The Washington weekly post., 1899-12-19
God Love. 10 Help the Fallen.

God Loves 10 Help the FnIien.
People tell US that II man has delrium
tremens twice he cannot be reclaimed.
that after 3 woman has fallen from her
integrity she cannot be restored. The b.
bic has distinctly intimated that the Lori
Almighty is ready to pardon so times.
Why do say go times? Because the Bible
says seventy GInes seven Now. figure
that out. You do not think a man can
fall four times. eight times. ten times.
twenty times. one hundred times, four
hundred times. and yet be saved. -Four
hundred and ninety times, There are men
before the throne OF God who have wal
lowed in every kind of sin. but saved hy
the grace OF Christ and washed In His
blood. they stand there radiant now.
There are those who plunged into the
very lowest depths OF the slums. and who
have for hundreds OF times been lifted M.
and, finally. by the grace of God, they
stand In heaven. gloriously rescued ey
the grace promised 10 the chief OF sin
ners.
Il want To tell you that God loves 10
take hold Of a very bad case. When the
church casts YOU of. and when the club
room casts you of. and when society
casts you of, and when business associ-
ates cast you of. and when father casts
you OFF. and when mother casts YOU on.
and when everybody casts YOU OF. you-
first cry for help will bend the eternal
God clear down into the ditch of your
suffering and shame. The Good Templars
cannot save you. although they are 4.
grand institution. The Sons Of Temper
anee cannot save you. although they are
mighty for good. Signing the temperance
pledge cannot save you, although | he
Ifn,r1 a.. ha
eternal God can save you. and that viii
IL you Will throw yourself on IL.
They talk about the catacOmbs OF Ma
pies and the catacombs OF Rome and the
cataeombs OF Egypt. the great burial
places under the city, where the dust OF
great multitude lies. but l tell you Wash
ington has its catacombs and New York
its catacombs and Boston It's catacoinbS
and Philadelphia its catacombS. They are
the underground retreats full OF dead
mems bones and all uncleanliness. Young
man, you know 1t. God help YOU. There
is no need of going into the art gallery 10
see in skilful sculpture that wonderful
representation OF man and his SONS
wound round with serpents. There are
families represented here tonight that
are wrapped in the martyrdom of fang and
scale and venom-a living LAGOON OF
ghastiineSs and horror.
Trust i'm God the Only Safety.
"I am talking to some who will be saved
by Christ's Gospel or never saved at all.
In the attempt at reforma ton do not put
your trust in bromide of potassium or In
anything that apothecaries can mix. Put
your trust only in the eternal God and He
will see you through. With some of these
men ii is a periodic temptation that comes
every six weeks or every three months,
when il seems as If the powers Of dark
ness kindle around about your tongue
| the fires of the pit. 1t is well at such
| time, as some o: you do, to call on medical
counsel, but your first and mOstimportunate
| cry must be 10 God. If the fiends will drag
you to the slaughter. may they do so on
your knees. o God, now that the par
oxysm OF thirst Is come again on that man,
| help him. Fling back into the pit of nell
| the fiend that assaults his soul this mo-
| ment.
There VIII yet be In all our churches
| those whose hands so much tremble with
| dissipation that they can hardly hold a
| hymn book, and yet they will be SO trans
| formed that they will preach the Gospel
or on communion days carry around the
| consecrated bread. acceptable to every
| body because of their holy life and their
| consecratcd behavior. The Lord is going
| to save you. Your home has got to be re-
built Your physical health has got TO be
restored. Your worldly business has got
| to be reconstructed. The religion of God
| is going to rejoice over your discipleship.
| Other sheep / have which are not of this
| fold
| No Hope for the G0speI-ha rdened.
"While | have hope for all prodigals.
there are some people concerning whom 7
am hopeless. mean those who have been
church-goers all their life. who have main
tained outward morality, but notWith-
standing twenty, thirty, forty years OF
Christian advantages, have never yielded
their hearts to Christ. They are Gospel
hardened. A sermon has no more effect
upon them than the shining of the moon
on the city pavement. AS Christ says.
| 'Publicans and harlots go into the king
dom Of heaven before them. They have
resisted all the importantly of divine
mercy and have gone through most pow
| erful earthquakes OF religious feeling and
| they are further away from God than
ever. After awhile they Will lie down sick.
and some day IL will be told that they are
dead. No hope!
But / turn to outsiders with an ex-
pectation that thrills through me, body
and soul Other sheep 1 have. which are
not of this fold You are not gospel
| hardened You have not heard many ser
raons during the last few years. As you
came in tonight everything was sugges-
tive of your early days. How sweet the
opening hymn sounded IN your ears. and
how blessed II Is to be in this placei You
do not weep, but the shower Is not far
off. You SIGH, and you have noticed that
there is always sigh In the wind before
the rain falls. There are those here
4 uxhn oil
find relIaf in tears. They say: Oh my
wasted life. oh. the bitter past! Oh. the
graves over which / have stumbled
| Whittier shall ny? Alas for the future,
| Everything is 30 dark. so very dark God
help me. God pity met Thank the Lord
FOR that last utterance. You have begun
TO pray, and when a man begins to Pc
tition that sets all heaven flying MS way
and God steps In and beats back the
hounds of temptation 10 their kennel and
round about the poor wounded soul puts
the cover; OF His pardoning mercy. Hark,
hear something fail. What was that
IL is the bars Of the fence around the
sheep fold. The Shepherd lets down the
bars, and the hunted sheep OF the noun
tain bound in, some az them their fleece
torn with brsn.bles. some OF them their
feet lamed with dogs. but bounding In.
Thank Codi Other sheep have, which
are not Of this fold.
In this joyous hour OF installation OF
a rev pastor. let this church be conse-
| Grated to the work or gathering In the
| outsiders. There are twenty thousand
| people within few minues Helk OF this
! church, who ought 20 be gathered under
| Christian influences J have read OF what
| was called the Numbering legion IL was
in the year i79. and part Of the Roman
| army 10 which some Christians belonged.
| and their prayers. II was said. were an
sVered by thunder and lightning and hail
| and tempest which overth-ew an inyad-
ing army and saved the empire. And ]
would to God that 3is church may Dc
| 10 mighty IN prayer and work that Il
will become "A laundering legion. before
which the forces OF sir shall be routed
and the gates OF he'll shall remble!
Blessed b. the Lord. God Of Israel from
! everlasting 70 everlasting. ard let the
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