The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-05-18
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were down at those religious meet
ings." But the converted man would
not allow things to stands in that
way, and SO the infidel said: well,
now, you can pay me the value of the
sheep. and six per cent. interest from
that time to this, and I shan't say any
thing more about it. just go away
from me-" What was the matter with
the two farmers? In the one case q
convicted conscience leading him to
honesty, and in the other case con-
victed conscience warning against in
I fidelity.
But Is there no such thing as moral
publication? If n man is sinner once
must he always be a sinner, and an I'M
forgiven sinner? We have all had con-
science after u.s. Or do you tell me
that all the words of your life have
been just right, and all the thoughts
Of your heart have been just right, and
all the actions of your life just right?
Then you do not know yourself, and l
take the responsibility of saying
| you are pharisee, you are
hypocrite, you are Pontius Plate,
and do not know it. You commit
tho very same sin that PLATE COM
mitted. You have crucified the Lord
of Glory. But IL nine-tenths of the
audience are made up of thoughtful
and earnest people, then nine-tenths
OF this audience are saying within
themselves: as there no such thing US
moral publication? Is there no laver,
in which the soul may wash and be
clean? Yes, yes, yes. Tell it in
song, tell it in sermon, tell it in
prayer, tell it in hemispheres.
That is what David cried out fer
when he said: "Wash me thoroughly
from my sin, and cleanse me from mipe
iniquites." And that is what in am
other place he cried out for when he
said: "Wash me and shall be whittier
than snow" Behold, the laver of the
Gospel, filed with living fountains.
Did you ever see the picture of the
laver in the ancient tabernacle or IN
the ancient temple? The laver in the
ancient temple was made out of the
womens metallic looSing-glasses. It
was a great basin, standing on a
beautiful pedestal; but when the
temple was built, then the laver was
an immense affair, called the brazen
sea; and, oh, how deep were the
floods there gathered! And there were
ten LAYERS bcside-five at the right and
five ut the left-and each laver had
three hundred gallons of water. And
the outside of these LAYERS was
carved and chased with palm trees SO
delicately cut you could almost see the
leaves tremble, and lions so true to
life that you could imagine you saw
the nostril throb. and the cherubim
with outspread wings. That magnif-
cent laver of the old dispensation is
feeble type of the more glorious laver
of our dispensation-our sunlight dis
pensation.
Here is the laver holding rivers of
salvation, having for its pedestal the
Rock of Ages, caved with the figure of
the lion of Judah's tribe, and having
palm branches for victory, and wings
suggestive of the souls flight toward
God in prayer, and the souls flight
heavenward when we die. Come We
auditory, and wash away all your sins,
however aggravated, and all your sor-
rows, however agonizing. Come to this
fountain, open for all sin and unclean-
illness, the furthcst, the worst. You
need not carry your sins half u second.
Come and wash in this glorious Gospel
laver. Why, that is an opportunity
enough to swallow up all nations
That is an opportunity that will yet
and yet stand on the Pyrenees
and beckon to Spain, and 1t will
yet stand on the Ural and beck
on to Russia, and it will stand at
the gate of Heaven and beclSon to all
nations. Pardon for all sin, and par
don right away, through the blood of
the Son of God. A little child that had
been blind but through slillful sur
gerry brought to sight, said: why,
mother, why didn't you tell me the
earth and sky are SO beautiful? Why
didn't you tell me?" oh" replied
the mother, my child, / did tell
you how beautiful they are; bat
you were blind, and you couldn't see!"
Oh, if we could have our eyes open to
see the glofies in Jesus Christ we would
feel that the half had not been told us,
and you would go to some Christian
man and say: "Why didn't you tell me
before of the glories in the Lord Jesus
Christi" and that friend would say: Il
did tell you, but you were blind and
could not see, and you were deaf and
could not hear"
History says that great army came
to capture ancient Jerusalem, and
when this army got on the hills, SO
that they saw the turrets and the tow
ers of Jerusalem, they gave shout
that made the earth tremble; and tradi-
ton, whether true or false, says that so
great was the shout, eagles flying in
the air dropped under the atmospheric
percussion. Oh, IL we could only catch
| IL glimpse of the towers of this Cos
pei temple into which you are all in
vited to come and wash, there would
be song jubilant and wide-resound-
| ing, at New Jerusalem seen, at New
Jerusalem taken, the hosannas of
other worlds flying mid-air would fold
their wings and drop into our closing
doxology! Against the disappointing
| and insufficient laver of Pilates vice