Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-10-14


gloriss begin.
The sea of Gods Word is not like Gen.
nessaret, twelve miles by six, but bound.
less, and In any one direction you can sail
on forever Why then conhne yourself 70
short psalm or to few verses OF an
epistlei The largest fish are not near the
shore. Hoist all sail TO the win Is OF heaven
Take hold OF both oars and pull away. Be
like some OF the whalers that went out from
New Bedford or Portsmouth to be gone for
two or thres years. Yea, calculate on a
lifetime voyage You do not want to land
until you land in heaven. Sail away, o "
mariners, for eternityi Launch out int
the deepl
The text Is appropriate to all Christians Of
shallow experience. Doubts an / fears have
In our day been almost elected 70 the parlia-
msnt Of Christian gracss. Some consider It
u lad sign not to have any doubts. Doubts
and fears are not signs OF health, but testers
and carbuncles. You have a valuable house
or farm. 1t is suggested that the title Is
not good. You employ counsel You have
the deeds examined. You search the record
for mortgages, judgments aud liens. You
are not satisfied until YOU have a certihclte
signed by the great seal OF the State, assur-
ing you that the title Is good. Yet how many
leave their title to heaven an undecided mat
teri Why do you not go TO the records AMI
find out? Give yourself no rest, day or night,
until you can read your title clear to man
sons iu the skies.
Christian character is TO come up to high
er standards. We have now to hunt
through our library to find one Robert
MCheyne, or one Edward Payson, or one
Harlan Page. The time will come when we
will fiud half dozen OF them sitting In the
same seat with US. The grace OF God can
make a great deal better men than those
have mentioned Christians seem afraid
they will get heterodoK by going too far.
They do not believe in Christian perfection.
There is no danger Of your being perfect for
some time YET. | will keep watch AMI give
you notice in time il you get too near per-
lection for the safety OF your theology.
One half of you Christians are Simply
stuck in the mud. Whv not cut loose from
eyerything but God? Give not to Him that
formal petition made up OF "Os'-'O
Lordn this and 80 Lord that. When peo-
pie are cold and have nothing to say to Go1
they strew their prayers with 'Os' and
Forever and ever, Amen and things to
| fiji up. Tell Col what you want with tbs
feeling that He is ready u give it, and be-
lieve that you will receive, aud you shall
have it. Shed that old prayer you have
been making these ten years. 1t is high
time that ysu outErew it, Throw it aside
with your old lei iSerS. and your old hats,
and your old shoes. Take review of YOUR
present wants, OF your present sins and OF
| your present blessings. With a sharp blade
cut away your past half al half Christian
| life, and with new determ nation, and new
plans aud new expectation launcd out into
the deep.
The text is appropriate to all the unfor-
given. Every sinner would come to God IL
he thought he might come just as he is.
People talk as though the pardon OF Goo
were narrow river, like the Kennebec OIL
the Thames, and that their sins draw toe
much water TO enter it. No: it is not river
nor a hay, but sel. | should like to per.
suade you to launch out into the great deep
of Goi's mercy. ] am a merchant. | have
bought a cargo of spices in india. have
through bill OF exchange, paid for th'
whole cargo. You are a ship captain
give you the orders and say. Bring mt
those Spices You land in India. You &,
to the trader and say, Here are the orders
and you find everything all right. You d.
not stop to pay the money yourself. 1t /
not your business TO pay it. The arrange
ments were made before you started, 81
Christ purchases your pardon. He puts th'
raperS or the promises, into your hand. |
lt wise to stop and say, 81 cannot pay fo
my redemption God does not ask you t.
lay. Relying on what has been done, launcl
out into the deep.
Ths Bibles promises join hands, and tn
circle they make will compass all your sins
and all your temptations, ami all your sor
rows. The round table OF King Arthur an
his knights had room for only thirteen ban
queters but the round table OF Gods suppl
is large enough for ali the present inhabi
ants OF earth aud heaven to sit at and fc
the still mightier populations that are yet
be.
Do not sail coastwise along your old habit
and cd sins Keep clear Of the Shore 6
. out where the water is deepest. Oh. for Il
mid sea OF Gods mercy! "Be it known uni
, you, men and brethren, that through th
+ Man is preached unto you forgiveness
4 SINS" preach it with as much confden
to the eighty-year-old transgressor as to Il
D maiden. Though your sins were blood r.
q they shall be snow white. The more ragg
!. the prodigal, the more compassionate I
d Father. Do you say that you are too ba
i The high water mark of Gods pardon
;. higher than all your transgressions. IT
n blood Of Jesus Christ ceanseth from all sir
:, Do you say that your heart Is hardf Su
pose it were ten times harder. Do you s.
I that your iniquity is long continued Su
y pose 1t were ten times longer. Do you s
= that your crimes are blackt Suppose tn
n they were ten times blacker Is there a
n lion that this Slmson cannot slayf Is the
q any fortress that this Conqueror canr
4 takeH Is there any sin that this Redeem
r. cannot pardonf
- Itis said that when Charlemagne's h
"a was overpowered by the three armies OF
ID Saracens in the pass of Roncesvalles
al warrior Roland, in terrible earnestn
,k seized a trumpet and blew it with such
-, rife strength that the opposing army rec
u, ~ back with terror, but at the third blast
=. the trumpet it broke In two. see your S
=, fercely assaied by all the powers OF esl
y, " and hell. put the mightier trumpet OF
~ u A. H., I thraa ~
~ Blast the hrst-"Whosoeve will, let t
-, GOMEZ Blast the Seconds eek ye
no ao Lord while He may be found" Blast
a., as third-"Now is the accepted time; nov
~, the day OF salvation"
W Wsn Does not the host OF your sins fall ba
n n1 But the trumpet does not, like that OF Rola
~ break in two. AS 1t was handed down t.
-, from the lips OF our fathers, we hand 1t dc
;,' TO the lips Of our children, and tell then
III III sound it when we are dead, that all the 8
erations of men may know that our God
ia, pardoning Cola sympathetic Coda
,a 'a' ing God-and that more to Him than
~ anthems Of heaven; more to Him than
ye- throne on which He sits; more to Him t
.en are the temples of celestial worship is the
, a OF seeing the wanderer putting his han,
,ry the door latch OF his Fathers house. /
,en 1t, all We Nationsi Bread for the worst
ts. ger. Medicine for the worst sickness. L.
q for tho tnlckeSt uarKneSS' hhooi io'
tai worst storm.
tile DIR. Prime, in his look of wonderful In
est, entitled "Around the World" descr
tho a tomb In India OF marvellous architect
me- Twenty thousand men were twenty,
mt years In erecting that AMI the build
asst around 1t. Standing in that tomb, II
but speak or sing. after you have ceased
,er. hear the echo coming from height OF
ore hundred and ntty IeeC. III Is NOV nAo v
ant echoes. The SOUND Is Drawn ouC III >
,eI prolongation, as though the angels
be God we're chanting on the wing. How n
lie souls I'm the tomb OF sin will lift up
,ck- voice Of penitence aud pr ayerr III now
ans would cry unto God the echo would
.ller from afar, not struck from the marbl
-eat poa of an earthly mausoleum, but soun
back from tho warm heart OF angels q
Al 10 Iox fha n