Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-03-06

rows ana troubles, think, must make the
wings of Gods lowering angels shiyer to
the tip.
A Debt Payer.
But the last part Of my text opens a
door wide enough to let us all out and to
let all heaven in. Sound it on the organ
with all tho stops out. Thrum IL 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 iniquity Of us all. " am glad that
the prophet did not stop to explain whom
he meant by chin" Him of the manager,
him Of the bloody sweat, him of the resur-
rection throne, him of the cruoifxiOn
agony. "On him the Lord hath laid the
iniquity Of US all" 'Oh," 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 I have an obligation, and
I have the means to meet it, and / come to
you and ask you to sHttle that obligation,
you rightly say, PAY your own debts. ="
If you and are walking down the street.
both hale, hearty and well, and ask you to
carry me, you say rightly, walk ON your
own feet" But suppose you and were
+ in a regiment, and was wounded in the
battle and fell unconscious at your feet
/ with gunshot fractures and disluoations,
what would you do? You would call to
your comrades, saying: Come and helpl
This man is helpless. Bring the ambu-
/ lance. Let US take him to the hospital. ="
I And would be a dead lift in your arms,
J and you would lift me from the ground
/ where had fallen and put me in the am
/ bulance and take me to the hospital and
-, Ill l. CHI Would fhnTn
be anything bemeaning in my accepting
that kindness? Oh, no. You would be
/ mean not to do it. That is what Christ
does. II we could pay our debts, then 1t
would be better to go up and pay them,
saying, Here, Lord, here is my obliga-
ton; horo are the means with which
mean to settle that obligation. Now give
me q receipt. Cross it all out" The
debt is paid.
But the fact is, we have fallen in tho
battle; we have gone down under the hot
Gre of our transgressions; we have been
wounded by the sabers of sin; we are help
less; we are undone Christ comes. The
loud clang heard in the sky on that Christ
mas night was only the bell, the resound-
ing 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 tho Son of God Christ comes down
to us, and we arc 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
dead lift he raises us to honor and glory
and Immortality. 1.-The Lord hath laid
on him the iniquity of us all. =" Why,
then, will q man carry his sins? You can
not carry successfully tho smallest sin you
ever committed You might as well put
tho Apennines on one shoulder and the
Alps on tho other. How much less can
you carry all the sins Of your lifetimeY
Christ comes and looks down in your face
and says; Il have como through all the
lacerations OF these days and through all
the tempests of these nights; 1 have come
to benr your burdens and to pardon your
sins and to pay your debts. Put them on
my shoulder, put thom on my heart
"On him the Lord hath laid the iniquity
of us all Sin has almost pestered the
life out of some of you. At times it has
mado 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, Gossamery
and volatile the world, while eternity, as
they look forward to it, is black as mid
night They writhe under the stings 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 realize that
just the position they occupy is the posi-
ton occupied by scores, hundreds and
thousands of mon who never found any
hope.
A Letter.
If this meeting should be thrown open,
and tho people who are here could give
their testimony, what thrilling experiences
We should hear on all sidasl There is a
man who would say: II had brilliant sur
roundings, had the best education that
one Of the best collegiate institutions of
this country could give, and observed all
the moralities of life and l was self right
eous, and thought I was all right before
God as I am all right before man, but the
Holy Spirit came to me one day and said,
You are sinner. Tho Holy Spirit per-
suaded me of tho fact. While 1 had es-
caped the sins against the law of the land
1 had really committed the worst sin
man ever commits-tho driving back Of
the Son of God from my heart s affections
and / saw that my hands were red with
to pray, and peace came to my heart, and
I know by experience that what you say is
true" "On him the Lord hath laid the
iniquity of US all" Yonder is a man who
would say: II was the worst drunkard in
tho city 1 went from bad TO worse; l de-
stroyod myself; l destroyed my homei my
children covered when / entered the
house; when they put up their lips to DO
kissed, l struck them; when my wife pro-
tested against the maltreatment, kicked
her into the street. know all the bruises
and all the terrors Of drunkard's woe. /
went on farther and farther from God,
until one day 1 got a letter, saying;
''AdY DEAR HusBAND-Ih have tried every way, (
done everything and prayed earnestly and Ter .
vently for your reformation, but it seems of 1
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- I
row. Many Of the nights ] have sat by the 1
window. with my face bathed in tears, watch
ing for your coming. am broken hearted, I
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. 1t is hard, and battled long .
before doing it. May God bless and preserve
you ard take from you that accursed appetite, |
and hasten the DAY when we snail De again Nv Z
ing happily together. This viii be my daily 4
prayer, knowing that he has said, Come unto
me. all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and
! will give you rest From your loving wife,
"MARY.
"And so 1 wandered on and wandered
on, says that man, "until one night
passed Methodist meeting house, and
said to myself, 'I'll go in and SEQ what
they axe doing, and l got to tho door, and
they were singing:
Gan may come, whoever will
This nHn receives poor sinners still.
"And / dropped right there where I
was, and ! said, God, have mercy and
he had mercy on me. My homo is restored.
my wife sings all day long during work,
my children come out a long way to greet
me homo, and my household is a little
heaven. will tell you what did all this
for me. 1t was tho truth that this day
.ts,,, rr,oI.fr, tD,, HIM tho .pud hath laid