Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-10-29

! H. we SO6 IL lEClG our pdTCAtS IIoy
| got it from their parents. Our thoughts
are wrong, our action is wrong, our
whole life is obnoxious to God before
| conversion and after conversion not
one good thing in us but that which the
grace Of God has planted and fostered
well. " you say, II can't believe that
to DC so.'' All, my dear brother, that
, is becaueo you have never looked into
this LAYER Of looking glasses.
It Is Pull of Evil.
If you could catch glimpse of your
natural heart before God, you would
cry out in amazement and alarm. The
very first thing this gospel does is to cut
down our pride and self suficiency. If
q man does not feel his lost and ruined
condition before God, he does not want
any gospel. think the reason that there
are SO few conversions in this day is be-
cause the tendency of the preaching is
to make men believe that they are pref
ty good anyhow-quite clever, only
wanting a little fixing up, a few touch
es Of divine grace, and then you will be
all right-instead of proclairling the
broad, deep truth that Payson and
Whitefeld Numbered to race trembling
on the verge of infinite and eternal
disaster. "Now," says some one, "can
this really be true? Have we all gone
astray? Is there no good in us?'' In
Hampton Court I saw a room where the
four walls were covered with looking
glasses and it made no difference which
way you looked you saw yourself. And
SO it is i'll this gospel of Christ. If you
once step within its full precincts, you
will find your whole character reflected,
every feature Of moral deformity, ev-
cry spot of moral faint. IF I understand
the word of God, its first announcement
is that we are lost. care not, my broth
er, how magnifcently you may have
been born, or what may have been your
heritage OF ancestry, you are lost by
reason OF sin. 'But, :" you say, "what
is the use of all this-of showing a
mans faults when he can't get rid of
the1n?" None! "What was the use of
that FURNISHED surface to this laver of
looking glasses spoken Of in the text, if
it only showed the spots Oh the counte-
nance and the need Of washing, and
there was nothing to wash with?' Clio
ry be to God, [ find that this laver Of
looking glasses was filed with fresh
water every morning, and the priest no
sooner locked on it's FURNISHED side and
saw his need of cleansing than he wash
ed and was clean-glorious type of the
gospel Of my Lord Jesus, that first shows
a man his sin and then washes it ali
away!
The Daily Need.
want you to notice that this laver
in which the priest washed-the laver
of looking glasses filed with fresh
water every morning. The servants Of
the tabernacle brought the water in
buckets and poured it into this laver.
So it is with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
1t has a fresh salvation every day. It is
not a stagnant pool filed with accunu-
lated corruptions. It is living water,
which is brought from the eternal
rock to wash away the sins Of yester
day, Of one moment ago. ooh, says
some one, 81 was a Christian 20 years
ago!' That does not mean anything to
ne. What are you now? We are not
talking, my brother, about pardon ten
years ago. but about pardon now, a
fresh salvation. Suppose a time of war
should come, and could show the gov
eminent that / had been loyal to it 10
years ago, would that excuse me from
taking an oath of allegiance now? Sup
pose you ask me about my physical
health, and I should say I was well 15
years ago, that does not say how l am
now. The gospel of Jesus Christ comes
and demands present allegiance. present
fealty, present moral health, and yet
how many Christians there are seeking
to live entirely i'll past experience, who
seem to have no experience Of present
mercy and pardon! When I was on the
sea, and there came up q great storm,
and officers and crew and passengers all
thought we must go down, I began to
think of my life Insurance. and wheth-
er, if I were taken away, my family
would be cared for, and then I thought,
Is the premium paid up? and said,
Yes. Then I felt comfortable. Yet there
are men who. i'll religious matters, are
looking back to past insurance. They
have let it run out, and they have moth
ing for the present. no hope nor pardon,
falling back Oh the old insurance policy
of 10, 90, SO years ago.
if I want to find out how q friend |
feels toward me, do go to the drawer
and find some old yellow letters written
to me 10 or 10 years age? No. 1 go &c
tlG lettof tildG WAS SGdulpou LILO Otty bs-
fore yesterday in the postoffice, and I |
find how he feels toward me. 1t is not
in regard to old communications we had
with Jesus Christ. 1t is communications
we have now. Are we not in sympathy
with him this morning, and is he not in
sympathy with US? Do not spend so
much of your time in hunting in the
wardrobe for the old, WORKOUT shoes Of
Christian profession. Come this morn
ing and take the glittering robe of |
Christ righteousness from the Saviour's
hand. You say you were plunged in the