The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-03

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Rowan / 10 be saved2 BY mercy Here
stand to tell the story, mercy. mercy,
long-sufferiug mercy: sovereign mercy,
Infinite mercy. omnipontent mercy. ever
lasting mercy. Why, it seems in the
Piblo as if All language were exhausted,
&c if in were stretched until il broke as
If all expression were struck dead at the
feetof prophet and apostle and evange-
list when it tries to describe Gods
mercy
oh. saws some one. that is only adding
TO nv crime. if come and confess before
Cod and seek his mercy. No, no The
murderer has come, and while 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 hardening 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
nv the mercy that saved Mary Magdalen
But. saws some one, YOU are throwing
omen that door of mercy too wide No, I
will throw it open wider; ] will take the
responsibility of saving that, if all this
audience, instead of being gathered in a
semi-circle, were placed side by side in
one long line. they could all march right
through that wide-open gate of mercy.
whatsoever" whatsoever" Oh, this
mercy of God-there is no line long
enough to fathom il; there is no ladder
long enough to scale it; there is no arith-
metic facile enough to calculate it, no
angels wing can fly across it.
Heavenly harpers, aided by ChOirs with
feet like the sun, cannot compass that
harmony of Mercy, Mercy. 1t sounds in
the rumbling of the celestial gates I hear
il in the Ginning Of the celestial towers
I see il flashing in the uplifted and down
cast coronets of the saved / hear it in
the laundering tread of the hammered
hosts round about the throne and then it
comes from the harps, and crowns, and
thrones. and puocessiOns, to sit down, un-
expressed, on a 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 a raft, as she
tried to save herself, but 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
of. Oh, bless God that this lfe-boat of
the Gospel has room enough for the six
teen hundred millions of the race-Toom
for one, room for all, and yet there is
room
] push this analysis of the publicans
PRAYER step further, and find that he
did not expect any mercy 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; If 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 torj hence this
earnest cry OF the text, God be merclfm
TO me sinner,
IL was an earnest prayer, and it is
characteristic OF all Bible prayers that
they were answered. The blind man:
Lord, that may receive my sight" the
leper; Lord, IL thou Wit, thou cans6
make me clean sinking Peter: Lord,
save me- the publican; God be merci-
ful to me sinner But If you come up
with the tip OF your finger and tap at the
gate OF mercy, IL will not open; you have
got to have the earnestness of the warrior
who, defeated and pursued, dismounts
from his lathered steed, and with gaunt-
let ed fist pounds at the palace gate, You
have got to have the earnestness of the
man who at midnight in the fourth story
has a sense of sutfocation, with the house
in hames goes TO the window and shouts
to the tiremen, "Help!" Oh. unforgiven
soul if you were in full earnest | might
have to command silence in the auditory,
for your prayers would drown the voice
of the speaker, and we would have to
pause in the great service. 1t is because
you do not realize YOUR sin before God
, that you are not this moment crying;
MercV morcy, mercy
This prayer of the publican was also
an humble prayer. The pharisee looked
up, the publican looked down. You can
not be saved as a metaphysician, or as a
rhetorician; you cannot be saved as a
scholar; you cannot be saved as an artist;
you cannot be saved as an official If you
are ever saved at all it will be as a sinner
"God be merciful to me sinner
Another characteristic of the prayer of
the publican was, it had ring of conf
dence. 1t was not a cry of despair He