Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-02-08

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their hands in Thy radiance! Chorus
Come men. and saints, and cherubim
and scraphim, and archangel - al
heights, all depths. all immensities.
Chorus! Roll Him through the heavens
in chariot OF universal acclaim. over
bridges of hosannas, under arches OF
coronation, along by the great towers
Ginning with eternal jubilee. Chorus.
Unto Him who hath loved us, and
washed us from our sins in His own
blood, to Him be glory, world without
end!'
l have word of five letters, but no
sheet white enough on which to write
1t, and no pen good enough with which
to inscribe it. Give me the fairest leaf
from the heavenly records-give me
the pencil with which the angel re-
cords his victory-and then, with my
hand strung to supernatural ecstasy,
and my pen dipped in the light of the
morning, | win write it out in capitals
Of love: JESUS" 1t is this One,
infinitely fair, to whom you are in
vited. Christ is waiting for you; wait
ing as banqueter waits for the de-
layed guest, the meats smoking, the
beakers trimming. the minstrels with
fingers on the stiff string, waiting for
the clash of the hoofs at the gateway
Waiting for you, as the mother waits
for her son who went off ten years ago,
dragging her bleeding heart along
with him, Waitingl OH give me a
comparison intense enough, hot enough
importunate enough to express my
meaning-something high as heaven
and deep as hell, and long as eternity.
Not hoping that you can help me with
such comparison. | will say: lie is
waiting as only the all-sympathetic
Christ can wait for the coming back of
lost soul"
Bow he knee and kiss the son,
Come and welcome, sinner; come.
Again the Holy Spirit is ready. Why
is it that so ma ny sermons drop dead
that Christian songs do not get their
wing under the people that so often
prayer goes no higher than a hunters
'halloa| 1t Is because there is link
wanting work Of the Holy Spirit
Unless that Spirit give graphing
hooks to sermon. everything is dead
failure The spirits willing to come
at our call and lead you TO eternal life;
or ready 10 come with the same power
with which He endorsed Saul on the
Damascus turnpike, and broke down
Lydia in her fine store, and lifted the
three thousand from midnight into
midnoon at the penteeost With that
power the Spirit of God now beats at
the gate of your soul. Have you not
what homely and insignificant
instrumentality the Spirit of God en-
ploys for mans conversion? There was
a man on Hudson river boat to whom !
a tract was offered. With Indignation |
he tore it up and threw il overheard. |
But one fragment lodged on his coat |
sleeve; and he saw on il the word |
eternity and he found no peace until |
he was prepared for that great future. |
DO You know what passage it was that |
caused Martin Luther 10 see the truth? /
THE just shall live by faith" DO you
know there is one-just one-passage |
that brought Augustine from a life of |
Put We on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and make no provision for the
lesh to fulfill the lusts thereof 1t
was Just one passage that converted
Iedley Wears. the great soldier TO
'hrist: THE blood of Jesus Christ
,leanseth from all sin" Do You know
hat the Holy Spirit used one passage
If Scripture to save Jonathan Ed
vards2 Now. unto the King, eternal
invisible, the only wise God.
,ur Saviour, be glory" One year ago
IN Thanksgiving day read for my
ext; 20, give thanks unto the Lord,
or lie is good; for His mercy endureth
orever'' And there is young man
n the house to whose heart the Holy
'pirit took that text for his eternal re-
Iemption. might speak Of my own
ase. will tell you was brought to
he peace of the gospel through the
,yro- PhGnician woman's cry to Christ:
Even the dogs eat the crumbs that
all from the Masters table"
Do you know that the Holy Spirit al
most always uses insignificant means?
Eloquent sermons never save anybody;
sermons never save any
ody; philosophical sermons never
ave anybody But the minister comes
very sabbath TO ms pulpit worn out
nth engagements and the jangling of
frenzied door bell; he has only text
nd two or three ideas. but he says: 20
ord help me. Here are a good many
eople | may never meet again. | have
OF much to say. Speak Thou through
" poor lips" and before the service
done there are fearful eyes and sol
unity like the Judgment. The great /
rench orator. when the dead king S
" before him. looked up and )
lied; God only is great" and q
he triumph of bis eloquence has been !
I'D by the historians. But have not $
card that one soul was saved BY the y
-atorical flourish. Worldly critics .
ay think that the early preaching of =
homas Chalmers was masterpiece. /
ut Thomas Chalmers says he never i
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