The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-01-16

changing that world for this; we Will
get it by exchanging this world for
that. There and then you will under
stand more of the wonders of the
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who,
''though He was rich, yet for your
sakes became poor"
Yes, grace, free grace, sovereign
grace omnipotcnt grace! Among the
thousands of words in the language
there is no more queenly word. 1t
means free and unmerited Kindness.
My text has no monopoly of the word.
One hundred and twenty-nine times
does the Bible eulogize grace. 1t is
door swung wide open to let into the
pardon of God all the millions who
chose to enter it.
John Newton sang OF it when he
wrote;
AmrzIns grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved the wretch like me.
Phi Hip Doddridge put it into all hymn
ology when he wrote:
Grace, It's i charming sound
Harmonious to the ear;
Heaven with the echo shall resound,
And ali the earth shall hear.
One of John Bunyan's great books
is entitled Grace Aboupding" ut is
all of grace that am saved" has been
on the lips of hundreds of dying Chris
tians. The boy Sammy was right
when being examined for admission
into church membership he was
asked, Whose work was your saliva
tion?" and he answered, Part
mine and part Gods" Then the
examiner asked, What part did you
do, sammy" and the answer was, II
opposed God al could, and He did
the rest!" Oh, the height of it, the
breath of 1t, the Grace of God! MIR.
Fletcher having written pamphlet
that pleased the king, the king offered
TO compensate him, and Fletcher
answered: There is only one thing I
want, aud that is more grace"
Yes, yes; for your sakes! 1t was not
on pleasure excursion that lie came,
for it was all pain. 1t was not an as
Economical exploration, for He knew
this world as we'll before He alighted
as afterward. 1t was not becuse He
was compelled to come, for He volun-
teered. 1t was not because 1t was
easy, for He knew that it would be
shOAht oho oPihSs "h0
and thirst, and vociferation of
angry mobs. "For your sakesl"
To wipe away your tears, to for
give your wrongdoing, to companion
ship your loneliness, TO soothe your
sorrows, to sit with you by the new
made grave, to bind your wounds in
tho ugly battle with the world, and
bring you home at last, kindling up
the mists that fall on your
dying vision with the sunlight
Of glorious morn. For your
sakes!" No; will change that.
Paul will not care and Christ will not
care IL L change 1t, for must get into
the blessedness of the text myself, and
SO say: For our sakes" For we all
have our temptations and bereave-
ments and conflicts. For our sakesi
We who deserve for our sins to DO ex-
patf lated into a world as much poorer
than this as this earth is poorer than
Heaven. For our sakesl But what q
frightful coming down to take us
gloriously upl
When Artaxerxes was hunting, Tire
basus, who was attending him, showed
the king a rent In his garments, the
king said: How shall mend it?" by
giving it to me-" said Tirebazus. Then
the king gave him the robe, but COM
manded him never to wear it, as i.
would be inappropriate. But sec the
startling and comforting fact, while our
Prince throws off the robe, He not
only allows us to wear it, but COM
mands US to wear It, and 1t will be-
come us well, and for the poverties of
our spiritual state we may put on the
splendors OF Heavenly regalement-
For our sakesi Oh, the personality oil
this religioni Not an abstraction, not
an arch under which we walk to be-
hold elaborate masonry, not an
ice castle like that which the
Empress Elizabeth of Russia over
a hundred years ago ordered
to be constructed, winter with its
trowels of cry stall cemen ting the huge
blocks that had been quarried from
the frozen rivers OF the north, but our
Fathers house, with the wide hearth
cracking hearty welcome. A re-
ligion of warmth, and inspiration, and |
light, and cheer; something we can
take into our hearts, and homes,
and business, and recreations, and |
joys, and sorrows. Not an unman.
ngeabs gift, like the galley presented |
70 Ptolemy, which required 1000 men
to row, and the draught of water was
so great that 1t could not come near
the shore, but something you can run
mp any stream of annoyance, however
shallow. Enrichment now, enrich-
ment forever.