Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-01-08

water in tbs othsr, AMI soma ols asSe1 him
what he meant TO do with them. He an
swersl, with this torch / mean to burn
down heaven, AMI with this water mean to
put out the fires OF hell" He was a maniac.
lie could do the one thing just as well rs he
could do the other No time 10 lose II YOU
want to escape your sins for This year taou
SHALT die"
Let me announce that Christ, the Lor J..
stands ready to save any man who wants to
be saved. He waitsl 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 out.
stretche J, mangled hands Of love.
You come home some night aud find the
marx OF muddy feet on your front step.
You hasten in aud find an excited group
around your child. He fell into o pond, and
had il not been for brave lad, who plunged
in and brought hin out AMI carried him
home to be resuscitste5 Won would have
been childless You feel that you cannot do
enough for the rescuer You throw your
arms around him. You offer him any com
pensation. You say to him. Anything
that you want shall bs yours. | will never
cease 10 be grateful" But my Lord Jesu;
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 SOUL Ii l want it saved, will
save It myself"
| wish YOU might know wdqt JOB Jesus
undertook when He carried yolr casa t.
Calvary. They crowded Hin to the wall.
Thy struck Him. raey sp1t on Him. They
kicked Him. They cuffeJ Him. Taey scoffs1
at Him. They scourged Him. They muir
derei Him. Blooil bloo1i As He stOoDs
down to lift you up the crimson drops upon
Won from His brow, from His side, from His
hands. Do you not feel the warn current
on YOUR facas On, for thee the hunger tia
thirst. the thorn sting, thu sufocAtion, the
struggle, the deatd.
A great plague came in Marselles. The
doctors held consultation an decide that
n corpss must be dissectad or they would
never know how to stop the plague. A DR..
Guyon said. Tomorrow morning l 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 dei in twelve hours Beauty
full self sacrifice you say. Oar Lori jesus
looked out from heaven and saw a plague
stricken race. Sin must be dissectei. He
made His will, giving everything to His peo-
Die. He comes down into the reeking hos
pital Of earth. He lays His han1 to the
WOIK. Y Hutl OIA pa AlD ~
healthy for the sick, the pure for the pol
Iute1 the innocent for the guilty. Behold
the Lowell Behold the sacrificed Behold the
rescue
Decide on this first Sabbath Of the year
whether or no. you will nave Jesus He
will not stan1 forever begging for your love.
With some here His plea ends right speedily.
This year thou shalt die"
This great salvation of the Gospel / now
offer 10 every man, woman and child. You
canuo, buy it, You cannot earn it. A
Scotch writer says that poor woman one
cold winters day looke1 through the win
dow OF a kings conservatory and saw a
bunc of grapes hanging against the glass.
She said, "Oh. il | only hal that bunch OF
grapes for my sick child at home" At her
spinning wheel she earns few shillinSs
and went to buy the grapes. The king
gardner thrust her out very roughly, and
said he had no grapes to sell. She went OF
and sold a blanket ami got some more shi-
Inns. and came back and tried to buy thu
grapes. But the gardener roughly assaulted
ber aud tod her to be OF. The
kings daughter was walking in the garden
at fhe time. AMI she heard the excitement,
and seeing the poor woman, said to her,
"My father is not a merchant II sell. but he
Is kim ant gives" Then she reached up
and plucked the grapes and dro9pel them in
+ha moor woman's apron SO Christ Is a
k:ng' and all the fruits of His pardon He
freely gives. They may not be bought.
Without money AM without price, take this
sweet cluster from the vineyards o. God.
lam coming to the close of nay sermon.
sought for text appropriate for the occl-
sion. thought OF taxing one IN Job: Ny
days iv as weavers shuttle o. text II
- har daVS
that we NAV apply our hearts unto WIS
dom of the PRAYER of the vine dresser:
lord let it a one this year also but preset
upon nv attention first of all, AMI last OF all.
and above all, were the words: "Inls year
thou shalt die
Perhaps it may mean me. Though in per
feet health now, it doss not take Col ons
week to bring down thu stron gest physical
constitution. l Go not want to die this year.
We have plans and projects Oh foot that
want to see completed: but Col knows pest,
and He has a thousand better men tlan l u
90 the work vet undone. l have hope
that, notwithstanding all my sins ana
wanderings, | shall. through the III
finite mercy Of my Saviour. come out at ths
rigdt place I have nothing to brag OF
bv way Of Christian experience. but two
things / have learned--ny utter helplessness
before God and the all Astounding grace OF
the Lord Jesus Il the text means some OK
you. my hearers, | do not want you ~ Do
caught uuprepared. [ would like to havs
you, either through money You had lad up
or a life insurance. be aole to leave the
world feeling that your family need not oe'
come pauDers But il you have done your
best ana YOU leave not one dollars worth o.
estate. you may confidently trust the Lord
who hath promised TO care for the widow
and fatherless. | would like to have your
soul fitted out for eternity so that II any
morning or noon or evening or nignt OF
these taree hundred aud sixty-five days,
death should look in and ask, Ara you
ready YOU might, with an out5urst OF
Christian triumph, answer, AYE. aye! all
ready
know not what our last words may ne
Lord Chesterfield prided himself on ms po-
likeness, and said in his last moment, '6iye
Dayrolles a chair Dr. Adam. a dying
boys may dismiss Lori Telterden, sup
posing himself Oh the bench Of a courtroom,
said in his last moment, Gentlemen oil the
jury, you will now consider your verdict.
A diving play actor said: Drop the curtain.
Toe farce is paved out" would rather
have for my dying words thosa Of one greater
than Chesterfield or DR.. Adam or Lord Ten
terden II am now ready to he offered. and
the time of my departure is at hand. have
fought a good fight, | have finished my
course. have kept the faith; hence 'ortn
tnere is laid up for me a crown OF righteous
ness, which the I,orj, the righteous Judge
shall give me"
The sooner the last hour cones the better
il we are fitted for entrance in the celestial
world. There is no clock in heaven, because
il is sn everlasting day; yet they keep an
account OF the passing years. because taey
are all the time hearing from our worii.
The angels flying through heaven report
how many times the earyh has turned on Its
axis. and in that way the angels can keep
diary; AMI they say it is almost time no"
for father to come up, or for mother to come
up. Soms day they SEQ cohort LEAVING
heaven, and they say, whittier bound
and the answer lie, "To bring up soul from
earth" aud the question is asSei, What
sou!w And family circle IN heaven fnt
that it is one OF their own number that is to
I've brought up, and they come out to watch,
rs on the beach we now watch Tor ship
that is TO bring our friends home. After a
while the cohort will heave in sight. flying
usarer and nearer. until with great clans
the gates hoist, ami with an embrace, wild
with the ecstacy of heaven, old friends
,,,oot av,fu Vvav with VOur stiff formal