Milford chronicle., 1893-12-22

TO be saved and says, Il have wandered
| very grievously from God; do not believe
/ there is any hope for me-" / tell YOU the
story of this man in the text who was
brought to Jesus Christ in spite of his sins
and opposition.
There may be some here who are as stout
I " opposed 20 Christ as Paul was There
may be some here who are captive of their
sins rs much so as the young man who said
/ in regard to his dissipating habits: Il will
I keep on with them. ! know am breaking
my mothers heart, and I know / am kill
4 ing myself, and / know that when die ]
shall go 70 hell, but it is now too late to
STOP"
Az ENCOURAGING EXAMPLE.
The steed on which you ride may be
swifter and stronger and higher mettled
than that on which The Cilician prosecutor
rode, but Christ can catch it by the bride
and hurl it back and lurl it down. There
is mercy for you who say you are too bad
to be saved. You say you have put off the
matter so long; Paul had neglected it a
great while. You say hat the sin you have
committed has been among the most az
gravating circumstances; that was so with
Paurs.
You say you have eXasperated Christ and
cOaNed your own ruin; so did Paul. And
yet he sits today ON one of the highest Of
the heavenly thrones, and there is mercy
for you, and good days for you, and glad
ness for you, if you will only take the same
Christ which first threw him down and
then raised him up. 1t seems to me as If /
can see Paul today rising up from the high
way 10 Damascus and brushing off the
dust from his cloak, and wiping the sweat
of excitement from his brow, rs he turns to
us and all the ages, saying, This a faith
full saying and worthy Of all acceptatiOu
that Christ Jesi came into the world to
save sinners, of whom 1 am chief"
Once more, learn from this subject that
there is a tremendous reality in religion. If
it had been a mere optical delusion on the
road to Damascus, was not Paul just the
man TO find it out? If it had been a sham
and pretense, would he not have pricked
the bubbles He was man of facts and
arguments, of the most gigantic intellec-
tual nature, and not man Of halluciua-
tions. And when l see him fall from the
saddle, blinded and overwhelmed, / say
there must have been something in it,
And, my dear brother, you will find that
there is something in religion somewhere
The only question is, Where?
There was a man who rode from STAN
ford TO London, 95 miles, in five hours on
horseback Very swift There was a wom-
an of Newmarket who rode on horseback q
thousand miles in thousand hours. Very
swift But there are those here, aye, all Of
US are speeding on at tenfold that velocity
at a thousaudfold that rate, toward eterni-
ty. May Almighty God, from the opening
heavens, flash upon your souls this hour
the question of your eternal destiny, and
oh, that Jesus would this hour overcome
you with his pardoning mercy as he stands
here with the pathos of a broken heart and
sobs into your ear; Il have come for thee.
l come with my back raw from the beat
ing. / come with my feet mangled with
the nails. I come with my brow aching
from the twisted bramble 1 come with
my heart bursting for your woes. can
stand It no longer. 1 am Jesus whom
thou persecutest."