Year: 1875


!. Perhaps there never has been time
in the history of your life when
SO many were praying for you as at
the present time. That is the Son of
God seeking for your soul through
the prayers ofihe Church, through
the prayers of ministers, through
the prayers Of saints, not only in
London but throughout the world.
I have received news today in dis
patch sent across from America
that all the churches nearly, in A
merica, are praying for London.
What does it mean? God has laid
it upon the heart Of the church
throughout the world to pray for
London. 1t must be that God has
something good in store for London
the Son of Man is coming to Lon
| don to seek and to save that which
was lost, and pray that the Good
Shepherd may enter this hall TO-
night and may come to many a
heart and that you may hear the
still small voice: Behold, 1 stand
az the door and knock; if any man
will hear My voice and open the
door, will come in unto him and
will sup with him, and he with Me-
o friends, open the door tonight
and let the heavenly visitor in.
Don't turn Him away any longer.
Don't say with Felix, "Go thy way
this time and when / have a conve-
nient season | will call thee" Make
a convenient season; make this the
night of your salvation. Receive
the gift Of God te-night, and open
the door of your heart, and say,
"Welcome, thrice welcome into this
heart of mine" and He will come.
''The grace of God hath appeared,
bringing salvation unto all men,"
Oh, that the loss of soul may wake
us up tonight, that we may know
what it meansl I believe the world
is aslsep-and the Church too. l do
not believe that there would be a
dry eye in this audience if we could
for five minutes get glimpse of
lost soul. We mourn with men who
have lost health; we pity them, we
sympathize with them, and we say,
1t is very sad. T" We mourn with
men who have lost wealth, and wo
think it very sad But what =
health, what is wealth, compared
with the soul


X TOUCHING CHICAGO STORY.


/ was in an eye infirmary at Chi
cago, on the Sabbath before The
great fire. A mother brought Her
little baby to the doctor-a child en-
ly few months old-and she wait.
cd the doctor to look at the chi!,l's
eyes He did SO, and he said TO the
mother, "Your child is blind; i
will never see again. you have nee.
lected it; if you had brought it hers
three days ago could have sav,l
the sight" The moment the doctor
said that, the mother pressed the
little child to her bosom, and there
was a wall that came from tlitt
mother that broke my heart. !
wepi, the doctor wept; we could ~,
help bet weep. She pressed htr
darling child to her bosom. "M >
darling she said, sare you nev'4
to see the mother that gave you
birth? My child my childl" 1t was
a sight that would move almost aiy
heart. But what is the loss of sight
compared with the loss of a soul? [
would rather thousand times have
these eyes dug out of my head, and
60 through the world blind, them
lose my soul | have son, and no
one but God knows how | love him;
but would see those beautiful eyes
dug out of his head tonight rather
than see him grow up to manhood
and go down to the grave without
Christ and without hope. The loss
ola soul Christ knew what it meant.
That is what brought Him from the
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