Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1892-01-08

eternity 10 get ready IL the text be true, you
will have no time To talk about non-essentials
| asking why God let sin come into the world; or
| whether the book OF Jonah is inspired or who
Mclchiscdec was or what about the eternal
DEGREES. IL you are as near eternity as some
| OF you seem To be, there is no time for any thing
| hut the question, "What must l do 10 be
stvedf" The drowning man, when .
| plank is thrown him stops not To ask
what saw-mill made it, or whether
| IT, The moment IL is thrown he clutches It. In
this year you are 10 die. there is no time for
! anything but Immediately laying hold on God.
| 1t is high time 10 get out OF your sins. You
| say II have committed no great transgres-
| sions." But are you not aware that your life
has been sinfuly The snow comes down on the
Alps, fake by flake, and il is light that you
may hold 1t on the tip OF your finger without
| feeling any weight; but the flakes
| gather they compact, until some day
| "a travellers foot starts the slide
and IL goes down in an avalanche, crush
ing to death the villagers. So the sins OF your
| youth, and the sins OF your manhood, and the
sins OF your womanhosd may have seemed only
/ slight inaccuracies or trihing EMERGENCIES
| from the rght-so slight that they are hardly
worth men tioning, but they have been piling
| up and piling up, packing together and packing
together, until they make mountain OF sin.
and one more step OF your foot in the wrong di'
| recton may slide down upon you an avalanche
OF ruin and condemnation.
Let me announce that Christ, the Lord,
stands ready 10 save any man who wants TO be
saved. He waited 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 outstretched, mangled
! hands OF love.
You come home some night and find the
mark OF muddy feet on your front steps. You
hasten in, and find an excited group around
| your child. He fell into a pond, and had IL not
been for a brave lad, who plunged IN and
! brought him out, and carried him home 10 be
resus citated, 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
| pcnsation. You say 10 him, Anything that
! you want shall be yours. Will never cease to
| be grateful" But my Lord Jesus see S your soul
sinking, and attempts TO bring IL ashore, and
| you not only refuse him thanks but stand on
the beach and say, drop that SOUL If want
1t saved, will save il myself"
/ wish you might know what n Job Jesus IN
dcrtook when he carried your case 10 Calvary.
| They crowded him 10 the wall. They struck
| him. They spat on HIM. They kicked him.
| They cuifed him. They sconcd at him. They
| scourged him. They murdered him. Blood!
! blood AS he stoops down 10 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 face? Oh, for thee the
hunger, the thirst, the thorn-sting, the suToca.
! ton, the darkness. the gro an, the sweat, the
struggle, she DEATH
great plague came in Mars eiies. The doc
| tors held consultation, and decided that .
corpse must be dissccted or they would never
| know how 10 stop the plague. A DR.. Guyon
| said: Tomorrow morning will proceed 10 n
| dissection" lie made his will, prepared for
| death; went into the hospital. dissected a body,
| wrote out the results OF the dissection,
and died in twelve hours Beautiful self.
sacrifice you say. Our Lord Jesus looked
! out from heaven, and saw plague-stricken
race. Sin must be dissectod. He made his
| will, giving everything TO his people He comes
! down into the rocking hospital OF earth. He
| lays his hand TO the work. Under our plague,
| he dies-the healthy for the sick, the pure for
the polluted, the innocent for the guilty Be
| hold the Lowell Behold the sacrihce Behold
the rescue!
Decide on this first Sabbath OF the year
| WHETHER or not you will have Jesus. lie will
not stand forever begging for your love With
some here his plea ends right speedily. This
] year thou shalt die"
l know not what our last words may be. Lord
! Chesterfield prided himself on his politeness,
and said ia his last moment, GIVE Dayrolles d
! chair" DIR. Adam dying schoolmaster, said,
1T grows dark. The boys may dismiss" Lord
| Tentcrden, supposing himself on the
| bench OF courtroom, said, in his
! last moment: Gentlemen OF the jury, you
| viii now consider your verdict" a dying play
| actor said: Drop the curtain. The farce Is
| played out" / would rather have FOR my dying
words, those OF one greater tnan Chesterfield,
or Or. Adams, or Lora Tentcrdon: II am now
ready to be offered, AL the time OF my depart
ure ID at hand have fought a good fight l
! have finished my course, have kept the faith,
hcnceforth there is lald up for me crown OF
righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous
Judge, shall give me-
The sooner the last hour comes the better II
NEts a. sl sgxNA
/ There is no clock in heaven, because IL Is an
everlasting day: yet they keep an account Of
| the passing years, because they are all the time
| hearing from our world The angels flying
| through heaven report how many times the
| earth has turned on its axis, and in that way
! the angels can keep diary; and they say il is
almost time now for father TO come UP, or for
| mother TO come up, Some day they see a
| cohOrt leaving heaven, and they say, whittier
! bound" and the answer Is, ITO bring up n
soul from earth" and the question Is asked,
What souly" And family circle in
4 heaven find that il is one of their own num-
/ her that Is 10 be brought up, and they
/ come out 10 watch, on the beach we
now watch for a ship that's 10 bring our friends
| home. After a while the cohort will heaye in
/ sight flying nearer and nearer, until with a
/ great Clang the gates hoist and with an EN-.
/ brace, wild with the Ccstacy OF heaven, old
! friends meet again. Away with your stin. for.
| mai hcaycn / want none OF It, Give me "a
place of infinite and eternal sociality. Ny feet
| free from the clods OF earth, 1 shall bound the
| hills with gladness, and break forth in laugh
! OF triumph Aha. aha! We weep now, but then
we shall laugh "Abraham's bosom means that
! heaven has open arms to take ne in. Now We
fold our arms over our heart, and tell the world
| TO stand back, as though our bosom was two
! barred gate 10 keep tho world out. Heaven
stands not with folded arms. but with heart
I open. 1t is "Abraham's BOSOM" l see a
mother and her child meeting al the foot Of the
throne after some years absence The child died
| twenty years ago, but IL IS a child yet think
| the little ones who die will remain children
through all eternity. 1t would be no heaven
! without the little darlings. l do not
want those that arc in heaven 10 grow
! up. We need their infant voices in the great
! song And when we walk out in the fields OF
| light, we want them TO run ahead and clap
their hands, and pick cut the brightest OF the
| field flowers. Yes, here is child and its
! mother meeting. The child Bong in glory, the
mother just arrived. How changed you are,
my darlinrif gayg the mother Yes saws