Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-05

pray and pray.
remark again. YOU must seek the ror,I
through Bible study. The Bible is the new.
est book in the world ''Ohp Won sav "it
was made hundreds OF years AGO. AMI the
learned men Of King James translated il
hundreds OF years ago" I confute that
idea by telling YOU il is not five minutes OLD
when God, by His blessed spirit retransl at IS
It into the heart. II you will. in the seek
ing Of the way Of life through Sorintmra
study implore Gods light to fall upon tho
page, you will find that those promises are
not one second old and that thew dron
straight from the throne of God into your
heart
There nre many people 10 whom the Bible
does not amount TO much. II they merely
look at the outside beauty whv it will no
more lead them to Christ than Washington 5
farewell address or tho Koran of Mahomet
or the Shaster of the Hin los. 1t is the in
ward light OF Gods Word you must get or
die. went up TO the church OF the Male.
lelne in Paris and looked at the doors, which
were the most won lerfully constructed I
ever saw, and could have staii there for a
whole week; but | had only a little time so
having glance at the won lerf ul caryinE on
the doors, paSSel in AMI looked at tn, ra.
liant altars and the sculpturei dome. Alas
That so many stop at the outside door ot
N'NN HCiN ''id, AOOHtu, ~ Tue TleGOIIc1l
beauties instead OF going in and looking Mt
the affairs OF sacrifice and the dome OF Goi's
mercy and salvation that hovers over every
penltent and believing soul!
Oh, my friends il you merely want to
tudy the laws OF language 10 not 20 10 the
Blhie. 1t was not male for that Take
"Howe's Elements OF Criticism" " 1t would
be better than the Bible for that. II YOU
want to study mataphyscS better than tle
Bible will be tn, writings Of William Hami..
ton. But If you want 10 know how to have
sin pardonei, and at las. t) gain the blesse /
ness of heaven, search tha Scriptures, "for
IN them ye have eternal life"
Wien people are ANXIOUS about the + sous
and there arc sp".e here II day-there are
those who recommend goo books. That is
all right But want to tell you that the
Bible is the best book under such circum
stances. Baxter wrote "A Call 10 tie I'm
converted but the Bible is the best call to
the unconvertei. Pni.ip Doidridgs wrote
"The Rise aud Progress OF Religion in the
Soul, but the Bible is the best rise and pro-
EreSs. John ANGEL James wrote advice
10 the Anxious Inquirer but the Bible is
the best advica 10 the ANXIOUS Inquirer.
Oh, the Bible is the very book you nee |.
anxious and inquriuS soul 4 dyln: soldier
said to his mate, "ConrA1e give mo
drop" The comrade shook up the canteen
and said, There isn't drop Of water in tn,
cauteen.' "Oh," said ths dyinr soldier
chats not what want feel in my knap-
sack for my Bible" And his comrade tounl
the Bible AMI read him a few Ok the graciou,
promises, and the dying soldier said: "Ah,
that's what | want There isn't anythlnr
like the Bible 70: dying soldier, is there,
my comrader GA, blessed book while we
liva Blessed book whcn We die
lremark, again, We anus, seek 60 | through
church ordinances. "Whlt," say yol,
cant man be saved without going to
church" reply, there are men, suppose,
In glory, who have never seen church
but the church is tho ordained means by
which we are to be brought t) Gol: anl II
truth affects us when we are alone, It affects
US more nightly WHEN we are III tin
RSsembly-the feelings of others empha.
sizing our own feelings Tho great law OF
sympathy comes into ulay. ind a truth that
would take hold only with the grasp OF a
sex man beats nightly against th3 soIl
with a thousand heart throbs.
When YOU come INTO the religious circle
,ome only with one notion AMI only for one
purpose-to find the way 10 Christ. When
[ see people critical about sermons. aud
critical about tones OF voices, nul critical
about sermonic delivery, thoy IN lks ma
think of a man in prsoa. He is con iemnel
TO death, but the ollicar OF the Government
brings a pardon an1 puts it through the
wicket of the prison and says: Here is your
pardon. Come and get it." "Whatl Do
you expect me to take that pardon offered
with such voice rs You have, anl with such
an awkward manner as you havey | would
rather dio than so compronISa my rhetorical
notions" All. the man does not say that;
ne takes it! 1t is his lfe. He does no: care
how it is handed to him. AMI IL this morn
ing that pardon from tn. throne of Col is
offerel to our souls, should we not sez, it,
regardless OF all criticism, feeling that 1t is
a matter OF heaven or he2
But come now to ths last part OF my
text. II tells us when We are TO sock the
Lord. "Whio He may be found When is
thats Old nge2 You may not SEQ old a,e,
Tomorrow You may not s9e Tomorrow.
Tonight You may not see to night. Now
Oh, II could only write on every heart in
three capital letters that word NOW
now!
Sin is an awful disease. hear people say.
with the toss ef the heal anI with a trivial
manner, "Oh, yes, I'm sinner" Sin is an
awful disease. 1t is leprosy. 1t is dropsY.
IL is consumption. 1t is all moral disorders
in one. Now you know there is a crisis in n
disease. Perhaps you have had some illus
tration of it i'll your family. Sometimes the
physician has cslled and he has looked at
the patient en- said: That case was simple
enough, but the crisis has passed. Ii you
had called me yesterday or this morning |
could have cured the patient. 1t is too late
now; the crisis has passed." Just so it is in
the spiritual treatment OF the soul; there is
a crisis Before that lifel After that,
death! o my dear brother as you love your
soul, do not let the crisis pass unattended
to!
There are some here VINO can remember
instances in life when if they had bought a
certain property they would have become
very rich. A few acres that would have
cost them almost nothing wera offered them.
They refu sed them. Afterwarl a large vii
iaGe or city sprang up on these acres OF
ground and they see what mistake they
made in not buying the property. There
was an opportunity OF getting 1t. 1t never
came back again. And so it is in regard to
a mans spiritual and eternal fortune. There
Is chance; If you let that go, perhaps it
never comes back. Certainly 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 u passage for heaven. II
YOU are not on board you miss your pas
sage for heaven. AS In law courts case is
sometimes adjourned from term TO term,
and from year to year, till the bill OF costs
eats up the entire estate, 50 .hero ara men
who are q journing 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 q my dear hear.
er2 Have you any idea that sin will wear
out2 that it will evaporate? that it will relax
its grasp2 that you may find religion as a
man accidentally finds lost pocGetbooki
Ah, mol No man ever became Christian
by accident or by the relaxing OF sin. Thl
embarrassments are all the time increasing.
The hosts Of darkness are recruiting, and
the longer you postpone this matter the
stesper tue path will become. l ask those
men who are before me this morning wheth-
er in the ten or fifteen years they have
passed in the postponement of these matter,
they have come any nearer Col or heaven
l would not be afraid to challenge this
whole audience, so far as they may not have
found the peace OF tho Gospel, in regard tC
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