Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-10-29
through an autumn election will not be


sort of a man, but he oyerreaches in
bargain. l deny the statement. If he ia
i Christian anywhere, he will be in his
business 1t is very easy to be good in
the prayer meeting, with surroundings
Elrdly and blessed, but not so easy to
be Christian behind the counter, when
by one ssillful twitch of the goods you
can hide flaw in the silk so that the
customer cannot see it. 1t is very easy
10 be Christian with a psalmbook in
your hand AND Bible in your lap but
not 10 easy when you can 90 into q
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
house, you expect full possession of it.
You say: "Where are the keys of those
rooms? If pay for this whole house,
want possession Of those rooms. And
the grace of God when it comes to a
soul takes full possession of a man or
goes away and takes no possession. 1t
will ransack every room in the heart,
every room in the life, from cellar to
attic, touching the varying extremities
Of his nature. The priests washed hands
and feet.
There Is n Chance For All.
l remark, further, that this laver Of
looking glasses spoken of in the text
was a very large laver. Ialways thought,
from the fact that so many washed there,
and also from the fact that Solomon aft
erward, when he copied that laver in
the temple, built it on a 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 i'll this
laver and be clean.
When oar 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 gospel of
Christ does not act i'll that way. 1t says
pardon for oil, 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 sinner may be saved. II
there be sins only family hued, just a
little tinged, so family colored that you
can hardly see them, there Is no special
pardon promised in the Bible for those
sins, but if they be glaring, red like
crimson, then they shall be as snow.
Now, my brother, l do not state this to
put premium upon great iniquity l
merely say this to encourage that man,
whoever he his, who feels he is SO far
gone from God that there is no mercy
for him. want to tell him there is a
good chance. Why, Paul was murder
en- He assisted at the execution Of
Stephen, and yet Paul was saved. The
dying thief did everything bad. Tho
dying thief was saved. Richard Baxter
swore dreadfully, but the grace of God
met him, and Richard Baxter was saved.
Wash and he Clean.
1t is vast laver. Go and tell every.
body to come and wash in it. Let them
come up from the penitentiaries and
wash away their crimes. Let them come
up from the almshouses and wash away
their poverty. Let them come up from
their graves and wash away their death
II there be any one 80 worn out in sin
that he cannot get up to the layer, you
will take hold Of his head and put your
arms around him, and ] will take hold
Of his feet, and we will plunge him IN
this glorious Bethesda, the vast layer OF
Gods mercy and salvation. In Solo
mons temple there were ten LAYERS and
one molten sea-this great reservoir in
the midst Of the temple filled with wa
tar-these LAYERS and this molten sea
adorned with figures Of palm branch
and oxen and lions and cherubim. This
fountain Of God mercy Is a yaster
molten sea than that II is adorned not
with pnlm branches, but with the wood
II the cross, not with chorubim, bat
with the wings of tho Holy Ghost, and
around its great rim all the race may
como and wash Ia the molten sea ! was
reading the other day ~ Alexander the
Great, who, when he was very thirsty
and standing Rt the bead " his army
had brought "a him cup u waier he
loDktd ~ upon bis hOsi and said, 4 can
not dSink mis-, my men mo All thirsty
and be- dashed II ~ the ground
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