Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-03-11

your soul would burst into nm agony of
tears and YOU would pclt tho heavens
with the cry. God have mcrcyw
Sinais batteries have been unlimbcrcd
above your soul. and ut times you have
heard !, thunder. THE wages of ain is
death" AN have sinncd and come
short of the glory of God" "By one
man sin entered into the rid.
and death by sin; and So death passed
upon all men, for that all have
sinncd." Tho soul that sinncth, it
shall die" When Scbastopol was being
bombardcd. two Russian frigates
burned all night in the harbor, throw
ing glare upon the trembling fortress;
and some of you, from what you have
told me yourselves some of YOU are
standing in the night of your souls
trouble. the cannonadc. aud the confa-
grafton, and the multiplication. and the
multitude of your SORROWS and troubles
l think must make the wings of Gods
lowering angels shivcr to the tip
But the last part of my text opens n
door wide enough to let us all out and
to- let all Heaven in. Sound il ON the
organ with all the stops out. Thrum IL
ON the harps with all the strings
atnnc. With all the melody posi-
bic let the heavens sound it to the
earth and let tho earth tell II to
the heavens. THE Lord hath laid
on him the iniquity of us ALL am
glad that the prophet did not stop to
explain whom he meant by Him. !"
Him of the mangcr, Him OF the bloody
sweat, Him OF the resurrection throne,
Him of tho cruciixion agony. ION
Him the Lord hath laid the iniQuity of
MS ALL" OH" says some man, that
| isn't fair. let every man carry his own
burden and pay his own debts" That
sounds reasonable. II have an obli-
CATION and have the means u meet il.
and l come to you and ask you To settle
that obligation, you rightly say. Pay
your own debts" If You and I, walking
down the strcet-both hale hearty and
WE'LL ask you to carry me, you rightly
say, Walk on your own feet" But
suppose you and were in n regiment,
and was wounded I'm the battle and |
fell unconscious ut your feet with
gunshot fractures and dislocations,
what would you do? You would call
TO your comrades, saying. Come and
help; this man is helpless; bring the
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pital," aud 1 would be n dead lift i'm
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 Inc. Would there be anything
bcmeaning in my accepting that kind
ness? Oh! no. You would he mean
not To do it. That is what Christ does
III we could pay our debts, then IL
would bc better to go up 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 il all
out" The debt is paid. But the
fact is we have fallen i'm the battle, we
have gone down under the hot fire OF
our transgrcssions, we have bccnvound-
ed by the sabrcs of sin, we are helpless,
we are undonc. Christ comes. The
loud claug 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 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 a
dead lift. He does not lift MS with the
tips of His fingers. lie does not lift us
with one arm. lie comes down upon
his knee, and then with dead lift He
raises us To honor and glory and immor-
tally. 1.-The Lord hath laid on him the
iniquity OF usall."
Why, then, will man carry his sins?
You can not carry successfully the
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might as well put the Apennines on one
shoulder and the Alps on the other.
How much less can you carry all the
sins of your lifetime? Christ comes
and looks down in your face and says:
II have come through all the laccra-
tions 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 shoulder. put them
on my heart" 'On him the Lord
has laid the iniquity of us all"
Sin has almost pcstcred the life
out of some Of you. At times il 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 So
lace. Gossamery apa volatile the world,
while eternity, as they look forward TO
1T, Is black rs midnight. They writhe
under the stings OF conscience which
proposes 10 give no rest here and no
rest hereafter, and yet they do not re-
pent. they do not pray, they do not
weep. They do not realize that lust
the position they occupy is the position
occupied by scores, hundreds and thou
sands OF men who never found any
hope.
II this meeting should be thrown
open and the people who are here could
give their testimony, what thrilling ex-
pcrienccs we should hear on all sides,
There il Is man who would say: 81 had
brilliant surroundings; ! had the best
education that ono Of the best collepi-
ate institutions could give, and / OBJ
served all the moralitics OF life, and 7
was self-righteous. and thought was
all right before God as am all right
before man. but the Holy Spirit came
20 me one day and said: 'YOu are a
sinner; the Holy Spirit persuaded me
OF the fact. While had escaped the
sins against the law Of the
land, ] had really committed the