News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-10-06

and say, 81 cannot pay for my re-
demption? God does not ask you to
pay. Relying on what has been done,
launch out into the deep.
The Bibles promises join hands, and
the circle they make will compass all
your sins, and all your temptations, and
all your SORROWS. The round table of
King Arthur and his knights had room
for only thirteen banqueters, but the
round table of Gods supply is large
enough for all the present inhabitants
Of earth and heaven to sit at, and for
the still mightier populations that are yet
to be-
| KEEP AWAY FROM THE REEFS.
| Do not sail coastwise along your old
| habits and old sins. Keep clear of the
shore. Go out where the water is deep
! est. Oh, for the mid sea of Gods mercy!
BE it known unto you, men and breth-
rem, that through this man is preached
unto you forgiveness of sins" [ preach
| it with as much confidence to the eighty
year-old transgressor as to the maiden.
Though your sins were blood red they
shall be snow white. The more ragged
the prodigal, the more compassionate
the father Do you say that you are too
bad? The high water mark of Gods
pardon is higher than all your trans
gressions. 1.-THE blood of Jesus Christ
cleanseth from all SIM
Do you say that your heart is hard?
Suppose it were ten times harder Do
you say that your iniquity is long con-
tinued? Suppose it were ten times
longer. Do you say that your crimes
are black? Suppose that they were ten
times blacker. Is there any lion that
this Samson cannot Stay? Is there any
fortress that this Conqueror cannot take?
Is there any sin this Redeemer cannot
pardon.
1t is said that when Charlemagne's
host was overpowered by the three ar
mics of the Saracens in the pass of Rom
cesvalles his warrior, Roland, in terrible
earnestness seized trumpet and blew
it with such terrific strength that the
opposing army reeled back with terror,
but at the third blast of the trumpet it
broke in two. l see your soul fiercely
assailed by all the powers of earth and
hell. put the mightier trumpet of the
Gospel to my lips and 1 blow it three
times. Blast the Whosoever will,
let him come" Blast the second
Seek We the Lord while he may be
found" Blast the third-"Now is the
accepted time; now is the day of saliva
ton"
Does not the host of your sins fall
back? But the trumpet does not, like
that of Roland, break in two. AS it was
handed down to US from the lips of our
fathers, we hand it down to the lips of
our children, and tell them to sound it
when we are dead, that all the genera
lions of men may know that our God is
pardoning Coda sympathetic God
a loving God-and that more to him than
the anthems of heaven; more to him
than the throne on which he sits; more
to him than are the temples of celestial
worship is the joy of seeing the wan-
derer putting his hand on the door latch
of his Fathers house. Hear it, all We
nations! Bread for the worst hunger.
Medicine for the worst sickness. Light
for the thickest darkness. Harbor for
the worst storm.
DR.. Prime, in his book of wonderful
interest entitled "Around the World"
describes tomb in India of marvellous
architecture Twenty thousand men
were twenty two years in erecting that
and the buildings around it. Standing
in that tomb, if you speak or sing, after
you have ceased you hear the echo COM
ing from height of one hundred and
fifty feet. 1t is not like other echoes.
The sound is drawn out in sweet pro-
longation, as though the angels of God
were chanting ON the wing. How many
souls in the tomb of sin will lift up the
voice of penitence and prayer? If now
they would cry unto God the echo would
drop from afar, not struck from the
marble cupcla of an earthly mausoleum,
but sounding back from the warm heart
of angels flying with the news, for there
is joy among the angels of God over one
sinner that repenteth!