The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-02-23

. aches 10 have you come In. and Jesus
!. this very moment--whether you sit OF
e stand-looks into your eyes and says
0 "Other sheep have which ars not OF
3 this fold"
! Again / remark that the Heavenly
Shepherd is going to find great many
, sheep among those who have been full
of evil habit. 1t makes me sad to see
I Christian people give up a prodignl az
lost. There are those who talk as
though the grace of God were chain OF
: forty or fifty links, and after they had
run out there was nothing to touch the
depth of very bad case. II they were
hunting and got off the track of the
deer they would look longer among
the brakes and bushes for the lost
! game than they have been looking for
! that lost soul. People tell us that IL a
man have delirium tremens twice, he
can not be reclaimed; that after a
woman has sacrificed her integrity,
she can not be restored. The Bible
has distinctly intimated that the Lord
Almighty is ready to pardon four hun
dred and ninety times; that is, seventy
times seven. There are men before
the throne of God who have wal
lowed in every kind of sin; but,
saved by the grace of Jesus, and
washed in His blood, they stand
there radiant now. There are those
who plunged into the very lowest of
all the hells of New York, who have
for the tenth time been lifted up, and
finally, by the grace of God, they stand
in Heaven gloriously rescued by the
grace promised to the chief of sinners
Do not put your trust in bromide OF
potassium, or in Jamaica ginger, or
anything that apothecaries can mix.
Put your trust only in the Eternal
God, and He will see you through.
Some of you do not have temptations
every day. 1t is a periodic temptation
that comes every six weeks, or every
three months, when it seems as II
the powers of darkness kindle
around you tongues the fires Of
the pit It is well enough,
at such a time, as some of
you do. to seek medical counsel; but
your first and most importunate cry
must be to God. If the fiends will
drag you to the slaughter, make them
do it on your knees. o, God! now
that the paroxysm of thirst is coming
again upon that man, help him.
| Fling back into the pit of hell
the fiend that assaults his soul
at this moment. Oh! my heart
aches to see men go on in this
fearful struggle without Christ. There
are in this house those whose hands so
tremble from dissipation that they can
hardly hold book, and yet have &c
tell you that they will yet preach the
Gospel, and on communion days carry
around consecrated bread, acceptable
to everybody because of their
holy life and their consecrated
behavior. The Lord is going to
save you. Your home has got to
be rebuilt. Your physical health has
got to be restored. Your worldly BUSH
ness has got to be reconstructed. The
church of God is going to rejoice over
your discipleship. "Other sheep have
which are not of this fold" While I
have hopes for all prodigals, there are
some people in this house whom give
up. 1 mean those who have been
church goers all their life, who have
maintained outward morality, but who,
Notwithstanding twenty, thirty, forty
years of Christian advantages, have
never yielded their heart to Christ.
They are Gospel hardened. l could
call their names now, and IL they
would rise up they would rise up in
scores. Gospel hardened, A sermon
has no more effect upon them than the
shining moon on the city pavement.
AS Christ says: 1.-THE publicans and
hariots will go into the king
dom of God before them" They
have resisted all the impor-
tunity of Divine mercy, and have
gone, during these thirty years,
through most powerful earthquakes of
religious feeling, and they are farther
away from God than ever. After
awhile they will lie down sick, and
some day it will be told that they are
dead. No hope!
But turn to outsiders with hope
that thrills through my body and soul.
"Other sheep have which are not of
this fold" You are not Gospel-har-
dened. You have not heard or read
many sermons during the last few
years. As you came in to-day every
thing was novel, and all the services
are suggestive of your early days
How sweet the opening hymn
sounded in your ears, and how
blessed is this hour. Everything sug-
gestive of Heaven. You do not weep,
but the shower is not far off, You
sigh, and You have noticed that there
is always a sigh in the wind before the
rain falls. There are those here who
would give anything il they could find
relief in tears. They say: "Oh,
my wasted life! Oh, the bitter
past! Oh the graves over which
have stumbled. Whittier shall
1 fly? Alas for the future.
Everything is dark-so dark, SO dark
God help me! God pity mel" Thank
the Lord for that last utterance. You
have begun to pray, and when a man
begins to petition, that sets all Heaven
flying this way, and God steps in
and beats back the hounds of tempta-
ton to their kennel, and around
about the poor, wounded soul putt
the covert of his pardoning mercy.
Hank! l hear something fall. What
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