The Forrest City times., 1892-02-19

have to be a changci I correct that and say, There will be a change. If there be fifteen million persons added every year to the worlds population, then, there will be thirty million added fo tho church and forty million and fifty million and sixty million. How will it be donef It will be done when the church will meet Christ on the plain. Come down out of the mountain of exclusive ness. Come down out of the mountain of pride. Come down out of the mountain of Journalism. Come down out of the noun tain of freezing indifference. Old Dr. Stephen H. Tyng, great on earth and in heaven, once said to me; ''I am in favor of a change. I do not know what is the best way of doing things in the churches, but know the way we are doing now Is not the best way, or the world would be nearer it's salvation than it seems to be-. So feel; SO we all feel, that there needs to be change. Tho point at which we all come short Is not presenting Christ on the plain, Christ on the level with all the worlds woes and wants and necessities.
 The full charge will have to come from the rising ministry. We now in the field are too set in our ways. We are numbered up with technicalities. Wehave too many concordances and dictionaries and ency- clopcdias and systems of theology on our head to get down on the plain. Our vo- cabulary is too frosted We arc too much under the domination of customs regnant for many centuries.
 Come on, young men of the ministry. Take this pulpit, take al tue pulpits, and in the language of the street and the mar ket place, and the family circle preach God on the plain. As soon as the church says by its attitude, not necessarily by it's words, My ono mission is to help for this life and help for tho lifo to come all tho people, and 1t proves its earnestness in the matter. people on foot and on horse
 back and in wagons and in carriages will come to the churches in such mum
 bers that they will have to be met at the door by usuers saying
 You were here last Sunday; you cannot come in to-day. Gentlemen and
 ladies, you must take your turn." And,
 it will be, as in the Johnstown freshet and disaster, when government station was opened for the supply of bread, and 1t took
 the officers of the law to keep the sufferers in line, because of the great rush for food.
 When this famine-struck world realizes that the Christ is government station
 set up by the Government of the Universe to provide the Bread of Eternal Life for all the people, the rush will be unpre- cedented and unimaginable.
 Astronomers have been busy measur-
 ing worlds. and they have told us how
 great is the circumference of this world
 and how great is it's diameter, yea, they
 have kept on until they have weighed
 our planet and found it's weight to be six
 
 the weight of this worlds trouble been
 weighed. Now, Christ standing on the level of our humanity stands in sympathy
 with every trouble. There are so many
 aching heads His achea under the
 thorns There are so many weary feet:
 His were worn with the long journey up and down the land that received him not. There are so many persecuted souls !:
 Every hour of his life was under human outrage. The earth had no better place to receive him than a cattle pen, and its fare well was slap on the cheek and spear in
 his side. So intensely human was he that there has not been in all our race gref or infirmity or exhaustion or pang that did not touch him now. The lepers, the par alytics, the mbecile, the maniac, the court. csan, the repentant brigand nd-which one | which one did he not helpi
 Oi join Him in the plain. As long as you stay up in the mountain of your pride you will get no help. That is the reas on Sd
 many never find the salvation Of the Cos. pei They sit up in the Mont Blanc of their opinionativeness and they have their opinion about God, and their opinion about the soul and their opinion about etern ity tlnfx ,f,st. have any effect upon the two tremendous facts, that you are sinner and Christ is ready at your earnest prayer to save you In tue final day of accounts how much will your opinion be worthi Your opinion will not be of much importance before the blast of the Archangers trumpet. When the life of this planet shall be threshed out with the fail of thunder bolts nobody will ask about your opinions. Come down out of the mountain of opinionativeness and meet Christ on the plain, where you must meet him or never meet him at all, except as you meet him on the judgement throne A Christ easy to get at No armed sen tinel to challenge you. No ruthless officer to scrutinize the papers you present. I'm mediate response. Immediate forgive ness Immediate solace. Through whai
 
 from worldly authorityi By what peti tion, by what hindrance, by what nervous strain of anxiety, by what adroitness. A count of Italy was condemned to be pu, 10 death at Milan The countess hearing of the sentence, hastened tt Vienna to seek his pardon. Th' death warrant was already on it's way | The countess, arriving in Vienna in thu II L.n s.t bA attendants forbad her entrance at all, ans especially at night, but she overcams them with her entreaties, and the en press was wakened and the countess | pleaded before her for the life of hel | husband. and then the emperor wal | wakened to hear the same plea. Com | mutation of sentence was granted, bu | how could she oyertaKe the officer who | had started with the death warrant, ans | would she be too late to save the lift | of her husbandi By four relays of horses | and stopping not moment for food sh' l reached the city of Milan as her husband 1 was on the way to the scaffold. Just II 1 time to save him and not minute to spare | she came up. You see there were tw l difficulties in the way. The one was L l get the pardon signed, and the other [ | bring it to the right place in time. Glor. | be to God, we need go through no sucl l exigency. No long road to travel N l pitiless beating at a palace gate Pardol l here. Pardon now. Pardon for the ask l ing. Pardon forever. A Saviour easy [ l get at. A Christ on the plaini
 l \ Happy Aeeiaenu.
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