News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-02-18
with a scalding sarcasm he dashed
her hypocritical pursuers.

with a scalding sarcasm he dashed
her hypocritical pursuers.
THE CRY OF THE PUBLICAN.
And see how he made an immortal
liturgy out of the publican's cry.
"GOd be merciful to me a sinner"
prayer SO short that the most over
whelmed offender can utter it, and
yet long enough to win celestial do
minions 1t was well put by a man
who had been converted, and who re
memhered that in his dissOlute days
he found it hard to get occupation,
because he could not present GER
tificate for good character.
In commencing Christ to the peo-
pie he said. Bless God. | have found
out that Jesus will take a man with
out a characterI" Christ on a level
with suffering humanity My text
says, He came down with them and
stood in the plain" No climbing up
through attributes you cannot under
stand. No ascending of the heights
of beautiful rhetoric of prayer. No
straining after elevations you cannot
reach. No hunting for God that
you cannot find. But going right
straight to him and looking into his
face and taking his hand and asking
for his pardon, his comfort, his grace.
his heaven.
Christ on the level When during
the siege of SebastOpOl an officer had
commanded a private soldier to stand
on the wall exposed to the enemy
and receive the ammunition as it was
handed up, while he, the officer,
stood in a place sheltered from the
enemy guns, General Gordon leaped
upon the wall to. help and com
manded the officer to follow him.
and then closed with the words,
Never order a man to do anything
that you are afraid to do yourself.
Glory be to God, the captain of our
salvation has himself gone through
all the exposures in which he com
mands us to be courageous. He has
been through it all, and now offers
his sympathy in similar struggle.
One of the kings of England one
night in disguise walking the streets
of London, and not giving account
of himself, was arrested and put in
miserable prison. When released
and getting back to the palace. he
ordered thirty tons of coal and a
large supply of food for the night
prisoners of London. Out of his
own experiences that night he did
this. And our Lord the king afore-
time endungeoned and sick and
hungry and prosecuted and slain,
out of his own experiences is ready
to help all, and pardon all, and COM
fort all, and rescue all.
Oh, join him in the plain As long
as you stay up in the mountain of
your pride you will get no help. That
is the reason so many never find the
salvation of the Gospel They sit
high up in the Mont Blanc of their
opinionativeness, and they have their
opinion about God, and their opinion
about the soul and their opinion
about eternity. Have you any idea
that your opinion will have any eff
feet upon the two tremendous facts
that you are a sinner, and that Christ
is ready at your earnest prayer to
save you.
In the final day of accounts how
much will your opinion be worth
Your opinion will not be of much i'm
portance before the blast Of the arch
angels trumpet. When the life of
this planet shall be thrashed out with
the fail of thunderbolts nobody will
ask about your opinions Come
down out of the mountain of opinion
ativeness and meet Christ on the
plain, where you must meet him or
never meet him at all, except as you
meet him on the judgment throne.
HE IS EASY TO REACH
A Christ easy to get att No armed
sentinel to challenge you. No ruth
less officer to scrutinize the papers
you present. Immediate response.
Immediate forgiveness. Immediate
solace. Through what struggle PEG
pie must go to get a pardon from
worldly authority! By what peti-
ton, by what hindrance, by what
nervous strain of anxiety, by what
adrOitness. A count of Italy was
condemned to be put to death at
Milan. The countess, hearing of the |
sentence, fastened to Vienna to seek |
his pardon. The death warrant was
on its way.
Tho fn11nfncS ~,
in the night, FASTENED to the palace
gates. The attendants forbade her |
entrance at all, and especially at |
night, but she Overcame them with |
her entreaties, and the empress was
Weakened and the countess pleaded |
before her for the life of her hus-
band, and then the emperor was
Weakened to hear the same plea.
Communication of sentence was
granted, but how could she over
take the officer who had started with |
the death warrant, and would she be |
too late to save the life of her hus-
band2 BY four relays of horses, and
stopping not moment for food, she
reached the city of Milan as her hus
band was on the way to the scaffold.
Just in time to save him, and not a
minute to spare, she came up.
You see there were two difficulties
in the way. The one was to get the
pardon signed, and the other to bring
It to the right place in time Glory
be to God, we need go through no
such eXigency. No long road to
travel No pitiless beating at
palace gate Pardon here Pardon
low. Pardon for the asking. Pardon
or ever. A Saviour easy to get at.
A Christ on the plainl
Curious Spanish Custom.
The slUlmbers of the infant king
If Spain, and indeed the entire pal
ice, are watched throughout the
light by body Of men. who for 400