The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-05-08

the matter with the two farmers? In
the one case a convicted conscience
leading him to honesty, and in the
other case convicted conscience warl.'
ing against intidelity.
Conversion amounts to nothing unless
the heart is converted, and the pocket
book is converted, and the cash drawer
is converted, and the fire-proof safe is
converted, and the pigeonhole contain
ing the correspondence is converted,
and his improvement is noticed even by
the canary bird that sings in the par
lor, and the cat that licks the platter
after the meal, and the dog that comes
bounding from the kennel to greet him.
A man half converted, or quarter con
verted, or thousandth part converted
is not converted at all. What will be
the great book in the day of judgments
Conscience. Conscience recalling mis-
improved opportunities. Conscience
recalling unforgiven sins. Conscience
bringing up all the past. Alas! for this
governor, Pontius PLATE. That night
after the court had adjourned, and the
Sanhedrists had gone home, and moth
ing was heard outside the room but the
step of the sentinel, see Pontius PLATE
arise from his tapestried and sleepless
couch, and go to the laver and begin tc
wash his hands, crying: "Out, out,
crimson spot! Tellest thou to me, and
to God, and to the night, my crime? l,
there no alkali to remove these dread
full stains? Is there no chemistry to
dissolve this carnage? Must | to the
day of death carry the blood of this in
nocent man on my heart and handi
Out, thou crimson spot" The worst
thing a man can have is an evil con
science, and the best thing man can
have is what Paul calls a good con
science.
But is there no such thing as moral
purifcation? If man is sinner once
must he always be a sinner, and an
unforgiven sinner? We have all had
conscience after us. Or do you tell me
that all the words of your life have
been just right, and all the actions OF
your life just right? Then you do not
know yourself, and take the RESPONSE
bility of saying you are a Pharisee
you are hypocrite, you are Pontius
plate, and do not know it, You com
NIT the very same sin that Plate com
mitted. You have crucitied the Lord OF
glory. But if nine-tenths of the audi
ence are made up of thoughtful and
earnest people, then nine-tenths of this
audience are sayingwithin themselves:
SIS there no such thing as moral puri.
fication?" Is there no laver in which the
soul may wash and be clean? Yes,
yes, yes. Tell it in song, tell it in SER
mon, tell it in prayer, tell it in hemi'
spheres. That is what David cried out
for when he said: "Wash me thorough,
ly from my sin, and cleanse me from
mine iniquities." And that is what in
another 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 tabernacle was made out of the
women's metallic looking glasses. II
was a great basin, standing on beau
tiful pedestal but when the temple
was built, then the laver was an i'm
mense affair, called the 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 laver had three hundred
gallons of water. And the outside oi
these LAYERS was carved and chased
with palm trees SO delicately cut you
could almost see the leaves tremble
and you saw the nostrils throb. and the
cherubim with outspread wings. Thai
magnificent laver of the old dispense
tion is a feeble type of the more glori
GUS laver of our dispensation-our sun
lit dispensation.
Here is the laver holding rivers ot
salvation. having for its pedestal the
Rock of Ages, carved with the figure
of the lion of JudahS tribe. and having
palm branches for victory, and wings
suggestive of the soul S fight toward
God in prayer, and the souls flight
heavenward when we die. Come W
auditory, and wash away all your sins
however aggravated. and all your sor
rows, however agonizing, Come to this
fountain, open for all sins and unclean
ness, the furthest, the worst. Got
need not carry your sins half second
Come and wash in this glorious gospe
laver. Why, that is an opportunity
enough to swallow up all nations, THAI
is an opportunity that will yet stanC
on the Alps and becSon to Italy, ant
yet stand on the Pyrenees and beckor
to Spain, and it will yet stand on the
Ural and becllon to Russia, and it will
stand at the gate of Heaven and beckor
to all nations. Pardon for all sim anC
pardon right away through the blooC
of the Son of God A little child thai
had been blind but through skillfu
surgery brought to sight, said: "Why
mother, didn't you tell me the eartf
and sky are SO beautiful? Why didn1
you. tell me?" 80" replied the mother
my child, l did tell you often; Otter
told you how beautiful they are; bu
you were blind, and You couldn't see!'
0, if we could have our eyes opened tt
see the glories in Jesus Christ VT
would feel that the half had not beer
told us, and you would go to somC
Christian man and say: ''Why didn'
you tell me before Of the glorics in the
Lord Jesus Christi and that fricn(
would say: II did tell you, but yor
were blind and could not see, and yol
were deaf and could not hear"
History says that great army cam,
to capture ancient Jerusalem, ant
when this army got on the hills so tha