The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-02

on him the iniquity OF us all" I am glad
that the prophet did not stop TO explain
whom he meant by him" Him of the
manager, him of the bloody sweat him OF
the resurrection throne, him OF the crucl-
fiXion agony. ION him the Lord hath
laid the inlQuity of us all. ON! says
some man, THAT isn't generous, that isn't
fair; let every man carry his own burden
and pay his own debts" That sounds
reasonable. If / have an obligation and
have the means to meet IL and / come 10
you and ask you to settle that Obligation,
you rightly say, Pay your own debts; II
you and j, walking down the Street-DOth
hale, hearty and WE'LL ask you TO carry
me. you say rightly, walk on your own
feetr But suppose you and / were in a
regiment, and / was wounded in the battle
and i fell unconscious at your feet with
gunshOt fractures and dislOcaCions, what
would you do? You would call to your
comrades, saying, Come and hclp, TINS
man is helpless; bring the ambulance;
let ms take him 20 the hospital and
would be a dead lift in your arms, and you
would lift me from the ground where l
had fallen and put me i'm the ambulance
and take me to the hospital and have all
kindness shown me. Would there be
anything bemeaning in my accepting that
kindness2 Oh! no. You would be mean
not to do it. That is what Christ does If
we could pay our debts, then it would be
better to go up and pay them, saying,
Here. Lord, here is my obligation; here
are the means with which l mean to settle
that obligations; now give me a receipt,
cross it all out" The debt is paid But
the fact is we have fallen in the battle
we have gone down under the hot fire
of our transgressions, we have been
wounded by the sabers of sin, we are
helpless, we are undone Christ comes.
The loud clang heard in the sky on that
Christmas night was only the bell, the
resounding bell of the ambulance. Clear
the way for the Son of God. He comes
down to bind up the wounds, and to scat
ter the darkness, and to save the lost.
Clear the way for the Son of God. Christ
comes down to us, and we are a dead
lift. He does not lift us with the tips
Of his fingers. He does not lift us with
one arm. He comes down upon his knee,
and then with a dead lift he raises us
TO honor and to glory and immortality.
The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity
of us all" Why, then, will a man carry
his sins? You cannot carry successfully
the smallest sin you ever committed.
on one shoulder and the Alps on the
other. How much less can you carry all
the sins of you lifetime? Christ somes
and looks down in your face and says:
Il have come through all the decorations
of these days, and through all the tenn
pests of these nights; l have come to
bear your burdens, and to pardon your
sins, and to pay your debts; put them on
my shoulder, put them on my heart"
"On him the Lord hath laid the inquiry
of us all" Sin has almost pestered the
life out of some of you. At times it has
made you cross and unreasonable, and
it has spoiled the brightness of your
days and the peace of your nights, There
are men who have been riddled of sin.
The world gives them no solace. Cos
eternity. as they look forward to it, is
black as midnight. They writhe under
the stngs of a conscience which proposes
to give no rest here and no rest hereafter;
and yet they do not repent, they do not
pray, they do not weep They do not re-
alize that just the position they occupy is
the position occupied by scores, hundreds
and thousands of men who never found
any hope.
If this meeting should be thrown open
and the people who are here could give
their testimony, what thrilling experiences
we should hear on all Sidesl There is
man who would say; Il had brilliant
surroundings; l had the best education
that one of the best collegiate institutions
of this country could give, and l observ-
ed all the moralities of life, and / was
self-righteous, and l thought / was all
right before God as | am all right before
man, but the Holy Spirit came to me one
day and said: You are a sinner the
Holy Spirit persuaded me of the fact.
While l had escaped the sins against the
law of the land, l had really committed
the worst sin a man ever commits the
driving back of the Son of God from my
hearts affections, and l saw that my
hands were read with the blood of the
Son of God, and l began to pray, and
peace came to my heart, and l know by
experience that what you say is true
ION him the Lord hath laid the iniquity
of us air. Yonder is a man who would
say: II was the worst drunkard in the
city; l went from bad to worse; l destroy
ed myself; destroyed my home; my chill
dren covered when / entered the house:
1 struck them; when my wife protested
against the maltreatment, l kicked her
into the street l know all the bruises
and all the terrors of q drunkards woe.
went on further and further from God I'M
til one day l got letter, saying:
- My Dear Husband; l have tried
every way, done everything and prayed
earnestly and fervently for your reforma-
ton, but it seems of no avail. Since our
little Henry died, with the exception of
those few happy weeks when you remained
sober my life had been one of sorrow
Many of the nights l have sat by the win
dow with my face bathed in tears watch
ing for your coming am broken-heart-
ed, l am sick. Mother and father have
been here frequently and begged me to
come home; but my love for you and my
hope for brighter days have always made
me refuse them That hope seems now be-
yOnd realization, and / have returned to
them. 1t is hard, and l battled long be
fore doing it, May God bless and preserve
you, and take from you that accused ap-
petite. and hasten the day when we shall
be again living happily together. This
will be my daily prayer, knowing that he
has said, Come unto me, all We that labor
and are heavy laden and l will give you
rest From your loving wife, Mary
And so / wandered on and wandered
on says that man, until one night [
passed a Methodist meeting house and
said to myself: III go in and see what
they are doing; and L got to the door, and
they were singing,
All may come whoever will
This man receives poor sinners STILL
And 1 dropped right there where I was
and / said. God have mercyr and he had
mercy on me. My home is restored, nv
wife sings all day long during work nv
children come out long way to greet me
nome, ana my household is little heaven.
/ viii tell you what did all this fer me. 1t
was the truth that this day YOU pro-
claim: on him the Lord hath laid the
lnlqulty Of US az. Yonder is a woman