Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-01-04

tian Herald Office. ! am in daily receipt
Of numerous letters from people
brought up in good families, and who
had Christian parentage, but VINO
fran Sly tell N. that the are as;ray
thousand miles from the right track,
and fear their case Is hopeless. MY
brothers. it Is to yol want to preach
now. | have been looking for you.
VIII tel you how you got as.ray' ~
was not righteousness on your part
1t was perhaps through the gen atty
aud sociab,lity Of your mature that yoa
fell into sin. You wandered away from
your duty. and unconsciously lie thn
house OF Col: you admit the gospel t.
be true. and yet YOU have so grieyousiy
ana 50 prolony.dly wan lered, you sar
rescue is impossible.
1t would take a week to count up
the names of those in Heaven who
were on earth worse than you tell me
YOU are. They went the whole round
Of iniquity. they disgraced themselves,
they disgraced their household, they
lesoaired of return because their rep
ataeion was gone, their prop
srty was gone. everything was
zone: but in some hour like this they
heard the voice of God. and they threw
themselves on the divine compassion
and they rose up more than conquer
1rs. AMI Tell you there is the same
chance for you. That is one reason
why like to preach the gospel so Tree
gospel, so tremendous gospel, i
takes man all wrong and makes nam
al right.
in a former settlement where i
preached, member Of my congrega-
ton quit the house of God, quit re
spe ,table circles. and went into all
STYLES Of sin. and was slain OF his
niquity The day for his burial came
and his body was brought TO the hoosr
of God. Some of his comrades who had
destroyed him were overheard along
the street. on their way to the burial
,a,ing: Come. let MS go and hear
Talmage damn this old sinner On
had nothing but tears for the dead,
and had nothing but invitations I,
che living You see ! could not do
any otherwise. Christ Jesus came t.
seek and save that which was lost
Christ in His dying prayer said,
"Father. forgive them" and that was
a prayer for you and prayer for me.
Oh! start on the road to Heaven to
dav. You are not happy. The thirst
OF your soul will never be slaked by
the fountain Of sin. You turn every
where but 10 God for help. Right
where YOU are, call on Him. lie knows
YOU. lie knows all about you. liz
knows all the cd Is raiast which yot
have been contendiug in life. Do not
90 to Him with long rigamarole OF
D aver bat just look up aud say
'lIelp. Help
Yet YOU saw: "NIy hand trembles Sc
| from my designations. Ican't even take
hold of hymn book to sing'' Do NO
worry about that my brother; ] vii
rive out hymn at the close so famiiia'
YOU ca sing II without book Bul
Won saw: II have such terrible habit
on me can't get rid of them" Ms
answer is. Almighty grace can brea
M that habit an will break it up Ba'
YOU say. The wrong ! did was to on'
deal an I in Heaven now. and can
| correct that wrong. You can correc
it. Bv tn. grace of God. go into th'
| presence OF that one and the apo ogie
you ought to have made on earth, MAKE
| in Heaven.
"Oh.' says some man. 'if should tr,
TO do right. If | should turn away iron
nv evil doing unto the Lord. ! woul'
be iostled. would be driven back, no
body would have any sympathy TO
me- You are mistaken. Here. in tn
presence of the church on earth and II
Heaven. I give you to-da the righ
! hand OF Christian fe'l owship. Go'
sent me here to-day To preach this
and He sent you here to hear this
"I,et the wicked forsake his way. an
the unrighteoas man his thought, an
10. him return unto the Lord. who vii
have mercy. and unto our God. VIII.
will abundanily pardon. Though vo'
may hay. been the worst sinner. yol
NAV become the best saint, and in tn
great day of Judgment II Will %
found that where sin abound
eth. grace does much NOR
abound" and while the spoils of al
everlasting kingdom are being awnrde'
Cor your pursuit it will be found tina
the lame took the prey. blessed b
God that we are. this Sabbath. on
week nearer the obliteration OF all tn
INEQUALITIES of this life and all its dis
ouietudes Years ago. on a boat o.
the North river. the pilot gave yer
sharp ring to the bell for the boat I
slow up The engineer attended to tn
machinery. and then he came up wit
some alarm on deck to see what wa
the matter lie saw 1t was moon
light night. and there were no obstacle
in the way. lie went to the pilot an
said. "Why did you ring the bell i
that wav9 Why do you wan
to stop? there's nothing the ma
tero' And the pilot said to hin
"There is a mist gathering on tn
river: don't you see that? and there
night gathering darker and darker
and can't see the way" Then tn
engueer. looking around and seeing