News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-01-07

therefore it is unsa1
of the fifty-two Sun
as likely to go in t
year as in the last,
had better divide the fifty -tv
halves and calculate only twenty -
Sabbaths Come, Christian men,
Christian women, what can you do
in twenty-six Sabbaths!
Divide the three hundred and sixty
five days into two parts; what can
you do in one-hundred and eighty
two days. What by the way of saw
ing your family. the church and the
world2 You will not, through all
the ages of eternity in heaven, get
over the dishonor and the outrage
of going into glory, and having
helped none up to the same place. 1t
will be found that many a Sabbath
school teacher has taken into heaven
her whole class; that Daniel Baker,
the evangelist, took thousands into
heaven; that Doddridge has taken in
hundreds of thousands; that Paul
took in a hundred millions. How
many will you take in?
If you get into heaven and find
none there that you sent, and that
there are none to come through rou1'
instrumentality, ! beg of you to
crawl under some seat in the back
corner and never come out, lest the
redeemed get their eyes on you and
some one cry out That is the man
who never lifted hand or voice for
the redemption of his fellows Look
at him. all heavenr Better be busy.
Better put the pillow in deep. Bitter
say what you have to say quickly.
Better cry the alarm. Better fall on
your knees Better lay hold with
both hands. What you now leave
undone for Christ will forever be I'M
done. This year thou shalt die"
In view of the probabilities men
toned advise all the men and wom-
en- not ready for eternity to get ready.
If the text be true, you have no time
to talk about nonessentials, asking
why God let sin come into the world,
or whether the book of Jonah is in
spired, or who Melchisedec was, or
what about the eternal DEGREES If
you are as near eternity as some of
YOU seem to be, there is no time for
anything but the question, What
must do to be saved?" The drown
ing man. when plank is thrown
him, stops not to ask what sawmill
made it, or whether it is oak or cedar
or who threw it. The moment it is
thrown he clutches it.
If this year you are to die, there is
no time for anything but immediate
" laying hold on God. 1t is high
time to get out of your sins. You
say, Il have committed no great
transgressions But are you not
aware that your life has been sinful9
| The snow comes down on the Alps
flake by flake, and it is SO light that
you may hold it on the tip of your
finger without feeling any weight;
but the flakes gather; they compact,
until some day travellers foot starts
the slide, and it goes down in an
avalanche, crushing to death the vii
| layers.
So the sins of your youth and the
sins of your manhood and the sins OF
your womanhood may have seemed
! only slight inaccuracies or trifiing
divergences from the right-so slight
that they are hardly worth mention
ing, but they have been piling up and
piling up, packing together and pack
ing together, until they make a
mountain of sin. and one more step
of your foot in the wrong direction
may slide down upon you an ava
| lanche of ruin and condemnation.
A man crossing a desolate and
lonely plateau, a hungry wolf took
after him. He brought his gun to
his shoulder and took aim, and the
wolf howled with pain, and the cry
woke up pack of wolves and they
came ravening out of the forest from
all sides and horribly devoured him.
Thou art the man. Some one sin OF
your life srlmmoning on all the rest,
they surround thy soul and make the
night of thy sin terrible with the
assault of their bloody muzzles. Oh
the unpardoned, clamoring, ravening.
all devouring sins of thy lifetimel
| A maniac was found pacing along
the road with a torch in one hand
and pail of water in the other, anC
some one asked him what he mean
to do with them. He answered
with this torch / mean to burr
down heaven, and with this water
mean to put out the fires of hell.
He was a maniac. He could do the
one thing just as well as he could do
the other No time to lose if you
want to escape your sins, for This
year thou shalt die"
Let me announce that Christ, thu
Lord, stands ready to save any MAJ
who wants to be saved. He waited
for you all last year, and all the yea,
before, and all your life. He ha'
waited for you with blood on hi
brow, and tears in his eye, and TIVE
outstretched, mangled hands of love
You come home some night ant
find the mark of muddy feet on you
front steps. You hasten in, and fine
an excited group around your child
He fell into pond, and had it M
n5een for a brave lad, who plIl1