Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-25
three capital letters, that word NOW

Nowi
Sin is an awful disease. hear people say
with the toss OF the head and with trivial
manner: "0h, YES I'm a sinner" Sin Is an
awful disease. 1t In leprosy. 1t is dropsy.
| 1t is consumption. 1t 10 all moral disorders
| disease. Perhaps you have had some illus
tration of it in your amily. Sometimes the
physician has called, and he has looked at
| the patient&nd said: ''That case was simple
enough; but the crisis has passed II you
| had called me yesterday, or this morning,
| could have cured the patient. 1t Is too late
now; the crisis has passed. Just SO ills is is IN u
| crisis. Before that. life! After that, death!
o, my dear brother,as you love your soul 10
| not let the crisis pass unattended 70!
| There are some here who can remember
| instances in life when, III they had bought
certain property, they would have become
very rich. few acres that would have
| cost them almost nothing were offered them.
They refused them. Afterward large vii
lage or CITY sprang up on those acres OF
ground and they see what mistake they
made in not buying the property Ihere
| came back again.
Chances for Pardon That Slip By.
And so it is in regard to a mans spiritual
| and eternal fortune. There is a chance; IL
you let that go, perhaps it never comes
back. Certainly, that one never comes back.
There is a time which mercy has set for
leaving port. If you are on board before
that you will get a passage for heaven. If
you are not on board, you miss your passage
for heaven.
Why defer this matter, o. my dear hearer?
Have you any idea that sin Will wear out?
that it will evaporstef that il win relax its
grasp that you may find religion as a man
accidentally finds lost pocketbookf All.
no! No man ever became a Christian by &C
cident, or by the relaxing OF sin: The en-
t,o,. Sc hA ina I'M G
The hosts of darkness are recruiting, and
the longer you postpone this matter the
sleeper the path will become. 1 ask those
men who are before me this morning wheth-
er in the 10 or is years they have passed in
the postponement of these matters they
have come any nearer God or heaven?
glimpse & e Of eh christ st know now they thew would love
him. Your heart leaps at the sight OF
glorious sunrise or sunset. Can you be with
out emotion when the Sun Of Righteousness
rises behind Calvary, and sets behind JOS
eph's sepulchre? He is q blessed Savior! o,
my blessed Jesus! Light in darkness! The
salvation! My joy! My strength! How
strange it is that men cannot love Thee!
The Tremendous Interests at Stalk.
Why should stand here and plead, and
you sit there? 1t is your immortal SOUL 1t
is q soul that shall never die. 1t is soul
that must soon appear before God for re-
viewal. Why throw away your chance tor
heaven? Why plunge of into darkness
when the gates of glory are open? Why be-
come castaway from God when you can sit
upon the throne? Why will We die miserably
when eternal life is offered You, and it will
cost you nothing, but just willingness to ac-
ceps it, Come, & for all things ad are rs,n now
ready! The Church is ready. Heaven is
ready. You will never find a more conven-
lent season, if you should live 80 years more,
than this very one. Reject this. and you
NAV die in yOur sins.
Why do I>say thisY Ia it to frighten your
soul? Oh, no. 1t is to persuade you. 1
Would not be a coward beyond all excuse,
if, believing that this great audience must
soon be launched into the eternal world,
saved SIss ana al that ali who reject Christ W he
lost-would not be the veriest coward on
earth to hide the truth or to stand before
you with a cold. or even q placid manner?
My dear brethren, now is the day Of your re-
demption.
1t is very certain that you and r,;nst secn
appear before God in Judgment. We cannot
see Him, and they also which pierced Him,
and all the kiadreds Of the earth shall wall
because OF Lim." On that day all our ad-
Yantages will come up Tor our glory or for
mon, every exhortatory remark, every re-
proH, every call of grace; and while the |
heavens are rolling away like a scroll, and
md the world is being destroyed, your des- |
tiny and my destiny will be announced.
Seek the Lord While He May Be Found.
But want you to take the hint OF the text |
that have no time to dwell on-the hint |
that there is q time when he cannot be |
found. There is a man in this city, so years |
of age, who said to q clergyman who came |
in, "Do you think that q man 80 years of age |
can get pardoned?" ''Oh, yes" said the |
clergyman. The old man said: 81 can't; |
when was 20 years of age-I am now so
years-the Spirit OF God came to my soul,
and L felt the importance of attending to
these things. but put it OF. rejected God,
and since then 1 have had no feeling"
We'll" said the minister, wouldn't you
like to have me pray with youf" Yes, re-
piled the old man, "but it will do no good.
You can pray with me II you like to-"
The minister knelt down and prayed. and
the mans soul to God. 1t
seemed to have an effect upon him. After a
while, the last hour OF the mans life came,
and through his delirium spark of intelli-
gence seemed to flash, and with his last
breath he said: 81 shall never be forgiven!"
80 seek the Lord while He may be found"