The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-03-11
"All may COME, Y ho, rNil

This man receives poor >i"nrr> still.
aud dropped right there. where /
was, and said, God have mercy
and be had mercy on ,:le. Ny home Is
restored, my wife sings al! day long
during work, my children come out a
long TO greet me home, and my house
hold Is a little heaven. | will tell you
what did all this for me- 1t was the
truth that this day YOU proclaim, On
him the Lord hath laid the iuiquity
Of US all Yonder is a woman who
would say: I wandered eff from my
fathers house; heard the storm that
pelts on q lost soul; my feet were bis
tered on the hot rocks; | went on aud
on, thinking that no one cared for my
soul, when one night Jesus met me.
and he said: Poor thing, go home.
Your father is waiting for you; your
mother is waiting for you. Go home,
poor thing And, sir, l was too weak
to pray, and | was too weak to repent,
but l just cried out-l sobbed out my
sins and my sorrows on the shoulders
OF him of whom it is said, The Lord
hath laid on him the iniquity of us
all"
There is young man who would
say: Il had a Christian bringing up:
I came from the country to city life;
I started well; I had a good position,
a good commercial posltion-but one
night at the theater l met some young
men who did me no good. They drag
ged me all through the sewers of mi
guilty, and | lost my morals, and | lost
my position, and l shabby and wretch
ed. | was going down the street
thinking that no one cared fer me
when a young man tapped me on the
shoulder and said, George, come
with me, ard-f will do you
coed. ! looked at him to see wheth-
er ne was joking CIR not. | saw he
was ia earnest, and I said. What do
you mean, sir?' Well, he replied, 1
mean that if you will come to the meet
ing tonight will be very glad to in
troduce you. I will meet you at the
door. Will you Gomez Said I, I
will l went to the place where l
was tarrying. l fixed myself up as
well as could. I buttoned my coat
over ragged vest, and I went to the
! door of the church, and the young
men met me, and we went in, and as
I went in heard an old man pray
ing, and he looked SO much like my
father, I sobbed right out. and they
were all around, so kind and so SYM
pathetic tnat Just there gave my
heart to God, and I know that what
you say is true; I know it in my own
experience. ''On him the Lord hath
laid the iniquity of US all" Oh, my
brother, without stopping to look
whether your hand trembles or not,
without stopping to look whether your
hand is bloated with sin or not, put II
in my hand and let me give you one
warm, brotherly, Christian grip and
invite you right up to the heart, to the
compassion, to the sympathy, to the
pardon of him on whom the Lord
hath laid the iniquity of usall. Throw
| away your sins. Garry them no long
er. l proclaim emancipation to all
who are bound, pardon for all sin and
eternal life for all the dead.
Some one comes here today, and |
stand aside. He comes up three steps.
He comes to this place. 1 must stand
aside. Taking that place, he spreads
abroad his hands, and they were nail
ed. You see his feet; they were bruis
ed. He pulls aside the robe and
shows you his wounded heart. I say,
cart thou weary" eyes" he says,
weary with the worlds woe. Il
say, whence comest thou2" He
says, Il came from Calvary l say,
Who comes with thee2" He says:
''No one; I have trodden the wine
press alone" I say, "Why comest
thou herel' ''Oh, he says, 81 came
here to carry all the sins and sorrows
of the people" And he kneels. He
says, ''Pd ut on my shoulders all the
sorrows and all the sins" And, con-
scious of my own sins first. take
them and put them on the shoulders
of the Son of God. I say, "Canst
thou bear any more, O Christi" He
says, Eyes; more" And 1 gather up
the sins of all those who serve all at
these altars, the officers Of the church
of Jesus Christ. I gather up all their
sins, and I put them ol Christ's shoul-
ders, and say, "Canst thou bear any
more?" He says, eyes more" Then
I gather up all the sins of a hundred
people in this house, and I put them
on the shoulders OF Christ, and say,
"Canst thou bear moreG" He says,
ssYea: more" And gather up all
the sins of this assembly and put them
on the shoulders of the Son of God,
and 1 say, "Canst thou bear themI"
Yea" he says; q more. But he is
departing. Clear the way for him,
the Son of God. Open the door and
let him pass out, He is carrying our
sins and bearing them away. We
shall never see them again. He
throws them down into the abyss, and
you hear the long, reverbrating echo
of their fall. On him the Lord hath
laid the iniquity Of US all" Will
you let him take your sins today, or
do you say, I will take charge of them
myself, I will fight my own battles, |
will risk eternity on my own account2
huOW uOL uOH 4O1L SOLhS VI y W.
have come to crossing the line.
A clergyman said in his pulpit one
Sabbath, Before next Saturday night
one of this audience will have passed
out of life" a gentleman said to
another seated next to him: Il don't
believeit. I mean to watch, and if 1t
doesn't come true by next Saturday
night shall tell that clergyman his
falsehood.' The man seated next to
him said, Perhaps it will be your
self" "Oh, no" the other replied.
II shall live to be an old man" That
night he breathed his last. Today the
Saviour calls. All may come. God
never pushes man off. God never
destroys anybody. The man jumps
off; he jumps off. 1t is suicide-soul
suicide-if the man perishes for the
invitation is, "whosoever will, let him
come whosoe7er, whosoever,