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the story surrounding these words. The
home Jesus loved to visit had been
clouded with deepest sorrow, and i'm
mersed in most poignant grief. One of
the three personal friends OF Jesus at.
Bethany had died. Great lamentation
was made over the loss of the Brother
Lazarus. Kinsmen and friends swelled
the flow of tears. and darkness brooded
over the household. Christ. ever per-
forming deeds of mercy, promises to
restore the loved one to his sisters;
They face the tomb in which lay the
putretying body. Jesus wept. Why,
think you, the cheeks of the Master
were wet with tears? Because He had
lost a friend? Because He thus would
express sympathy with the bereaved?
He did commiserate; He did have COM
passion on the smltten, sorroWing rela-
tives. That was not the cause of HIS
weeping. 1t was when Christ saw the
effects of sin and how that it brought
death into the world; it was when His
life-work unrolled in darkened pano-
rama before His vision that the fountain
burst forth. That is the thought l
would impress upon you this morning.
and seek to stamp it upon your souls.
Loose him; let him CO." is cry that
comes to the people of God concerning
those who sit in darkness. No better,
no more fitting words could be chosen
to picture the salvation that is i'll Jesus.
The most degrading and lOathsome
bondage is the slavery OF Satan. With
eyer-increasing power the
Shackles ofHniQuity
bind the human soul. In its develop
menJ we are deceived. With the cum
ming and craftineSs Of serpent the
devil binds men, brings them into his
power, rules their will until as reward
they would be lowered to plane above
which even the beast of the field can
stand. The wages of sin is death. Death
to the noblest purposes, death to the
Hottest ambition, death to everything
that is pure and righteous aud holy. In
the beginning you are bound with a
thread. You scarcely feel its touch and
no great effort would break it. 1t does
not give you alarm. The thread be-
comes a cord, the cord a rope, the rope
a cable of steel and you are helpless.
The men or women who commit glarihg
sins. who dis0bey the message of God
who neglect the great salvation; who
postpone their desire to enter the king
dom of God; who plead an excuse; who
laugh at the gospel; all these are
held as with chain of tremen-
dous power. They are the grave
clothes wrapped about the soul and but
covers corrupted life, II the tombs in
the cemetery were only the resting
places of bodies, then would we not
mourn in anguish and despair. Yet,
never have looked upon one OF these
burial places without thinking of the
souls dead and buried and the power of
sin to sap their life. You observe how
multitudes become dead to the invita-
ton of Christ. Their immortal spirits
are succumbing to the influence OF
death while they yet move about us.
God calls you and | to loose them from
the power of Satan; to take off the robe
that savors of eternal death and put
on the robe of righteounesS and eternal
life. 1t needed no second bidding On
the part of Christ to have Lazarus
friends release him. We can Imagine
that, in the exuberance of joy, they
madly tore from him the clothes al.
ready widowed by the tomb, and, in
frenzy of joy, welcomed him into the
sunshine and liberty of recreated life.
There are those present who would
doubtless rejoice had God given me but
the power
To Raise the Bead
and l should exert it for the restoration
of their loved ones. Would that JOY last
forever? Lazarus must die again. Was
the second parting from his sisters less
grievous than the first? 1t is not ours tt
call back those who are physically dead
Perhaps their happiness is fuller even
now than it ever could be on earth. By
the grace and power of GOD we can dc
better than putting life again into thai
wasted and pain-racked form. Spiritua
death is the source of our deepest woe
Shall we not allow those who departed
this life with steadfast faith in Jesus tt
enjoy the,fellowship Of heaven? God vii
be mindful of them and bring us tt
them. Let us be concerned for the soul
Fear not him who is able
to destroy the body, but feal
him who is able to destroy both body
and soul in hell" are the words Of
Christ. When He sent out His chosen
apostles TO preach the gospel He mean
they should destroy the slavery, breal
the shackles, and paralyze the power o.
sin. He might have tittingly used the
words of my text: Loose them and lie
them CO." Martha said, Lord, by Thu
time he stinketh." With her it seemed
impossible that the decaying corpse
could be again clothed with life. No
so. as Jesus clearly proved. We some
times doubt the power of the Gospel tt
resurrect the souls Of those who seen
never be reached, says somebody whos
| faith is as small as Martha's. We ar
rebuked by the lesson Of my text. Coz
| permits us to corporate with Him il
| the saving of humanity. 1t has pleased
| Jehovah to use human inStrumentalitie
in uuickenlng or making alive the soul
/ You who were dead in trespasses AM
sins hath He made alive, and as you
Appreciate That Salvation
| YOU will help others to shake off tn
| bondage of corruption and death. HOY
| can a man or woman be lOOSed from
| spiritual bondage and death? Brin!
! them under the influence of the gospel
Let your prayer on wings of faith carr,
these souls into the presence OF God
| Tell them of their peril. Get them int
where they can hear the voice of Christ
He cried with a loud voice. Lazarus
come FORTH" That we cannot do, bu
! we call u6lp CtiloL W Thu tu0Ll. WI
can roll away the stones that hide
the souls from the Master. 1t i.
the voice of God. of Christ, OF the
| Holy Spirit, of the apostles speaking
through the Word of inspiration, The
| Bible that shall awaken these who arr
| dead. Take off the garment of un
! belief. It is contaminated with the odol
:; of the bottomless pit. and its smell viii
| fast rot the soul. Put on faith, get be
lief into the heart, and see how thu
whole being is resurrected. What ii
| faith? Faith is as vine. 1t clings Il
Jesus, AMI wrapping its tendrils abou
i him, climbs into the light of Gods pres
| ence and is kissed into fruitfulness b.
! the sunshine of love. Unbelief is as
! spade 1t digs grave long and wide
/ and deep, and hurIs into it the purity
=! and nobility and virtue OF life. 1t burie:
the dearest of all hopes and destroys
the highest of all aspirations. and stul
titles the highest and best of all exist
ences. Oh. the JOY of proclaiming lib
erty to captive souls. Let US stan(
! fast in the liberty wherewith Christ ha
made US free" What did freedom meal
to the Israelites in Egypt? What did i
mean to the Jews when released from
Babylon? What did it mean to on