Connecticut western news., 1892-01-07


 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 his eye. and two outstretched. 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 pond. and had it not been for brave lad, who plunged in and brought him out and carried 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 dear 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 l want it saved l will save it myself"
 l wish you might know what a 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 scoffed at him. They scourged him. They murdered him. Blood Blood 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 face9 Oh, for thee the hunger, the thirst, the thorn sting. the suffo. cation. the darkness, the groan, the sweat, the struggle, the death
 A great plague came in Marseilles. The doctors held consultation, and decided that corpse must be dissect ed or they would never know how to stop the plague. A Dr. Guyon said, Tomorrow morning will proceed to a dissection" He made his will, prepared for death, went into the hospital, dissected body. wrote out the results of the dissection and died in twelve hours. Beautiful self sac rifice, you say. Our Lord Jesus looked out from heaven and saw a plague stricken race. Sin must be dissected He made his will, giving everything to his people. He comes down into the rocking 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 sacri feel Behold the rescual
 Decide. on this first Sabbath of the year, whether or not you will have Jesus. He will not stand forever begging for your love. With some here his plea ends right speedily. This year thou shalt die."
 SALVATION CANNOT BE BOUGHT
 This great salvation of the Gospel l now offer to every man, woman and child. You cannot buy it. You cannot earn it. A Scotch writer says that apoor woman, one cold winters day, looked through the window of a kings conservatory and saw a bunch of grapes hanging against the glass. She said, "Oh, if only had that bunch of grapes for my sick child at home"
 At her spinning wheel she earned few shillings and went to buy the grapes. The kings gardener thrust her out very roughly and said he had no grapes to sell. She went of and sold a blanket and got some more shillings and came back and tried to buy the grapes. But the gardener roughly assaulted her and told her to be off. The kings daugh ter 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 he is a king and gives Then she reached up and plucked the grapes and dropped them into the poor woman's apron. So Christ is a king and all the fruits of his pardon he freely gives. They may not be bought Without money and with. out price take this sweet cluster from the vineyards of God.
 am coming to the close of my ser mon. sought for text appropri ate to the occasion. 1 thought of taking one in Job, My days fly as weaver's shuttle;" of a text in the Psalms, "So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom" of the prayer of the vine dresser, Lord, let it alone this year also;" but pressed upon my at tention first of all and last of all and above all were the words, ''This wear thon shalt dia-"
 Perhaps 1t may mean me. Though in perfect health now, it does not take God one week to bring down the strongest physical constitution. l do not want to die this year. We have plans and projects on foot that I want to see completed, but God knows best, and he has thousand better men than to do the work yet have hope that, notwith- all my sins and wanderings, l shall, through the infinite mercy of my Saviour, come out at the right place I have nothing to brag of by way of Christian experience; but two things have learned-my utter before God, and the all grace of the Lord Jesus.
 If the text means some of you, my hearers, do not want you to be caught unprepared. Iwould like to have you, either through money you have laid up, or a life insurance" be able to leave the world feeling that your family need not become But if you have done your best and you leave not one dollars worth of estate, you may confidently trust the Lord who hath promised to