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in our service, we should hear

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season you sometimes hear the at
the gate of the cemetery ringing al
most necessarily, so / found that the
bell at the gate of the cemetery where
ruined souls are buried was tolling by
day and by night. l said: 81 will ex-
plore." l went as a physician goes
into fever lazaretto, to see what prac-
tical and useful information l might
get That would be foolish doctor
who would stand outside the door of
an invalid writing Latin prescription.
When the lecturer in a medical college
is done with his lecture, he takes the
students into the dissecting room, and
he shows them the reality. went and
saw, and came forth to my pulpit to
report plague, and to tell how
sin dissects the body, and dissects the
mind, and dissects the soul. "Oh"
say you, ''are you not afraid that in
consequence of such exploration of the
iniquities of the city other persons
might make exploration, and do them
selves damage?" reply: 'If, in COM
pany with the commissioner of police,
and the captain of police, and the in
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two Christian gentlemen, and not with
the spirit of curiosity but that you
may see sin in order the better to COM
bat it, then, in the name of the eternal
God, go? But, if not, then stay away"
Wellington, standing in the battle of
Waterloo when the bullets were buzz
zing around his head, saw a civilian on
the field He said to him: ''Sir, what
are you doing here? Be
off" ''Why," replied the civil
ian, "there is no more danger here for
me than there is for you" Then Well
lington flushed up and said: God and
my country demand that be here, but
you have no errand here" Now l as
an officer in the army of Jesus Christ,
went on that exploration and on to
that battlefield. If you bear a like
commission, go; if not, stay away. But
you say: Don't you think that some
how the description of those places in
duce people to go and see for them
selves?" 1 answer, yes, just as much
as the description of yellow fever in
some scourged city would induce peo-
pie to go down there and get the pesti-
lence. But may be addressing some
stranger already destroyed. Where is
he, that 1 may pointedly yet kindly
address him? Come back! and wash
in the deep fountain of a Saviour's
mercy. l do not give you cup or a
chalice, or a pitcher with limited
supply to effect your ablutions. I
: point you to the five oceans of Gods
mercy. Oh! that the Atlantic and Pa
cific surges of Divine forgiveness might
roll over your soul. AS the glorious
sun of Gods forgiveness rides on to-
ward the mid-heavens, ready to sub
merge you in warmth and light and
love, bid you good morning! Morning
of peace for all your troubles. Morning
of liberation for all your incarcera-
tions. Morning of resurrection for
your soul buried in sin. Good morn
2 ingi Morning for the resuscitated
E household that has been waiting for
S your return. Morning for the cradle
and the crib already disgraced with
being that of a drunkard's child.
Morning for the daughter that ha.
0 trudged off to hard work because you
did not take care of home. Morning
= for the wife who at forty and fifty
: wears has the wrinkled face, and the
stopped shoulder, and the white hair.
: Morning for one. Morning for all.
i Good morning! In Gods name, good
u morning!
Sabbath morning comes You wake
up in the hotel. You have had longer
u sleep than usual. You say: "Where
1 have no family to take to church to
y day. My pastor will not expect my
presence. / think l shall look over my
accounts and study my memorandum
u book. Then I will write few bust
. ness letters, and talk to that merchant
!, Il who came in on the same train with
.. "A me-" Stop! you can not afford to do it
: ''But," you say, II am worth five hun
= dred thousand dollars" You can no
: afford to do it. You say am worth one
= million. You can not afford to doit. Al
\ you gain by breaking the Sabbath ycl
:. will lose. You will lose one of thre'
things: your intellect, your morals o
your property and you can not point il
s. the whole earth to single exception
,e to this rule. God gives US six days ant
IF keeps one for Himself. Now, if w
" try to get the seventh, He will upse
,e the work of the other six.
n A good many years ago Edward Stan
Is ley, the English commander, with hi
I regiment, took fort. The fort wa
d: manned by some three hundred Spar
I'd iards Edward Stanley came close u
a to the fort, leading his men, when
le Spaniard thrust at him with spear
ne intending to. destroy his life; bu
e- Stanley caught hold of the spea
v. and the Spaniard in attempting
al jerk the spear away from Stanle
ne lifted him up into the battlement
y. No sooner had Stanley taken his pos
d. ton on the battlements than he swun
l his sword and his whole regimen
IN leaped after him and the fo
he was taken So it may be wit
to you, o stranger. The city i
he fiuences which have destroyed
he many and dashed them down forev'
Ia shall be the means of lifting you I
-er into the tower of Gods mercy al