News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-09-15

street, and followed by a mob hooting
at him, has only just to knock once at
the gate of heaven and it swings open,
while there has been many a mar who
can lecture about pneumatics and chem
istry, and tell the story of Faraday's
theory of electrical polarization, and yet
has been shut out of heaven. There has
been many q MAJ who stood in an OBJ
s~ervatory 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 a man if he gain
the whole world and lose his own soul?"
Many a man has been a fine reader of
tragedies and poems and yet could not
''read his title clear to mansions in the
skies" Many a man has botanized
across the continent and yet did not
know the Crosse of Sharon and the Lily
of the Valley" But if one shall come
in the right spirit, asking the way to
heaven, he viii find it a 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 IN beautifully. He
who goes through philosophical discus
sion will not get on at all. Christ says,
'Come to me, and | will take all your
sins away, and | will take all your
troubles away" Now, what is the use
of my discussing it any more? Is not
that plain? If you wanted to go to Lon
don, and l pointed you out a highway
thoroughly laid out, would be wise in
OBTAINING you by a geological discussion
about the gravel you will pass over, Or
a physiological discussion about the
muscles you will have to bring into play?
No. After this Bible has pointed you
the way to heaven, is it wise for me to
detain you with any discussion about the
nature of the human will, or whether
the atonement is limited or unlimited?
There is the road-goo on it. 1t is a plain
way.
''This is a faithful saying, and worthy
of all a~cceptation, 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
a little child, you cannot see the king
dom of God" If you are saved, it will
not be as a philosopher, it will be as a
little child. "Of such is the kingdom
of heaven" Unless you get the spirit
of little children, you will never come
out at their glorious destiny.
THE SAFE ROAD.
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 u lion by the way burying his
head deep between his paws, and then
when tEl right moment came, under the
fearful spring. the mans life was gone
and there was a mauled carcass by the
roadside. But, says my text, mo lion
shall be there" | wish | could make
you feel this morning your entire Sc
curity. tell you plainly that one min
ute after a man has become u child of
God he is as safe as though he had been
ten thousand years in heavan. He may
slip, he may slide, he may stumble, but
he cannot be destroyed. Kept by the
power of God through faith unto COM
ssete salvation. Everlastingly safe.
The severest trial to which you can
subject a Christian man is to kill him,
and that is glory. In other words, the
worst thing that can happen a child Of
God is heaven. The body is only the
old slippers that he throws aside just
before putting on the sandals of light.
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can onsum it. No floods can drown
it. No devils can capture it.
Firm and unmoved are they
Who rest their souls on God;
Fixed as the ground where David stood
Or where the ark abode.
His soul is safe. His reputation is
safe. Everything is safe. But" you
say, suppose his store burns up
Why, then it will only he a change of
investments from earthly to heavenly
securities. But" you say, suppose
his nam goes down under the hoof Of
scorn and contempt" The name will be
so much brighter in glory. Suppose
his physical health fails?" God will
pour into him the floods of everlasting
health, and it will not make any differ
OLuNC Id4 tll1y SuDL1 dCllOl 10 ICdN CITY
addition. The tears of earth are the
crystals of hea=en. As they take rags
and tatters and put them through the
paper mill and they come out beautiful
white sheets of paper, so often the rags
Of earthly restitution, under the cylin.
ders of death, come out d white scroll
upon which shall be written eternal
emancipation.
There was one passage of Scripture
the force of which | never understood
until one day at Chamounix, with Mont
Blanc on one side and Montanvent on
the other, | opened my Bible and read,
"As the mountains are around about
Jerusalem, SO is the Lord around about
them that fear him. The surroundings
were an omnipotent commentary.
Though troubles assail and dangers alright,
Though friends should all fail and foes all
unite,
Yet one thing secures US, whatever betide-
The Scriptures assure us the Lord will provide.
a PLEASANT ROAD.
Still further, the road spoken of is a
pleasant road. God gives a bond of in
demnity against all evil to every man
that treads it. "All things work to-
gether for good to those who love God"
No weapon formed against them can
prosper. That is the bond, signed,
sealed and delivered by the President of
the universe. What is the use of your
fretting, o child of God, about food?
Behold the fowls of the air, for they
sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather
into barns, yet your heavenly Father
feedeth them" And will he take care of
the sparrow, will he take care of the
hawk, and let you die? What is the use of
your fretting about clothes? Consider
the lilies of the field. Shall he not much
more clothe you, 0 we of little faith?'
What is the use of worrying for fear
something will happen to your home?
"He blesseth the habitation of the Just"
What is the use of fretting lest you will
be overcome of temptations? "God is
faithful, who will not suffer you to be
tempted above that ye are able, but will
with the temptation also make a way to
escape, that ye may be able to hear it."
Oh, this kings highway Trees of
life on either side bending over until
their branches interlock and drop mid
way their fruit and shade. Houses of
entertainment on either side the road
for poor pilgrims. Tables spread with
a feast Of good things and walls adorned
with apples of gold in pictures of silver.
| start out on this kings highway, and !
find a harper, and | say, "What is you
IN The harper makes no
but leaves me to guess, as with his eyes
toward heaven and his hand upon the
trembling strings this tune comes rip
ping out on the air: ''The Lord is my
light and my salvation. Whom shall l
fear? The Lord is the strength of m