The Penn's Grove record., 1892-01-08

sinful? The snow comes down on the Alp
flake by flake, and 1t is so hight that yot
may hold it on the tip of the finger without
feeling any weight; but the flakes gather
they compact, until some day a traveller.
foot starts the slide, and 1t goes dow in al
avalanche, crushing to death the villagers
SO the sins of your youth, and the sins Of
your manhood, and the sins of YOU woman
hood may have seemed only slight in
accuracies or trifiing divergences from tn,
Fight-so slight that they are hardly worth
mentioning; but they have been piling up
and piling up, packing together and packing
together, until they make q mountain Of
sin, and one more step of YOU foot in the
wrong direction may slide down upon you
AN avalanche of ruin and condemnation.
A man crossing a desolate and lonely
plateau, a hungry wolf took after him. He
brought his gun to bis shoulder aud took
aim, and the wolf howled with pain, and the
cry woke up a pack Of wolves, and they cam
ravening out OF the forest from all sides and
horribly devoured him. Thou art the man.
Some one sin of your life summoning on all
the rest, they surround thy soul and make
the night of thy sin terrible with the assault
of their bloody muzzles. Oh, the unpar'
doned, clamoring, ravening, all ~devouring
sins of thy iifetimei
A maniac was found pacing along the
road with a torch in one hand and o pail OF
water in the other, and some one asked him
what he meant to do with them. He an
swered, with this torch 1 mean to burn
down heaven. and with this water I mean to
put out the fires of hell" He was a maniac.
He could do the one thing just as well as he
sould do the other. No time to lose il you
want to escape your sins for 'rhis year thou
'-lt die"
Let me announce that Christ, the Lord,
stands ready to save any man who wants to
| ha q aTvnI II. puatkn1 for al Lad 100.
and all tho year before, n all your life.
He has waited for you with blood on His
brow and tears in His eye, and two out
Stretched, mangled hands Of love
You come home some night and find the
mark of muddy feet on your front step.
You hasten in and find an excited group
around your child. He fell into a pond, and
In and brought him out and carried him
home to be resuscitated, you 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 be yours. 1 will never;
cease to be grateful" But my Lord Jesus
1t ashore, and you not only refuse Him
thanks, but stand on the beach and say
drop that souii If I want it saved, 1 will
save it myself"
wish you might know what a Job Jesus
undertook when lie carried your case to
Calvary. They crowded Him to the wall.
They struck Him. They sgat on Him. They
at Him. They scourged Him. They muir.
dered Him. Blood bloodi As He stoops
down to lift you up the crimson drops upon
you from His brow, from His side, from His
hands. Do you not feel the warm current
on your facet oh, for thee the hunger, the
thirst, the thorn sting, the suffocation, the
struggle, the death. .
doctors held a consultation and decided that
a corpse must be dissected or they would
never know how to stop the plague. A DR..
Guyon said, Tomorrow morning | will
proceed to a dissection" He made his will:
prepared for death; went into the hospital;
iissscted a body; wrote out the results Of the
| dissection and died in twelve hours. Beanti-
hui self sacrifice you say. Our Lord Jesus
looked out from heaven and saw a plague
stricken race. Sin must he dissected. He
| made His will, giving everything to His peo-
| Pile. He comes down into the reeking hos
pital OF earth. He lays His hand to the
| work. Under our plague He dies-the
healthy for the sick, the pure for the pol
Iuted, the innocent for the guilty. Behold
the Lowell Behold the sacrificed Behold the
| rescue!
Decide on this first Sabbath of the wear
| whether or not you will nave Jesus. He
| will not stand forever begging for your love.
With some here His plea ends right speedily.
''This year thou shalt die"
This great salvation of the Gospel l now
| offer to every man, woman and child. You
cannot buy it. You cannot earn it. A
Scotch writer says that a poor woman one
cold winters day looked through the win
dow of a kings conservatory n saw a
bunch of grapes hanging against the glass.
She said, 'Oh, IT, only had that bunch of
grapes for my sick child at homer At her
spinning wheel she earned a few shipings
and went to buy the grapes. The kings
gardner thrust her out very roughly, and
said he had no grapes to sell. She went off
and sold a blanket and got some more shil-
lings, and came back and tried to buy the
grapes But the gardener roughly assaulted
her and told her Il be off. The
kings daughter was walking in the garden
at the time, and she heard the excitement,
and seeing the poor woman. said to her,
Ia a king and gives" Then she reached up
and plucked the grapes and dropped them in
the poor woman's apron. So Christ Is a
king, and all the fruits of His pardon He
freely gives, They may not be bought.
Without money and without price, take this
sweet cluster from the vineyards of God.
I am owning to the close Of my sermon. l
tOu6hb Az Wv ePIh cPi AubD vuc u
don. I thought Of taking one In Job: "My
lays fly as a weaver's shuttle;;" of a text in
Psalms: so teach us to number our days
that we nay apply our hearts unto wis.,
dom" o, the prayer Of the win, dresser:
Lord, let 1t alone this year ALSO" but pressed
upon my attention first of all, and last of all,
and abo7e all, were the words: This year
thou shat die" >
Perhap s it may mean me. Though in per-
Feet heath now, 1t does not take God one
week to bring down the strongest physical
constitution. 1 do not want to die this year.
We have plans n projects on foot that ]
want to SIC completed; but God knows best,
md He his a thousand better men than | to
10 the work yet undone. / rave a hope
hat, Notwithstanding all my sins and
Wanderines / shall, through the in
Unite mercy of my Saviour, come out at the
right place. l ave nothing to brag of
by way Of Christian experience; but two
things I have learned-my utter helplessness
before God and the all Astounding grace of
the Lord Jesus. IL the text means some of
you, my hearers, l do not want you to be
caught rnprepsred. / would like to have
you, eitler through money you had laid up
or a She ~iusurance," be able to leave the
world fe ~ that your family need not be-
come paL RS. But IL you have done your
best and d leave not one dollars worth of
estate. 70 nay confidently trust the Lord
who natl Igpmised to care for the widow
and faith IS. l would like to AVE your
soul ittft ut for eternity, so that it any
morning noon or evening or night OF
these tf- hundred and sixty-fve days,
death al vol in and ask, "Are you
readyr' l might, with an outburst of
Christian iumph, answer, AYE, ayei all
ready"
know what our last words may be.
Lord Che field prided himself on his po-
liteness, ~ said in his last moment, give
Dayrolle chair" DR.. Adam, a dying
schoolmat said: at grows dark. The
bows MAY q miss Lord Tenterden, sup
posing hin on the bench of a courtroom,
said in hi b It moment, 'Gentlemen of the
Jury, you VII now consider your verdict"
A dying ylt actor said: "Drop the curtain.
The farce d, played out" 1 would rather
nave for ~ living words those of one greater
than Che ,rGs I'D or DIR. Adam or Lord Ten
terden : i arr nowr ready to be offered, and
the time Amy departure is a. hand. l nave
fought a l.ood, fight, l have finished my
course 1 Ny ept the faith; henceforth
there is laiAAerer me a crown of righteous
ness, Which, 'Lord, the righteous Judge.
shall giveLM
The soon III. ,e last honr comes the hetter