The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-11


there are some who are freezing I'm the
rigging Of sin. and surrounded by per
ilOus storms Pull away, my lads Let
! us reach them, Alas, one is washed OF
I and gone. There Is one more 10 be saved.
I Let us push out for that one. Clutch the
I rope. oh! dying man, clutch IL with
I death-grip. Steady. now, on the slip
perry places Steady. There Saved
+ Saved, Just as 1 thought. For Christ
I has declared that there are some stin in
/ the breakers who shall come ashore.
other sheep I have which are not Of
this fold
Christ commands his ministers 10 be fish
ermen. and when 1 80 fishing l DO not
want to so among other churches. but
into the wide world, not sitting along Ho-
holIus Creek. where eight or ten other per
sons are sitting with hook and line, but,
like the fishermen Of Newfoundland. sail
ing on and dropping net away outside,
forty or nifty miles from shore. Yes. there
are observation-disclosures here who viii come
in. Next Sabbath they viii be here again,
or i'm some better church. They are this
moment being swept into Christian assO-
Citations. Their voice will be heard in pub
lie prayer They viii die in peace. their
bed surrounded by Christian sympathies,
and TO be carried out by devOut men 10
be buried. and on their grave De chiseled
the words. Precious in the sight Of the
Lord is the death Of his saints" And
the dear children YOU have already buried
ana with your Christian parents who have
already won the palm. And all that grand
and glorious history begins this hour.
Other sheep have which are not Of this
fold"
/ remark again. the Heavenly Shepherd
is going TO find a great many of his sheep
among those VINO are positive rejectors of
Christianity. l DO not know how you came
70 reject Christianity. II may have been
through hearing Theodore Parker preach,
or through reading Remains Life Of
Jesus" or through the inhdel talk Of some
young man in your store. 1t may have
been through the trickery of some pro-
fessed Christian man who disgusted YOU
with religion. I do not ask how you be-
came 50; but you frankly tell me that yOu
DO reject II. You do not believe that
Christ is Divine being. although you ad-
init that h. was very good man. You do
not believe that the Bible was inspired of
God, although you think there are some
Very fine things in it. You believe that the
Scriptural description Of Eden was only an
alegory There are fifty things
that believe that you do
not believe. And yet you are an
accommodating man. Everybody that
knows you says that of you. If l should
ask you 70 do a kindness for me. or If any
one else should ask of you a kindness, you
would DO it. Now. l have Kindness to
ask OF YOU to-day. It is something that
VIII cost you nothing and will give me
great delight. I want you by experiment
TO try the power of Christ's religion. If
should come to you, and you were very
sick, and doctors had given you up, and
said there was no chance for you, and /
should take out bottle, and say: Here
Is medicine that will cure you; 1t has
cured fifty people, ana 1t will cure you"
You would say; Il have no confidence in
1t" l would say: Won't you take it to
oblige me?" We'll" you would say, III
it's any accommodation to you. I'll take
it." My friend, will you be just as accom-
modating in matters of religion? There
are some of you who have found out that
this world cannot satisfy your soul You
are Ike the man who told me one Sab
bath after the service was over II have
tried this. world and found it an INSULT
cient portion. Tell me Of something bet
ter You have come to that. You are
sick for the need of Divine medicament
Now ] come and tell you of a physician
who Will cure you, who has cured hun
dreds and hundreds who were sick as you
are, oh" you say, Il have no confidence
in him. But will you not try him? Ac-
commodate me in this matter; oblige me
in this matter; just try him. l am very
certain he will cure you You
reply: Il have no especial confidence
in him, but il you ask me as a matter of
accommodation, introduce him" So l do
introduce him-Christ, the Physician, who
has cured more blind eyes, and healed
more CHASTITY wounds, and bound up more
broken hearts than all the doctors since
the time of Aesculapius. That Divine
Physician is here. Are you not ready to
try him? VIII you not, as a pure matter
Of experiment, try him, and state your case
before him this hour? Hold nothing back
from him. II YOU cannot pray, if you do
not know how to pray any other way, say:
20 Lord Jesus Christ, this is a strange
thing for me to do. l know nothing about
the formulas of religion. These Christian
people have been talking so long about
what thou canst do for me, ] am ready TO
do whatever thou commanded me to do
/ am ready 10 take whatever thou com
mandest me to take. If there be any power
in religion, as these people say let me
have the advantage of it," viii you try
that experiment now? l do not at this
point of my discourse. say that there is
anything In religion; but / simply say, try
it-try II. Do not take my counsel or the
counsel of any clergyman, if you despise
clergymen. Perhaps we may be talking
professionally; perhaps we may be preju-
diced in the matter; perhaps we may be
hypocritical in our utterances; perhaps
our advice is not worth taking Then
take the counsel of some very respectabl
laymen, as John Milton the poet; as VIII
Newton, the astronomer; as Robert Boyle
the philosopher; as Locke, the metaphysi-
clan. They never preached or pretended
to preach and yet putting down, one his
telescope, and another his parliamentary
scroll, and another his electricians
wire, they all declare the
adaptedness of Christ's religion to the
wants and troubles of the world T. you
Will not take the recommendation of min
listers of the Gospel then take the re-
commentator of highly respectable lay
men. oh men, sceptical and struck
through with unrest, would you not like
to have some of the peace which broods
over our souls to-day? / know all about
your doubts. I have been through them
all have gone through all the curricu-
lum. l have doubted whether there is 4
God. whether Christ is God. l have
doubted whether the Bible was true;
have doubted the Immortality of the soul:
I have doubted my own existence, l have
doubted everything, and yet out of that
hot desert of doubt l have came into the
broad, luXuriant, sunshiny land Of Gospel
! hope, and peace, and comfort; and so 1
have confidence in preaching to you and
asking you to come in. However often