Milford chronicle., 1896-07-17


seryation, are utterly dctestable Mephib-
! oslleth gives the utn.ost term Of self loath-
I ing when he compares himself to a dog,
( and dead at that
Consider the analogy. When the COM
mand is given from the palace Of heaven to
! the human soul 10 core, the soul begins TO
tromhle 1t says: "Wiat is Gcd going to
do with NE now? Is he going TO destroy
me? Is he going to wrcak his vengeance
upon me- There is more than one Mephib-
OshCth trembling now because God has
summoned him to tie palace of divine
grace. What are you trembling about
God has no pleasure in the death Of a sin
ner. He does not setd for you tohurt you.
He sends for you odo you good a Scotch
preacher hGd tho following circumstances
brought under his observations There was
a poor woman in tic Parish who was about
to be turned out because she could not pay
her rent Orc night she heard loud
knocking at the door, and she made no an
swer and hid herself The ripping con-
tinued louder, louder louder, but she made
no answer and continued to hide herself
She was almost frightened unto death
She said, That's the officer of the law
come to throw me out Of my home"
A few DAYS later a Christian philan-
thropist met her in the street and said
MY poor woman, where were you the
other night? | came round to your house
to pay your rent Why didn't you let me
in? We're you at homeg" why" she
replied, "was TINT you:'' "Yes, that was
me l came to ray your rent. why"
she said if l had had any idea it was
you, would have let you in. thought it
was an officer come to cast me out of my
home" o soul, that loud knocking at thy
gate today is not the sheriff come to put
you in Jail 1t is tic lest friend you ever
had come to be your security. You shiver
with terror because you think it is wrath.
1t is mercy. Why, then, trcmble before
the King of heaven and earth calls you to
his palace? Stop trembling and start right
away oh, you say, Il can't start Z
have been so famed by sin and so famed
by evil habit l can't start. am lame in .
both feet. My friend, we come out with .
our prayers AID sympathies to help you up
to the palace If you want to get to the
palace, you may get there Start now
The Holy Spirit will help you. All you
have to do is just to throw yourself on
your face at the feet Of the King, as Me
phiboshcth did
The Sinners Cry.
Mephihoshcth' caninal comparison
seems cxtravagant to the world, bat when
4 man has seen himself as lie really is and
seen how he has been treating the Lord
there Is no term vehement enough to ex-
press his self condemnation The dead dog
If Mephiboshcth's comparison fails to de
scribe the mans utter l0athing of himself
rostIlring does not seem
90 PROSTATE. When Il soul is convicted,
l,n 1,,
# his neck relax, and he is able to bow his
lead. After awhile, by an almost super
human effort, he kncels down to pray. Aft /
r awhile, when he has seen God and
cen himself, ne throws himself flat On his
ace at the feet Of the King, just like I
The fact is if we could see
ourselves as God secs us we would perish !
t the spectacle. You would have no time !
o overhaul other people Your cry would +,
e, God be nerciiUl to ME, sinnerp
And, again, MeF hihoshcth in my text
lands for the sake Of another. Mephibo-
beth would never have got into the l;ilace !
II his own account Why did David ram
lck the realm 10 find that POOR man and
hen bestow UFon him great fortune and r
farmer Of the name of Ziba to :
1lture the estate and give to this invalid n
half the proceeds every year? n
Thy did King David make such a mighty \
5ir about a poor fellow who would never .
Q Of any use to the throne of Israel? 1t h
as for JOnuthau's sake 1t was what 4
obert Burns calls for "auld lang syne " a
avid could not forget what Jonathan had o
one for him in other days Three times n
lis chapter has it that all this kindness n
4 the part of David to Mephibosheth was "
T his father Jonathans sake The
lughter of Peter Martyr, through the ~
ce of her husband, came down to penury, h
nd the senate of Zurich took care of her n
T her fathers sake. Sometimes a person m
IS applied to you for help, and you have o.
fused him, but when you found he was Il
e son or brother of some one who had Il
en your benefactor in former days and W
2 a glance you saw the resemblance of n,
'ur old friend in the face of the applicant h,
u relented and you said, ooh, viii do a,
is for your fathers sake" You know n.
r your experience what my text means n,
Ow, my friends, it is on that principle ~
at you and l are to get into the Kings n,
lace.
In His Name. w
The most important part of every prayer re
the last three or four words of it." For ca
lrists sake " Do not rattle off those al
,rds as though they were merely the fin m