The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-08-05

| mas lOOKeu at the patient ana Salu.
THAT case was simple enough; but the
crisis has passed. If you had called me
yesterday, or this morning, l could have
cured the patient 1t is too late now;
the crisis has passed" Just so it is in
the spiritual treatment of the soul
there is crisis. Before that. life! After
that, death! o my dear brother, as you
love your soul do not let the crisis pass
unattended to.
There is time which mercy has set
for leaving port If you are on board
before that you will get passage for
Heaven. If you are not on board, you
miss your passage for Heaven. AS in
law courts, a case is sometimes ad-
| journed from term to term, and from
year to year, till the bill of costs eats
up the entire estate, so there are men
who arc adjourning the matter of reli-
gion from time to time, and from year
to year, until Heavenly bliss is the bill
of costs the man would have to pay for
| it.
Why defer this matter, o my dear
hearer? Have you any idea that sin
will wear out? that it will evaporate?
that it will relax its grasp? that you
may find religion as man accidentally
finds lost pocl1etboolx? All, no. No
man ever became Christian by acci-
dent or by the relaxing of sin. The
embarrassments are all the time in
creasing.
would not be afraid to challenge
this whole audience, SO far as they may
not have found the peace of the Gospel,
in regard to that matter. Your hearts,
you are willing frankly to tell me, are
becoming harder and harder, and that
if you come to Christ it will be more of
an undertaking now than it ever would
have been before. o fly for refuge!
The avenger of blood is on the track!
o, if men could only catch just one
glimpse of Christ, know they would
love Him. Your heart leaps at the sight
of a glorious sunrise or sunset Can
you be without emotion as the Sun of
Righteousness rises behind Calvary and
sets behind Joseph's sepulchre? He is
blessed Saviour! Every nation has its
type of beauty There is German beauty,
and Swiss beauty, and Italian beauty,
and English beauty, but l care not in
what land a man first looks at Christ,
he pronounces Him chief among ten
thousand, and the one altogether love
ly."
The diamond districts of Brazil are
carefully guarded, and man does not
get in there except by pass from the
government; bat the love of Christ is a
diamond district we may all enter and
pick up treasures for eternity. o, cry
for mercyl To-day, if ye will, hear
His voice, harden not your hearts"
Why should l stand here and plead
and you sit there? 1t is your immortal
soul. 1t is soul that shall never die
1t is soul that must soon appear before
God for reviewal. Why throw away
your chance for Heaven? Why plunge
off into darkness when all the gates of
glory are open? Why become a cast
away from God when you can sit upon
the throne? Why will We die miserably
when eternal life is offered you and it
will cost You nothing but just willing
ness to accept il? Come, for all things
are now ready" Come, Christ is ready,
pardon is ready! The church is ready.
Heaven is ready.
Why do say this? Is it to frighten
your soul? o, no. 1t is to persuade
you l show you the peril l show
YOU the escape. Would not be a cow
ard beyond all excuse, if, believing that
this great audience must soon be
launched into the eternal world, and
%l,,+ III ,,-bo 1Na1;oya IN ChriSf shall no
saved, and that all who reject Christ
will be lost-would not be the veriest
coward on earth to hide that truth or
to stand before you with a cold, or even
placid manner? My dear brethren,
now is the day OF your redemption.
1t is very certain that you and l must
soon appear before God in judgment.
We cannot escape it. The Bible says:
Every eye shall see Him, and they
also which pierced Him, and all the
kindreds of the earth shall wall be-
! cause of Him" On that day all our ad-
vantages will come up for our glory or
| for our discomfiture-every prayer,
every sermon, every eXhortatory re-
mark, every reproof, every call of
grace, and while the heavens are roll
ing away like a scroll and the
world is being destroyed your
destiny and my destiny will bo
announced. Alas! alas! if on
that day it is found that we have neg
lected these matters We may throw
them off now; we cannot then We
will all be in earnest then. But no
| pardon then. No offer of salvation
| then. No rescue then. Driven away
| in our wickedness-banishe eXiled
forever!
| Have you ever imagined what will be
| the soliloquy of the soul on that day
unpardoned, as it looks back upon its
past life? ''O,'' says the soul, 81 had
glorious Sabbaths There was one
Sabbath in autumn when was invited
| to Christ There was Sabbath morn
ing when Jesus stood and spread out
his arms and invited me to His
| holy heart. refused him
have destroyed myself. 1 have no one
else to blame. Ruin complete Dark.
ness u1pitying, deep, eternal! 1 am
lostl Notwithstanding all the oppor-
tunities / have had of being saved, am
lostl o, Thou long suffering Lord God
Almighty, am lost! o day of judg.
ment, 1 am lost! o father, mot her
brother, sister, child in glory, 1 am lostr
And then the tide goes out, your soul
goes out with it-farther from God
farther from happiness, and fainter
and fainter: Lost! LOST LOST Lost
LOST Oye dying, yet immortal men
''seek the Lord while He may be found y
But want you to take the hint of the
text that 1 have no time to dwell on
the hint that there is a time when He
cannot be found There is a man il