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ortune. There is chance; if you let

fortune. There is chance; if You let
that go, perhaps it never comes back.
Certainly that one never comes back.
There is time which mercy has set
for leaving port. If you are on board
before that you will get passage for
heaven. If you are not on board you
miss your passage for heaven. AS in
law courts a case is sometimes adjourned
from term to term, and from year to
year, till the bill of costs eats up the en-
tire estate, so there are men who are ad-
journing the matter Of religion from
time to time, and from year to year,
until heavenly bliss is the bill of costs
the man would have to pay for it.
Why defer this matter, O my dear
hearer? Have you any idea that sin will
wear out: that it will evaporate? that it
will relax its grasp? that you may find
religion as man accidentally finds
lost pocketbook: All, no. No man ever
became a Christian by accident or by
the relaxing of sin. The embarrass-
ments are all The time increasing. The
hosts of darkness are recruiting, and the
longer you postpone this matter the
sleeper the path will become. ask
those men who are before me this morn
ing whether in The ten or fifteeH years
they have passed in the postponement
of these matters they have come any
nearer God or heaven:
FLY FOR REFUGE.
Iwould not be afraid to challenge this
whole audience, so far as they may not
have found the peace of the Gospel, IN
regard to that matter. Your hearts,
you are willing frankly to tell me, are
becoming harder and harder, and that
if YOU come to Christ it will be more cee
an undertaking now than it ever would
have been before Oh, fly for refuge!
The avenger of blood is on the track!
The throne of judgment will soon be
set, and if you have anything to do to-
ward your eternal salvation you had
better do it now, for the redemption of
the soul is precious and it ceaseth for
ever!
Oh, if men could only catch just one
glimpse OF Christ, know they would
love him. Your heart leaps at the sight
of glorious sunrise or sunset. Can you
be without emotion as the Sun of Right
eousness rises behind Calvary and sets
behind Joseph's sepulcher: He Is
blessed Saviour. Every nation has its
type of beauty. There is German beau
tv and Swiss beauty and Italian beau
ty and English beauty, but care notin
what land man first looks at Christ, he
pronounces him "chief among ten thou
sand. and the one altogether lovely" 0
my blessed Jesus! Ligh- IN darkness!
The rock on which | build! The cap
tain of salvation! Ny joy! My strength!
How strange it is that men cannot love
thee.
The diamond districts of Brazil are
carefully guarded, and man does not
get in there except by pass from the
government, but the love of Christ is
diamond district we may all enter and
pick up treasure for eternity. Oh, cry
for mercy. To-day, if ye will hear this
voice, harden not your hearts There
is way of opposing the mercy of God
too long. and then there remaineth no
more sacrifice for sin, but fearful look
ing for Judgment and fiery Indignation
which shall devour the adversary. My
friends, my neighbors, what can l say
to induce you to attend to this matter
TO attend to it now? Time is flying, fly
ing-the city clock joining my voice this
moment. seeming to say to you: Now
is the time: Now is the time Oh, put
it not off!
Why should I stand here and plead
and you sit there: 1t IS your immortal
soul. 1t is soul that shall never die.
1t is soul that must soon appear before
God for reviewal. Why throw away
your chance for heaven: Why plunge
off into darkness when all the gates of
glory are open? Why become a cast
away from God when you can sit Upon
the throne? Why will ye die misera bly,
when eternal life is offered you, anl it
will cost you nothing but just wiz ns-
-- accept it: Come, for all thf,1,es 70,
are no&-1Sdy. Come tG51lllse- Christ is rea;ay. "
pardon is ready. The G3}11!H!Ech is ready.
Heaven is ready. You will never find
more convenient season if you sholld
live fifty years more than this very one.
Reject this and you may die in your sins.
THE PERIL AND THE ESCAPE.
Why do | say this? Is it to frighten
your soul: Oh. no. 1t is to persuade
you. show you the peril. ! show you
the escape Would not be a coward
beyond all excuse if. believing that this
great audience must soon be launched
into the eternal world, and that all who
believe in Christ shall be saved, and that
all who reject Christ will be lost-would
not be the veriest coward on earth to
hide that truth or to stand before you
with cold or even placid manner?
Ny dear brethren, now is the day of
Your redemption.
1t is very certain that You and must
soon appear before God in Judgment.
We cannot escape it. The Bible says,
Every eye shall see him, and they also
which pierced him, and all the kindreds
of tie earth shall vail because of him.
On that day ali our advantages will
come up for our glory or for our discom-
titure-every prayer, every sermon.
every exhortGtory remark, every re-
proof, every c,ll of grace: and while the
heavens are ,oiling away like scroll,
and the world is being destroyed, your
destiny and my destiny will he an
nouuced. Alas, alas. if on that day it
is found that we have neglected these
matters We may throw them off now.
We cannot then. We will all be in
earnest then. But no pardon then. No
offer of salvation then. No rescue then.
Driven away in our wickedness-ban-
ished, exiled forever.
Have you ever imagined what will be
the soliloquy of the soul on that day un-
pardoned. as it looks back upon its past
life: "Oh," says the soul, Il had glor
ious Sabbaths. There was one Sabbath
in autumn when was invited to Christ.
There was a Saba 1th morning when
Jesus stood and spread out his arms and
invited me to his holy hear l refused
him. have destroyed myself. | have
no one else to blame. Ruin complete.
Darkness Implying, deep, eternal! am
lost. Notwithstanding al the opportuni-
ties have had of being saved, l am lost.
Oh, thou long suffering Lord God AL
mighty, am lost. Oh, day of judg-
nent, am lost! Oh. father, mother.
brother, sister, child in glory, am LOST!
And than as the tide goes ont Your soul