Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-07-09

dcnce If you can not trust Him, whom
can you trust? do not offer you dry
theological technicality. simply asl
you to come and put both feet on the
Crock of Ages" Take hold of Christ's
hand and draw Him to your soul will
perfect NIB andonment and hurl yourseli
into the deep sea of His mercy. He
comes and says, 81 will save YOU" II
You do not think lie is hypocrite and
n liar when He says that, believe Him
and say: Lord Jesus, / believe; here is
my heart. Wash it. Save it. DO II
now, Ave, it is done; for l obey thy
promise aud come. | can do no more
That is all Thou hast asked. come,
Christ is mine. Pardon is mine. Heaven
is NINE"
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 to 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
trade; more trust in all these things
than in Christ, although he stands this
moment offering without limit, and
without mistake, and without eXcep-
ton. universal pardon to all who want
it. Now, is not that cheap cnough-all
things for nothing?
This is the whole of the Gospel rs |
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. No more doubt
about it than that You have n right
hand No more doubt about it than that
there is God. If you had committed
five hundred thousand transgressions.
Christ would forgive you just as freely
as if you had never committed but one:
though you had gone through the whole
catalogue of crimcs-arson, blasphemy
and murtler-Christ would pardon you
just rs freely, you coming to Him, as
though you had committed only the
slightest sin of the tongue. Why, when
Christ comes to pardon a soul He stops
for nothing. Height is nothing. Depth
is nothing. Enormity is nothing. Pro-
tractedness is nothing.
Ger sins like mountains for their size,
The seas OF sovereign grace expand
The seas of sovereign grace arise.
Lord Jesus, / give up all other props
give up all other expectations. Ruined
and undone, l lay hold Thee. plead Thy
promises / fly to Thy arms. Lord save
me, perish" When the Christian com
mission went into the army during the
war there were a great multitude of
hungry men and only few leaves of
bread and the delegate of the COM
mission was Cutting the bread and Civ
ing 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 economy in
this Gospel. Bread for all, bread enough
and to spare. Why perish with hunger?
Again, 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
inherent attractiveness and then what
he does in the way of kindness toward
u.s. Now Christ is in both these posi-
tions. Inherent NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
than the children of men, the luster of
the morning in his eye, the glow of the
setting sun in his check, myrrh and
in the breath of his lip.
In Heaven of holy beings, the best.
In Heaven of mighty ones, the strong
est. In Heaven of great hearts, the
tenderest and the most sympathetic.
Why, sculpture has never yet been able
to chisel his form, nor painting to pre-
sent the flush of his cheek, nor music to
strike his charms; and the greatest sur
prise of eternity will be the first mo-
ment when we rush into his presence
and with uplifted hands and streaming
eyes and heart bounding with rapture,
we cry out, This is Jesus!"
All over glorious is my Lord,
He must be loved and yet adored:
His worth, II all the nations knew,
Sure, the whole earth would love him too
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
condescension. John Howard turned
his back upon the refinements and went
around prisons to spy out their sorrows
and relieve their wrongs, but English
criminals 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 crucifixion for You and me.
If L were hopelessly in debt, and
some one came and paid my debts and
gave me a receipt in full, and called off