Connecticut western news., 1895-02-14

else, you believe in love-a fathers
 love. mothers love, a wite's love,
 cbild's love. Then let me tell you that
 God loves you more than them all. Oh, you must come in. You will come ini
 The great heart of Christ aches to have
 you come in, and Jesus this very mo-
 ment-whether you sit or stand-looks
 into your eyes and says, 'Other sheep 1
 have which arc not of this fold" A Cry For Help.
 Again l remark that the heavenly shepherd is going to find great many
 sheep among those who have been flung
 of evil habit. It makes me sad to see Christian people give mp prodigal as lost. There arc those who talk as though
 the grace of God were Il chain of 10 or 50 links, and after they had run out there was nothing to touch the depth of a very bad case. If they were hunting and got off the track of the deer, they would look longer among the brakes and bushes fer the lost game than they have been looking for that lost soul. People tell us that if man have deiirium tre- mems twice he cannot be reclaimcd; that after a woman has sacrificed her integri- ty she cannot be restored. The Bible has
 distinctly intimated that the Lord Al
 mighty is ready to pardon 490 times
 that is, 20 times [. There are men be- fore tho throne of God who have wal
 lowed in every kind of sin, but saved by the grace of Jesus and washed ill his
 blood they stand there radiant now.
 There are those who plunged into the
 very lowest of all the hells ill New York who have for the tenth time been lifted
 up. and finally, by the grace or God, they stand i'll heaven gloriously rescued by the grace promised to the chief of sinners. 1 want to tell you that God loves to take hold of q very bad case. When the church casts you off, and
 when the clubroom casts you off, and when society casts you off, and when
 business associates cast you off, and when father casts you off, and when
 mother casts you off, and when every
 body casts you off, your first cry for help will bend the eternal God clear down into the ditch of your suffering and
 shame.
 The Good Tcmplars cannot save you,
 although they are a grand institution.
 The Sons of Temperance cannot save
 you, although they are mighty for gocd Signing tho temperance pledge cannot
 save you, although believe i'll it. Noth-
 ing but the grace of the eternal God can
 save you. and that will if you will throw yourself OH it. There is man in this
 house who said to me: Unless God helps mo I cannot be delivered. I have tried everything, sir, Iut now l have got in the habit of prayer, and when l come to q drinking saloon l pray that God will take me safe past, and l pray
 until l am past. He does holp me" For every man given to strong drink there
 arc scores of traps set, and when ho goes out on business tomorrow he will be in infinite peril, and no one but the every where present God can see that man through Oh, they talk about the cata- combs of Napl.s, and the cataoombs of
 Rome, and tho catacombs of Egypt--the burial places under the city where the dust of great multitude lies-but tell you New York has its catacomhs, and Boston its catacombs. and Philadelphia its catacombs. They are the under gronnd restaurants, full of dead lnen's bones and all uncleanliness. Young
 man, you know it. God help you. There is no need of going into the art gallery to see in the skilful sculpture that won derful representation of a man and his
 sons wound around with serpents There
 are families represented in this house
 that are wrapped in the martyrdom of
 fprg and scale and veno,1-a living
 .>Kx kl T l.
 are you to do? l am not speaking into
 tho mir. nm talking to hundreds of
 men who must be saved by Christ's gos-
 pei or never saved at all. What are you
 going to do?
 Help For the Intcmpcrate.
 Do not put your trust in bromide of
 potassium, or ill jamaica ginger, CT any
 thing that apothecaries can mix. Put
 your trust only in the eternal God, and
 he will see you through. Some of you ao not have temptations every day. It
 is aperiodic temptation that comes every six weeks, or every three months, when is seems as if the powers of darkness kindle around about your tongue the fires of the pit It is well enough at such
 time, as some of you do, 10 seek med ical counsel, but your first and most i'm portunate cry must be to God. If the
 fiepds will drag you to the slaughter
 make them do 1t on your knees. o God,
 now that tho paroxysm of thirst is com. ing again upon that man, help him! Fling back into the pit of hell the fiend that assaults his soul this moment. Oh
 my heart aches to sec men go on in this
 fearful struggle without Christ.
 There arc in this house those whose
 hands so tremble from dissipation that
 they can hardly hold book, and yet
 have to tell you that they will yet
 preach tho gospel, and on communion days carry around consecrated bread,
 acceptable to rybody, because of their holy life and their consecrated behavior.
 The Lord is going to save you. Your
 home las get to be rebuilt Your phys. ical health has got to be restored Your worldly business has got to be recon.
 structed. The church of God is going to
 rejoice over your discipleship. "Other sheep have which are not of this fold. :" While I have hope for all prodigals, there arc somo people ill this house whom give up. l mean those who have
 been churcbgoers all their life, who , have maintained outward morality, but
 who, notwithstanding 20, 30, 40 years 1 of Christian advantages, have never yielded their heart to Christ. They are gospel hardened. 1 could call their
 names now, and if they would rise up
 they would rise mp ill scores. Gospel hardened! A sermon has no more effect 1 upon them than the shining moon on
 the city pavement As Christ says, "The
 publicans and haTlots will go into the kingdom of God before them." They i have resisted all tho importantly of di-
 vine mercy and havc gone during these 30 years through most powerful earth
 quakes of religious feeling, and they Gre tnrt h.si. n1,.. Ern,,, lN.l tl,..,n n,,nr A