The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-03-04

ought to have forsal1en God. Standing
amid the laundering of your earthy
failures, how could you get along With
out God to comfort you, and a God
to deliver you, and God to help you,
and God to save you? You tell me you
have been through enough business
trouble almost TO kill you. know It,
cannot understand how the boat could
live one hour in that chopped sea. But
do not know by what process you got
astray; some in one way and some IN
another, and if you could really sec the
position some Of you occupy before God
your soul would burst into an agony OF
tears and you would pelt the heavens
with the cry, God have mercy!'
Sinai's batteries have been unlimbered
above your soul, and at times you have
heard it thunder: "The wages OF sin is
death. "Al1 have sinned and have
come come short of the glory OF God.
"By one man sin entered into the
world, and death by sin; and so death
passed upon all men, for that all have
.sinned." 1.-THE soul that sinneth, it
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
iquity 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
4 cifixion 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 l have an obli-
cation and have the means to meet it
and l 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 well-I ask you to carry
me, you say rightly: "Walk on your
own feetv But suppose you and Iwere
in regiment, and / was wounded in
the battle and fell unconscious at your
feet with gunshot fractures and dislo
cations, what would you do? Yor
would call to your comrades, saying
"Come and help; this man is helpless
bring the ambulance; let us take hin
to the hospital" and would be deat
lift in your arms, and you would lif
me from the ground where / hat
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 &C
cepting that kindness? On, no. Yol
would be mean not to do it, That il
: what Christ does. If we could pay oul
| debts, then it would be better to go Vi
{ and pay them, saying, "Here, Lord, i
!. my obligation; there are the mean
with which / mean to settle that obi
: gation now give me receipt, cross
!. all out" The debt is paid. But tn
fact is we have fallen in the battle, w
have gone down under the hot fire o
our transgressions, we have beel
wounded by the sabers of sin, we ar
helpless, we are undone Christ comes
t The loud clang heard in the sky o.
u that Christmas night was only the bell
: the resounding bell of the ambulance
!, Clear the way for the Son of God II
l. comes down to bind up the wounds, an
), to scatter the darkness, and to save tn
y lost. Clear the way for the Son G
i God. Christ comes down to us and W
+ are a dead lift. He does not lift u
A with the tip of His fingers. He doe
e not lift us with one arm. He come
J. down upon His knee, and then with
5, dead lift He raises us to honor an
It glory and Immortality. 1.-The Lor
Is hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
d Why then will man carry his sins
It You cannot carry successfully tn
N smallest sin you ever committed. Yo
,e might as well put the Appenines o
fe one shoulder and the Alps on the othel
"a How much less can you carry all tn
Is sins of your lifetime? Christ come
If and looks down IN your face, and say
Id 81 have come through all the lacer;
I'd tions of these days, and through all tn
j, tempests of these nights; have CON
or to bear your burdens, and to pardo
a your sins, and to pay your debts; pt
" them on my shoulder, put them on IN
IN heart" son him the Lord hath lai
IS; the iniquity of us all. Sin has almol
ul pestered the life out of some of you.
"a times it has made you cross and III
he reasonable, and it has spoiled tt
y: brightness of your days and the peaC
IN of your nights. There are men WI
a have been riddled of sin. The woli
e. gives them no solace. Gossamery an
Of volatile the world, while eternity, 9
lg they look forward to it, is black {
IS. midnight. They writhe under IL
NO stings of conscience which propos,
el to give no rest here and no rest her
N. after; and yet they do not repent, the
ch do not pray, they do not weep The
Ill do not realize that just the positiC
"a they occupy is the position occupied
he scores, hundreds aud thousands of me
he who never found any hope.
W If this meeting should be throw
- open and the people who are here cou
= give their testimony, what thrilling e
periences we should hear on all side
There is man. who would say:
had brilliant surroundings; l had Il
best education that one of the best &C
ng legiate institutions Of this count
ug could give, and observed all Il
It's moralities of life, and / was SCI
or righteous, and j thought was 9
Nv ,.inrhh hefnra God ns am all RIO