The Red Cloud chief., 1892-10-14

ain not going tn take care of bi;n. -
he thinks that I am going TO stand and
pat him on the back and feed him out
of an elegant spoon and watch him 70
he does not get into q draft OF worldli-
ness, he Is much mistaken. We have
In our churches a great mass a help
less, inane professors who are doing
nothing for themselves or for others,
who want us to stop and nurse theml
They are so troubled with doubt rs to
whether they are Christians or not.
The doubt Is settled. They are not
Christians. The best we can do with
these fish Is to throw them back into
the stream and go after them again
with the gospel net.
500 into the world and preach the
Gospel" says Christ; into the factory,
the engine house, the club room, into
the houses of the sick, into the dark
lane, into the damp cellar, iuto the
cold garnet, into the dismal prison. Let
every man, woman and child know that
Jesus died, end that the gate of Heaven
Is wide open. With the Bible in one
pocket, and the hymn book in another
pocket, and u loaf OF bread under your
arm, launch out into the great deep Of
this worlds wrctchcdnesa.
The text is appropriate to all the un-
forgiven. Every sinner would come TO
God IL he thought that he might come
just as he Is. People talk as though
the pardon of God were a narrow river,
like the Kennebcc or the Thames, and
that their sin draws too much water TO
enter it. No; it is not a river, nor n
bay, but n sea. ! should like to per-
suade you 10 launch out into the great,
deep sen of Gods mercy. | am n mer-
chant, | have bought n cargo of spices
in India. have, through "a bill of exc
change, paid for the whole cargo. You
are u ship captain. l give you the
orders and say: Bring me those
spices" You land in India. You 90
to the trader and say: "IIcre are the
ORDERS" and you find everything all
right. You do not stop TO pay the
money yourself. 1t Is not your busi-
ness to pay it. The arrangements were
made before you started. So Christ
purchases your pardon. lie puts the
papers, or the promises, into your hand.
Is 1t wise to stop and say: ~ cannot
pay for my redcmptionY" God does not
ask you to pay. Relying OF 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 headquarters; but the
round table Of Gods supply Is large
enough for all the present inhabitants
Of earth and Heaven u sit and for the
still mightier populations that are yet
to DO.
Do not sail coastwise along your old
habits and old sins. Keep clear Of the
shore. Go out where the water is deep
est O. for the midsea Of Gods mercy
"Be 1t known unto you, men and breth.
rem, that through this man Is preached
unto you forgiveness of SINS" Ipreach
1t with as much confidence to the
eishty-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 par
don is higher than all your trans
gressions. THE blood of Jesus Chris,
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 continued
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 thii
Sampson cannot slay? Is there any
fortress that this Conqueror canno
take? Is there any sin this Redecme
cannot pardon?
1t is .said that when Charlemagne'
host was overpowered by the three
armies of the Saracens in the pass Of
Roncesvalles, his warrior, Roland, II
terrible carnestness, seized a trumpe
and blew 1t with such terrific strength
that the opposing army rceled bacl
with terror, but ut the third blast
broke in two. see your soul ~fiercel.
assailed by all the powers of earth ant
hell put the mighticr trumpet OF tn,
Gospel to ray lips and I blow 1t tire
times. Blast the first: "Whosoeve
will let him come" Blast the second
"Seek ye the Lord while He may b
found" Blast the third-'Now Is tn
accepted time; now is the day Of saliva
ton" DO not the host Of your sin
fall back? But the trumpet does not
like that Of Roland, break in two. A
1t was handed down to us from the lip
of our fathers, we hand it down to tn
lips of our children, and tell them I
sound it when we are dead, that all tn
generations of men may know that on
God is a pardoning Coda sympatheti
Coda loving God; and that more I
Him than the anthems of Heaven, MOI
to Him than the throne on which II
: sits, more to Him than are the temple
OF celestial worship, is the Joy Of seein
the wanderer putting his hand on tn
door latch of His Fathers house. .Hea
! ii, all We nations! Bread for the Wort
hunger. Medicine for the worst sicl
ness Light for the thickest darkness
Harbor for the worst storm.
DIR. Prime, In his book of wonderh
interest entitled "Around the World
describes n tomb in India of marvelor
0 architecture. Twenty thousand me