Woodruff County news., 1901-10-26

ing! Come prayingi After all that Gcd has been doing for six thousand years, sometimes through patriarchs and sometimes through prophets and at last through the continuation of al the tragedies on Golgotha, can anyone think that God will not welcome your ! coming? Will a father at vast outlay | construct a mansion for his son and | lay out parks white with statues and green with foliage and all a-sparkle with fountains and then not allow his son to live in the house or walk in the | parks? Has God built this house of | Gospel mercy and will He then refuse entrance to His children? Will a gov ernment at great expense build life i saving stations all along the coast and boats that can hover unhurt like a petrel over the widest surge and then, when the lifeboat has reached the wreck of ship in the offing, not allow the drowning to seize the life line or i take the boat for the shore in safety? Shall God provide at the cost of His only Sons assassination escape for sinking world and then turn a deaf ear to the cry that comes up from the breakers?
 But" you say, "there are so many things l have to believe and so many things in the shape of a creed that I have to adopt that l am kept back" i No, no! You need believe but two things-namely, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners and that you are one of them. But" you say, "I do believe both of those things" Do you really believe them with all your heart? "Yes." Why, then, you have passed from death into life. Why, then, you are a son or a daughter of the Lord Almighty. Why, then, you are an heir or an heiress of an inheritance that will declare divi- dends from now until long after the stars are dead. Halleluliah! Prince of God, why do you not come and take your coronet? Princess of the Lord Almighty, why do you not mount your throne? Pass up into the light. Your boat is anchored, why do you not go ashore? Just plant your feet down hard, and you will feel under them the Rock of Ages. I challenge the uni- verse for one instance in which a man in the right spirit appealed for the sal vation of the Gospel and did not get it. Man alive, are you going to let all the years of your life go away with you without your having this great peace, this glorious hope, this bright expect ancy? Are you going to let the pearl of great price lie in the dust at your foot heoauSa ar tnn in6nlant r too proud to stoop down and pick it up? Will you wear the chain of evil habit when near by you is the hammer that could with one stroke snap the shackle? Will you stay in the prison of sin when here is Gospel key that could unlock your incarceratio
 As the one word Come" has some times brought many souls to Christ, will try the experiment of piling up into a mountain and then send down in an avalanche of power many of these Gospel "Comes." "Come thou and all thy house into the ark" ''Come unto me all ye who labor and are heavy laden, and l will give you rest" "Come, for all things are now ready" "Come with us, and we will do you good" "Come and see." "The Spirit and the bride say Come and let him that hear eth say Come and let him that is athirst come." The stroke of one bell in tower may be sweet, but a score of bells well tuned and rightly lifted and skillfully swung in one great chime fill the heavens with music al most celestial. And no one who has heard the mighty chimes in the towers of Ans sterdam or Ghent or Copenhagen can forget them. Now, it seems to me that in this Sabbath hour all Heaven is chiming, and the voices of departed friends and kindred ring down the sky, saying: 'Come!" The angels who never fell, bending from sapphire thrones, are chanting: "Come!" Yea, all the towers of Heaven, tower of martyrs, tower of prophets, tower of apostles, tower of evangelists, tower of the temple of the Lord God and the Lamb, are chiming: Come! Come!'' Pardon for all and peace for all and Heaven for all who will come.
 : When Russia was in one of her great wars the suffering of the soldiers had been long and bitter, and they were waiting for the end of the strife. One day messenger in great eXciteme mt ran among the tents of the army, shouting: Peace! Peace!" The sen- tinel on guard asked; "Who says peace?" And the sick man turned on { his hospital mattress and asked: "Who says peace?" and all up and down the encampment of the Russians went the questions: ''Who says peace?" Then the messenger responded: "The czar says peace" That was enough. That