Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-05-30

THAT mountain, COulluS uCdIcI dIlu near
er together and responding to each 9th
er, crash to crash, thunder to thunder
BOOM boom! And then the clouds break
and the torrents pour, and they are emp
tied perhaps into the very same stream
that comes down so red at your feet that
it seems as if all the carnage of the
storm battle has been emptied into it.
So in this Bible see two storms gath
er, one above Sinai, the other above Cal
vary, and they respond one to the other
flash to flash, thunder to thunder,
boom, boomi Sinai thunders, s'The soul
that sinneth, it shall die;'' Calvary re-
spends, '.Save them from going down
to the pit, for have found a ransom. y
Sinai says, 'sWoe, woe!" Calvary an
swers, mercy, mercy!'' And then the
clouds burst and empty their treasures
into one torEent, and it comes flowing
to our feet red with the carnage of our
Lord, in which if thy soul be plunged,
like the bird in the text, it shall go
forth free-free! Oh, wish all people
to understand this, that when a man
becomes Christian he does not become
a slave, but that he becomes a free man
that he has larger liberty after he be-
comes a child of God than before he be-
came child of God. General Fisk said
that he once stood at slave block where
an old Christian minister was being sold.
The auctioneer said of him: "What bid
do I hear for this man? He is very
good kind of man; he is a minister. -
Somebody said twenty dollars" Che
was very old and not worth much)
somebody else twenty thirty
sc thirty -five'' - forty" The aged
Christian minister began to tremble. He
had expected to be able to buy his own
freedom, and he had just $40 and ex-
pected with the $40 to get free. AS the
bids ran up the old man trembled more
and more. Forty -" forty-five'' -
y''-ss fifty fve''-'s sixty" -" six
ty-fve." The old man cried out ''sev-
enty." He was afraid they would out
bid him. The men around were trans
fixed. Nobody dared bid, and the auc-
tioneer struck him down to himself
dOne-dOnel
Purchased by Christ.
But by reason of sin we are poorer
than that African. We cannot buy our
own deliverance. The voices of death
are bidding for u.s. and they bid us in
and they bid us down. But the Lord
Jesus Christ comes and says: ST will
buy that man. bid for him my Bethle-
hem manager; bid for him my hunger on
the mountain; bid for him my aching
head; bid for him my fainting heart;
bid for him all my wounds. A voice
from the throne Of God says: "It is
enoughl Jesus has bought him. %
Bought with price The purchase
complete. It is done.
The great TRANSACTIONS done.
am my Lords, and he is mine.
He drew me, and followed on,
Charmed to confess the voice divine.
Why, is not man free when he gets
rid of his sins? The sins Of the tongue
gone; the sins Of action gone; the sins
of the mind gone. All the transgressions
of 80, 40, so, 70 years gone-no more
in the soul than the malaria that float
ed in the atmosphere 1000 years ago;
for when my Lord Jesus pardons man
he pardons him, and there is no half
way work about it.
Here see beggar going along the
turnpike road. He is worn out with dis
ease He is stiff in the joints. He is
ulcered all over He has rheum in his
eyes. He is sick and wasted. He is in
rags Every time he puts down his
swollen feet he cries 'tOh, the paint"
He sees fountain by the roadside un-
der tree, and he crawls up to that
fountain and says: "I must wash. Here
I may cool my ulcers. Here I may get
rested He stoops down and scoops up
in the palm of his hands enough water
to slake his thirst, and that is all gone.
Then he stoops down and begins to
wash his eyes, and the rheum is all
gone. Then he puts in his swollen feet,
and the swelling is gone. Then, willing
no longer to be only half cured, he
plunges in, and his whole body is laved
in the stream, and he gets upon the
bank we'll Meantime the owner of the
up yonder comes down, walk
ing through the ravine with his only
son, and he sees the bundle of rags and
asks, "Whose rags are these?" A voice
from the fountain says, 'Those are my
rags. Then says the master to his son,
$50 up to the house and get the best
new suit you can find and bring it
down. And he brings down the clothes,
and the beggar is clothed in them and
he looks around and says: "I was filthy,
but now am clean. I was ragged, but
now am robed. I was blind, but now
I see. Glory be to the owner Of that
and glory be to that son who
brought me that new suit of clothes,
and glory be to this fountain where
have washed and where all who will
may wash and be cleanl'' Where sin
grace doth much more
abound The bird has been dipped now
let it fly away.
The Way Indicated.
The next thing notice about this
bird when 1t was loosened-and this is
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