The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-07-07

Z CeTL. why. my 1TlenO. the Dloic -
full OF confession. and do not find any
body is pardoned until he has con-
/ fessed.
/ What did David say? Il will confess
my transgressions unto the Lord"
I What did Isaiah say? ''Woe is me. be-
cause l am a man of unclean lips
| What did Ezra say? ''Our iniquities
! are increased over our head. and our
trespass is grown up into heaven.
And among the millions before the
throne of God tonight not one got
! there until he confessed. The coast of
eternal sorrow is strewn with the
wreck of those who. not taking the
warning, drove with the cargo of i'm
! mortal hope into the white tangled
/ foam of the breakers.
(, Repent, The voice celestial cries.
Nor longer dare delay:
The wretch that scorns the mandate dies
{ And meets the fiery day.
/ But l analyze the publican's prayer a
step further. and find that he expected
no relief except through Gods mercy.
Why did he not say. am an honora BILE
man. When get $40 taxes. pay them
over to the government l give
/ full permission to anybody to audit my
accounts l appeal to thy justice. o
God! He made no such plea He threw
( himself fat ON Gods mercy.
| Have you any idea that a man by
| breaking off the scales OF the leprosy
/ can change the disease? Have You any
! idea that you can by changing your life
+ change your heart. that you can pur-
! chase your way to Heaven? Come. try
! it. Come. bring all the bread you ever
gave to the hungry. all the medicine
you ever gave to the sick. all the kind
! words you have ever uttered, all the
kind deeds that have ever distinguished
! you. Add them all up into the ire
/ mendous aggregate of good words and
works, and then you will see Paul
: sharpen his knife as he cuts that spirit
| of self satisfaction, as he cries. by
I the deeds of the law there shall no
flesh be justified"
Well, say thousand men in this au-
dience, if am not to get anything in
| the way OF peace from God in good
works. how am | to be saved? BY mer-
| CIV. Here | stand to tell the story
mercy. mercy, long suffering mercy,
sovereign mercy. infinite mercy, omnip-
otent mercy. everlasting mercy. Why.
! it seems in the Bible as if all language
were exhausted, as if it were stretched
! until broke. as if all expression We're
struck dead at the feet of prophet and
apostle and evangelist when it tries to
describe Gods mercy.
Oh. says some one. that is only add
! ing to my crime if | come and confess
/ before God and seek his mercy. No
: no, The murderer has come. and while
Z he was washing the blood of his victim
| from his hands looked into the face OF
God and cried for mercy. and his soul
/ has been white in Gods pardoning love,
And the soul that has wandered Off
| in the streets and down to the very
gates of hell has come back to her
fathers house. throwing her arms
| around his neck. and been saved by the
mercy that saved Mary Magdalen.
/ But, says some one. you are throwing
open that door of mercy too wide. No.
/ l viii throw it open wider. will take
! the responsibility of saying that if all
/ this audience. instead of being gathered
| side in one long line they could all
march right through that wide open
! gate of mercy. ''Whosoever." whose
| ever" Oh. this mercy of God. There
! is no line long enough to fathom it:
there is no ladder long enough to scale
it; there is no arithmetic facile enough
to calculate it; no angels wing can fly
across it.
Heavenly harpers, aided by choirs
with feet like the sun. can not compass
that harmony of mercy. mercy. 1t
sounds in the rumbling of the celestial
| gate. l hear it in the Ginning of the
celestial towers. l see it flashing in
the uplifted and downcast coronets of
/ the saved. l hear it in the laundering
tread of the hammered host round about
| the throne. and then it comes from the
harps and crowns and thrones and pro-
| cessions to sit down. unexpressed. on
throne overlapping all Heaven-the
| throne of mercy.
! How l was affected when some one
told me in regard to that accident on
Long Island sound. when one poor
woman came and got her hand on
fd1C as she trleU 10 save nerSel1. Out
/ those who were on the raft thought
| there was no room for her. and one man
came and most cruelty beat and bruised
her hands until She fell off. Oh, bless
God that this lifeboat of the gospel has
room enough for the sixteen hundred
millions of the race-room for one.
room for ALL and yet there is room.
Ipush this analysis of the publican's
prayer a step further and find that he
did not expect any money except by
pleading for it. He did not fold his
hands together as some do. saying: If
I'm to be saved. I'll be saved: I'm to
be lost, I'll be lost. and there is nothing
| for me to do" He knew what was
worth having was worth asking for:
hence this earnest cry of - the text:
God. be merciful to me. a sinner
1t was an earnest prayer, and it is
characteristic of all Bible prayers that
they were answered. The blind man.
Lord, that I may receive my sight,
the leper. Lord, if thou wilt thou