Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-01-23

yOU UdSeI O tlHic 10 bata ABOUT uGI-oSSorl-
tials, asking why God let sin come into tue
world or whether the book Of Jonah is in.
splred: or VINO Melchisedec was. or what
about the eternal DEGREES II you are as near
eternity as some OF you seem 70 BE-, there is
nc time for anything but the question,
"W bat must do to be saeeiS' The drown
ing man. when q plank is thrown him. stops
not TO ask what sawmill made It or whether
1t Is. oak or cedar. or VINO threw il. Tbs
moment it is thrown. he clutches il. If this
year yop are to die, there Is no time for any-
thing but Immediately laying hold totGod.
Il is bigh 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
SINFUL: The snow co:neS dow. n the Alps
fake bv fake, and it is So Iispt that you
may hold It on the tip Of the finger without
feeling any weight; but the flakes gather;
tney compact, until some day a travellers
foot starts the slide and il goes down in an
avalanche. crushing u death the villa gers.
50 the sins of your YOUTH, aud the sins OF
your manhood, and the sins Of your woman
hood may have Seemed only slight in
accuracies or trif:ns divergeneas from the
rlght-so slight thac taey are hardly worth
mentioning: bur they have been piIing u2
aud plling up, packing together and packing
together, until they maze a mountain Of
>lI, ami one more step OF Your foot IN the
wrong direction may slide down upon YOU
an avalanche OF ruin ann condemnation
\ man crossing a desoiate AMI lone'T
plateau. A hungry wolf took after him. H.
'brolg II his gun - his saollder aud too1
ann, AMI the wolf howell with pain. AMI tile
cry woke up a pack Of wolves. AMI they came
ravenlng cut Of tue ior-st IRON all sl1es and
horribly devoured hun. Thou art the man.
some one sin Of your ME suIlfno14ng On all
the rest, ttles surround thy soul and make
tne night Of tnv sin terrible tn the assault
Of their bloody muzZieS. On. the unpar-
Gonei, clan3orIng, r2yeAInE, All deF0urlnst
sins Of thy lifetime,
\ maniac was found pacing along the
road with a torch in one hani and q pail Of
water in the other, AMI some one asked him
what he meant TO do wslh the:n. lie an
swerei, With this torch [ mean to burn
down heaven. ant with this water | mean to
pnt out the fires O. he'll He was a mautac.
He could do toe one thing just as we'll as he
could do the other, No time i lose II sou
ant t. escape your sins foc This year thou
sbai- do
Let me announce that Christ, the l. ORD,
stands really 20 save any man VINO wants to
be saved. He waited TO: YOU all last year,
and all the year before, and all your lite.
He has waited for you with blOol on His
brow and tears in His eye, and two out.
stretched, mangled hands Of love.
/ gu CClile lDlIfS SCiIlS HlSlI tli't HtId -tIS
mark of muddy 1eet on your front step.
You hasten III and fin,i an excited group
around your child. Hefell into a pond, and
had it not been for a brave lad, who plunged
III and brought him out aut carried him
home to be resuscltatel, you would have
been chi!dless. You feel that YOU cannot do
enough for the rescuer. You throw Your
arms around him. You offer him any CON
pensation. oil say to him: "Anything
rhat you var shall ba yours. | will never
cease to be grateful But my Lord Jesus
sees your soul sinking, and attempts to bring
it ashore, and you not only refuse Him
thanks. but stand on the beach and say.
Drop that soul. If l want it saved, I will
save it myself.
wish you might know what a JOB Jesus
undertook when He carried your case t.
Calvary. They crowded. Hin to the wall.
They struck Him. They spat on Him. They
kicked Him They cutfe1 Him. They scotfel
at Him. They scourged Hin. They muir
dered Him. Blood! bloot, AS He Stops
down to lift you up the crimson drops upon
you from His brow, from His side, from His
hands. Do you not feel the warm current
on your face? Oh, for thee the hunger, the
thirst, the thorn sting, the sufocation, the
struggle, the death.
A great plague came in Marseilles. The
doctors held a consultation ana decided that
a corpse must be dissected or they would
IICNSI hIiDH - ~ SIoP ttC pId2u-. ~ Il
Guyon said, Tomorrow morning I will
proceed to a dissection He made his will;
prepared for death; went into the hospital:
dissected a DO iy; wrote out the results of the
dissection and died i'll twelve hours. Beauti-
ful SILT sacrifice YOU say. Our Lord Jesus
looked out from heaven ana saw a plague
stricken race. Sin must be dissectei. He
made His will, giving everything to His pao-
pie. He comes down into tle reehiug hos
pital Of earth. He lays His hand to the
work. Under our plague He dies-the
healthy for the sick, the pure for the pol
luted, the innocent for the guilty. Behold
the love! Behold the sacrifice. Behold the
rescue,
Decide on this first Sabbath of the wear
whether or not you will nave Jesus. He
will not stand forever begging for your love.
With some here His plea eaisright speedily.
''This; year thou shalt die
This great salvation Of the Gospel / now
offer to every man, woman and child. You
cannot buy il. You cannot earn it. A
Scotch writer says that q poor woman one
cold winters day looked through the win
dow'of a kings conservatory and saw /
bunc of grapes hanging against the glass.
She said, "Oh, # | only mad that buncn of
grapes for my sici1 cnIld at home" At hel
splnnlng wheel she carmel a few shillings
: and went to buy tne grapes. The king:
gardner thrust her out v-ry roughly. ana
said b. had no grapes to sell. she went OF
and sold a'hlanhet AMI got soma more shll
lings, AMI came bac.z and trieft to buy tie
grapes. But the gardener roughly assaulted
her and tod her Il bs off. Th,
kings daughter was walking in the garden
at the time, and she heard the excitement,
and seeing the poor woman, said to her
My father Is NOT a merchant to sell. but h
is a king and gives" Then she reached III
and plucked the grapes and droppel them in
the poor woinan's apron. SO Christ is 6
king, and all the fruits of His PARTON Fl
freely gives. They may not be bought
Without money AMI without price. tax tni
= sweet cluster from the vineyards OF God.
am coming TO the close CT nay sermon.
SOU hit for a tiki appropriate for tn4 occa
sion, | thought OF taxing one in 100. NJ
days fv as 4 weaver's sautte.:' OF a text il
Psalms: 80 teach Us 10 nu.noe. or dav
that we may apply our hearts unto wis
dom OF the prayer OF the vine dresser
lord, let it aionethis year also but presse
upon my attention first CT all, antlast OF all
and above ali, were the words: ''Tais yea
thou shalt die
Perhaps II may mean me. Though IN pei
te2t health now. il 9oes not take Cot on,
week to bring down The strongest M sca
constitution 10 not want u de this year
We have plans and projects on foe. that
want 70 see comUleteG. b1t God Knows best
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