Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-01-07

straight. for This year thou shalt die. +"
advise also. tnat you he busy in Chris
tian work How many Sahhaths in the
year, Fifty-two If the text be true OF
you il does not say at what time you may
90. and therefore il is unsafe TO count on
all OF the fifty two Sundays As you are
as likely to 20 in the FIRST half of the year
as in the last half. ! think we had better
d ade the fifty two into halves and calcu-
late only twenty-six Sabbaths Come,
Christian men, Christian women, what can
you do in twenty six Sabbathss Divide the
three hundred and sixty-five days into two
parts, what can you do in one hundred and
eighty-two daysY What. by the way of saw
| ing your family, the church and the world
You will not, through all the ages of eter-
nifty in heaven, get over the dishonor and
| the outrage Of going into glory, and having
helped none mp TO the same place. 1t will
be found that many Sabbath school
teacher has taken into heaven her whole
class that Daniel Baker, the evangelist,
took thousands into heaven, that bod
bridge has taken in hundreds of thousands.
that Paul took in hundred millions How
many will you take in? If you get into
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and that there are none to come through
your instrumentality beg of you to crawl
under some seat in the back corner and
never come out lest the redeemed get their
eyes on you and some one cry out, THAT is
the man who never lifted hand or voice for
the redemption of his fellows Look at
him. all heaven" Better be busy. Better
put the pillow in deep. Better say what
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alarm. Better fall on your knees. Better
lay hold with both hands What you now
leave undone for Christ will forever be
undone. This year thou shalt diel"
GET READY
In view of the probabilities mentioned,
advise all the men and women not ready
for eternity TO get ready If the text be
true, you have no time to talk about non
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. If you
are as near eternity as some of you seem to
be, there is no time for anything but the
question, What must do to be saved"
The drowning man, when plank is thrown
him. stops not to ask what sawmill made
it, or whether it is oak or cedar, or who
threw it. The moment it is thrown, be
clutches it. II this year you are to die,
there is no time for anything but immedi.
ately laying hold on God. 1t is high time
to get out of your sins You say, II have
committed no great transgressions" But
are you not aware that your life has been
sinful' The snow comes down on the Alps
fake by flake. and it is so light that you
may hold il on the tip of your finger with
out feeling any weight. but the flakes
gather. they compact, until some day a
travellers foot starts the slide, and IL goes
down in an avalanche, crushing 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 divergences
from the right-so slight that they are
hardly worth mentioning, but they have
been piling up and piling up, packing to
gether and packing together, until they
make mountain of sin, and one more step
of your foot in the wrong direction may
slide down upon you an avalanche Of ruin
and condemnation.
A man crossing desolate and lonely
plateau, a hungry wolf took after him. He
brought his gun to his shoulder and took
aim, and the wolf howled with pain, and
the cry woke up pack of wolves, and they
came ravening out of the forest from all
sides and horribly devoured him. Thou
art the man Some one sin Of your life
summoning on all the rest, they surround
thy soul and make the night of thy sin ter
rible with the assault of their bloody muz
zles. Oh, the unpardoned, clamoring, raw
ening all devouring sins Of thy lifetimel
A maniac was found pacing along the
road with torch in one hand and pail OF
water in the other and some one asked |
him what he meant TO do with them. He
answered, with this torch mean to burn
down heaven, and with this water mean
TO put out the fires of hell" He was
maniac. He could do the one thing just as
well as he could do the other. No time to
lose If you want to escape your sins for
This year thou shalt die"
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 hiseye. and two out
stretched, mangled hands OF love
You come home some night and find the |
mark of muddy feet on your front steps. |
You hasten in and find an excited group
around your child He fell into a pond, |
and had it not been for a brave lad, who
plunged in and brought him out and car
ried him home TO be resuscirated, you
would have been childless. You feel that
you cannot DO enough for the rescuer.
You throw your arms around him. You
offer him any compensation. You say to
him; Anything that you want shall be
yours. | will never cease to be grateful"
But my Lord Jesus sees your soul sinking.
and attempts to bring it ashore, and you
not only refuse him thanks, but stand on
the beach aud say; Drop that SOUL III
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