Milford chronicle., 1895-02-15

Let US push out for that one. Clutch tn
rope. Oh, dying man, clutch 1t as with
death gripl Steady, now, on the slipper!
places Steady There Saved Saved
Just as thought, for Christ has declare,
that there are some still in the breaker
who shall come ashore. Other sheep
have which are not Of this fold"
Christ commands his ministers to b
fishermen, and when go fishing do no
want to go among other churches, bui
into the wide world, not sitting along
Hohokus creek, where eight or ten othel
persons are sitting with hook and line
but like the fishermen Of Newfoundland
sailing of and dropping net away outside
40 or 90 miles from shore Yes, there art
nOnchurchgoers here who will come in
Next Sabbath they will be here again oi
in some better church. They are this mo
ment being swept into Christian associa
tions Their voice will be heard in public
prayer. They will die in peace, their bed
surrounded by Christian sympathies and
to be carried out by devout men to be
buried and on their grave be chiseled the
words, Precious in the sight Of the Lord
is the death of his saints" And on resur-
rection day you will get up with the dear
children you have already buried and
with your Christian parents who have al
ready won the palm. And all that grand
and glorious history begins this hour.
'Other sheep / have which are not Of
this fold. -
Free to All Who Accept.
remark again, the heavenly Shepherd
is going TO find great many OF his sheep
among those who are positive rejectors Of
Christianity. 1 do not know how you
Z
been through hearing Theodore Parker
preach or through reading Remains Life
Of Jesus, " or through the infdel talk Of
some young man in your store. 1t may
have been through the trickery Of some
professed Christian man who disguised you
with religion. do not ask you how you
became So but you frankly tell me that
you do reject It, You do not believe that
Christ is a divine being, although you ad-
NIT that he was a 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 allegory. There are so things
that I believe that you do not believe.
And yet you are an accommodating man.
Everybody that knows you says that Of
you. If I should ask you to do Kindness
for me, or If any one else should ask OF
you kindness, you would do 1t. Now,
have kindness to ask Of you today. It
Is something that will cost you nothing
and will give me great delight. want
you by experiment 20 try the power Of
Christ's religion.
If I should come Co you, and you were
very sick, and doctors had given you up
and said there was no chance for you, and
I should take out bottle and say: Here
is a medicine that will cure you. It has
cured 80 people, and it will cure you,"
you would say, II have no confidence in
it. 1 would say, Won't you take it to
oblige me9" "Well, " you would say, 'if
it's any accommodation to you, III 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 like the man who told me one Sabbath
after the service was over: Il have tried
this world and found it an insufficient por-
tion. Tell me Of something better. 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 hundreds and hundreds
who were sick as you are. "Oh, " you say,
' nave no COnuu6uC6 IN QlIu. 6ub Will
you not try him? Accommodate me IN
this matter. Oblige me in this matter.
Just try him. I am very certain he will
cure you. You reply, Il have no especial
confidence in him, but if you ask me as a
matter of accommodation introduce him."
So do introduce him-Christ, the ply
sioian who has cured more blind eyes, and
healed more CHASTITY wounds, and bound
up more broken hearts than all the doc
tors since the time Of HSsculapius. That
divine physician is here. Are you not /
ready to try him9 Win you not as a pure
matter of experiment try him and state
your case before him this hourG Hold
back from him. If you cannot 4
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.
know nothing about the formulas of re-
ligion. These Christian people have been
talking SO long about what thou canst do
for me / am ready to do whatever thou
me to do. / am ready to take
whatever thou commandest me to take.
II there be any power in religion, as these
people say, let me have the advantage Of
it ,"
A Clarion Call
VIII you try that experiment now2 I
10 not at this point of my discourse say
hat there is anything in religion, but
imply say try it-try 1t. Do not take my