Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-11-24
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COWS the third time into the flood m.i
comes up, and the shriveled flesh hes
got smooth again. He bows tho fourth
time into the flood and comes up, and ti,e
hair that had fallen out is restored III
thick locks again all over the brow. Ho
bows the fifth time into the food and
comes up, and the hoarseness has gone
out of mis- throat. He bows the sixth till,
and comes up, and all the soreness AM
anguish have gone out of the limbs.
why" he says, 81 am almost well,
but l will make a complete cure" and
he bows the seventh time into the flood.
and ho comes up, and not so much as 4.
tester CT a scale or an eruption as big as
the head CT pin is to be seen on him.
His Wonderful Cure.
He steps out Oh tho bank and says, SIS
it possible?" And the attendants look
and say, is it possible?' And as with
the health Of an athlete be bounds back
into the chariot ard drives On there
goes up from all his attendants wild
"Huzza, huzza!' OF course they go
back to pay and thanl, the man OF God
for his counsel so fraught with wisdom.
When they left the prophets house,
they went off mad. They have come back
glad. People always think better OF &
minister after they are converted than
they do before conversion. Now we arc
to them all intolerable nuisance because
we tell them to do things that so against
the grain, but some of US have great
many letters fsom those who tell us
that once they were angry at what we
preached, but afterward gladly received
the gospel at our hands They once
called us fanatics or terrorists or enc
mics. Now they call us friends. Yonder
is man who said he would never come
into the church again. He said that
two years ago. He said, MY family
shall never come here again if such doc
trines as that arc preached. p" But no
came again, and his family came again
He is a Christian, his wife a Christian,
all his children Christians, the whole
household Christians, and you shall
dwell with them in the house of tho
Lord forever. Our undying coadjutors
are those who once heard the gospel and
event away in rage
The True Remedy.
Now, my hearers, you know that this
General Naaman did two things in Or
der to get we'll The first was, he got
out Of his chariot. He might have staid
there with his swollen feet on the stuff
cd ottoman, seated on that embroidered
cushion, until his last gasp, he would
never have got any relief. He had to
get down out of his chariot. And you
have got to get down out Of the chariot
of your pride if you ever become a Chris
tian. You cannot drive up to the cross
with a coach and four and be saved
| among all the spangles. You seem to
think that the Lord is going to be com
plimented by your coming. Oh, no, you
poor, miserable, scaly, leprous Sinner,
get down out of that. We all come III
the same naughty way We expect to
ride into the kingdom of God Never
until we get down on our knees will we
find mercy. The Lord has endorsed us.
uncharioted us. Get down out of your
pride. Get down out of your self right
eousness and your hypercriticism. We
lave all got to do that That is tho
journey we have TO make On cur knees.
Il is our internal pride that keeps rs
from getting rid Of the leprosy of sin
Dear Lord, what have VIC to be pr5ad
Of? Proud Of cur scales? Proud Of our
uncleanress? Proud of this killing in
1pf NM I9rinr, E..
weeping, praying, penitent, believing
suppliants.
For sinners, LORD, thou cam st TO bleed,
And I'm q sinner vile indeed.
LORD, believe thy grace il free.
Oh, magnify that grace in INC.
But he had not only to get down out
Of his chariot. He had to wash. "Oh, F"
you say, Il am very careful with my
| additions. Every day / plunge into IL
bright and beautiful bath All, my
nearer, there is flood brighter than any
that pours from these hills 1t is the
flood that breaks from the granite of
the eternal hills. 1t is the flood Of par
don and peace and life and heaven. That
flood started in the tears of Christ and
/ the sweat of Gethsemane and rolled on,
accommodating flood, until all earth and
heaven could bathe in it. Zechariah
called it tho fountain open for sin and
uncleanness. " William Cowper called it
| the fountain filed with blood " Your
I fathers and mothers washed all thcir
sins and sorrows away in that fountain.
Oh, my hearers, do you not feel like
wading into it? Wade down Row into
this glorious flood, deeper, deeper, deep
erl Plunge once, twice, thrice, four
times, five times, six times, seven times.
1t will take as much as that to cure your
soul Oh, wash, wash and be cleanl
Naaman's Cure.
l suppose that was a great time at
Damascus when General Naaman got
back. The characters did not have to
drive slowly any longer, lest they Jolt
the invalid but as the horses dashed
through the streets of Damascus think
the people rushed out to hail back their
chieftaiH. Naaman S wife hardly recog-
nized her husband. He was so wonder.
fully changed she had to look at him
two CT three times before she made out
that it was her restored husband. And
the little captive maid, she rushed out,
elapping her hands and shouting: did
he cure you? Did he cure you?" Then
music woke up the palace, and the tap
estry of the windows was drawn away,
that the multitude outside might min
gle with the princely mirth inside, and
the feet went up and down in the dance.
and all the streets of Damascus that
night echoed and re-echoed with the
news: "Naaman's curedl Naaman's
curedP' But gladder time than that
1t would be if your soul should get cur
ed of its leprosy. The swiftest white
horses hitched to the Kings chariot
would rush the news into the eternal
city. Our loved ones before the throne
would welcome the glad tidings. Your
children On earth, with more emotion
than the little Hebrew captive, would
notice the change in your look and the
change IN your manner and would put
their arms around your neck and say:
Mother, l guess you must have be-
come q Christian. Father, l think you
have got rid of the leprosy." O Lord