The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-05-01

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When you come into the religious cir
Gle, come only with the notion, and
only for one purpose-to find the way
to Christ When / see people critical
about sermons, and critical about tones
of voice, and critical about sermonic
delivery they make me think of man
in prison. He is condemned to death,
but an officer of the government brings
a pardon and puts it through the wicket
Iof the prison, and says: Here is your
pardon. Come and get it." 'What!
Do you expect me to take that pardon
offered with such voice as you have,
with such an awkward manner as you
have? | wonld rather die than so COM
promise my rhetorical notions!" All,
the man does not say that; he takes it!
1t is his life. He does not care how it
is handed to him. And if, to-day, that /
pardon from the throne of God is
offered to our souls, should we not
seize it, regardless of all non-essentials2
But / come now to the last part OF
my text. 1t tells us when we are to
seek the Lord "While he may be
found" When is that? Old age? You
may not see old age. Tomorrow? You
may not see tomorrow. Tonight? You
may not see tonight. Now! o, if |
could only write on every heart, in
three capital letters, that word NOW
now.
Sin is an awful disease. | hear people
| - nd will
trivial manner; so, yes, I'm sinner"
Sin is an awful disease. 1t is leprosy.
1t is dropsy. 1t is consumption. 1t is
all moral disorders in one. Now you
know there is a crisis in a disease.
Perhaps you have had some illustra-
tion of it in your family. Sometimes
the physician has called, and he has
looked at the patient and said: That
, case was simple enough; but the crisis
has passed. If you had called me yes
: terday, or this morning, | could have
| cured the patient. 1t is too late now;
the crisis has passed" Just so it is m
the spiritual treatment of the soul
+ there is a crisis.
There are some here who can remem'
Z ber instances in life when, if they had
3 bought certain property they would
S have become very rich. A few acres
: that would have cost them almost moth
o ing were offered them. They refused
h them. Afterward a large village or
e city sprung up on those acres of ground,
l and they see what a mistake they made
: in not buying the property. There was
I an opportunity of getting it. 1t never
d come back again. Andso it is in re
d gard to a mans spiritual and eterna
fortune. There is a chance; if you LEI
q that go, perhaps it never comes back
e Certainly, that one never comes back
)" A gentleman told me that at the bat
If tie of Gettysburg he stood upon
If height looking off upon the conflicting
If armies. He said it was the most eXcit
l. ing moment of his life; now one arm,
N seemed to triumph, and now the other
es After awhile the host wheeled in sue
he a way that he knew in five minutes tn
III whole question would be decided: Ii
to said the emotion was almost unbeal
at able. There is just such time to-da
d, with YOU. The forces of light on on
ne side, and in few moments the matte
will be settled for eternity.
he Why defer this matter, oh, my dea
If hearer? Have you any idea that 81
y, will wear out? that it will evaporate
st that it will relax its grasp? that yo
or may find religion as a man accidental
u.s. finds lost pocketbook? All, no! n
rd man ever became Christian by acc
| dent, or by the relaxing of sin. III
lie, embarrassments are all the time L
ch creasing. The hosts of darkness al
ed recruiting, and the longer you pos
ed pone this matter the sleeper the pal
lly will become. ask those men who Il.
he before me now. whether in the ten I
/ fifteen years they have passed in u
mt postponement of these matters, The
as, have come any nearer to God
,or Heaven. | would not be afraid to cha
he, lenge this whole audience. so far
in they may not have found the peace
ice the Gospel, in regard to the matte
,al. Your hearts, you are willing to frank
md tell me- are becoming harder al
harder. and that if you come to Chr
ant it will be more of an undertaking nj
not than it ever would have been befol
for The throne of Judgment will soon
It'll. set: and, if you have anything to do
BILE ward your eternal salvation, you h
TIA better do it now, for the redemption
be your soul is precious, and it cease
But forever
sin O. if men could only catch o
ess, glimpse of Christ, | know they wor
res. love him! Your heart leaps at the sig
of q glorious sunrise or sunset. {
leir YOU be without emotion as the Sun
end Righ hteousness rises behind Calvary a
ut sets behind Joseph's sepulcher? lie
the a blessed Saviour! Every nation
ces. its type of beauty. There is Germ
,on. beauty, and Swiss beauty, and ltal
can beauty, and English beauty; but l CT
- not in what land man first looks
1se Christ, he pronounces him 'chief amo
ne ten thousand, and the one altogetl
the lovely =,
gell The diamond districts of Brazil
Ious carefully guarded, and man does
ad. get in there except by pass from
government; but the love of Christ
,,o,, diamond district we may all enter
Soa pick up treasures for eternity. :"
"A day if We will hear His voice, hare
oni' not your hearts.
'ade Take the hint of the text that | HI
lere no time to dwell upon-the hint 7
en-" there is time when He cannot
not found. There was a man liz this G
for eighty years of age, who said t
~ clergyman who came in: DO you TN
w Une that a man eighty years of age can
gia pardon?" 80, yes" said the cler