The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-15

day there will be enough to upset
il all. You may have cup OF
pleasure today, and a cup OF sorrow to-
morrow. That's the way II is with the
world. Now l will tell you this, IL
wanted to find a man or woman that had
rest, would go TO some one that has heard
the voice of Jesus saying, "Come unto me
and will give you rest."I will venture TO
say that IL should put il TO vote today
that there are not less than thousand
people who would spring to their feet and
say that they found rest at the foot OF the
cross.
Do you know that for four thousand
years no prophet nor priest nor patriarch
ever stood up and uttered text like the
one we have before us today? / think 1t
would be blasphemy for Moses to have
uttered a text like this. Supposing that
great law-giver had stood up and uttered
such a text? DO you think he had rest
when he was teasing the Lord TO let him
go into the promise land? Do
you think Elijah could have
uttered such text as this?
And this is one OF the strongest proofs
that Jesus Christ was not only man, but
he was God. He was God Man, and this
is Heavens proclamation, "Come unto
Me and will give you rest" Helbrought
it down from heaven with Him. l thank
God for the word "give" in that passage.
He doesn't sell it. Some of us are so poor
that we could not buy it if it was for sale.
i venture to say that there are thousands
OF men in New York today who would
give their millions il they could buy rest.
Thank God, we can get it for nothing.
Now, ii this text was not true, don't you
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this time? j believe it as much as j be-
iieve in my existence. Why? Because
not only find it in the book, but in my
own experience. like to have text like
this, because it takes us all in. "Come
unto me ALL" etc. That doesn't mean a
select few-you refined ladies and cul-
tured men. 1t doesn't mean you good
people only. This text applies to saint
come sinner. Only come! A lady told
couldn't come. "Well," said, "my good
woman, it doesn't say all We soft hearted
people come. Black hearts, vile hearts,
hard hearts, soft hearts, all hearts
come. "Who can soften it but Himself?
The harder the heart the more need you
have to come. II you can prove that you
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mise. Get all the benefit you can out Of
it. Now, you know that there are good
many people who think this text applies
to sinners. 1t is just the thing for them,
too. You know, / think that this text
applies to saints as much as it does to
sinners, because what do we see today?
Why! the church, Christian people, all
loaded down with cares and troubles.
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believe that means that Christian whose
heart is burdened with some great sorrow.
The Lord wants you to come.
1t says in another place, "Casting all
your care upon Him, for He careth for
YOU" / tell you what we would have a
victorious church il we could get Christ
ian people to realize that. Some people go
back into the past andDrake up all the
troubles they ever had, and then they
look into the future and anticipate that
they will have still more trouble, and
they go reeling and staggering all through
life. They give you the cold chills every
time they meet you; they will put on a
whining voice and tell you what "a hard
time they have had" The Lord says,
"Cast all your care on me
/ want to carry your burdens and your
here today, can tell by their looks. What
we want is joyful church, and we are
not going to reach the world until we
have 1t. We want TO get this long faced
Christianity off the face of the EARTH You
taxi these people that have some great
burden and let them come into meeting
like this and IL you can get their atten-
tion upon the singing or preaching they
will say, "Oh, wasn't it grand. forgot
all my cares" And they just drop their
bundle. But the moment the benediction
is pronounced they grab the bundle again.
You laugh, but you will do it here today.
"Cast your care on Him."
Then sometimes you go into your closet
and close your door and you get SO carried
away and lifted up that you forget your
troubles; but you just take it up again the
moment you get off your knees. Leave
your sorrow here today, cast all your care
upon him. If you cannot come to Christ
as saint, come as a sinner. But IL you
are a saint with some trouble or care,
bring it to Him. Saint and sinner come!
He wants you all. He doesn't want a wo-
man to go out of here today carrying a
sorrow or burden. Don't let Satan be-
lieve you cannot come IL you will. Christ
SAYS, aye will not come unto Me-" With
the command comes the power. A man
i'm one of our meetings in Europe said he
would like to come, but he was chained
and couldn't come. A Scotchman said to
him, SAY, man, why don't you come chain
and ALI? He said, 81 never thought OF
that"
Are you cross and peevish and do you
make things unpleasant at home? My
friend, come to Christ and ask him to
help you. Whatever the sin is bring it to
Him. Don't let any one say you can't, for
you can. The only thing you must do
is to bring him your sin, your burden and
your cross. That is the only thing that
will be acceptable.
There is another passage that i would
like lay to alongside ofthis: "Him that
cometh unto Me, / Will in nowise cast
out" Come unto Him now. | have no
sympathy with this idea that sim
ner must wait to come. Does God say,
IL didn't mean you; you are too black
and vile" / remember trying TO lead a
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