The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-07-08


you to come and put both feet on the
Crock of Ages" Take hold of Christ's
hands and draw him to your soul with
perfect abandonment and hurl yourself
into the deep sea of his mercy. He
comes and says, 81 will save you" If
you do not think he is hypocrite and
a liar when he says that, believe him
and say: "Lord Jesus, believe; here is
my heart. Wash it. Save it. Do it
now. Aye, it is done; for l obey thy
promise and come. can do no more.
THAT is all thou hast asked. l come.
Christ is mine Pardon is mine. Heav-
en- is mine"
Why, my friends, you put more trust
in everybody than you do in Christ, and
in everything; more trust in the bridge
crossing the stream in the ladder up to
the loft; more trust in the stove that
confines the fire; more trust in the cook
that prepares your food; more trust in
the clerk that writes your books, in the
druggist that makes the medicine, in
the bargain maker with whom you
trade-more trust in all these things
than in Christ, although he stands this
moment offering without limit and
without mistake and without exception
universal pardon to all who want 1t.
Now is not that cheap enough-all
things for nothing?
This is the whole of the Gospel as |
understand it-that if you believe that
Christ died to save you you are saved.
| When? Now. No more doubt about it
than that you sit there. Nomore doubt
about it than that you have right
hand No more doubt about it than
that there is a God. If you had COM
mitted five hundred thousand transgres-
sions, Christ would forgive you just as
freely as if you had never committed
but one; though you had gone through
the whole catalogue of crimes-arson,
and blasphemy, and murder-Christ
would pardon you just as freely, you
coming to him, as though you had COM
mitted only the slightest sin of the
tongue.
THE BOUNDLEss LOVE.
Why, when Christ comes to pardon
soul he stops for nothing. Height is
nothing Depth is nothing. Enormity
is nothing. Protractedness is nothing.
Der sins like mountains for their size,
The seas to sovereign grace expand,
The seas of sovereign grace arise.
Lord Jesus, l give up all other props,
give up all other expectations. Ruined
and undone, lay hold thee. | plead
thy promises. l fly to thy arms. Lord.
save me; perish"
When the Christian commission went
into the army during the war there
were a great multitude of hungry men
and only few loaves Of bread, and the
delegate of the commission was cutting
the bread and giving it out to wounded
and dying men. Some one came up and
said, "Cut those slices thinner, or there
will not be enough to go around" And
then the delegate cut the slices very
thin and handed the bread around until
they all had some, but not much. But,
blessed be God, there is no need of econ
omy in this Gospel. Bread for all; bread
enough and to spare Why perish with
hunger?
Again, | advise you, as one of the best
things you can do with Christ, to take
him into your love. Now there are two
things which make us love any one-in-
herent attractiveness, and then what he
does in the way of kindness toward us.
Now Christ is in both these positions.
Inherent attractiveness-fair than the
children of men, the luster of the morn
ing in his eye, the glow of the setting
sun in his cheek, myrrh and franklin
cense in the breath of his lip. In
heaven of holy beings, the best. In
heaven of mighty ones, the strongest.
In heaven of great hearts, the tender
est and the most sympathetic.
Why, sculpture has never yet been
able to chisel his form nor painting to
present the flush of his cheek nor music
to strike his charms; and the greatest
surprise of eternity will be the first mo-
ment when we rush into his presence
and with uplifted hands and streaming
eyes and heart bounding with rapture
we cry out, This is Jesusr'
All over glorious is my Lord,
He must be loved and yet adored;
His worth, if all the nations knew,
Sure, the whole earth would love him too
THE SUBLIME SACRIFICE.
Has he not done enough to win our
affections? Peter the Great, laying aside
royal authority, went down among the
ship carpenters to help them, but Russia
got the chief advantage Of that conde-
scension. John Howard turned his back
upon the refinements and went around
prisons to spy out their sorrows and to
relieve their wrongs, but English GRIM
inals got the chief advantage of that
ministry. But when Christ comes it is
for you and me. The sacrifice for you
and me. The tears for you and me. The
crucifixion for you and me.
If were hopelessly in debt and some
one came and paid my debts, and gave
me receipt in full, and called off the
pack of bounding creditors; if l were on
laundering ship, and you came in a
lifeboat and took me off, could ever
forget your kindness? Would l ever
allow an opportunity to pass without
rendering you service or attesting my
gratitude and love? Oh, how ought we
to feel toward Christ, who plunged into |
the depth of our sin and plucked us out! |
Oughtit not to set the very best emotions |