Connecticut western news., 1892-07-28
ters that word N-O-W-now!

say, with the toss of the heal and with trivial manner, "Oh, yes, I'm sinner" Sin is an awful disease. It. is leprosy. It is dropsy. It k consumption. It is all moral disorders ill one. Now you know there is a cr.sis in disease. Per. haps you have had some illustration of it in your family. Sometimes the physi- clan has called and he has looked at the patient and said: "That cass was simple enough, but the crisis has passed. If you had called menyesterday or :his morning could have cured the patient. It is too late now; the crisis has passed" Just 80 it is in the spiritual treatment of the soul; there is crisis. Before that, lifei After that, death! Omy dear brother, as you love your soul, do not let the crisis pass unatter ded to!
 There are some here who can remem- Der instances in life when if they had bought 8 certain property they would have become very rich. A few acres that would have cost them almost noth- ing were offered them. They refused them. Afterward large village or city sprang mp on those acres of ground and they see what a mistake they made in not buying the property. There was an opportunity of getting it. 1t never came back again. And so if is in re- gard to 8 mans spiritual and eternal fortune. There is a chance; if you let that go, perhaps it never comes back. Certainly that one never comes back.
 There is time which mercy has set for leaving port. If you are ou board before that you will get passage for heaven. If you are not on board you miss your passage for heaven. AS in law courts a case is sometimes adjourned from term to term, and from year to year, till the bill of costs eats up the en- tire estate, so there are men who are ad- journing the matter of religion from time to time, and from year to year, until heavenly bliss is the bill of costs the man would have to pay for it.
 Why defer this matter, O my dear nearer? Have you any idea that sin will wear out? that it will evaporate? that it will relax its grasp? that you may find religion as man accidentally finds lost pocketbook? An, mol No man ever became @ Christian by accident or by the relaxing of sin. The embarrass- ments are all the time increasing. The hosts of darkness are recruiting, and the longer you postpone this matter the sleeper the path will become. I ask those men who are before me this morn ing whether in the ten or fifteen years they have passed in the postponement of these matters they have come any nearer God or heaven?
 FLY FOR REFUGE.
 Iwould not be afraid to challenge this whole audience, so far as they may not have found the peace of the Gospel, in regard to that matter. Your hearts, you are willing frankly to tell me, are becoming harder and harder, and that if you come to Christ it will be more of an undertaking now than it ever would have been before. Oh, fly for refuge! The avenger of blood is on the track! The throne of judgment will soon be set, and if you have anything to do to- ward your eternal salvation you had better do it now, for the redemption of the soul is precious and it ceaseth for everl
 Oh, if men could only catch just one glimpse of Christ, I know they would love him. Your heart leaps at the sight of a glorious sunrise or sunset. Can you be without emotion as the Sun of Right eousness rises behind Calvary and sets behind Joseph's sepplcher? He is a blessed Saviour! Every nation has it's type of beauty. There is German beau ty and Swiss beauty and Italian beau ty and English beauty, but care not in hot nt c+ ha pronounces him "chief among ten thou sand, and the one altogether lovely" O my blessed Jesus! Light in darkness! The rock on which I build! The cap- tain of salvation! My joy! My strength! How strange it is that men cannot love theel
 The diamond districts of Brazil are carefully guarded, and a man does not get in there except by pass from the government, but the love of Christ is a diamond district we may all enter and pick up treasure for eternity. Oh, cry for mercyi "Today, if ye will hear this voice, harden not your hearts" There is way of opposing the mercy of God too long, and then there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin, but fearful look ing for judgment and fiery indignation which shall devour the adversary. My friends, my neighbors, what can I say to induce you to attend to this matter to attend to it now? Time is flying, fly ing-the city clock joining my voice this moment, seeming to say to you: "Now is the time? Now is the timel" Oh, put it not off!
 Why should stand here and plead and you sit there? It is your immortal soul. It is 8 soul that shall never die. It is soul that must soon appear before God for reviewal. Why throw away your chance for heaven? Why plunge off into darkness when all the gates of glory are open? Why become a cast away from God when you can sit upon the throne? Why will ye die miserably when eternal life is offered you, and it will cost you nothing but just willing ness to accept it? "Come, for all things are now ready" Come, Christ is ready. pardon is readyl The church is ready. Heaven is ready. You will never find a more convenient season if you should live fifty years more than this very one. Reject this and you may die in your sins.
 THE PERIL AND THE ESCAPE.
 Why do I say this? Is it to frighten your soul? Oh, no. It is to persuade you. show you the peril. show you the escape. Would not be a coward beyond all excuse if, believing that this great audience must soon be launched into the eternal world, and that all who believe in Christ shall be saved, and that all who reject Christ will be lost-would I not be the veriest coward on earth to hide that truth or to stand before you with cold or even placid manner? My dear brethren, now is the day of your redemption