The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-03-06

some way and some in another, and ii
you could really see the position some
of you occupy before God your soul
would burst into an agony of tears and
you would pelt the heavens with the
cry, God have mercyr' Sinai's bat
teries have been unlimbered above
your soul, and at times you have heard
it thunder, THE wages of sin is
death" All have sinned and come
short of the glory of God" by one
man sin entered into the world, and
death by sin; and so death passed upon
all men, for that all have sinned. !"
''The soul that sinneth, it shall die." "
But the last part of my text opens
door wide enough to let us all out and
to let all Heaven in. Sound it on the
organ with all the stops out Thrum
it on the harps with all the strings
atune. With all the melody possible
let the heavens sound it to the earth
and let the earth tell it to the heavens.
''The Lord hath laid on Him the iniqui-
to of us all" am glad that the prophet
did not stop to explain whom he meant
by him" Him of the manger, Him of
the bloody sweat, Him of the resurrec'
ton throne, Him of the crucifxion
agony. ION Him the Lord hath lain the
iniquity of us all. "Ohr' 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 rea-
sonable. If have an obligation and
have the means to meet it and come
to you and ask you TO settle that OBJ
legation you rightly say: Pay your
own debts" If you and l walking
down the street-both hale, hearty
and WE'LL ask you to carry me,
you say rightly: Walk on your own
feetW But suppose you and | were in
regiment, and 1 was wounded in the
battle and fell unconscious at your
feet with gunshot fractures and dislo-
cations, what would you do? You
would call to your comrades, saying,
"Come and help, this man is helpless;
bring the ambulance; let us take him
to the hospital" and l would be dead
lift in your arms, and you would lift
me from the ground where l had
fallen, and put me in the ambulance
and take me to the hospital, and have
all kindness shown me. Would there
be anything bemeaning in my accept
ing that kindness? 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 / mean to settle
that obligation; now give me receipt,
cross it all out" The debt is paid.
But the fact that we have fallen
in the battle, we have gone down
under the hot fire of our transEres-
sions, 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 Christ
mas night was only the bell, the re-
sounding bell of the ambulance. Clear
the way for the Son of God He comes
down to bind up the wounds, and to
scatter 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
upon us with the tips of His fingers
He does not lift us with one arm. He
comes down on His knee, and then
with dead lift He raises us to honor
and glory and Immortality. THE Lord
hath laid on Him the iniquity of US
ALL"
If this meeting should be thrown
open and the people who are here
could give their testimony, what thrill
ling experiences we should hear on all
sides! There is a 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 observed all the NOR
alities of life, and was self-righteous,
and / thought that l was all right be-
fore 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, had really COM
mitted the worst sin a man ever
commits, the driving back of the Son
of God from my hearts affections, and
L saw ludG my Hduuo were IeQ Win
the blood of the Son of God, and l be-
gan to pray, and peace came to my
heart, and know by experience that
what you say is true" ION Him the
Lord hath laid the iniquity of US allr'
Yonder is q man who would say, 81
was the worst drunkard in the city; /
went from bad to worse; 1 DESTROYED
myself; des royed my home; my chill
dren covered when l entered the
house; when they put up their lips to
be kissed struck them; when my wife
protested against the maltreatment, /
kicked her into the street l know all
the bruises and all the terrors of a
drunkard's woe. 1 went on further
and further from God until one day l
got letter, saying:
MYDEAR HUSBAND: have tried every way,
done everything and prayed earnestly and
fervently for your information, 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 sor-
rev. Many OF the nights have sat by the
window. with my face bathed in tears watch
ing for your coming. am broken-hearted /
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 beyond realization. and have re-
turned TO them II is hard. and battled long