Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-10-08

chey strew their prayers with sOis' and
..Forever and ever, Amen aud things TO
MI up. TEL God what you want with the
feeling that he is ready to give it. and be-
leve that you will receive, and you shall
have it. Shed that old prayer you have
been making these ten years It is high
time that yeu outgrew ii. Throw it aside
with your old ledgers. and your old hats.
and your old shoes Take review of vour
present wants. OF your present sins and OF
your present blessings. With a sharp blade
cut away your past half AMI half Christian
life, and with new determination, and new
plans, and new expectations launch out into
the deep.
The text is appropriate to all the unfor-
gwen. Every sinner would cone to God il
ne thought he might come just as he is.
People talk as though the pardon of God
were narrow river, like the Ksnnebec or
the Thames, and that their sins draw too
much water to enter it, No it is not river
nor bay, but a sci. 1 should like to per-
sIiade you TO iauncl out into thu great deep
of Gods mercy. | am a merchant | have
bought cargo Of spices in India l have,
through bill OF exchange, paid for the
whole cargo. You are ship captain |
give you the orders aud saw, Bring me
those spices" You land in India You go
to the trader and say, Here are the ordersn
and you find everything all right. You do
not stop to pay the money yourself. 1t is
not your business to pay it. The arrange
ments were made before you started. So
Christ purchases your pardon. He puts the
papers, or the promises, into your hand. Is
it visa 70 stop and say, II cannot paw for
my redemption God does not ask you to
Jay. Relying on what has been done, launch
out into the deep.
The Bibles promises join hands, and the
circle they make will compass all your sins,
and all your temptations and all your sor-
rOnn1 n kTrae Arth md
his knights had room for only thirteen ban
queters, but the round table of Gods supply
is large enough for all the present inhabit-
ants of earth and heaven to sit at and for
the still mightier populations that are yet to
be.
DO not sail coastwise along your old habits
and old sins Keep clear of the shore. Go
out where the water is deepest Oh, for the
mid sea of Gods mercy 'tBe it known unto
you, men and brethren, that through this
Man Is preached unto you forgiveness of
SINS preach it with as much confidence
to the eighty ear-old transgressor as to the
maiden. Though your sins were blood red
they shall be snow white. The more ragged
the prodigal, the more compassionate the
Father. Do you say that you are too bad2
The high water mark of Coils pardon is
higher than all your transgressions, 'rhe
blood OF Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sim"
Doyou say that your heart is hards Sup
that your inlquity is long continued? Sup
pose 1t were ten times longer. Do you say
that your crimes are black? Suppose that
they were ten times blacker. Is there any
lion that this Samson cannot Stay? Is there
any fortress that this Conqueror cannot
take? Is there any sin that this Redeemer
cannot pardon?
It's said that when Charlemagne's host
was overpowered by toe three armies of the
Saracens in the pass of Roncesvalles his
warrior, Roland, in terrible earnestness
seized a trumpet and blew it with such ter
rife strength that the opposing army reeled
back with terror. but at the third blast of
the trumpet it broke in two. Isee your soul
hereely assa1led by all the powers of earth
and hell. put the mightier trumpet of the
Gospel to my lips and blow it three times
Blast the first-"Whosoever will, let him
come" Blast the second-"S4ex We the
Lord while He may be found" Blast the
third-"Now is the accepted time; now is
the day of salvation
Does not the host of your sins fall back?
But the trumpet does not, like that of Roland,
break in two. AS it was handed down to Us
from the lips of our fathers, we hand it down
to the lips of our children, and tell than to
sound it when we ara dead, that all the gen.
erations of men may know that our God is
hardening Cola sympathetic Coda low
ing God-and that more to Him than the
anthems of heaven: more to Him than the
throne on winch lie SltS; more TO him Inan
are the temples of celestial worship is the JOY
of seeing the wanderer putting his han on
the door latch of his Fathers house. Hear
If, all We Nationsl Bread for the worst hun
ger. Medicine for the worst Light
for the thickest darkness. Hlr3or for the
worst storm.
DR.. Prime, in his look of wonderful inter
est, entitled "Around the World" describes
a tomb in India of marveous architecture.
Twenty thousand men were twenty-five
years in erecting that AMI the buildings
around it. Standing in that tomb, if you
speak or sing. after you have ceased you
hear the echo coming from height of one
hundred and fifty feet. 1t is not like other
echoes The sound is drawn out in sweet
prolongaton, as though this angels of
God were chanting on the wing. How many
souls in the tomb of sin will lift up the
voice of penitence and pr aver? If now they
would cry unto God the echo would drop
from altar, not struck from the marble Gu
po'a of an earthly mausoeum, but sounding
back from the warm heart of angels flying
the news, for there is Joy among the angels
of God over one sinner that repenteth!