one.
Now You know there is q crisis In n
disease. Perhaps you have had some
illustration Of IL in your family. Some
times the physician has called, and he
has looked ut the patient and said:
THAT case was simple enough; but the
crisis has passed. IL you had called mo
yesterday, or this morning, | could have
cured the patient IL IL too late now;
the crisis has passed." Just so IL Is In
the spiritual treatment of tho soul
there Is n crisis. Before that, life! After
that, death! o my dear brother, ms you
love your soul do not let the crisis pass
unattended to!
There Is u time which mercy has set
for leaving port. II you arc on board
before that you will get n passage for
Heaven. IL you are not on board, you
miss your passage for Heaven. As In
law courts, n ease IL sometimes ad-
journcd from term 10 term, and from
year TO year, till the bill of costs eats
up the entire estate, so there are men
who arc adjourning the matter Of rcli-
gion from time to time, and from year
to year, until Heavenly bliss Is the bill
of costs the man would have TO pay for
It.
Why defer this matter, o my dear
hcarcrp Have you any idea hat sin
will wear out? that IL will %evaporate?
that IL will relax its grasp? that you
may find religion us u man accidentally
finds II lost pockctbook? All, no! No
man ever became n Christian by acci-
dent OF by the relaxing Of sin. The
embarrassments IRE all the time in-
crcasing.
would not be afraid to challenge
this whole audience, 80 far as they may
not have found the peace of the Gospel,
in regard to that matter. Your hearts,
you are willing frankly TO tell me, are
becoming harder md harder, and that
IL you come TO Christ IL will be more vt
an undertaking nov than 1t ever would
have been before. o fly for refugel
The avenger of blood is on the track!
O, II men could only catch just ono
glimpse Of Christ, I know they would
love Him. Your heart leaps at the sight
of u glorious sunrise or sunset Can
you be without emotion as the Sun OF
Righteousness rises behind Calvary and
sets behind Joscph's sepulchrc? He il
a blessed Saviour! Every nation has It's
type Of beauty. There Is German beauty,
and Swiss beauty, and Italian beauty,
and English beauty, but I care not in
what land n man first looks ut Christ,
he pronounces Him "chief among ten
thousand, and the one altogether love-
ly."
The diamond districts Of Brazil are
carefully guarded, and a man does not
get in there except by u pass from the
government; but the love of Christ In q
diamond district we may all enter and
pick up treasures for eternity. o, cry
for mercy! To-day, II we will, hear
His voice, harden not your hearts"
Why should I stand here and plead
and yon sit there? II is your immortal
soul. 1t Is n SOU that shall never die.
II Is IA soul that must soon appear before
God for RENEWAL. Why throw away
your chance for Heaven? Why plunge
off into darkness when all the gates of
glory are open2 Why become u cast
away from God when you can sit upon
the throne? Why will yc die miserahly
when eternal life is offered you and it
will cos you nothing but just willing
ness 10 accept II? Come, for all things
are now ready" Come, Christ Is ready.
pardon is ready! The church is ready.
Heaven IL ready.
II Is very certain that you and I must
soon appear before God in Judgment.
We cannot escape II. The bible says:
every eye shall see Him, and they
also which pierced Him, and all the
kindreds of the earth shall wall be.
cause Of Him." On that day ell our adj
vantages will come up for our glory or
for our discomfture-every prayer,
every sermon, every exhortatory re-
mark, every reproof, every call OF
grace, and while the heavens are roll
ing away like a scroll and the
world Is being destroyed your
destiny and my destiny will be
announced. Alas! alas! II on
that day 1t is found that We have neg
lected 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 Observation-Disclosures, exiled
forever!
But ! want you TO take the hinto Of the
text that ! have no time 10 dwell on
the hint that there IN u time when lie
cannot be found. There is a man in
this city, eighty years Of age, who said
to n clergyman who came In, "Do You
think that q man at eighty years Of ago
can get pardoned?' 20, yes" said the
clergyman. The old man said: II cant;
when l was twenty years Of age--I ann
| now eighty years--the shirt Of God