Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-01-14

the outrage u gulng into giury aaa r.avint;
helped none mp 70 the same place II win
be found that many Sabbath school
teacher has taken into heaven her whole
clAsSs. that Daniel Baker. the eva. ..list.
took thousands into heavta. IT,; Did
bridge has t;tAen q hlnlrr--- Of q ocsl y.
that Paul took in hum.rsd r.IllianA How
many will you take inr II you get into
heaven and find nOne there thai you sent
and that thvre arr none TO come through
your instrumentality. ] beg Of you 70 crawl
under some seat in the back corner and
never come out lest the redeemed get their
eyes on you and some one cry out, THAT is
the man who never lifted hand or voice for
the redemption Of his fellows Look at
him. all heavenP' Better be busy Better
put the plow In deep. Better say what
you have to say quickly Better cry the
alarm Better fall ON your knees Better
lay hold with both hands What you now
leave undone for Christ will forever be
undone This year thou shalt der
GET READY
In view Of the probabilities mentioned, l
advise all the men and women not ready
for eternity TO get ready II the text he
true, you have no time o talk about non
essentials, asking why God let sin come
into the world, or whether the book of
Jonah is inspired. or who Melchisedec was:
or what about the eternal DEGREES If you
are AZ near eternity ~ some of you seem to
be, there is no time for anything hut the
question, What must do to be savedP''
The drowning man, when plank is sthrown
him, stops not TO ask what sawmill made
it, or whether it is oak or cedar or who
threw it. The moment it is thrown, he
clutches it. II this year you are TO die.
there is no time for anything but immedi
ately laying hold on God It is high time
to get out of your sins You say, II have
committed no great transgressions" But
are you not aware that your life has been
sinfuli The snow comes down on the Alps
fake by fake, and it is so light that you
may hold it on the tip of your finger with
out feeling any weight; but the flakes
gather. they compact, until some day
travellers foot starts the slide, and it goes
down in an avalanche, crushing to death
the villagers. So the sins of your youth,
and the sins of your manhood, and the sins
of your womanhood may have seemed only
slight inaccuracies or trifing divergences
from the right-so slight that they are
hardly worth mentioning, but they have
been piling up and piling up, packing to
gether and packing together, until they
make mountain of sin, and one more step
of your foot in the wrong direction may
slide down upon you an avalanche uf ruin
and condemnation.
A man crossing a desolate and lonely
plateau, a hungry wolf took after him. He
brought his gun to his shoulder and took
aim, and the wolf howed with pain, and
the cry woke up a pack of wolves, and they
came ravening out of the forest from ai'
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 ter.
rible with the assault of their bloody muz
zles, Oh, the unpardoned, clamoring, raw
ening, all devouring sins of thy lifetime
A maniac was found pacing along the
road with torch in one hand and pail of
water in the other and some one asked
him what he meant to do with them. He
answered, with this torch mean to burn
down heaven, and with this water mean
to put out the fires of hell" He was a
maniac. He could do the one thing just as
we'll as he could do the other. No time to
lose if you want to escape your sins for
'This year thou shalt die"
Let me announce that Christ, the Lord,
stands ready to 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
bis 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 steps.
You hasten in and find an excited group
around your child. He fell into a pond,
and had it not been for brave lad, who
plunged in and brought him out and car
ried him home to be resusctated, 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 compensation. You say to
him. Anything that you want shall be
yours. will never cease to be grateful"
But my Lord Jesus sees your soul sinking.
and attempts to bring it ashore. and you
not only refuse him thanks, but stand on
the beach and say Drop that SOUL If
want it saved, will save it myself"
| wish you might know what job Jesus
undertook when he carried your 'case to
Calvary They crowded him to the wall
They struck him. They spat on him. They
kicked him. They cuffed him. They scoffed
at him. They scourged him. They mur
1ered him Bloodl blood 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 facef Oh, for thee the hunger, the
thirst. the thorn sting, the sutfocation, the
darkness, the groan. the sweat, the
struggle, the DEATH
A great plaque came in Marseilles The
doctors held consultation and decided
that corpse must be dissected or they
would never know how to stop the plague.
A DIR. Guyon said, Tomorrow morning
will proceed to dissection" He made his
will, prepared for death, went into the hos
pital. dissected a body; wrote out the re-
suits of the dissection and died in twelve
hours Beautiful self sacrifice, you say.
Our Lord Jesus looked out from heaven
and saw Il plague stricken race Sin must
oe dissected He made his will, giving
everything to his people He comes down
INTO the reeking hospital of earth He lays
his hand to the work Under our plague
ne dies--the healthy for the sick, the pure
for the polluted, the innocent for the guilty
Behold the lovel Behold the sacrificed Be
bold the rescued
WILL YOU HAVE JESUsi
Decide on this first Sabbath of the year
whether or not you will have 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 now
pffer to every man, woman and child. You
cannot buy it. You cannot earn it. A
Scotch writer says that a poor woman one
sold winters day looked through the win
low Of kings conservatory and saw
bunch OF grapes hanging against the glass
She said, oh, II only had that Suncn or
grapes for my sick child at home" At her
spinning wheel she earned few shillings
and went to buy the grapes The kings
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