The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1896-03-26


positively that you have not coufAite4d
the unpardonable sin. Mercy 10. yonp
ON tho grace of God which brssgeth
salvationl "--s-7--'5S
The grace OF God! Let us take the
surveyors chain anG5:try TO measure
Gods mercy through Jesus Christ. let
one surveyor take that chain and do 10
the north, and another surveyor iake
that chain and go to the south and an
other surveyor take that chain and go
70 the east and another Surveyor take
that chain aid 90 to the west, and
then make r,,port OF the SQUARE miles
~ thatyast Kingdom Of Gods mercy.
Aye you will have 70 wait TO all eter.
nifty for the report Of that measure.
ment IL can not be measured. Paul
tried To climb the height Of Il, and he
went height over height. altitude
above altitude, mountain above moun-
tain, then sank down in Discourage
ment and gave il up, for he saw Sierra
Aeyadasf beyond and Matterhorns be-
yond, and waving his hands back to IS
IN the plains, he says: Past finding
OUT unsearehable, that III all things
He might have the pre.eminence.' :
You notice that nearly all the sinners
mentioned as pardoned in the bible
were great sinncrs-David great sin.
nert Paul great sinner, Rahab a great
sinner, Magdalen a great sinner, the
Prodigal Son a great sinner. The
world easily understood how Christ
could pardon half-and-half sinner,
but what the world wants to be per-
Buaded of is that CiriAt 'rill forgive
the worst sinner, the .kA.'aest sinner,
the oldest sinner, the most ineNcusable
sinner. To the in.pardoning shiloh
let all the gathering of the people be
gathering around Christ
But, / remark again, the people will
gather around Christ as a sympathizer
Oh, we all want sympathy. hear
people talk as though they were indie
pendent of it. None % us could live
without sympathy. When parts of
R~7 family are f'vhs1 how lonely
the house seems until they ..'@
get home! But alas! for those
who never come home. Sometimes
it seems as if it must be impossible.
What, will their feet never again
come over the Threshold? Will they
never again sit with us at the table?
WIN they never again kneel with us
at family prayer? Shall we never
again look into their sunny faces?
Shall we never again on earth take
counsel with them for our work? Alas!
me, who can stand under these griefs?
o Christ, Thou canst do more for be-
reft soul than any one else. 1t is He
who stands beside us to tell of the
resurrection. 1t is he that came
to bid peace 1t is He that
comes to us and breathes into us the
spirit of submission until we look up
from the wreck and ruin of our bright
est expectations and say: Father.
not my will, but Thine, be done" Oh,
ye who are bereft! ye anguish-bitten,
come into this refuge. The roll of
those who came for relief to Christ is
larger and larger. Unto this Shiloh of
omnipotent sympathy the gathering of
the people shall be. Oh, that Christ
would stand by all these empty cra-
dies, and all these desOlated home
steads, and all these broken hearts,
and persuade us il is we'll.
The world can not offer you any
help at such a time. Suppose the
world comes and offers you money.
You would rather live on a crust in
cellar and have your departed loved
ones with you than in palatial sur
roundings and they away suppose
the world offers you its honors TO con-
sole You. What is the presidency to
Abraham Lincoln when little. Willie
lies dead in the white house, Perhaps
the world comes and says: Time will
cure it all All, there are griefs that
have ragged on for 30 wears and are.rag-
ing yet, And so hundreds have been
colnforted, thousands have been COM
forted, millions have been = COM
forted, and Christ had done the work.
Oh, what you want IS sympathy. The
world IS heart Of sympathy beats very
irregulariy. Plenty of sympathy when
we do not wantit, and often when we
are in appalling need Of Il, no sym
pathy. There are multitudesof people
diving for sympathy sympathy IN
their work, sympathy ia their fatigues,
sympathy in their bereavements, sym
pathy in their financial losses, sympa-
thy in their physical ailments, sympa-
thy IN their spiritual anxieties, sympa-
thy In their time Of declining years =
wide, deep, high. everlasting almighty
sympathy. We must have 1t, and
Christ gives it. That Is the chord with
which lie is going to draw all nations
TO Him.
AT the story OF punishment mans
eve flashes and his teeth set and his
fist clinches, and he prepares 70 do
battle even though st be against the
heavens; vet what heart so hard but it