Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-05


Oh, IL men could only catch Just on,
gTIihpse ot Christ | know they would love
hlm. Your heart leaps at the sight of 4
glorious sunrise or sunset. Can you be with
| out emotion as the Sun OF Righteousness
rises behind Calvary and sets behind
Joseph'S sepulcher' lie is a blessed Saviour
Every nation has its type Of beauty. There
Is uermln beauty and Swiss beauty and
Italian beauty aud English beauty, but
care not In what land man first looks a,
| ChrlsG he pronouncei Him "chief among
ten thousand, and the one altogether Lowell w
| d my blessed Jesusl Light in darkness
he rock on whicl buil1l The CAPTAIN of
saivationl My joyi My strength. How
strange it is that men cannot love Thee
The diamond districts of Brazil are care
FULLY guarded, and a man does not get in
there except by pass from the Govern
meut. but the love OF Christ ia diamond
district We may all enter and pick up treas.
ure Tor eternity. OI, cry for mercy! ITO.
day, II ye will hear this voice, harden not
your hearts, There is a way of opposing
the mercy Oft too long, and then there
remaineth no more sacrifice for sin, but a
fearful looking for judgment and fiery in.
| dignation which shall devour the iversary.
My friends, my neighbors what can say
to induce you to attend 10 this matter-to
atten to it now2 Time is flying, fiying-the
city clock joining my voice this moment
seeming to say to you: Now is the time!
Now is the timer Ga, put it not offr'
Why should | stand here and plead and
you slt there; Ii IL your immortal soul. It
Is soul that Shall never die. 1t is a soul
That must soon appear before God for re-
VIewdi. why throw away your chance for
heavenI Why plunge Off into darkness
when all the gates OF glory are open' Why
become castaway from God when you can
sit upon the throne' Why will ye die mis-
crahly when eternal life is offered you, and
1t VIII cost you nothing but Just willingness
TO accept it, Come. for all things are
now ready" Come, Christ is ready, par
don is rea Iy! The church is ready. Heaven
is ready. You viii never find more con-
venient season if you should live fifty years
more than this very one. Reject this and
you may die in your sins.
Why DO say this' Is it to frighten your
soui' Oh, no, 1t is to persuade you 1
show you the peril. | show you the escapa.
Would not be a coward beyond all excuse
If, believing that this great au Hence must
soon be launched into the eternal world and
that all who believe in Christ shall be saved,
and that all who reject Christ will be lost
would not be the verest coward on earth
to hide that truth or to stand before you
VITA cod or even a placid manner? My
dear brethren now is the day Of your re-
denptinn.
1t is very certain that You and I must
soon appear before God in judgment. We
cannot escape it. The Bible says: Every
eye shall $40 HIM, AMI they also which
pierce Him, and all the kindreds of the
earth shall wall bac luse OF Him" On that
day all our advantages will come up for our
glory or for our disco omhture-every prayer
every sermon, every exhortatory remark,
every reproof, every call OF grace: and
while the heavens arr rolling away like O
scroll, aud the world is being destroyed,
your destiny and my destiny will be an.
npuncsl. Alas! alas! il on that day it il
found that we have neglected these mat
tiers. We may throw them Off now. We
cannot then. We will all bs in earnest then.
But no parlon then. No offer of salvation
then. No rescue then. Driven away in our
wlckednes S. 1anished, exiled forever
Have yOu ever imagined what will be the
so,iloluy OF the soul on that day unpar-
Gorei. rs it looks back upon its past life!
oh" saws the soul, II had glorious Sab
baths! There was one sabbath in autumn
when was invited TO Christ. There was
sabbath morninS when Jesus stool and
sprs Al out His arms aud invited me to His
holy heart refused Him. have destroyed
M SELF. have no one else to blame. Ruin
complete. DIrkness unptyinS, deep, eter.
nal! | am lost Notwithstanding all tho
opportunities have ha OF being saved
am lost Oh, Thou long suffering Lord Col
Almighty, am lost, Oh, day of Judgment
| am lost On, father, mother, brother,
sister. child in glory, am lost" Aud then
as the tide goes ont your soll goes out with
it--farther from Col, farther from happl-
ness, and | hear vour voice fainter and faint
er Lost! Lost! Lost! Losti LostF' o ye
dying, yet immortal menl seek the Lord
while He may be founi."
But | want you to take the hint OF the
text that | have no time TO dwell on-ths
hint that tn re is a time when He cannot be
founl There was mlu in this city eighty
years OF age, who said to clergyman who
cane in, "Do you think that man at
eighty years OF age can get par ioneit' "Oh,
yes said tho clergyman, The old man
said: Il can't; when was twenty years OF
agc-l am now eighty years-the spirit OK
God came to my soul, and felt the inl-
portance of attending to these things, but |
put il Off. Irrj ,cte Col and since then |
havl had no feeling" We'll" said the
min ster, "wouldnt YOU like to have me
pray with youy Yes" replied the old
man, but it will do no good. You can
pray vita M If you like to-
The minister knelt down and prayed, and
commended the mans soul 70 God. It
seenai to have no effect upon him. After
awhile the last hour Of the mans life came,
and through his delirilm a spark of inteli-
gence seemed to fash, aud with his last
breath he slid. "l shall never be forgivenp
20 se5S the Lord while He may be found