Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-07-30

than 50 compromise my rhetorical no
tions!' All, the man does not say that;
he takes it. 1t Is his life. He does not
care how it is handed to him. And II
this morning that pardon from tho
throne of God is offered to our souls
should we not seize it, regardless OF all
criticism, feeling that it is a matter Of
Heaven or hell?
But come now to tho last part Of
my text 1t tells us when to seek the
Lord. "Whilc He may be found"
When is that? Old age? You may not
see old age. Tomorrow? You may
not see tomorrow. Tonight? You
may not see tonight Now! o, II I
could only write on every heart in three
capital letters that word NOW now!
Sin is IN awful disease. hear peo-
pie say with toss of the head and with
a trivial manner: 20, yes, I'm SIM
ner." Sin is an awful disease. 1t il
leprosy. 1t is dropsy 1t Is consump-
ton. 1t is all moral disorders in one.
There is time which mercy has set
for leaving port If you are on board
before that you will get passage for
Heaven. II you are not on board, you
miss your passage for Heav en-. AS in
law courts, q case is sometimes adj
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 are 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.
o, If men could only catch just one
glimpse of Christ, know they would
love Him. Your heart leaps ut the sight
of 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 care not in
what land 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 a man does not
get in there except by pass from the
government; but the love of Christ is n
diamond district we may all enter and
pick up treasures for eternity. o, cry
for mercy! To-day, if We will, hear
His voice, harden not your hearts,"
Why should I 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 RENEWAL. 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 it? '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 brighten
your soul? o, no. 1t is to persuade
you. l show you the peril. show
you the escape. Would l not be cow
ard beyond all excuse, if, believing that
this great audience 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 l not be the veriest
coward on earth to hide that truth or
to stand before you with a cold, or even
a placid manner? My dear brethren,
now is the day of your redemption
1t is very certain that you and / 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
lSindreds of the earth shall wall be-
cause of Him" On that day all our adj
vantages will come up for our glory or
for our discomfture-every prayer,
every sermon, every exhortatory re-
mark, every reproof, every call of
grace, and while the heavens are roll
ing away like q scroll and the
world is being destroyed your
destiny and my destiny will be
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-banished, exiled
forever!
But 1 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 man in
this city, eighty years Of age, who said
to clergyman who came in, ''Do you
think that man at eighty years of age
can get pardoned?" 20, yes" said the
clergyman. The old man said: II can't;
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