The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-09-19

the way Of kindly admonition. do
not believe there Is person in this
house who, II approached In kindly |
and brotherly manner would refuse to |
listen. If you are rebuffed, II is be-
cause you lack In tact and common
sense. But oh, how much effective work
there is in the way ofkindly admonitioni
There are thousands Of men all around
about you who have never had one
personal invitation to the cross Give
that one invitation, and you would DO
surprised at the alacrity with which
they would accept it.
Ihave a friend, Christian physician,
who one day became very anxious
about the salvation of brother ply
sician, and so he left his Office, went
down to this mans Office and said: "Is
the doctor in?" "No," replied the
young man waiting, "the doctor Is not
In" "Well," said the physician, when
he comes in tell him / called, and give
him my Christian love-" This worldly
doctor came home after awhile, and the
message was given to him, and he said
within himself: what does he mean
by leaving his Christian love for meT
And he became very much awakened
and stirred in spirit, and he said after
while: "Why that man must mean my
SOUL" and he went into his back Office,
knelt down and began to pray. Then
he took his hat and went out to the Of
fee Of this Christian physician and said:
what can l do to be saved?" and the
two doctors knelt in the Office and COM
mended their souls to God All the
means used in that case was only the
voice of one good man, saying: "Give
my Christian love to the doctor" The
voice of kindly admonition. Have you
uttered it to-day? Will you utter it to-
morrow Will you utter it now? Com
pei them to come in.
/ think there is great work also to
be done in the way Of prayer, If we had
faith enough to-day, we could go before
God and ask for the salvation of all the
people in our churches, and they would
all be saved, there and then, without
single exception. There might be pro-
fessional men there, political men there,
worldly men there, men who had not
heard the gospel for twenty years,
men who are preiudiced against the
preachers, men who are prejudiced
against the music, men who are preju-
diced against the church, men who are
prejudiced against God-I do not care
they might be brought in by fervent
prayer-you would compel them to
come in.
i o, for such an earnest prayer! Peo-
pie of God, lay hold Of the horns of the
altar now, and supplicate the salvation
of all those who sit in the same pew
| with you-yea, the redemption of all
who sit in your churches. What a
momentous hour! God help!
At the close of a religious service,
and when the people had nearly all
left the building, pastor saw little
girl with her head bowed on the back
of the pew, and, passing down the aisle,
he said to himself, "The little child has
fallen asleep" So he tapped her on the
shoulder and said, "The service is over"
She said, II know it is over; am pray
ing, sir, am praying We'll" said
the minister, whatsoever ye ask Of
God, believing, ye will receive" She
said, "Is that in the Bible?" eyes,"
he said, t'there is promise of that
kind in the Bible" "Well," she said,
'1et me see it." So he turned over the
Bible until he came to the promise, and
she said, "That's so, is it? Now, o Lord,
bring my father to this church to-
night" While she was praying her
father passed into the door of the
church, and came down by his child
and said, "What do you want of meP"
When that child had begun to pray one
hour before for her father, he was three
miles away; but by some strange inn
pulse that he could not understand, he
hastened to the church, and there the
twain knelt, the fathers arm around
the child's neck, the child's arm around
the fathers neck, and there he entered
on the road to Heaven. Whatsoever
We ask of God, believing, We will re-
ceive." That was an answer to the
child's prayer. What did she do2 She
compelled him to come in.
l tell you to-day, my frierds, of a
great salvation. Do you understand
what it is to have Saviour? He took
your place. He bore your sins. He
wept your SORROWS. He is here now to
save your soul A soldier, worn out in
his country's service. took to the violin
as mode of earning his living. He
was found in the streets of Vienna,
playing his violin; but after while
his hand became feeble and tremulous,
and he could no more make music.
One day, while he satNthere weeping,
man passed along and said: my
friend, you are too old and too feeble;
give me your violin" and he took the
mans violin, and began to discourse
most exquisite music, and the people
gathered around in larger and larger
multitudes, and the aged man held his
hat, and the coin poured in and poured
in until, the hat was full. "Now,
said the man who was playing the
violin, put that coin in your pockets. u
The coin was put in the old mans
pockets. Then he held his hat again,
and the violipist played more sweetly
than ever, and played until some Of the
people wept and some shouted. And
again the hat was filed with coin.
Then the violinist dropped the instru-
ment and passed off, and the whisper
went, "Who is 1t? Who is it? and
someone Just entering the crowd said:
"Why, that is Bucher, the great violin
ist, known all through the realm; yes,
that is the great violinist." The fact
was he had just taken that mans
place, and assumed his poverty, and
borne his burden, and played his music,
and earned his livelihood, and made
sacrifice for the poor old man. So the
Lord Jesus Christ comes down, and He
finds us in our spiritual penury, and