Connecticut western news., 1893-04-20
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 Oh, can see how men reason them selves into skepticism. With burning feet have trod that blistering way. know what it is to have a hundred nights poured into one hour. There are men in this audience who would give their thou sands of dollars if they could get back to the old religion of their fathers. Such men are not to be caricatured, but helped, and not through their heads, but through their hearts. When these men really do come into the kingdom of God, they will be worth far more to the cause of Christ than those who never examined the evi- dences of Christianity. Thomas Chalmers once skeptic; Robert Hall once skep- tic; Christmas Evans once a skeptic, but when they did lay hold of the gospel chariot, how they made it speed aheadl
 If therefore I stand this morning be- fore men and women who have drifted away into skepticisin 1 throw out no scoff. I rather implead you by the mem- ory of those good old times when you knelt at your mothers knee and said your evening prayer and those other days of sickness when she watched all night and gave you the medicines at just the right time and turned the pillow when it was hot, and with hand long ago turned to dust soothed your pains, and with that voice you will never hear again unless you join her in the better coun- try told you never mind-you would be better by and by, and by that dying couch, where she talked so slowly, catch ing her breath between the words-by all those memories ask you to come enough for her-it is good enough for you.
 Aye, l make a better plea by the wounds and the death throe of the Son of God, who approaches you this morn ing with torn brow and lacerated hands and whipped back crying, Come unto me all ye who are weary and heavy lad en, and will give you rest"
 oHRIST'S REMEDY FOR BAD TEMPER.
 Other persons apologize for not enter ing the Christian life because of the in- corrigibility of their temper Now, we admit it is harder for some people to be- come Christians than for others, but the grace of God never came to 8 mountain that it could not climb, or to an abyss that it could not fathom, or to bondage that it could not break. The widest horse that ever trod Arabian sands has been broken to bit and trace. The mad est torrent tumbling from mountain shelving has been harnessed to the mill wheel and the factory band, setting thousand shuttles all a-buzz and a-clat- 4Ix< kI,o most ungovernable man ever created by the grace of God may be subdued and sent out on ministry of kindness, as God sends an August thunderstorm to water the wild flowers down in the grass.
 Good resolution, reformatory effort will not effect the change. It takes a mightier arm and mightier hand to bend evil habits than the hand that bent the bow of Ulysses, and it takes strong CT lasso than ever held the buffalo on the prairie. A man cannot go forth with any human weapons and contend suc- cessfully against these Titans armed with uptorn mountain. But you have known men into whose spirit the influence of the gospel of Christ came until their dis position was entirely changed. Sc it was with two merchants in New York. They were very antagonistic. They had done all they could to injure each other. They were in the same line of business. One of the merchants was converted to God. Having been converted, he asked the Lord to teach him how to bear him. self toward that business antagonist, and he was impressed with the fact that it was his duty when customer asked for a certain kind of goods which he had not, but which he knew his opponent had, to recommend him to go to that store. suppose that is about the hard est thing the man could do, but being thoroughly converted to God he re- solved to do that very thing, and being asked for certain kind of goods which he had not he said, "You go to such and such store and you will get it." After awhile merchant No. found these cus- toners coming so sent, and he foun also that merchant No. 1had been brought to God, and he sought the same religion. Now they are good friends and good the grace of God entirely changing their disposition.
 THOSE RUGGED CHRISTIANS.
 ''Oh," says some one, 'I have a rough, jagged, impetuous nature, and religion can't do anything for me-" Doyou know that Martin Luther and Robert Newton and Richard Baxter were impetuous, all consuming natures, yet the grace of God turned them into the mightiest useful ness? Oh. how many who have been pug nacious and hard to please and irascible and more bothered about the mote in their neighbours eye than about the beam like ship timber in their own eye have been entirely changed by the grace of God and have found out that "godi- ness is profitable for the life that now Is as well as for the life which is to come"
 Peter, with nature tempestuous as the sea that he once tried to walk, at one look of Christ went out and wept bitter ly. Rich harvests of grace may grow on the tiptop of the jagged steep, and flocks of Christian graces may find pasturage ill fields of bramble and rock. Though your disposition may be all a-bristle with fretfulness, though you have temper a-gleam with quick lightnings, though your avarice be like that of the horse leech, crying, "Givew though damnable impurities have wrapped you in all con- suming fire, God can drive that devil out of your souI and over the chaos and the darkness he can say. .'Let there be light"
 Converting grace has lifted the drunk ard from the ditch and snatched the knife from the hand of the assassin and the false keys from the burglar, and in the pestif- erous lanes of the city met the daughter of sin under the dim lamplight and scat tered her sorrow and her guilt with the words, "Thy sins are forgiven-go and sin no more' For scarlet sin a scarlet atonement.
 Other persons apologize for not enter ing the Christian life because of the in- constituencies of those who profess reli- zion. There are thousands of poor farmers. They do not know the nature of soil nor the proper rotation of crops. 1- T