Milford chronicle., 1892-01-08

a school
teacher has taken into heaven her whole
Slass; that Daniel Baker, the evangelist,
ttAok thousands into heaven; that Dod-
ldI 1lge has taken in hundreds Of thousands;
tba Paul took in a hundred millions. How
many will you take in? II you get into
HEAVIER '-and find none there that YOU sent
and tbAe. there are none to come through
vonr instS umentality, Beg Of you to crawl
nnder sorsae seat in the back corner and
never come d,ut lest the redeemed get their
ewes on YOU ariad some one cry out, "That is
the man who never lifted hand or voice for
tbe redemption Oh his fellows Look at
him. all heavenp' Better be busy. Better
/ put the pIcw in deep. Better say what
You have to say quickly. Better cry the
alarm. Better fall Of your knees. Better
ilav hold with both hdinds What you now
leave undone for Christ will forever be
undone "This yeqsf thou shalt die"
GEeT READY.
| In view of the > Probabilities mentioned, I
advise all the men. and women not ready
/ for eternity to get ready. If the text be
/ true. YOU have n6 time to talk about non
essentials, asking why God let sin come
| into the wOrld or whether the book Of
Jonah is inspired; or who Melchisedec was;
or what about the eternal DEGREES. II 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 savedy'
| The drowning 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 immedi-
atelv laying hold on God It 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
! sinful? The snow comes down on the Alps
I fake by fake, and it is so light that you
may hold it on the tip OF your finger with
I out feeling any weight; but the flakes
gather; they compact until some day a
/ travellers foot starts the slide, and it goes
down in an avalanche, crushing to death
the villagers. So the sins of your youth,
and the sins of your manhood, and tho sins
of your womanhOOd may have seemed only
slight inaccuracies or trifing divergences
| from the right--sO slight that they are
! hardly worth mentioning, but they have
been piling up and piling up, packing to-
gether and packing together until they
make mountain of sin, and one more step
of your foot in the wrong direction may
/ slide down upon you an avalanche Of ruin
and condemnation.
A man crossing a desolate and lonely
plateau, a hungry wolf took after him. lie
/ brought his gun to his shoulder and took
Aaim. and the wolf howled with pain, and
Me cry woke up a pack of wolves, and they
oaSSne ravening out of the forest from all
IN Is and horribly devoured him. Thou
o. Athe man. Some one sin of your life
s,,y,,,,,2l 2lnning on all the rest, they surround
thy soul 2nd.nake the ISil Ii,'SnS Q. Sny SIN te,
rible with the assault of their bl05isI
zles. Oh, the unpardoned, clamoring, raw
ening, all devOuring sins Of thy lifetime!
A maniac was found pacing along the
road with a torch in one hand and a pail of
water in the other, and SOME one asked
him what he meant to do with them. He
answered, with this torch mean to burn
down heaven, and with this water l 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
''rhis year thou shalt die"
Let me announce that Christ, the Lord,
stands ready to save any man who wants
to be saved. He waited for you all last
year, and all the year before, and all your
life He has waited for you with blood on
his brow and tears in hiseye, and two out
stretched, mangled hands of love.
You come home some night and find the
mark of muddy feet on your front steps,
You hasten in and find an excited group
around your child. He fell into n pond,
and had it not been for brave lad, who
plunged in and brought him out and car
ried him home to be resuscitated, you
would have been childless. You feel that
you cannot do enough for the rescuer
You throw your arms around him. You
offer him any compensation. YOu say to
him: Anything that you want shall be
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 sOull If /
want it saved, will save it myself"
wish you might know what job Jesus
undertook when he carried your case to
Calvary They crowded him to the wall.
They struck him. They spat on him. They |
kicked him. They cuffed him. They scotfed
at him. They scourged him. They muir
dered him BlOOd bloodl As he stoOps
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 suttocation, the |
darkness, the groan, the sweat, the |
the DEATH
A great plague camo In Marseilles The |
doctors held a consultation and decided |
that a corpse must be dissected or they |
would never know how to stop the plague. |
A DIR. GuvOn said, Tomorrow morning |
will proceed to dissection. He made his |
will; prepared for death; went into the hos
pitai: tlissected body; wrote out the re-
suits Of the dissection and died in twelve |
hours, Beautiful self sacrifice, you say. |
Our Lord Jesus looked out from heaven |
and saw plague stricken race. Sin must |
be dissected. He made his will, giving \
everything to his people. He comes down |
into the reeking hospital Of earth. He lays |
his hand to the work. Under our plague |
he dies-the healthy for the sick, the pure |
for the polluted, the innocent for the guilty. |
Behold the lovel Behold the sacrificed Be |
hold the rescued
WILL YOU HAVE JESUS?
Decide on this first Sabbath of the year |
whether or not you viii have Jesus. lie |
will not stand forever begging Tor your love. |
With some here his plea ends right speedily. |
'This year thou shalt die
This g1'eat salvation Of the Gospel now /
offer to every man, woman and child. You |
cannot buy it. You cannot earn it. A
Scotch writer says that poor woman one |
cold winters day looked through the win |
dow of a kings conservatory and saw
bunch Of grapes hanging against the glass.
She said, "Oh, if 1 only had that bunch Of
grapes for my sick child ut homer At her |
spinning wheel she earned IA few shillings /
and went to buy the grapes The kings /
gardener thrust her out very roughly, and /
said he had no grapes 70 sell. She went of |
and sold blanket and got some more |
5hillings. and came back and tried to buy |
the grapes. But the gardener roughly as
saulted her and told her to be of. The
i,ing' daughter was walking in the garden |
1t the time, and she heard the excitement, /
and seeing the poor woman, said to her, |
my father is not merchant to sell, but /
be IS a king and gives" Then she reached |
1p and plucked the grapes and dropped |
them in the poor woman s apron. SO Christ |
Is king, and all the fruits of his pardon /