Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-01-08


In view OF the probabilities mentioned, ad-
| wise all the men and women not ready for
| eternity 10 get ready II the text be true, you
| will have no time TO talk about 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 II you are as near eternity as some
of you seem 70 be, there is no time for any thing
| but the question, "What must / do TO be
savedF The drowning man, when .
plank is thrown him stops not 10 ask
what saw-mil made 1t, or whether
It, The moment IL is thrown he clutches It. In
| this year you are 10 die, there Is time for
| any thing but immediately laying hold on God
| II Is high time 10 get out OF your sins. You
say, II have committed no great transgres-
| sions." But are you not aware that your life
has been SINFUL The snow comes down on the
Alps, fake by fake, and 1t is so light that you
may hold 1t on the tip o; your finger without
feeling any weight; but the flakes
! gather; they compact, until some day
travellers foot starts the slide
and IL goes down in an avalanche, crush
| ing 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 Emergencies
from the right-so slight that they are hardly
worth men tioning, but they have been piling
up and piling up, packing together and packing
|
and one more step OF your foot in the wrong di.
rection may slide down upon you an avalanche
| OF ruin and condemnation.
| Let me announce that Christ, the Lord,
stands ready 10 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 and find the
mark of muddy feet on your front tops. You
hasten in, and lind an excited group around
your child He fell into ponc. and had il not
been for a brave lad, who plunged In and
| brought him out, and carried him home TO be
1 resus citated, you would have been childless.
You feel that you cannot do enough for
the resouer You throw your arms
pensation. You say to him, Anything that
| you want shall be yours, will never cease TO
| be grateful" Bat my Lord Jesus sec s 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 soull III want
| 1t saved, will save IL myself"
| wish you might know what Job Jesus un-
| dertook when he carried your case 20 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 murdered him. Bloodi
| blood As he stoops down to lift you up, the
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his side, from his hands Do you not feel the
warm current on your facc1 Oh, for thee the
hunger, the thirst, the thorn-stlng, the suroca
ton, the darkness, the gro an, the sweat, the
| struggle, the DEATH
| great plague came in Mars eilles. The doc
| tors held q consultation, and decided that 0
| corpse must be dissected or they would never
| know how TO stop the plague. A DR.. Guyon
| said: Tomorrow morning will proceed TO a
| 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 heaven, and saw q plague stricken
| race. Sin must be dissected. He made his
| will, giving everything 20 his people. He comes
down into the reeling hospital OF earth. He
| lays his hand 20 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 sacrihcel Behold
| the rescued
Decide, on this first Sabbath OF the year,
| wLsther 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"
know not what our last words may be. Lord
Chesterfield prided himself on his politeness,
and said in his last moment give Dayrolles
chair" DR.. Adam, O dying schoolmaster, said,
at grows dark. The boys may dismiss" Lord
Tenterden, supposng himself on the
| bench of courtroom, said, in his
last moment: "GentleIuen 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 DR.. Adams or Lord Tenterden: II am now
| ready TO be offered AMI the time OF my depart
ure is at hand. have fought good fight 1
have finished my course, have kept the faith,
| henceforth there is laid up for me q crown OF
righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous
Judge, shall give me-
The sooner the last hour comes the better II
we are lifted for entrance in the celestial world
| There is no clock in heaven because II is 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 diary; and they say II 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
boundi" and the answer is, ITO bring up a
soul from earth" and the question is asked,
What soulY" And family circle in
heaven find that 1t is one OF their own num-
Der that is TO be brought up, and they
| como out 10 watch, as on the beach we
now watch for q ship that is TO bring our friends
| home. After while the cohort will heave in
sight, flying nearer and nearer until with a
| great clanR the gates hoist ana with an EN-.
brace, wild with the ecstacy Of heaven, old
friends meet again Away with your stin for
NAL heayenl 1 want none OF it. Give me a
place of infinite and eternal sociality My feet
free from the clods Of earth, shall bound the
hills with gladness, and break forth in laugh
of triumph. Ahai aha We weep now but then
we shall laugh. "Abraham's bosom" means that
heaven has open arms TO take us in. Now we
fold our arms over our heart, and tell the world
to stand back, Us though our bosom was two
barred gate to keep the world out. Heaven
stands not with folded arms. but with heart
open. 1t is "Abraham's bosom" 1 see q
mother and her child meeting at the foot Of the
throne after some years absence. The child died
twenty years ago, but II is a child yet think
the little ones who die will remain children
through all eternity. 1t would be heaven
without the little darlngs. I 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 10 run ahead and clap
their hands, and pick out the brightest OF the
field flowers. Yes, here Is a child and its
mother meeting. The child long in glory, the
mother just arrived "How changed you are,
my darlingi" says the mother. "Yes," says
the child, this is such o happy place, and
Jesus has taken such care OF me- and
heaven is so kind, 1 got right over the
fever with which died The skies are SO fair