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gam the DIessedness or heaven, search the
Scriptures, "for in them ye have eternal
HE prBLE IS ITS OWN COMMENT.

| gam, the DIessedness or heaven, search the
Scriptures, ''for in them ye have eternal
life."
THE BIBLE Is ITS OWN COMMENT.
When people are anxious about their
souls-and there are some such here today
there are those who recommend good
books. That is all right But want to
tell you that the Bible is the best book un-
| der such circumstances. Baxter wrote,
"a Call to the Unconverted," but the BIZ
BILE is the best call to the unconverted.
! Philip Doddridge wrote, 1.-THE Rise and
| Progress of Religion in the Soul" but the
| Bible is the best rise and progress. John
Angel James wrote "Advice to the Anx.
ious Inquirer" but the Bible is the best
advice to the anxious inquirer.
Oh, the Bible is the very book you need,
anxious and inquiring soull A dying sol
der said to his mate, "Comrade, give me
dropi" The comrade shook up the can
teen and said, "There isn't a drop of water
in the canteen." ooh" said the dying
soldier, that's not what want; feel in
my knapsack for my Bible" And his com
rade found the Bible and read him a few
of the gracious promises, and the dying
soldier said: "Ah, that's what l want
There isn't anything like the Bible for a
dying soldier, is there, my contradict" Oh
blessed book while we live. Blessed book
when we die.
| remark again, we must seek God
through church ordinances. WHAT" say
you, cant man be saved without going
to church," reply there are men, sup
pose, in glory who have never seen 9
church, but the church is the ordained
means by which we are to be brought tc
God; and If truth affects us when we are
alone it affects us more nightly when we
are in the assembly-the feelings of others
emphasizing our own feelings The great
law of sympathy comes into play and o
truth that would take hold only with the
grasp of sick man beats nightly against
the soul with thousand heart throbs.
When you come into the religious circle
come only with one notion, and only fol
one purpose-to find the way to Christ
When see people critical about sermons
and critical about tones of voice, and criti
cal about sermonic delivery, they make me
think of man in prison. He is condemned
to death, but an officer Of the government
brings pardon and puts it through the
wicket of the prison and says: Here is YOU
pardon. Come and get it," "Whatl d.
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with such a voice as you have, with sucf
an awkward manner as you haveP l would
rather die than so compromise my rhetori
cal notionsW
All, the man does not say that; he take'
It'll 1t is his life. He does not care how II
is handed to him. And II this morning
that pardon from the throne of God II
offered to our souls, should we not seize it
l 80 Lnk
Is matter of heaven or hellf
TODAY TODAY HEAR THE VOICE.
But l come now to the last part of my
text. 1t tells us when we are to seek the
Lord. while he may be found" Wher
is that' Old agep You may not see OLD
age. Tomorrow You may not see to
night. Nowl Oh, if could only write or
every heart in three capital letters that
word N-O-W-Nowl
Sin is an awful disease. l hear people
say with the toss of the head end with 0
trivial manner, "Oh yes, Pm a sinner
Sin is an awful disease. 1t is leprosy. II
is dropsy. 1t Is consumption. 1t is al
moral disorders in one. Now you know
there is a crisis in disease Perhaps you
have had some illustration of it in your
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called and he has looked at the patient
and said: "That case was simple enough
but the crisis has passed. If you had
called me yesterday or this morning
could have curad the natient- 1t is toe
late now; the crisis has passed" Just sc
it is in the spiritual treatment of the soul
there is crisis. Before that, lifei After
that, DEATH Oh, my dear brother, as you
love your soul do not let the crisis pass un
attended tot
There are some here who can remember
instances in life when, il they had bought
n certain property, they would have be
come very rich. A few acres that would
have cost them almost nothing were Of
fered them. They refused them. After
ward large village or city sprang up on
those acres of ground, and they see what a
mistake they made in not buying the prop
erty. There was an opportunity Of getting
1t. 1t never came back again. And so il
is in regard to a mans spiritual and eter.
nal fortune. There is chance; il you let
that go perhaps it never comes back. Ger.
tainly that one never comes back.
There is time which mercy has set for
leaving port. II you are on board before
that you will get passage for heaven. II
you are not on board, you miss your pas
sage 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 entire estate, so there are men
who are adjourning 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 outi that it will evaporateP that il
will relax its grasp that you may find re.
ligion as a man accidentally finds a lost
pocketbook' All, no. No man ever be
came Christian by accident or by the re.
Taxing of sin. The embarrassments are
all the time increasing. The hosts Of dark.
ness are recruiting, and the longer you
postpone this matter the sleeper the path
will become. ask those men who are be-
fore me this morning whether, in the ten
or fifteen years they have passed in the
postponeInent OF these matters. they have
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