Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-11-15

hide flaw in the silk so that the GUS
toner cannot see it. 1t is very easy
to be Christian with psalm book I'D
your hand and Bible on your lap, but
not so easy when you can go into
shop and falsely tell the merchant you
can get those goods at cheaper rate
in another store, so that he will sell
them to you cheaper than he can afford
to sell them. The fact is the religion
OF Christ is all pervasive. If you rent
a house. you expect full possession oil
it You say: Where are the keys OF
those rooms? / want possession OF
those rooms? If pay for this whole
house, want possession Of those
rooms" And the grace of God when II
comes to soul takes full possession OF
man, or goes away and takes no pos
session. 1t will ransack every room in
the heart, every room in the life. from
cellar to attic, touching the very eX-
tremities of his nature. The priests
washed hands and feet.
remark further, that this LAYER Of
looking glasses spoken of in the text
was very large laver. ! always
thought from the fact that so many
washed there, and also from the fact
that Solomon afterward, when he copied
that laver in the temple, built 1t on
very large scale, that il was large; and
so suggestive of the Gospel of Jesus
Christ and salvation by him-vast in its
provisions. The whole world may come
and wash in this laver and be clean.
When our civil war had passed the
government of the United States made
proclamation of pardon to the common
soldiery in the Confederate army,
but not to the chief soldiers. The Cos
pei of Christ does not act in that way.
1t says pardon for all, but especially
for the chief of sinners. do not now
think of single passage that says
a small sinner may be saved, but ! do
think of passages that say great sin
ner may be saved. II there be sins
only family hued, just little tinged,
so family colored that you can hardly
see them, there is no special pardon
promised in the Bible for those sins;
but II they be glaring, red like Grim
son, then they shall be as snow Now,
my brother, | do not state this to put
a premium upon great iniquity. ! mere
ly say this to encourage that man, who
ever he is, who feels he is so far gone
from God that there is no mercy for
him. | want to tell him there is
good chance. Why, Paul was muir
derer: he assisted at the execution Of
Stephen: and yet Paul was saved. The
dying thief did everything bad. The
dying thief was saved. Richard Baxter
swore dreadfully: but the grace of God
met him, and Richard Baxter was
saved. 1t is vast laver. Go and tell
everybody to come and wash in it, Let
them come up from the penitentiaries
and wash away their crime. Let them
come up from the almshouses and wash !
away their poverty. Let them come up
from their graves and wash away their |
death. If there be any one so worn out |
in sin that he cannot get mp to the |
aver you will take hold of his head |
and put your arms around him, and |
viii take hold of his feet, and we will !
plunge him in this glorious Bethesda
he vast laver of Gods mercy and sal
ration. In Solomon's temple there |
we're ten LAYERS and one molten sea-
his great reservoir in the midst of the \
emple filed with water-these LAYERS
md this molten sea adorned |
With figures of palm branch,
ind oxen, and lions, and cher
lbim. This fountain of Gods mercy
5 vaster molten sea than that.
L is adorned not with palm branches,
,ut with the wings of the Holy Ghost;
ind around its great rim all the race
nay come and wash in the molten sea.
was reading the other day of Alex
lnder the Great, who, when he was very
thirsty and standing at the head of his
lrmy, had brought to him a cup of
water. lie looked off upon his host and
aid II cannot drink this; my men are
III thirsty" and he dashed it to the
round Blessed be God! there
nough water for all the host-enough
or captains and host. whatsoever
will may como and take of the water of
ife freely"-a laver broad as the earth,
Ugh as the heavens and deep as hell.
But / notice also, in regard to this
aver of looking glasses spoken of in the
ext, that the washing in it was imper
tive, and not optional. When the
,riests come into the tabernacle (you
will find this in the thirtieth chapter ot
,xodus), GOD tells them that they
must wash in that laver or die. The
riest might have said: Cant / wash
lsewhere? ! washed in the laver at
ome, and now you want me to wash
ere God SAYS: No matter whether
r not you have washed before. Wash
n this laver or die" But says the
riest, there is water just as
lean as this-why won't that do?'
Wash here" says God, ''or dep
o it is with the gospel OF Christ it is
Imperative. There is only this alter
alive: Keep our sins and perish, or
7ash them away and live. But says
ONE one: why could not God have
lade more ways TO Heaven than one?'
do not know but he could have made
alf dozen. | know he made but one.
-ou say: why not have a long line