Connecticut western news., 1895-05-02

save sinners. Do you believe thatp You are told that all you have to do to get the pardon of the gospel is to ask for it Do you believe that? Then come to him and say: 70 Lord, know thou canst not lie. Thou hast told me to come for pardon and I could get it come, Lord Keep thy promise and iberate my captive soul
 Oh, that you might have m altar in the parlor, in the kitchen, ill the store, in the barn, for Christ will be willing to come again to the manager to hear prayer. He would come to your place of business as ho confronted Matthew, the tax commissioner. If measure should come before congress that you thought would ruin the nation, how you would send in petitions and remon- strances. And yet there has been enough sin in your heart to ruin it forever, and you have never remonstrated or peti- toned against it. If your physical health failed and you had the means, you would go and spend the summer in Germany and the winter in Italy, and you would think it very cheap outlay l if you had to go all round the earth to get back your physical health. Have you made any effort, any expenditure, any exertion, for your immortal and spirit | ual health?
 Oh, that you might now begin to seek l after God with earnest prayer! Some of you have been working for years and years for the support of your families. Have you given one-haf day to the | working out of your salvation with fear | and trembling? You came here with an earnest purpose, I take it, as I have come hither with an earnest purpose, and we meet face to face, and I tell you, first of all, if you want to find the Lord you must pray and pray and pray. I remark again you must seek the the newest book in the world. "Oh," you say, "it was made hundreds of years ago, and the learned men of King James | translated it hundreds of years ago" l confute that idea by telling you it is | not five minutes old when God by his blessed spirit retranslates it into the heart. If you will, in the seeking of the way of life through Scripture study, i'm plore Gods light to fall upon the page, you will find that these promises are not one second old, and that they drop straight from the throne of God into your heart.
 The Book of Books.
 There are many people to whom the Bible does not amount to much. If they merely look at the outside beauty, why, l it will no more lead them to Christ l than Washington g farewell address, or the Koran of Mohammed, or the Shaster of the Hindoos. It is the inward light of God s word you must get. went up to | the Church of the Madeleine in Paris and l looked at the doors, which are the most l wonderfully constructed ever saw, and | could have staid there for whole week, but had only little time. So, having glanced at the wonderful carv ing on the doors, passed in and looked at the radiant altars and the sculptured dome Alas, that so many stop at the outside door of Gods holy word, look ing at the rhetorical beauties instead of going in and looking at the altars of sacrifice and the dome of Gods mercy and salvation that hovers over penitent and believing souls
 Oh, my friends, if you merely want to study the laws of language, do not | go to the Bible It was not made for that Take "Howe's Elements of Crit icism." It will be better than the Bible for that. If you want to study metaphy sics, better than. the Bible will be the | writings of William Hamilton But if | you want to know how to have sin par doned and at last to gain the blessed ness of heaven search the Scriptures, ''for in them ye have eternal ife.' When people are anxious about their souls, there are those who recommend good books. That is all right. But I want to tell you that the Bible is the best book under such circumstances Baxter wrote "A Call to the Unconvert- l ed," but thu Bible is the best call to the nnconverted. Philip Doddridge wrote "The Rise and Progress of Religion In the Soul," but the Bible is the best rise and progress. John Angel James wrote "Advice to the Anxious hquir- | er," but the Bible is the best advice to the anxious inquirer.
 | Oh, the Bible is the very book you need, anxious and inquiring soull A dying soldier said to his mate, "Com- rade, give inc a dropP' The comrade shook up the canteen and said, "There
 isn't drop of water in the canteen. ,"
 "Oh," said the dying soldier, "that's
 not what want. Feel in my napsack
 for my Bible" and his comrade found
 the Bible and read him few of the
 gracious promises, and the dying sol.
 dier said: "Ah, that's what I want.
 There isn't anything like the Bible for
 . dying soldier, is there, my com
 rade?" Oh, blessed book while we live l
 Blessed book when we dicl
 Another Necessity.
 I remark again we must seek God
 through church ordinances "What, I"
 say you, "can't man be saved without
 going to church?'' I reply there arc
 men. I suppose, in glory who have nev-
 CT seen church, but the church is the
 ordained means by which we are to be
 brought to God, and if truth affects us
 when we are alone it affects us more
 nightly when we are in the assembly,
 the feelings of others emphasizing our
 own feelings The great law of sympa
 thy comes into play, and truth that
 would take hold only with the grasp of
 sick man beats nightly against the
 soul with thousand heart throbs.
 When you come into the religious cir
 cle, come only with one notion and
 only for one purpose-to find the way
 to Christ. When see people critical | oh aI~o
 of voice, and critical about sermenic
 delivery, they make me think of 8 man
 in prison. He is condemned to death,
 but an officer of the government brings
 a pardon and puts it through the wick.
 ct of the prison and says: 'Here is you,
 pardon Come and get it. '' What Dc