Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-11-12


renred large family of children. Aft
or his hair was white and back bent
the sleuthhounds Of the law found him.
He was arrested and handcuffed. He
was brought back to his childhood
home In his old age he had to an.
swer for the crime Of his youth. An
unforgven man can never get any
rest from the heavy, remorseful bur.
den Of sins, no matter when they were
committed. These unpardoned sins
will curse his life as they despatched
the beautiful hands Of Lady Macbeth
with the blood of the murdered Dun.
can. They will hiss at him as the
haunting specters terrified the sleep.
ing King Richard after the murder Of
his two nephews or as the cries of the
dying during the st. Bartholomew
massacre never ceased to echo in King
Charles ears.
You tell me that a sin committed can
never be undone. You say that the
guilty can never become innocent; that
the soul stained and polluted with
transgression can never be made clean
From human standpoint that Is true,
but there is a divine remedy that eff.
fects even that miracle. Christ has
borne the penalty for the sins OF the
world, and through his blood shed for
you your soul may be cleansed. He
was wounded for our transgresslons;
he was bruised for our iniquities; the
chastisement Of our peace was upon
him, and by his stripes we are healed"
Many years ago Il young Russian Of
fcer became hopelessly in debt. BY
the law Of that time he would have
been expelled from the army on ac-
count of these debts. One night he sat
up in his tent making an account Of
these debts and wrote under them these
words "Who will pay my debts?"
Then in utter encouragement the young
man fell sound asleep with his head
on the table. That night the emperor
was making his rounds of the camp.
He saw the candle burning in the
young mans tent and stepped in.
There he saw the paper and the trou-
blcd look upon the young officers face.
He read the memorandum. and then he
picked up the pen and wrote under the
question. II, Nicholas, the emperor Of
all the Russias. will" Today, like the
Russian emperor, Christ, the divine
sufferer, will pay the price Of your sins |;
Christ the King will lift the heavy
burden of our evil past; Chrlst's death
shall cancel our well deserved sentence
of capital punishment. Oh, the joy,
the peace, the rapture, the glorious tri-
umph of feeling. that Jesus can lift the
heavy load OF sin off from every crush
ed heart Brother, sister-man, wom-
an and child-if you have not yet re-
ceived this glorious rest which comes
from the forgiveness Of sins will you
not Mt the foot of the cross kneel and
take it now?
A Heavy Burden.
The Heavenly Father offers rest from
financial distress The older I grow
the more | realize that the greatest
struggle on earth is after daily bread.
Most people are not fighting for the
luXuries, but for the bare neccssarics.
If man gets $50 or 500 ahead in the
ness in the family. His daughter is
threatened with blindness, and she has
to go to the best oculst and have the
most expensive glasses. or his wife
breaks down. and she must go off for
rest, and extra servants are hired. and
the whole sum of money is socn swept
away.
Said n young man of about thirty
five years of age to me short time
ago. II have no sympathy for people
who financially do not get ahead. If
they would systematic their business
and work regularly they would have
plenty of money" Yes" | soliloquiz-
ed as looked at him, that is all well
enough for you to say. You have a
mother who has supported you all your
life. You have never known what it
is to pay dollar for rent. Only few
clothes have ever come out of your
salary What would you have done
II you had four or five children and had
TO live upon your salary and perhaps
support a widowed mother or an or
phan sister. as many. aye, most men,
have to do?" Life for the most Of us
is a ceaseless struggle for bare phys
zeal existence.
The financial burden is the heavy one
to bear. Most of us are ready to grant
that. That burden, too, Christ will
bear If you commit it to his hands.
Your anxiety. your distress, your fore
| boding. he will relieve, and he will
give you rest. "Now," says some one,
"the preacher Is talking simple nom
sense! If do not get out and hustle
and work and worry and get the mon
ey to feed and clothe and educate my
children God will never do it for me.
l do not believe in expecting that God
will relieve me of my financial distress
any more than l would expect the wa
ter to boil in the kettle If | did not
be full of food unless | could order ii
| at the grocer's or the butchers. When
you begin to talk about God carrying
10 burden of financial distress then
you are simply talking about some
thing you know nothing about"
God Never Fails.
No, my brother, you are wrong, The
mightiest men OF God have always
rolled at Christs feet the burden of
| financial distress, and God has never
failed them. BY that | do not mean
these men have been lazy or indolent
But do mean that while they were
physically and mentally doing their
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