The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-04-23

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have followed him rs he sunk lower
and lower in the DEVILS power. until
at last he was brought to Jesus! Oh,
sorrowing one, whoever you may be.
despair not! Hope on! Pray on! II
is not the Lords will that any should
perish. Jesus, the great Deliverer, Is
able to set free from the Devils do
minion and power. That loved one.
that friend who Is unsaved, who Is liv-
ing In sin, who Is almost yielded to
Satan. may be brought to Jesus who Is
able to deliver. Cease not In your ef-
forts to bring that needy one into Je-
sus' presence, where He may speak the
words that will give glorious and
blessed freedom.
THE friends in our text brought this
poor demon-possessed man just as
he was. II they had waited to put the
man on his feet" as they say to-day. SO
that he would be presentable to Jesus.
they would have missed the Saviour and
lost the blessing. Many modern-day
church, where Jesus is supposed to be.
would stand aghast were such cases as
that Of this man brought there. II would
want the friends to wait until the demon
possessed man was temporarily deliv-
cred, and then bring him in stylish
clothes and polite manners to join the
church. Many and many man who has
been under the dominion of Satan and
fallen low in the depths Of sin has been
Strengthened up by human friends and
encouraged to look within himself for
deliverance from the enemy of his soul.
He Is told to keep straight and be a
man" so often that he begins to believe
he can. And perhaps after time he
thinks he Is good enough to join the
church, and join the church he does.
But at such deliverance the Devil laughs.
He knows he has string tied to every
one who tries to do for himself what
Jesus only Is able to do. The poor Devil
driven soul must come to Jesus feet, just
as 1t is, II Jesus Is to give deliverance.
And the friends OF that demonized man
were wise in bringing him to Jesus with
all the horrible marks OF sin upon him.
The churches ought not to be shocked or
scandalized II such cases come into their
midst. The missions In the slums OF our
great cities furnish glorious examples
OF how the drunken outcasts. the moral
lepers, stepped in sin and degradation.
are gathered in and brought to Jesus,
where His power delivers them from the
Devil that possessed them. The Pacific
10 ,tee In In a mr.
McAuley mission in New York city have
over and over again demonstrated how
the demon-possesse have been brought
Just as they were, In their maudlin. be-
sotted. dirty. foul. diseased condition
and been healed by Jesus. Lift the man
out of the gutter and bring him to Jesus.
No matter how desperate the case, II you
can only bring the one suffering from
the dominion OF Satan to the presence Of
Jesus, He will give deliverance.
A ND the reward OF the efforts OF
"A those friends was the immediate
and complete deliverance Of this man
from the demon which had possessed
him. Jesus did not send him away 20
his home again and tell him to feel
sorry for few days for his condition
God only knows how he had been
troubled about 1t for years. He healed
him at once. And that Is the way
Jesus always wants to do. Never need
a soul come to Him and go away again
without the blessing. No agonizing;
no days of darkness and doubt; nc
days spent in desperate struggle to try
to win Jesus over to willingness tC
give the needed delivcrance. Poo,
souls do go through such experiences
but 1t is not Jesus will that 1t should
be so. 1t Is because human doubt de-
lays the reception of the blessing
which Jesus is ready to give at once. II
those friends had gone to Jesus with
the request that the following week d
a certain hour, after there had been 9
certain amount Of agonizing and doubt
and darkness, He should heal this
man, ! doubt whether he ever would
have been saved from his distressed
condition. But they came expecting
immediate relief. and they received the
| blessing at once.
THAT was different home. you may
l be sure, after that blessed day OF
healing. The home Is always different
after Jesus has come into the life OF
some one Of Its members. The dark
shadow and the sorrow are taken away
The skeleton which the Devil-has put
there, and whose bones rattle hideous
death march day after day. is thrust out
forever. What Homecoming that was
that day when that man. who had gone
forth Devil-blind and Devil-dumb, came
back seeing and speaking! He was lee
out by friends, but he came back lead
ing the joyful company. And the influ'
ence of life delivered from the power
of Satan extends beyond the home ant
the circle of friends. In the case before
us all the multitudes were amazed al
the transformation. And SO 1t is always
The multitude beholding the work o.
God upon the life of an individual Is al
ways moved. In the village where tha
man lived what testimony to the grac,
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