The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-07-05

you to come and put both feet ON the
''Rock of Ages" Take hold of Chrlst's
hands and draw him to your sorl with
perfect abandonment and hUrl yourself
| into the deep sea of his mercy. He
comes and says, 81 will save you" If
you do not think he is a hypocrite and
q liar when he says that. believe him
and say: Lord Jesus, believe; here is
nv heart. Wash 1T. Save 1t. Do it
now. Aye, it is done; for obey thy
promise and come. can do no more.
| That is all thou hast asked. come.
| Christ is mine Pardon is mine. Heav-
ell 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 in 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
tPade-more trust in all these things
/ than in Christ, although he stands this
moment Offering without limit and
! without mistake and without exception
universal pardon to ali who want it.
| Now is not that cheap enough-all
! things for nothing?
This is the whole of the Gospel as I
| 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. NOmore doubt
| about 1t than that You have a right
/ hand No more doubt about it than
that there is God. If you had COM
mitted five hundred thousand transgres-
| siOns, Christ would forgive you just as
| freely DIS if you had never committed
! but one: though you had gone through
/ the whole catalogue of crimes-arson,
and blasphe!ny, and murder-Christ
would pardon you just as freely, you
| coming to him, as though you had com
mitted only the slightest sin of the
! tongue.
THE BOUNDLESS LOVE.
Why. when Christ comes to pardon
SOIL he stops for nothing. Height is
nothing. Depth is nothing. Enornity
is nothing. Protractedness is nothing.
! Der sins like mountains for their size,
The seas to sovereign grace expand,
! The seas of sovereign grace arise.
/ LOII JESUS L give up OIL OelIOA PAOpSB
! give up all other expectations. Ruined
and undone, lay hold thee. l plead
thy promises. l fly to thy arms. Lord.
save me; perish"
! When the Christian commission went
into the army during the war there
We're a great multitude of hungry men
and only a few loaves of bread, and the
delegate of the commission was cutting
the bread and giving it out to wounded
and dying men. Some one came up and
said, Cut those slices thinner, or there
will not be enough to go around" And
then the 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 econ
omy in this Gospel. Bread for all; bread
enough and to spare. Why perish with
hunger? ,.
Again. 1 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-in-
herent attractiveness, and then what he
does in the way of kindness toward us.
! Now Christ is in both these positions.
! Inherent attrRctiveness-fH than the
children of men. the luster Of the morn
ing in his eye, the glow of the setting
sun in his cheek. myrrh and franklin
cense in the breath of his hip. In a
heaven of holy beings, the best. In a
heaven of mighty ones, the strongest.
In a heaven of great hearts, the tender
est and the most sympathetic.
Why. sculpture has never yet been
able - chisel his form nor painting to
present the flush OF his cheek nor music
10 ztl.ike his charms: and the greatest
surprise of eternity will be the first mo
| ment when we rush into his presence
and with uplifted hands and streaming
ewes and heart bounding with rapture
| We cry ont. This Is JeSus!7
All over glorious Is my Lord.
He rnust bc loved and yet adored;
His worth, if ali the nations knew,
Sure, the whole earth would love him too.
THE SUBLIME SACRIFICE.
Has he not done enough to 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 conde-
scensiOn. John Howard turned his back
upon the retinements and went around
prisons to spy out their sorrows and to
relieve their wrongs, but English Grim
inals got the chief advantage of that
ministry. But when Christ comes it is
for you and me. The sacrifice for you
and me. The tears for you and me. The
cruciixion for You and me
If were hopelessly in debt and some
one came and paid my debts, and gave
me d receipt in full, and called off the
pack of bounding creditors; If l were on
a laundering ship, and you came in a
lifeboat and took me off. could 1 ever
forget your kindness2 Would l ever
allow an opportunity to pass without
rendering you a service or attesting my
gratitude and love? Oh, how ought we
to feel toward Christ. who plunged into
the depth of our sin and plucked us out!
Oughtit not to set the very best emotions
of our heart into the wGrIneSt, aye, a red
hot glow: The story Is so old that peO-
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