Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-06-28

last chance for Heaven. Judg..lg from
his character afterwards, he WIS repro
bate and abandoned. And SO Was Dru-
silla.
One day in southern Italy there was
trembling of the earth, and the air
| got black with smoke intershot with
liquid rock, and Vesuvius rained upon
Drusilla and upon her son a horrible
tempest of ashes and fire. They did
not reject religion; they only put it off,
They did not understand that that day,
that that hour when Paul stood before
them, was the pivotal hour upon which
everything was poised, and that
it tipped the wrong way. Their con-
genient season came when Paul and
his guardsman entered the palace; 1t
went away when Paul and his guards
man left. Have you never seen men
waiting for convenient season? There
is such great fascination about it,
that though you may have great re-
spect to the truth of Christ, yet some
how there is in your soul the thoughts:
Not quite yet. 1t is not time for me
to become Christian" ] say to a boy:
Seek Christ lie says: mo; wait
until | get to be young man" ! say
to the young man: Seek Christ" He
says: ''Wait until | come to nid-life.
| meet the same person in mid-life, and
say: ''SeelI Christ" He says Wait
until get old" ! meet the same per
son in old age, and say to him: Seek
Christ" He says: "Wait until am
IN my dying bed" | am called to his
lying couch. His last moments have
come. | bend over the couch and listen
for his last words | have partially to
guess what they are by the motion OF
his lips, he is SO feeble; but rallying
himself, he whispers, until | can hear
him say: lam waiting for-a-
more-eonvenient- season"-and he Is
gone!
! can tell You when your convenient
season will come. | can tell you the
year-it win be 1894. / can tell you
what kind of day it will belt will be
the Sabbath day. | can tell you what
hour it win bet win be between
and 10 o'clock. In other words it Is
now Do YOU ask me how | know this
is Your convenient season? | know il
because you are here. and because the
Holy Spirit is here. and because the
elect sons and daughters of God are
praying for redemption. All, ! know
it is your convenient season because
some of Won. like Felix tremble as all
your past life comes upon you with its
sin. and all the future life comes upon
you with its terror. This night air is
aglare with torches to show you up 81
to show You down. 1t is rustling with
wings 10 lit you into fight. or smitt
You into despair. and there is a rushing
to and fro, and a beating against the
door Of your soul; as with a great thun
der of emphasis, telling you: Now
now is the best time, rs it may be the
only time.'
May God Almighty forbid that any
of YOU, my brethren or sisters, act the
part of selix and Drusilla. and put
away this great subject. If you are
going TO be saved ever. why not begir
tonight? Throw down your sins and
take the Lords pardon, Christ has
been tramping after you many day
An Indian and a white man became
Christians. The Indian almost as soon
as he heard the gospel believed ane
was saved; but the white man strug.
gled on in darkness for long while
before he found light. After THEN
peace in Christ. the white man said &c
the Indian, "Why was it that
was kept so long in the darkness
and you Immediately found peacep
The Indian replied. 81 will tell
you. A prince comes along, and he
offers you coat. You look at your
coat and you say, My coat is good
enough, and you refuse his Offer but
the prince comes along and he offers
me the coat, and | look at my old
blanket and | throw that away and
take his offer. You, sir" continued
the Indian, ARE clinging to your own
righteousness, you think you are
good enough, and you keep your own
righteousness: but | have nothing |
nothing. and 50 when jesus
offers me pardon and peace, | simply
take it" My reader, why not now
throw away the wornout blanket Of
your sin and take the robe of Saw
tours righteousness robe so white.
so fair, so lustrous. that no fuller on
earth, can whiten it. D, Shepherd, to |
night bring home the lost sheep. o. |
Father, tonight give welcoming kiss
to the wan prodigall o, friend of Lac
arus, tonight break down the door OF |
the sepulcher, and say to all these dead
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