The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-11-23

glad. People always think better OF a
minister after they are converted than
they do before conversion. Now we are
10 them an intoierable nuisance because
We tell them to do things that go against
the grain, but some of us have great
many letters from those who tell us
that once they were angry at what we
preached, but afterwafd gladly received
the gospel at our hands. They once
called us fanatics or terrorists or enc
mics, Now they call us friends, Yonder
into the church again. He said that
two years ago He said, my family
shah never como here again il such doc
srines as that arc preached. But he
came again, and his family came again
He is Christiahi his wife Christian,
all his children Christians, the whole
household Christians, and yoa shall
awell with them in the house of the
Lord fotevoT, Our undying coadjutors
nro those who chce heard the gospel and
went away in rage"
The True Remedy.
NoN, my hN'itis, you huoW tunt THIS
General Namuan did two things in or
der to get we'll. The first was, no got
ont Of his chariot. He might have staid
there with his swollen feet on the stuff
cd ottoman, seated on that embroidered
cushion, until his last gasp, he would
never have got any relief He had to
get down out of his chariot. And you
have got to get down out of the chariot
Of your pride if yoti ever become Chris
tiaa. You cannot drive DIP to tho cross
with a coach and four and be saved
among all the spangles You seem to
think that the Lord is going to be COM
plimented by your coming. Oh, no, you
poor, miserable, scaly, leprous sinner,
get down out of that We all come in
the same naughty way. We expect to
ride into the kingdom Of God. Never
dntil we get down on our knees will we
find mercy. The Lord has ENDORSED us,
uncharioted us. Get down out of your
pride. Get down otit Of your self right
sousness ard your hypercrititism. We
have all got to do that That is the
journey we have to make on our knees.
1t is our Internal pride that keeps us
from getting rid of the leprosy of sin.
Dear Lord, what have we to be proud
Of? Proud Of our scales? Proud of our
uncleanness? Proud of this killing in
lection? Bring us down at thy feet,
weeping, praying, penitent, believing
stppliants.
For sinners Lord, thou canl'st to bleed,
And I'm a sinner vile indeed.
Lord, believe thy graca rs free
Oh, magnify that grace iii tles
But he had not only to get down ont
of his chariot. He had to wash. ooh"
you say, II am very careful with my
additions. Every day 1 plunge into
bright and beautiful bath" All, my
hearer, there is flood brighter than airy
that pours from these hills. 1t is the
flood that breaks from the granite of
the eternal hills, Il is the food of par
don and peace and life and heaven. That
flood started in the tears of Christ and
the sweat of Gethsemane and rolled on,
accommodating flood, until all earth and
heaven could battle in it. Zechariah
called 1t the fountain open for sin and
Bheleanness William Cowper called it
the fountain filed with blood" Your
fathers and mothers washed all their
sins and sorrows away In that fountain
OH my hearers, do you not feel like
wading into it? Wade down now into
this glorious flood, deeper, deeper, deep
er! Plunge once, twice, thrice, four
G,,o cix iYno
1t will take as much as that to cure your
sonl. Oh, wash, wash and he clean!
Naaman's Cure.
| suppose that was great time at
Damascus when General Naaman got
back. The characters did not have to
arive slowly any longer, lest they jolt
the invalid, but as the horses dashed
through the streets Of Damascus think
the people rushed out to hail back their
Ghieftain. Naaman's wife hardly recog-
nized her husband. He was SO wonder
fully changed she had to look at him
two or three times before she made out
that it was her restored husband And
the little captive maid, she rushed cat,
6lappiHg her hands and shouting: 'Did
he cure you? Did he cure you?" Then
music woke up the palace. and the tap
estry of the windows was drawn away,
that the multitude outside might min
gle with the princely mirth inside, and
the feet went up and down in the dance,
and all the streets of Damascus that
night echoed and re-ecLoed with the
news. "Naamah's cured! Mammals
cured!" But gladder time than that
it would be if your soul should get cur
ed of its leprosy. The swfftest white
horses hitched to the Kings chariot
would rush the news into the eternal
city. Our loved ones before the throne
would welcome the glad tidings. Your
shildren on earth, with more emotion
Than the little Hebrew captive, would
notice the change in your look and the
change i'll your manner and would put
their arms around your neck and say:
Mother, guess you must have be-
come Christian. Father, I think you
have got rid of the leprosy 0 Lord
God Of Elisha, have mercy on us!