The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-16

iiS, tioh you Will ntop ever anu uhoh w
wash in the water that stands in the
basin Of the eternal rock. Aye, at al
most every step Of the journey you will
be crying out, "Create within me clean
hearth
If you have no such aspirations as
that 1t proves that you have mistaken
your way, and if you will only look up
and see the fingerboard above your head
you may read upon it the words, "There
is way that seemeth right unto man,
but the end thereof Is DEATH" Without
holiness no man shall see the Lord, and
if you have any idea that you can carry
along your sins, your lusts, your world
illness and yet get to the end of the
Christian race you are so awfully mis-.
taken that, in the name of God, this
morning l shatter the delusion.
Still further, the road spoken of is
plain road. "The wayfaring men,
though fools, shall not err therein
that is, if man is three-fourths an
idiot he can find this road just as well
as if he were philosopher. The i'm
beetle boy, the laughingstock of the
street, and followed by mob hooting
at him, has only just to knock once at
the gate of heaven and it swings open,
while there has been many man who
can lecture about pneumatics and chem
istry, and tell the story of Faraday's
theory of electrical polarization, and yet
has been shut out of heaven. There has
been many man who stood in an OBJ
servatory and swept the heavens with
his telescope, and yet he has not been
able to see the Morning Star.
Many man has been familiar with
all the higher branches of mathematics
and yet could not do the simple sum,
What shall it profit man if he gain
the whole world and lose his own soul?"
Many a man has been fine reader Of
tragedies and poems and yet could not
"read his title clear to mansions in the
Skies" Many man has botanized
across the continent and yet did not
know the "Rose of Sharon and the Lily
of the Valley" But if one shall come
in the right spirit, asking the way to
heaven, he will find it plain way. The
pardon is plain. The peace is plain.
Everything is plain.
He who tries to get on the road to
heaven through the New Testament
teaching will get on beautifully. He
who goes through philosophical discus
sion will not get on at all. Christ says,
"Come to me, and l will take all your
sins away, and l will take all your
troubles away" Now, what is the use
of my discussing it any more9 Is not
that plain2 If you wanted to go to Lon
don, and l pointed you out highway
thoroughly laid out, would be wise in
OBTAINING you by a geological discussion
about the gravel you will pass over, or
a physiological discussion about the
muscles you will have to bring into play?
No. After this Bible has pointed you
the way to heaven, is it wise for me to
detain you with any discussion about the
nature of the human will, or whether
the atonement is limited or unlimited?
There is the road-go on it. 1t is plain
way.
'This is faithful saying, and worthy
of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus
came into the world to save sinners"
And that is you, and that is me. Any
little child here can understand this as
we'll as can. "Unless you become as
little child, you cannot see the king
dom Of God" If you are saved, it will
not be as philosopher, it will be as a
little child. "Of such is the kingdom
of heaven" Unless you get the spirit
of little children, you will never come
out at their glorious destiny.
THE SAFE ROAD.
Still further, this road to heaven is a
safe road. Sometimes the traveller in
those ancient highways would think
himself perfectly secure, not knowing
there was lion by the way burying his
head deep between his paws, and then
when the right moment came, under the
fearful spring, the mans life was gone
and there was mauled carcass by the
roadside. But, says my text, "No lion
shall be there" wish ! could make
you feel this morning your entire Sc
curity. l tell you plainly that one min
ute after man has become child of
God he is as safe as though he had been
ten thousand years in heavan. He may
slip, he may slide, he may stumble, but
he cannot be destroyed. Kept by the
power of God through faith unto com
plete salvation. INCREASINGLY safe.
The severest trial to which you can
subject Christian man is to kill him,
and that is glory. In other words, the
worst thing that can happen child of
God is heaven. The body is only the
old slippers that he throws aside just
before putting on the sandals of light.
His soul, you cannot hurt it. No fires
can consume it. No floods can drown
it. Nc devils can capture it.
Finn and upmoved are they
Who rest their souls on God;
Fixed as the ground where David stood
Or where the ark abode.
His soul is safe. His reputation is
safe. Everything is safe. "But," you
say, suppose his store burns up?'
Why, then it will only be change of
investments from earthly to heavenly
securities. "But," you say, "suppose
his name goes down under the hoof of
oCoIu anu COulelupt! He udIue Will Do
SO much brighter in glory. Suppose
his physical health fails?' God will
pour into him the floods of everlasting
health, and it will not make any differ
ence. Earthly subtraction is heavenly
addition. The tears of earth are the
crystals of heaven. AS they take rags
and tatters and put them through the
paper mill and they come out beautiful
white sheets of paper, SO often the rags
of earthly restitution, under the cylin-
ders of death, come out d white scroll
upon which shall be written eternal
emancipation.
There was one passage of Scripture
the force of which | never understood
until one day at Chamounix, with Mont
Blanc on one side and Montanvent on
the other, opened my Bible and read,
"As the mountains are around about
Jerusalem, so is the Lord around about
them that fear him. The surrounding
were an omnipotent commentary.
Though troubles assail and dangers alright,
| Though friends should all fail and foes al
unite,
Yet one thing secures us, whatever betide-