Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-03-12

Sono " you TOOK to strong drink, mt
Others OF you fed out OF Christian as
ISOLATION, and you got astray. Oh
man, that was the last time when yo,
ought to have forsaken God. Stnndin,
amid the laundering of your earth,
laalures, how could you get along with
out q God to comfort you, and Go.
TO deliver you, and God to help you
and God to save you? You tell me yo,
have been through enough business
trouble almost to kill you. know Is !
cannot understand how the bat ccRll
i've one hour in that chopped 81, D !.
do not know by what process Won 20
astray; some i'll one way and some il
another, and If you could really see tn,
position some OF you occupy before Coo
your soul would burst into an agony O
tears and you would pclt the heaven
with the cry, God have mercy!'
Sinai's batteries have been numbered
above your soul, and at times you hav,
heard 1t thunder: 1.-THE wages of sin il
death" "All have sinned and have
come come short Of the glory of God !
BY one man sin entered into thu
world, and death by sin; aud so deatl,
passed upon all men, for that all have
sinned.' 1.-THE soul that sinneth, il
shall die"
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 the stops out. Thrum
it on the harps with all the strings
atune. With all the melodies possible
let the heavens sound it to the earth
and let the earth tell it to the heavens.
"The Lord hath lain on him the in
EQUITY of us ALL" ! am glad that the
prophet did not stop to explain whom
he meant by him" Him of the man.
ger, Him of the bloody sweat, Him OF
the resurrection throne, Him of the cru.
citixion 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 / have an obi,
CATION and have the means to meet it
and ! come to You and ask you to set,
tie that obligation, 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 youl
own feet! But suppose you and l were
in regiment, and 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 would be dead
lift in your arms, and you would lift
me from the ground where | 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 me in ac.
cepting that kindness? On, no. You
would be mean not to do it. That is
what Christ-does. If we could pay oui
debts, then it would be better to go ur
and pay them, saying, Here, Lord, is
my obligation; there are the means
with which | mean to settle that obi
cation; now give me receipt, crosyii
all out" The debt is paid But the
fact is we have fallen in the battle, we
have gone down under the hot fire o.
our transgressions, we have been
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 dowrto bind up the wounds, and
to scatter the darkness, and to save the
lost. Clear the way for the Son OF
God. Christ cevles down to us and we
ire a dead lift. He does not lift us
with the tip of His fingers. He does
1ot lift us with one arm. He comes
Town upon His knee, and then with q
lead lift He raises us to honor and
glory and Immortality. 'The Lord
lath laid on him the iniquity of us all. .
Why then will man carry his sins9
You cannot carry successfully the
smallest sin you ever committed. You
night as well put the Apprentices on
me. shoulder and the Alps on the other.
low much less can you carry all the
inns of your lifetime? Christ comes
md looks down IN your face, and says
i have come through all the lacera.
ions of these days, and through all the
empests of these nights; have come
o bear your burdens, and to pardon
vour sins, and to pay your debts; put
hem on my shoulder, put them on my
,eart." Son him the Lord hath laid
he iniquity OF us all. Sin has almost
,estered the life out of some of you. At
ines it has made you cross and I'M
and it has spoiled the
Brightness of your days and the peace
# your nights. There are men who
ave been riddled Of sin. The world
ives them no solace. Gossamery and
olatile the world, while eternity, as
hey look forward to it, is black az
nidnight They writhe under tho
tings of conscience which proposes
0 give no rest here and no rest here
fter; and yet they do not repent, they
o not pray, they do not weep They