Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-01-07
A man crossing desolsse and lonely plateau

my oouA, uhu make the night OF thy SIN terr1Dle
with the assault OF their bloody muzzles. Oh
the unpardoning, clamoring ravening oil de.
vouring sins Of thy lifetimei
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 his brow and
tears in his eye, and two outstretched, mangled
hands OF love-
You come home some night an find the
mark Of muddy feet on your front s teps 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 carried him home to be
resus citated, you would have been chldless
You feel that you cannot do enough for
the rescuer. You throw your arms
around him. You offer him any com.
pensation. You say to him, Anything that
you want shall be yours. 1 will never cease to
be grateful" But my Lord Jesus secs your soul
sinking, and attempts to bring 1t ashore, and
you not only refuse him thanks, but stand on
the beach and say, Drop that SOUL III want
1t saved, will save 1t myself'
wish you might know what a job Jesus un.
dertook 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 scofed at him They
scourged him. They murdered him. Blood
bloodl 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 face? Oh, for thee the
hunger, the thirst, the thorn-sting, the suffoca-
ton, the darkness, the gro an, the sweat, the
struggle, the DEATH
A great plague came In Mars eilles The doc
tors held consultation, and decided that
corpse must be dissected or they would never
know how to stop the plague. A DR.. Guyon
said; Tomorrow morning win proceed to
dissection" He made his will, prepared for
death; went into the hospital, dissected body
wrote out the results OF the dissection,
and died in twelve hours. Beautiful self
sacrifice, you say. Our Lord Jesus looked
out from he¥ and saw plague-stricken
race. Sin mast be dssected. 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,
he dies-the healthy for the sick, the pure for
the polluted, the innocent for the guilty. Be-
hold the Lowell Behold the SACRIFICED Behold
the rescued
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 offer
to every man, woman, and child. You cannot
buy IL. Scotch writer says that q poor
woman, one cold winters day, looked through
the window of Kings conservatory. and
saw bunch of grapes hanging
If only had that bunch Of grapes for my
sick child at homel" AT her spinnmg-wheel
she earned few shillings, and went to buy the
apes The Kings gardener thrust her out
very roughly, and said he had no grapes to sell.
She went off and sold a blanket, and got some
more shilllngs and came back and tried TO buy
the grapes But the gardener roughly
assaulted her, and told her to be OF. The
Kings daughter was walking in
the garden at the time, and she heard the ex-
element, and, seeing the poor woman, said to
her, My father is not a merchant, to sell, but
he is King, and gives" Then she reached UP
and plucked the grapes and dropped them into
the poor woman's apron. So Christ is King,
and all the fruits of his pardon he freely gives
They may not be bought. Without money and
without price, take this sweet cluster from the
vineyards of God
am coming TO the close OF my sermon.
sought for a text appropriate for the occasion.
thought of taking one in Job: my days fly
as a weaver's shuttle;" of IA text in the Psalms:
$50 teach us to number our days that we may
apply our hearts unto WISDOM" OF the prayer
OF the vine-dresser: Lord, let II alone this
year ALSO" but pressed upon my attention, first
of all, and last OF all, and above all, were the
words, This year thou shalt die"
Perhaps it may mean me. Though in perfect
health now, it does not take God one week to
bring down the strongest physical constitution
l do not want to die this year. We have plans
and projects on foot that l want TO see COM
pleted; but God knows best and he has a
thousand better men than TO do the work yet
undone. have hope that, Notwithstanding
all my sins and wanderings, shall, through
the infinite mercy of my Savior, come out at
the right place. / have nothing TO brag of by
way of Christian experience, but two things
have learned-my utter helplessness before
God, and the all-abounding grace of the Lord
Jesus. IL the text means some of you, my
hearers do not want you to be caught I'M
prepared would like TO have you, either
through money you have laid up, or a life IN
surance," be able to leave the world feeling
that your family need not become paupers.
But if you have done your best, and you leave
not one dollars worth OF estate you may con-
tidently trust the LOrd who hath promised 10
care for the widow and the fatherless.
I would like to have your soul fitted out
or eternity, so that il, any morning., or
noon, or evening, or night OF these 3S
days. death should look in and ask, "Are you
ready9" you might, with an Outburst of Chris.
trian triumph answer "Ay, ay! all ready"
know not what our last words may be. Lord
Chesterfield prided himself on his polteness,
and said in his last moment, "Give Dayrollesa
chair" Dr. Adam, dying schoomaster, said
1T grows dark The boys may dismiss" Lord
Tenterden, supposing himself on the
bench Of courtroom, said, in his
last moment: Gentlemen OF the jury, you
will now consider your verdict" A dying play
actor said: Drop the curtain. The farce Is
played out" would rather have for my dying
words, those OF one greater tnan Chesterfield,
or DIR. Adams, or Lord Tenterden: ~ am now
ready to be offered, and the timeiof my depart
ure is at hand. / have fought q good fight, I
have finished my course. have kept the faith,
henceforth there is land up for me crown OF
righteousness, which the Lord the righteous
Judge, shall give me-"
The sooner the last hour comes the better II
we are fitted for entrance in the celestial world
There is no clock in heaven, because il m an
everlasting day: yet they keep an account of
the passing years, because they are all the time
hearing from our world. The angels flying
through heaven report how many times the
earth has turned on its axis and in that way
the angels can keep q diary; and they say it is
almost time now for father to come up, or for
mother to come up. Some day they see a
cohort leaving heaven, and they say, WHITTIER
bound?" and the answer Is, ITO bring up O
soul from EARTH" and the question is asked,
what souli" And family circle In
heaven find that IT is one OF their own num-
Der that is to be brought up, and they
come out to watch, as on the beach we
now watch for a ship that's to bring our friends
home. After q while the cohort will heaye in
sight, flying nearer and nearer, until with o
great clang the gates hoist. and with an EN-.
brace, wild with the ecstacy Of heaven, old
friends meet again. Away with your stiff, for.
NAL heavenl / want none OF 1t. Give me a
place Of infinite and eternal sociality. My feet
free from the clods OF earth, l shall bound the
hills with gladness, and break forth in laugh
of triumph. Aha! aha! We weep now but then
we shall laugh. "Abraham's bosom" means that
heaven has open arms 10 take us In. Now we
fold our arms over our heart, and tell the world
TO stand back, as though our bosom was a two
barred gate TO keep the world out. Heaven
stands not with folded arms but with heart
open. 1t is "Abrahams bosom" I see
mother and her child meeting at the foot Of the
throne after some years absence. The child died
twenty years ago but 1t is q child yet think
the little ones who die will remain children
through all eternity. 1t would be no heaven
without the little darlings l do not
want those that are in heaven TO grow
up. We need their infant voices in the great
song. And when we walk out in the fields OF
light, we want them TO run ahead and clap
their hands, and pick out the brightest OF the
field flowers. Yes, here is child and its
mother meeting The child long in glory, the
mother Just arrived. "How changed you are,
my darllngl" says the mother Yes" says
the child, 'this Is such happy place, and