The Monitor-register., 1896-03-06


standing IN the night OF your souls
trouble, the cannonade, and the conf1a-
grafton, and the multiplication, and the
multitude of your sorrows and troubles
I think must make the wings of Gods
lowering angles shiver to the tip
Melody From Heaven.
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 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 iniouity of
us all" I am glad that the prophet did
not stop to explain whom he meant by
"him." Him of the manager, him of the
bloody sweat, him of the resurrection
throne, him of the crucifixion agony.
son him the Lord hath laid the iniouity
of us all. " "Ohl" says some man, "that
/ isn't generous; that ism It fair. Let ey-
cry man carry his own burden and paw
| his own debts. That sounds reason
able. If have an obligation, and I have
the means to meet it, and come to you
and ask you to settle that obligation,
you rightly say, "Pay your own debts. "
If you and /, walking down the street
both hale, hearty and well-I ask
you to carry me, you say rightly, "Walk
on your own feet!" But suppose you
and were in regiment, and I was
wounded in the battle, and fell uncon-
scious at your feet with gunshot frac-
lures and dislocations, 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 I would
be dead lift in your arms, and you
would lift me from the ground where
had fallen, and put me in the ambu-
lance, and take me to the hospital, and
have all kindness shown me. Would
there be anything bemeaning in my ac-
cepting 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 90 ND
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 is we have fallen in the
battle, we have gone down under the
hot fire of our transgressions, 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 Christmas night was only
the bell, the resounding bell of the am
bulance 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 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. "The Lord hath laid
on him the iniquity of us all" Why,
| then, will man carry his sins? You
cannot carry successfully the smallest
sin you ever committed. You might as
| we'll put the Apennines on one Shout
der and the Alps OH the other. How
much less can you carry all the sins OF
your lifetime? Christ comes and looks
down in your face and says: 81 have
come through all the decorations of these
days, and through all the tempests OF
these nights. have come to bear your
burdens, and to pardon your sins, and to
pay Your debts. Put them on my shout
der, put them on my heart - con him
the Lord hath laid the iniquity of us all F"
Sin has almost pestered the life out of
some of you. At times it has made 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,
rs they look forward to it, is black as
midnight. They writhe under the stings
of conscience which proposes to give
10 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 oc-
eupy is the position occupied by scores,
hundreds and thousands of men who
never found any hope.
Take God TO Your Heart.
If this meeting should be thrown open
and the people who are here could give
their testimony, what thrilling expert
ences we should hear on all sides There
is man who would say 81 had bril-
liant surroundings; had the best edu-
cation that one of the best collegiate in
situations of this country could give and
I observed all the moralities of life, and
l was self righteous, and thought was
all right before God as am all right
before man, but the Holy Spirit came to
me one day and said, You are sin
ner;' the Holy Spirit persuaded me of
the fact. While I had escaped the sins
against the law of the land, had really
| committed the worst sin a man ever
commits, the driving back of the Son of
God from my hearts affections, and /
saw that my hands were red with the
| blood of the Son of God, and began to
pray, and peace came to my heart and
know by experience that what you say
/ is true" Con him the Lord hath laid
the iniquity of us allp' Yonder is man
| who would say, 81 was the worst drunk
ard in the city; went from bad to
worse; destroyed myself; destroyed
my home; my children covered when l
entered the house; when they put up
their lip to be kissed, struck them;
when my wife protested 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