The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-14

with the gospel net.
, $50 into the world and preach the
Gospel" says Christ; into the factory,
the engine house, the club room, into
the houses of the sick, into the dark
lane, into the damp cellar. into the
cold garnet, into the dismal prison. Let
every man, woman and child know that
Jesus died, and that the gate of Heaven
is wide open. With the Bible in one
pocket, and the hymn book in another
pocket, and loaf of bread under your
arm, launch out into the great deep Of
this worlds wretchedness.
The text is appropriate to all the I'M
forgiven. Every sinner would come to
God if he thought that he might come
just as he is. People talk Us though
the pardon of God were a narrow river,
like the kennebe or the Thames, and
that their sin draws too much water to
enter it. No; it is not q river, nor a
bay, but sea. l should like to per-
suade you to launch out into the great,
deep sea of Gods mercy. l am mer-
chant, have bought a cargo of spices
in India. l have, through bill of ex-
change, paid for the whole cargo. You
are a ship captain. give you the
orders and say: Bring me those
spices" You land in India You go
to the trader and say: Here are the
ORDERS" and You find everything all
right You do not stop TO pay the
money yourself. 1t is not your bust
ness to pay it. The arrangements were
made before you started. So Christ
purchases your pardon. he puts the
papers, or the promises, into your hand.
Is it wise to stop and say: 81 cannot
pay for my redemption?" God does not
ask you to pay. Relying on what has
been done launch out into the deep.
The Bibles promises join hands and
| the circle they make will compass all
your sins, and all your temptations, and
all your sorrows. The round table of
| King Arthur and his knights had room
for only thirteen headquarters; butthe
round table of Gods supply is large
enough for all the present inha bitants
of earth and Heaven to sit and for the
still mightier populations that are yet
to be.
Do not sail coastwise along your old
habits and old sins Keep clear of the
shore. Go out where the water is deep
est o. for the midsea OF Gods mercyi
BE it known unto you, men and breth-
rem, that through this man is preached
unto you forgiveness of sins" preach
it with as much confidence to the
eighty-year-old transgressor as TO the
maiden. Though your sins were blood
ho
more ragged the prodigal, the more
compassionate the father. Do you
say that you are too bad? The
high water mark of Gods par
don is higher than all your trans
gressions. The blood of Jesus Christ
cleanseth from all sim" Do you say
that your heart is hard? Suppose
it were ten times harder Do you say
that your iniquity is long continued?
Suppose it were ten times longer. Do
you say that your crimes are black?
Suppose that they We're ten times
blacller. Is there any lion that this
Sampson cannot Stay? Is there any
fortress that this ConQueror cannot
take? Is there any sin this Redeemer
cannot pardon?
II is said that when Charlemagne's
host was overpowered by the three
armies of the Saracens in the pass of
| Roncesvalles, his warrior, Roland, in
terrible earneStneSs, seized Il trumpet
and blew it with such terrific strength
that the opposing army reeled back
with terror, but at the third blast it
broke in two. | see your soul fiercely
assailed by all the powers of earth and
hell 1 put the mightier trumpet of the
Gospel to my lips and blow it three
times Blast the first: 'Whosoever
will let him come" Blast the second
Seek We the Lord while He may be
found" Blast the third-"Now is the
accepted time; now is the day of saliva
| ton" Do not the host of your sins
fall back? But the trumpet does not,
like that of Roland, break in two AS
it was handed down to us from the lips
| of our fathers, we hand it down to the
| lips of our children, and tell them to
sound it when we are dead, that all the
generations of men may know that our
God is pardoning Coda sympathetic
| Coda loving God; and that more to
Him than the anthems of Heaven, more
to Him than the throne on which He
sits, more to Him than are the temples
of celestial worship, is the joy of seeing
the wanderer putting his hand on the
door latch of His Vather's house. Hear
it, all We nations! Bread for the worst
hunger. Medicine for the worst sick
ness Light for the tkicisest darkness.
| Harbor for the worst storm.
Dr. Prime, in his book of wonderful
interest entitled Around the World"
describes tomb in India of marvellous
architecture. Twenty thousand men
were twenty-five years in erecting that
and the buildings around it. Standing
! in that tomb. if you speak or sing. after
you have ceased you hear the echo COM
iag from height of $50 feet 1t is not
| like other echoes. The sound is drawn
out in sweet proiongatiol, as though
the angels of God were chanting on the
wing. How many souls in the tomb of
sin will lift up the voice of penitence
and prayer? If now they would cry
unto God the echo would drop from
afar-not struck from the marble cupola
of an earthly mausoleum, but sounding
back from the warm heart of angels
| flying with the news, for there is Joy
among the angels of God over one sim
ner that repenteth.
| Newfoundland Really Fertile.
| The mention of Newfoundland malkes