The Bossier banner., 1894-12-13
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with us? Do not spend so much Of
your time hunting in the wardrobe for
the old, worn out shoes of Christian
profession. Come this morning and
take the glittering robe of Christ's
righteousness from the Saviour's hand.
You say You were plunged in the foun-
tain of the Savior's mercy quarter OF
a century ago. That is nothing to me;
l tell you to wash now in this laver
of looking-g glasses and have your soul
made clean.
l notice, also, in regard to this laver
of looking glasses spoken of in the
text, that the priests always washed
both hands and feet. The water came
down in spouts, so that, without leav-
ing any filth in the basin, the priests
washed botn hands and feet. So the
Gospel of Jesus Christ must touch the
very extremities of our moral nature
A man can not rinse off e sr-ol. part
of his soul and say: "Now, this
is to be a garden in which
will have all the fruits and flowers of
Christian character, while outside it
shall be the DEVILS commons" No,
no; it will be all garden or ponA,
sometimes hear people say: HE is
very good man, except in politics.
Then he is not a good man. A religion
that will not take man through an
autumn election will not be worth any
thing to him in June, July and August.
They say he is useful sort of man,
but he overreaches in a bargain.
deny the statement. If he is Chris
tian anywhere, he will be in his busi-
ness. 1t is very easy to be good in the
prayer meeting, with surroundings
kindly and blessed, but not so
easy to be a Christian behind the
counter, when by one skillful twitch
of the goods you can hide flaw in the
silk so that the customer can not see
it. 1t Is very easy to be Christian
with psalm book in your hand and
Bible in 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
factis, the religion of Christ is all-per-
vasive. If you rent house, you expect
1
are the keys of those rooms? If pay
for this whole house, l want posses.
sion of those rooms" And the grace
| of God when it comes to a soul takes
full possession of man, or goes away
and takes no possession. II will ran
sack every room in the heart, every
room in the life, from cellar to attic,
touching the very extremities of his
nature. The priests washed hands and
feet.
l remark, further, that this laver OF
looking-glasses spoken of in the text
was a very large laver. l always
thought, from the fact that so many
washed there, and also from the fact
that Solomon afterward, when he cop
led that laver in the temple, built it on
very large scale, that it 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.
An artist in his dreams saw such a
splendid dream of the TRANSPORTATION
of Christ that he awoke, and seized
his pencil, and said: LET me paint
this and die" Oh, 1 have seen the
glories of Christ! have beheld some
thing of the beauty of that
great sacrifice on Calvary, and have
sometimes felt l would be willing to
give anything if / might just sketch
before you the wonders of that
sacrifice. l would like to do II
while live, and l would like to Ia II
when l die. Let me paint this and
die!' He comes along weary and WORN,
his face wet with tears, his brow Grim
son-with blood, and he lies down on
Calvary for you. No, mistake. Moth
ing was as comfortable as that A
stone on Calvary would have mede
soft pillow for the Gyine
head of Christ Nothing sc
comfortable as that. He does
not lie down to die; He stands up Ia
die; His spiked hands outstretched as
if to embrace world. Oh, what hard
end for these feet that had travelled
all over Judea on ministries of mercy
What hard end for those hands that
had wiped away tears and bouEd NJ
broken hearts! Very hard. Oh dying
Lamb of Godl and yet there are those
6 who know it and do not love Thee. They
say: What is all that to me? Whai
if He does weep, and groan, and die2
: don't want Him" Lord Jesus Christ
they will not help Thee down from tn,
= cross! The soldiers will come, ant
: they will tear Thee down from tn,
!. cross, and put their arms around The,
: and lower Thee into the tomb; but
they will rot help. They see nothing
: to move them. Oh, dying Christ! turi
on them Thine eyes of affection now
! and see if they will not change thei
minds!
7 / saw in Kensington garden pictur
!, of Waterloo good while after the bal
: tie had passed, and the grass hai
grown all over the field. There was
;, dismounted cannon, and lamb ha
= come up from the pasture and lay sleeT
: ing in the mouth of that cannon.
;, the artist mad represented it--a mos
: suggestive thing. Then / though
= how the war between God and til
| soul had ended: and. instead of the al