Connecticut western news., 1894-09-06


 along the street, they ran into their houses, and they wrapped up their in- valids as quick as they could and brought them out that he might look at | them. Oh, there was something so | pleasant, so inviting, so cheering in ev- erything he did, in his very look! When these sick ones were brought out, did he say: Do not bring before me these sores. Do not trouble me with these | leprosies?" No, no; there was a kind look; there was gentle word; there was healing touch. They could not keep away from him.
 think there are many under the in- fluence of the Spirit of God who are saying, 1T will trust him if you will only tell me how" And the great ques- | tion asked by many is, How, how?'' | And while I answer your question l look up and utter the prayer which Rowland | Hill so often uttered in the midst of his sermons, "Master, helpp How are you | to trust in Christ?
 Perfect Confidence.
 Just as you trust any one. You trust | your partner in business with important | things. If commercial house gives you a note payable 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 go home today. 1 You expect there will be food on the | table You have confidence in that | Now, ask you to have the same confi- | dence in the Lord Jesus Christ He says, "You believe; take away your sins, v and they are all taken away. "Whatp' | you say, "before pray any more? Be- fore read my Bible any more? Before I cry over my sins any more?' Yes, this | moment. Believe with all your heart, and you are saved. Why, Christ is only waiting to get from you what you give to scores of people every day. What is | that? Confidence If 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.
 "Oh," says some one in light way,
 "I believe that Christ was born in Beth lehem, 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 8. newspaper, and you read how Captain Braveheart | on the sea risked his life for the saliva tion of his passengers. You say: What a grand fellow he must have beeni His family deserves very we'll of the coun- try" You fold the newspaper and sit down at the table and perhaps do not | think of that incident again. That is historical faith.
 Saved by Faith.
 But now you are on the>sea, and it is ! night, and you are asleep, and you are | awakened by the shriek of ''Firep You rush out on the deck. You hear, amid | the wringing of thehands and the faint ing, the cry: "No hope, no hope! We are lost, we are lost!" The sail puts out | its wing of fire, the ropes make burn ing ladder in the night heavens, the | spirit of wrecks misses in the wave, and | on the hurricane deck shakes out its ban ner of smoke and darkness. Down with the hfeboatsl" cries the captain.
 Down with the lifeboatsl" People rush | into them. The boats are about full. Room only for ono more man. You are standing on the deck beside the captain. Who shall it be? You or the captain9 The captain says, You" You jump and are saved. He stands there and dies. | Now, you believe that Captain Brave | heart sacrificed himself for his passen- gers, but you believe it with love, with tears with hot and long continued ex- clamations, with grief at his loss and | joy at your deliverance. That is saving faith-in other words, whatyou believe with all the heart and believe in regard to yourself. On this hinge tr rms my ser | mon-aye the salvation of your inn | 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 1t
 and ask no questions. And here is an
 arched bridge blasted from the Rock
 of Ages'' and built by the Architect of
 the whole universe, spanning the dark | gulf between sin and righteousness, and ! all God asks you is to walk across 1t,
 and you start, and you come to it, and
 you stop, and you go little way on,
 and you stop, and you fall back, and
 you experiment. You say. "How do
 know that bridge will hold mel" in
 stead of marching on with firm step,
 asking no questions, but feeling that
 the strength of the eternal God is under
 you.
 Oh, was there ever prize proffered
 so cheap as pardon and heaven are of
 fered to you? For how muchP A million
 dollars? It is certainly worth more than
 that. But cheaper than that you can
 have 1t. Ten thousand dollars? Less
 than that. Five thousand dollars? Less
 than that. One dollar? Less than that.
 One farthing? Less than that. With.
 out money and without price" Nc
 money to pay. No journey to take. Nc -penance to suffer. Only just one decisive
 action of the soul, Believe on the Lord
 Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. ''
 Forgiven and Safe.
 Shall try to tell. you what it is to be
 saved? cannot tell you. No man, nc
 angel, can tell you. But I can hint al
 1t. for my text brings me up to this
 point, "Thou shalt be saved. It means
 happy life here. and peaceful death,
 and blissful eternity. It is a grand
 thing to go to sleep at night, and to gel
 up in the morning, and to do business
 all day feeling that all isright between
 my heart and God. No accident, nc
 sickness, no persecution, no peril, nc
 sword, can do me any permanent dam
 age. I am forgiven child of God, and
 he is bound to see me through. He has
 sworn he will see me through. Int
 mountains may depart, the earth may
 burn, the light of the stars may be blowI
 out by the blast of the judgment hurri