The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-03
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within its full precincts, you WIZ
find your whole character reflected
every feature of moral deformlty,
every spot of moral faint. If | UNDER
stand the word Of God, its first an
nounccment is that we are lost care
not, my brother, how magnlficent!7
Won NAV have been born, or what may
have been your heritage Or ancestry,
YOU are lost by reason OF sin. hut
YOU say. what is the use OF all TINS
Of showing a mans faults when ke
can't get rid of them?" None. NV ha'
was the use of that FURNISHED surtscd
to this laver of looking glasses spokeD
Of in the text, if it only showed the
snots ON the countenance and the need
of washing, and there was nothing tt
wash with?' Glory be to God, l tine
that this LAYER Of looking glasses was
! filed with fresh water every morning
and the priest no sooner looked on III
FURNISHED side and saw his need a.
cleansing. than he washed and Wa
c]can-glorious type of the gospe' =
my Lord Jesus, that first shows a maj
his sin. and then washes it all away
want YOU to notice that his lay"
in which the priest washed-the la'e'
of looking glasses-was filled VIVA
fresh water every morning. Inc Ser'
wants of the tabernacle brought the
water in buckets and poured it into
this layer. SO it is with the gospel Oh
Jesus Christ; it has fresh salvation
every day. 1t is not stagnant pool
filled with accumulated corruptlons' IL
is living water, which is brought from
the. eternal rock to wash away the
sins of yesterday-of one moment ago.
son. says some one, Il wasa Christian
twenty years ago. That does not
mean anything to me. What are You
now? We are not talking, my broth
err, about pardon ten years ago, but
about pardon nova fresh salvation.
Suppose q time of war should come,
and l could show the government that
l had been loyal to it twelve years ago.
would that excuse me from taking
an oath of allegiance now? Suppose
! you ask me about my physical health'
and l should say I was well fifteen
years ago-that does not say no"
l am now. The gospel OF Jesus Christ
comes and demands present allegiance
!, present fealty, present moral health;
and yet how many Christians there are
seeking to live entirely in past ex'
. perience, who seem to have no eXper-
fence of present mercy and pardon!
An artist in his dreams saw such u
, splendid dream of the TRANSPORTATION
of Christ that he awoke and seized his
: pencil, and said, "Let me paint this
, and de-" Oh, have seen the glories
! of Christ! 1 have beheld something OF
the beauty of that great sacrifice on
, Calvary, and I have sometimes felt
would be willing to give anything if
might just sketch before you the won
, ders of that sacrifice. l would like to
, do it while live, and would like to dc
:, it when die. "Let me paint this and
, die" He comes along weary and
= worn, his face wet with tears
T his brow crimson with blood
a and he lies down on Calvary fol-
a YOU. No, mistake. Nothing was a.
- comfortable as that. A stone on Cal
9 vary would have made soft pillow TO
the dying head OF Christ Nothing 81
comfortable as that He does not lii
down to die; he stands up to die; hi
= spiked hands outspread as if to Elm
J.. brace world. Oh, what hard enc
q for those feet that had travelled al
!, over Judea on ministries of mercy
q What hard end for those hands tina
r. had wiped away tears and bound II
e broken hearts! Very hard, oh dyin
u Lamb of God! and yet there are thos
u who know it and who do not love thee
~ They say, what is all that to me
10 What If he does weep. ard ~rOan, an
l. die? don't want him." Lord Jesu
- Christ, they will not help the
. down from the cross! The soldier
II will come and tear thee down frol
:. the cross, and put their arms aroun
~ thee and lower thee into the tomb; BIZ
;. they will not help. They see nothin
- to move them. Oh dying Christ! tur
~ on them thine eyes of affection nov
~, ~ and see if they will not change the
~ minds!
~ And that is all for you! Oh, car yc
y not love him? Come around this lave
~ -, old and young. It is so FURNISHED yc
:. can see your sins; and so deep you ca
~ wash them all away. Oh, mourne
=. here battle your bruised soul; and sic
=. one, here cool your hot temples in tn
=. laver. Peace! Do not cry any NOR
~ dear SOUL Pardon for all thy sin
~ comfort for all thy Affections. III
~ black cloud that hung laundering ov
~. ". Sinai has foated above Calvary, ar
~. burst into the shower of Savio,
~ tears.
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