Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-07-15
REV. DR.. TiIMkGE.
THE BROOKLYN DINiNE'S sun
DAY SERMON.
SupIECr: "THE GREAT QUESTION. ~
preached IN ENGLAND)

Matthew xvii, -.
Plate was an uuprinciple1 politician. liz
had sympathieS, convictions II right All
desires b be honest: but all these were
submerged by wish to be ppDultr an 10
please the people. Two dI,tn sdIshat
prisoners were in the grasp OF government
and the proposition was ma IL 10 tree on 81
them. There stands BarlbhaS tls murderer;
there stands Christ, the say Jour OF ths world.
At the demand OF the people the rcaesa l. l.
set free, but Jesus is held. As the harJ
visaged AMI cruel eye BIrIbbls goes among
his sympathlZars, receiving their coarse
congratulations, Plate turns % his other
distinguished priSoner-nilI, maeG mol IL
sive, loving, self Sacriicing-lu he Is cDa-
founded rs 10 what course nc had better
take 50 he impauels the mob as a jury u
decide, saying b then, What snail DO,
then, with jesus
Oh, it is no dTird or witherel question,
but one that throbs with warn ani quick
pulse in the heart OF every man and woman
here. We must do something with Jesus.
He is here. You and | are not 50 certainty
here as He Is, for He fills all this pllcc-tle
loving, living, dying Christ-anl each ous
of us will have to ask and answer for himself
the question. what shall | do, then, with
Jesus" Well, my friends, there arc three
or four things you en- do with Him.
You can, in the first place, let Him stan
without a word OF recognition; but 10 not
think your sense Of common courtesy will
allow that He comes walking Oh such a
long journey, you will certainly give Hum a
chair on which He may sit. He is 50 weary,
you would not let HIM stand without some
recognition. IL a beggar comes to your
door, you recognize him aud say, "What do
you WANT II you meet n stranger faint in
the street. you say, Nv hat is the matter
with your anI your common humanity, aud
your common sympathy, AMI your common
sense of propriety will not allow You to let
him stand without ecognitiOn-the wounded
one OF the hills. You will ask, What makes
him weep! where was he hurt? who wouu led
hmy whence came her whittier goes he?
know there have been men who have VITA
outrageous indifference hated Christ, but |
know very well that is not what you will do
with Jesus.
Another thing you can do with Him-vOu
can thrust HIM back from your heart ami
tell Him to stand aside If an inotfensiva
person comes and persists III standing close
up to you, AMI you have in various ways
given him to understand that YOU do not
want his presence or his society, then YOU
ask the reason OF his impertinence AMI hill
him away. We'll, that is what We can do
with Jesus,
He has stood close by us n great while
ten, twenty, thirty. forty years. Ho has
stood close 10y you three tim . a day breaA-
ing bread for your household, all UiLhC
watching Ivy your pillow. H. has been in
the nursery among your children He has
been in the store among your goods, H. has
been in the factory amid the flying wheels,
and now if you do not like II is society you
can bid Him away; aye, If He will not so
you can take Him by tho throat and tell
Him you do not want HIS interference, that
you do not want His breath on your cAeek.
that you do not want His eye on your be
havior. You can bid Him away; o. II He
Will not 20 III that way then you can stamp
your foot as you would Ut u do5 and cry
"Begonep
Yet know you will not treat Jesus that
way. When Plate could not do that you
could not. Desperadoes and outlaws might
do so, but know that that is not the way
you will treat Him, that TINT IS not what
you will do with Jesus. There Is another
thing you can do with Him-yOu can look
on Him merely as an optician to cure blind
eyes or an aurist to tune deaf ears u
friend, a good friend, a helpful companion.
cheerful Passenger on shipbolrd but that
Will amount to nothing.
You can look upon Him as n Col and b.
abashed while He rousaS the storm, or blasts
u fig tree, or heaves a rock down the moun-
tain side That will not do you any good
no more save your soul than the admiration
you have for John Milton or William Snakes.
peare. | can think OF only one more thin :
you can do with Jesus AMI that Is to take
Him into your helrtS. That is the best thine
you can do with Him. that is the only safe
thing you can do with Han, and may tht
Lord omnipotent by HIS spirit help ME tC
persuade you to do that \ minister of Chris
was speaking TO some children AMI said: 81
will point You to Christ n little child roSt
up in the au fence al came up and put her
hand in the hand OF the pastor and siid
'Plcasc, sir, take me to jesus now, | wan
TO 80 now" Oh, that it might be now witt
such simplicity OF experience that you ani !
join HANDS and seek after Christ and get al
expression of His benetactioI and His mercy
You may take Christ into your confidence
II you cannot trust Him, whom can you
trust2 | do not oifer you dry, theological
technicality. simply as you u come ant
put both tcet on the "RD.G OF yes" Tax
hold of Christ's hanis and draw Him t.
your soul with perfect abandonment aul
hurl yourself INTO the deep sea % His mercy
He comes aud says, 81 will save YOU L
you do not think lie is II hypo,rlte and
liar when He says that, bsiieve Him an
say: Lord Jesus, | believe, hero Is M
heart Wash - Savn it. Do it no.
come. | can do no more That is all Tho,
hast asked. come. Christ is mine. Par
don is mine Heaven is mine"
why, my friends you put mora trust il
everybody than you do in Christ anl il
everything more trust in tho bridge cross
ing the stream, in the ladder up to tho loft
more trust in the stove that confines the fire
more trust in the cook that prepares YOU
fool; moro trust in tho c,erx that write
boob t,N Il Al.
medicine, in the bargain maker with whom
you trade-more trust in all these thin.
than i'll Christ, although He stands this me
ment Offering without limit ana withou
mistake and without exception universa
pardon to all who want it. Nov is not tina
cheap enough-all things for nothing
This Is the whole OF the Gospel as | under
stand it-that IL you believe that Chris
died to save you, you are saved. When
Now. No more doubt about it than that 70,
sit there. No more DOUBT about it than TIM
you have right hand. No more doub
about 1t than that there Is a God. II yo
had committed five thousan trans gresson
Christ would forgive you just az freely us I
you had never committed one though yo,
had gone through the whole catalogue o
crime-arSon and blasphemy anl murder -
Christ would forgive you just as freely, vol
coming to Him rs though you hal conmtte
only the slightest sin OF the tongue.
Why, when Christ CONES to pardon n sou
He stops for nothing. Height is nothing
Depth is nothing. Eaormlty is rothiny
Protracteiness is nothing.
Der sins like mountains for their size,
The seas to sovereign grace ypand,
The seas OF sovereign grace arlst.
Lord Jesus, give up all other props, Civ
up all other expectations. Runal an un
done, lay hold Thee. plead Thy promises
| fly to Thy arms. Lord, save me.
perishP
When the Christian commission went int
the army during the war there were a grea
multitude of hungry msn AMI oay few
loaves Of bread, aud the delegate OF the com
mission was cutting tho bread AMI giving /
out 30 wounded AMI dying men. Some on
came up and said, "Cut those slices thinner.
or there will not be enough to go around
And then the delegate CUT the slices yer
thin and handed the bread around uatil the
all had some, but not much. But, b!esis
be God thpra IL no Dpnl oF ar1notnv In th