The Globe-republican., 1892-09-30

one. Room on either side to throw away
your sins. Indeed if you want to carry
Them along you are not on the right
road. That bridge will break, those
rocks will fall, the night
will come down, leaving you at the mercy
Of the mountain bandits, and at the very
next turn of the road you will perish.
But if you are really on this clean road
of which l have been speaking, then you
will stop ever and anon to wash In the
water that stands In the basin OF the
eternal rock Aye, at almost every step
of the journey you will be crying out,
sCreate within me q clean heart!"
II you have no such aspirations as that
it proves that you have mistaken your
way; and ii you will only look up and see
the finger board above your head you
may read upon it the worGs, There Is
wav that seemeth right unto man. but
the end thereof is death" Without holi-
ness no man shall see the Lord; and II
you have any idea that you can carry
along your sins, your lusts. YOUR world
illness, and yet get to the end OF the
Christian race you are so awfully mis-
taken that, in the name Of God, this
morning I shatter the delusion.
Still further, the road spoken OF Is .
plain road. THE wayiaring men, though
fools, shall not err therein" that Is. II q
man is three-fourths an idiot he can find
this road just as well as il he were phi
losopher. The imbecile boy, the laugh
ing stock of the street, and followed by
. mob hooting at him, has only to knock
once at the gate OF Heaven and it swings
open, while there has been many man
who can lecture about pneumstics and
chemistry, and tell the story of Faraday's
theory Of electrical polarization, and yet
has been shut out of Heaven. There
has been many a man who stood In an
observatory and swept the heavens with
his telescope. and yet he has not been
able to see the Morning Star.
Many a man has been familiar with
all the higher branches of mathematics,
and yet could not do the simple sum,
What shall it profit man II he gain
the whole world and lose his own sOul?'
Many a man has teen a fine reader OF
tragedies and poems, and yet could not
'.read his title clear to mansions in the
skies" Many q man has botanized
across the continent, and yet did not
know the "Rose of Sharon and the
Lily of the Valley" But il one shall
come In the right spirit, asking the way
to Heaven, he will find it q plain way.
The pardon is plain. The peace is plain.
Everything is plain.
He who tries to get on the road to
Heaven through the New Testament
teaching will get on beautifully. He
who goes through philosophical discus
sion will not get on at all. Christ says:
.sCome to me and will wash all your
sins away, and l will take all your
troubles away" Now what is the use OF
my discussing it any more? Is not that
plain? II you wanted to go to London
and pointed you out highway thor
oughly laid out, would be wise in de-
tanning you BY q geological discussion
about the gravel you will pass over, or q
physiological discussion about the mus
cles you will have to bring into play?
No. After the Bible has pointed you the
way to Heaven is it wise for me to de-
tain you with any discussion about the
nature of the human will. or whether
the atonement is limited or unlimited?
There is the road-0o on 1t. 1t is plain
way.
'sThis is faithful saying, and worthy
of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus
came into the world to save sinners.
And that is you. and that is me. Any
little child here can understand this as
we'll as can, ''Unless you become as
little child, You cannot see the Kingdom
Of God If you are saved it will not be
as a philosopher. it will be as little
child ''Of such is the kingdom OF
Heaven" Unless you get the spirit oi
little children you will never come out at
their glorious destiny.
Still further; this road to Heaven is a
safe road. Sometimes the traveller in
| those ancient highways would think
himself perfectly secure, not knowing
there was lion by the way burying his
head deep between his paws, and then
| when the right moment came, under the
| fearful spring the mans life was gone
| and there was mauled carcass by the
roadside. But, says my text. mo lion
shall be there" l wish I could make
YOU feel this morning your entire secur
ity. tell you plainly that one minute
after man has become q child OF Goo
he is as safe as though he had been 10,
600 years in Heaven. He may slip; hi
may slide; he may stumble; but he can
not be destroyed. Kept by the power
of God, through faith unto complete sal
walton. Everlastingly safe.
The severest trial to which you cal
subject Christian man is to kill him
and that is glory. In other words. tn
worst thing that can happen child o
God is Heaven. The body is the oil
slippers that he throws aside just befor'
putting on the sandals of light Hi
soul, you cannot hurt it. No fires cal
consume it. No floods can drown it. N
devils can capture it.
Firm and unmoved are they
Who rest their souls Oh God;
Fixed ss the ground whore David stood,
Or where the ark abode
| His soul is safe. His reputation
safe EVERYTHING is safe. But" yo
say, suppose his store burns up?
Why, then, it will only be change Q
investments from earthly to hesvenl
securities. But" yeu say, 'suppos
his name goes down under the hoof
scorn and contempt?" The name wi
be so much brighter in glory. "Suppos
his physical health fails?" God wi
pour into him the floods Of everlastin
health, and it will not make any difel
ence. Earthly subtraction is heavenl
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