Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-11-04

eOAueo up anu tu6 t0IlNoleO uotn mas
got smooth again. He bows the fourth
time into the flood and comes mp, and the
hair that had fallen out is restored in
thick locks again all over the brow. He
bows the fifth time into the flood and
comes mp, and the hoarseaess has gone
out Of his throat He bows the sixth time
and comes mp, and all the soreness and
anguish have gone out Of the limbs
why" no says, "I am almost well,
but will make complete cure, i" and
be bows the seventh time into the food,
md he comes up, and not so much as a
tester or scale or an eruption rs big as
the head of pin is to be seen ON him.
His Wonderful Cure.
He steps out ON the bank and says, 'Is
It possible?" And the attendants look
and say, sis It possible9' And as with
the health of an athlete he bounds back
into the chariot and drives ON there
goes mp from all his attendants a wild
"Huzza, huzzaw OF course they 20
back to pay and thank the man Of God
for his counsel so fraught with wisdom.
When they left the prophets house,
they went OF mad. They have come back
glad. People always think better Of a
minister after they arc converted than
they do before conversion. Now we are
to them an intolerablo nuisance because
we tell them to do things that go against
the grain, but somo Of us have great
many letters from those who tell us
that once they were angry at what we
preached, but aftsrwaTd gladly received
the gospel at our hands. They once
called us fanatics OK teTrorists or ene-
miles, Now the y call Is friends Yonder
is man who said ho would never come
into the cLurch again. lie said that
two years ago lie said my family
shall never como here again IL such doo-
trines as that arc preached" But no
came again, Snd Lis family came again.
he is Christian, his wife Christian,
ell his childrm Christians, the whole
Household Christians, and you shall
dwell with them in tho house of the
Lord forever. Orr undying conductors
are those who onco heard tho gospel and
went away in rage"
The True Remedy.
Now, my hearers, you know that this
General Naaman did two things in or
der to get we'll. The first was, he got
out of his chariot. He might have staid
there with his swollen feet ON the stuff
cd ottoman, seated on that embroidered
cushion, until his last gasp, he would
nevor have got epy relief. he had to
get down cut cf lis chariot. And you
have got to got down out of the chariot
of your pride If you ever become n Chris.
tian. You cannot drive up to the cross
with n coach and four and be saved
among all the spangles. You seem to
think that the Lord is going TO be COM
plimented by your coming. Oh, no, you
poor, miserable, scaly, leprous sinner.
get down out of that. We all come in
the same naughty way We expect to
ride into the kingdom of God. Never
until we get down on our knees will we
find mercy. The Lord has unhorsed MS,
unoharioted u.s. Get down out of your
pride. Get down out Of your self right
eousness and your hypercriticism. We
have all got to do that. That Is the
journey we have to make ON our knees.
1t is our Internal pride that keeps us
from getting rid of the leprosy Of sin.
Denr Lord, what have we to be proud
off Proud of our scalesp Proud Of our
unoleanness2 Proud of this killing In
fection? Bring us down at thy feet.
weeping, praying. penitent believing
suppliants
For sinners, Lord, thou cam'st to bleed,
And I'm sinner vile indeed.
Lord, believe thy grace is free.
Oh, magnify that grace In me.
But he had not only TO get down out
of his chariot. He had to wash. "Oh, ;"
you say, II am very careful with my
additions Every day / plunge into a
bright and beautiful BATH" All, my
hearer, there is a food brighter than any
that pours from these hills. 1t Is the
food that breaks from the granite of
the eternal hills. 1t is the food Of par
don and peace and life and heaven. That
flood started in the tears Of Christ and
the sweat OF Gethsemane and rolled ON,
accommodating flood, until all earth and
heaven could batho in It, Zechariah
called ii tho fountain open for sin and
uncleanness 4" William Cowper called it
tho fountain filed with blood" Your
fathers and mothers washed all their
sins and sorrows away in that fountain.
Oh, my hearers, do you not feel like
wading into itf Wade down now into
this glorious food. deeper, deeper, deep
er Plunge once, twice, thrice, four
times, FIVE times, six times, seven times.
1t will take as much as that to cure your
soul. Oh. wash, wash aid he cleani
Naaman's Cure.
suppose that was great time al
Damascus when General Naaman got
back. The charioteers did not have TO
drive slowly any longer. lest they jolt
the invalid, but as the horses dashed
through the streets of Damascus think
the people rushed ont TO hail back their
chieftain. Naaman's wife hardly reoog-
nized her husband. He was so wonder
fully changed she bad to look at him
two or three times before she made out
that it was her restored husband And
tho little captive maid, she rushed out,
her hands and shouting; "Did
be cure you? Did he cure your" Then
music woke up the palace, and the tap
estry Of the windows was drawn away,
that the multitude outside might min
gle with the princoly mirth inside, and