The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-09-12
81 think there are many under the inhu,

your question I look up and utter the prayer
which Rowland Hill so often uttered in the
midst of his sermons, "Master, help" How
are you to trust in Christ?
Just as you trust any one. You trust your
partner in business with important things.
If commercial house gives you note pay
able three months hence, you expect the
payment of that note at the end OF three
months. You have perfect confidence in
their word and in their ability. Or, again;
you 60 home to-day. You expect there will
be food on the table. You have confidence
in that. Now, ask you to have the same
confidence in the Lord Jesus Christ. He
says, "You believe; take away your sins.
and they are all taken away. "What J"
you say, "before I pray eny more? Be-
fore 1 read my Bible any more? Before
I crv over my sins any more?" Yes. this mo-
ment. Believe with all your heart, and you
are saved. Why, Christ is only waiting to
get from you what you give to scores OF peo-
pie every day. What is that? Confidence. II
these people whom you trust day by day are
more worthy than Christ, If they are more
faithful than Christ. if they have done more
than Christ ever did, then give them the
preference, but if you really think that Christ
is as trustworthy as they are then deal with
Him as fairly.
ooh" says some one in light way, 81
believe that Christ was born in Bethlehem,
and believe that He died on the cross" Do
you believe IT with your head or your heart?
will illustrate the difference. You are in
your own house. In the morning you open
q newspaper, and you read how Captain
Braveheart on the sea risked his life for the
salvation of his passengers. You say "What
grand fellow he must have been His fam
lily deserves very we'll of the country" You
fold the newspaper and sit down at the table
and perhaps do not think of that incident
again. That Is historical faith
But now you are on the sea, and 1t is night
and you are asleep, and you are awakened
the deck. You hear, amid the wringing of
the hands and the fainting, the cry; 'No
hope, no hope We are lost, we are lost p
The sail puts out its wing of fire, the robes
make burning ladder in the night heavens,
the spirit of wrecks Kisses in the waves, and
on the hurricane decks shakes out its banner
of smoke and darkness. '"Down with the
!" cried the captain. "Down with
the lifeboats p People rush into them. The
more man. You are standing on the deck
beside the captain.
Who shall it be? You or the captain?
The captain says, "You." You jump and
are saved. He stands there and dies. Now,
you believe that Captain Braveheart sacri-
feed himself for his passengers, but you
believe it with love, with tears, with hot
and long continued ordinations, with
grief at his loss and Joy at your deliverance.
That is saving faith-in other words, what
you believe with all the heart and believe
In regard to yourself. On this hinge turns
my sermon-aye, the salvation of your i'm
mortal soul. You often go across a bridge
you know nothing about. You do not
know who built the bridge, you do not
know what material 1t Is made of, but
you come to it and walk over it
and ask no questions. And here is an
lrched bridge blasted from the "Rock of
Ages and built by the Architect of the
whole universe, spanning the dark gulf be-
tween sin andrighteousness, and all God asks
you is to walk across it, and you start, and
Tou come to it, and you stop, and you go
/ little way on, and you stop, and you fall
pack, and you experiment. You say, Chow
10 know that bridge will hold mer' in
stead Of marching ON with firm step, asking
10 questions, but feeling that the strength
If the eternal God is under you.
Oh, was there ever a prize proffered so
cheap as pardon and heaven are offered to
Tou? For how much? A million dollars?
It is certainly worth more than that. But
cheaper than that you can have it. Ten
hcusard dollars? Less than that. Five
thousand dollars? Less than that. One
dollar? Less than that. One farth-
ing? Less than that without money
and without price" No money to pay. No
Journey to take. No penance to suffer.
Only just one decisive action of the soul,
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and
thou shalt be saved"
Shall try to tell you what it is to be
saved? I cannot tell you. No man, no
angel, can tell you. But can hint at it, for
my text brings me up to this point. "Thou
shalt be saved" 1t means a happy life here,
and a peaceful death, and blissful eternity.
1t is grand thing to go to sleep at night,
and to get up in the morning, and to do bus
mess all day feeling that all is right between
my heart and God. No accident, no sick
ness, no persecution, no peril, no sword,
can do me any permanent damage.
I am a forgiven child of God, and
He is bound to see me through. He has
sworn He will see me through. The mount
aims may depart, the earth may burn, the
light Of the stars may be blown out by the
blast of the judgment hurricane, but life and
death, things present and things to come,
are mine. Yea, further than that, it means
a peaceful death. Mrs. Hemans, Mrs. ST.
gourney, DR.. Young and almost all the poets
have said handsome things about death.
There is nothing beautiful about it. When
we stand by the white and rigid features of
those whom we love, and they give no an
swering pressure of the hand and no re-
turning kiss OF the lip, we do not
want anybody poetizing round about
US. Death Is loathsomeness and
and the wringing OF the heart I'M
til the tendrils snap and curl in the torture
unless Christ shall be with us. l confess to
you an infinite fear, a consuming horror OF
death unless Christ shall be with me.
would rather go down into a cave of wild
beasts or jungle OF reptiles than into the
grave unless Christ goes with me. VIII you
tell me that 1 am TO be carried out from my
bright home and put away in the darkness?
I cannot bear darkness. At the first coming
of the evening must have the gas lighted,
and the farther on in life L get the moro-I like
to have my friends round about me.
And am to be put off for thousands Of