The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-10-26
hold Of Divine mercy, Won are as safe
from eternal condemnation as though

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hold Of Divine mercy, Won are as SAT
from, eternal condemnation as thong
you had been twenty years In Heaven
wish / could put before my unpal
doned readers their own helplessness
1 No human arm was ever strong enougl
4 to unlock the door Of Heaven. No foo
was ever mighty enough to break TIL
shackle of sin. no oarsman swarth,
enough to row himself into Gods har
Dor. The wind is against you. TIL
tide is against YOU. The law i
| against you. Ten thousand cor
rupting influences are against you
Helpless and undone. Not so helpless
sailor on plank, midatlantic. No
so helpless a traveller girded by twenty
miles a prairie on fire. Prove it, yor
say I will prove it. John vi, "A
mo man can come to me, except the
Father which had sent me draw him.
But while have shown your help
lessness, I want to put by the side OF j
the power and willingness of Christ to
save you. think it was in 1856 a YES
sci was bound for Portugal, but it was
driven to pieces on an unfriendly
coast. The captain had his son with
him, and with the crew they wandered
up the beach. and started on the long
journey to find relief. After awhile,
the son tainted by reason OF
hunger and the length of the
way. The captain said to the
crew: Garry my boy for me on your
shoulders" They carried him on, but
the journey was so long, that after
awhile the crew tainted from hunger
and from WEAKNESS, and could carry
him no longer Then the father raj
lied his almost wasted energy and took
up his own boy, and put him on his
shoulder, and carried him on mile at.
ter mile, mile after mile, until, over.
come himself by hunger and weari-
ness, he too tainted by the way. The
boy lay down and died, and the father,
just at the time rescue came to
him, also persisted, living only
long enough to tell the story--and
story, indeed! But glory be to God
that Jesus Christ is able to take us up
out of our shipwrecked and dying con-
dition, and put us on the shoulder OF
His strength, and by the omnipotence
of His Gospel bear us on through all
The journey of this life, and at last
through the opening gates of Heaven!
He is mighty to save. Though your
sin be long and black, and inexcusable,
and outrageous, the very moment you
believe l will proclaim pardon-quick,
full, grand, unconditional, UNI
compromising, illimitable, infinite. Oh,
the grace of God! am overwhelmed
when I come to think of it. Give
me thousand ladders, dashed fast to
each other, that may scale the height.
Let the line run out with the anchor
until all the cables of earth are ex.
hausted, that we may touch the depth.
Let the arckangel fly in circuit of eter-
nal ages in trying to sweep around
his theme. Oh, the grace of Godl 1t
S SO high. 1t is so broad. It is so
leep. Glory be to God, that where
mans oar gives out, Gods arm beginsl
Why will we carry your sins and your
sorrows any longer when Christ offers
20 take them? Why will you wrestle
Town your fears when this moment you
night give up and be saved? Do you
lot know that everything is ready?
Plenty of room at the feast. Jesus
las the ring of His love all ready to |
nut upon your hand. Come now and
it down, ye hungry ones, at the BAN
luet. Ye who are in rags of sin. take
he robe of Christ. Ye who are
wamped by the breakers around you.
ry to Christ to pilot you into smooth,
till waters. On account of the I
secular phase of the subject, !
ave drawn my present illus
rations, you see, chiefly from the
vater. / remember that vessel went I
o pieces on the Bermudas great many
ears ago. 1t had vast treasure on
'oard. But the vessel being sunk, nd
fort was made to raise it. After many
ears had passed company of adver
urers went out from England, and,
fter long voyage, they reached the
lace where the vessel was said to have
unk. They got into small boat
nd lowered over the place. Then
he divers went down, and they broke
trough what looked like limestone
overing, and the treasures rolled out
what was found afterwards to be, in
.merican money, worth one million
We hundred thousand dollars, and the
of great business house.
& that time the whole world rejoiced
YER what was called the luck of these
dventurers. Oh, We who have been
owing toward the shore, and have
OF been able to reach it, 1 want to
III you tonight that your boat hovers
YER infinite treasure! All the riches of
cd are at your feet. Treasures that
ever fail and crowns that naya,. r,,.,,,,, | ,