Connecticut western news., 1895-05-09
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uo ILL Nudb WILL Do the RTeuG DOpK III the day of judgment? Conscience. Con- science recalling misimproved opportu- mites Conscience recalling unforgiven sins. Conscience bringing up all the past. Alas, for this governor, Pontius Pilatel That night after the court had adjourned, and the sanhedrists had gone home, and nothing was heard outside the room but the step of the sentinel, I see Pontius Pilate arise from his tapes tried and sleepless couch and go to the layer and begin to wash his hands, cry ing: "Out, out, crimson spotl Tellest thou to me, and to God, and to the night, my crime? Is there no alIai to remove these dreadful stains? Is there no chemistry to dissolve this carnage? Must to the day of my death carry the blood of this innocent man on my heart and hand? Out, thou crimson spotp' The worst thing a man can have is an evil conscience, and tho best thing a man can have is what Paul calls good conscience.
 sunlit Dispensation.
 But is there no such thing as moral purifcation? If man is a sinner once, must he always be sinner, and an un- forgiven sinner? We have all had con- science after us. 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 take the responsi- bility of saying you are pharisee, you
 
 late, and do not know it. You commit the very same sin that Pilate commit ted. You have crucified the Lord of Glory. But if nine-tenths of this au- dience are made up of thoughtful and earnest people, then nine -tenths of this audience are saying within themselves: !: ''Is there no such thing as moral puri- fication? Is there no layer in which the soul may wash and be cleanf" Yes, yes, yes. Tell 1t in song, tell it in sermon, tell it in prayer, tell it to the hemi- spheres. That is what David cried out for when he said, "Wash me thoroughly from my sin, and cleanse me from mine iniquities. |" And that is what, in anoth- CT place, he cried out for when he said, "Wash me and I shall be winter than snow" :" Behold, the layer of the gospel, filled with living fountains. Did you ever see the picture of the layer in the ancient tabernacle or in the ancient tenn pie? The layer in the ancient tabernacle was made out of the women s metallic looking glasses. It was great basin, standing on a beautiful pedestal, but when the temple was built, then the fro.x brazen sea, and, oh, how deep were the floods there gathered And there were ten layers besides-five at the right and | five at the left-and each layer had 800 gallons of water. And the outside of these layers was carved and chased with palm trees so deicately 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 cheru- bim with outspread wings. That mag nificent layer of the old dispensation is a feeble type of the more glorious layer of our dlspensation-our sunlit dispensa- | tion.
 Divine Mercy.
 Here is the layer holding rivers of sal vation, having for its pedestal the Rock of Ages, carved with the figure of the lion of Judah's tribe, and having palm branches for victory and wings suggest i've of the souls flight toward God in prayer and the souls flight heavenward when we die. Come ye auditory, and wash away all your sins, however ag- gravated, and all your sorrows, however agonizing. Come to this fountain, open for all sin and uncleanness, the furthest, the worst You need not carry your sins half second. Come and wash in this l glorious gospel layer. Why. that is an opportunity enough to swallow up all | nations. That is an opportunity that will yet stand on the Alps and beckon | to Italy, and yet stand on the Pyrenees and beckon to Spain, and it will yet stand on the Ural and beckon to Russia, and it will stand at the gate of heaven and beckon to all nations. Pardon fo1 all sin, and pardon right away, through the blood of the Son of God. A little child that had been blind, but through skillful surgery 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, l" replied the mother, ''my child, I did tell you often. often told you how beautiful they are but you were blind, and you couldn't seeP'
 Oh, if we could have our eyes opened to see the glories in Jesus Christ we would feel that the half had not beer told us, and you would go to some Chris tian man and say, "Why didn't you tel me before of the glories in the Lorc Jesus Christi" and that friend would say, 1T did tell you, but you were blint and could not see, and you were deat and could not hear"
 History says that great army came to capture ancient Jerusalem, and whe1 this army got on the hills so that they saw the turrets and the towers of Jeru salem they gave shout that made tho earth tremble, and tradition, whether false or true, says that so great wa. the shout eagles flying in the air dropped under the atmospheric percussion. Oh if we could only catch a glimpse of tn, towers of this gospel temple into whicl you are all invited to come and wasl there would be song jubilant, and wid, resounding at New Jerusalem seen, a
 New Jerusalem taken, the hosannas O other worlds flying midair would fol, their wings and drop into our closin, doxology. Against the disappointin,
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