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Lee dlagrammae auivanta ' iiluatrant to mAthode. * - ~^. 6 #■ MICIOCOrV MMUfTION ran CNAIT (ANSI ond ISO>EST CHART No. 2) ^ A /1PPLIED 1IS/MGE li Inc 1653 Eott Main Street Rochester, New York 14609 USA (716) 482 - 0300 - Phone (716) 28B- 5989 - Fox ('M: / ♦*•! .■^'^ ^^■-i' :^^: i'"^^.* ..•^.. :^ m f^^-» ^'9 M ^. ♦ • '■♦) '.fij -• I, A VOICE FROM THE I- •I- i to TUS WbRKING CLASSES, 6T lilGHAKI) WEAVE m, 4. A CONVERTED COLLIER. WITH A BRIKP MOGBAPHiOAL NOTICE, ; PRESiQOTT. 0. W. : PRINTED AT THE "EVANGELIZER" OFFICE- .1 > J ■ ■i, I 'sV ^ 2. 5 £.,.0-7:, :1,H^ii ■:i \ ■l t ■* ,,.J N T R P U C T 1 O N. '\V In mtroducing tho following Addresses to public notice, it is perhaps deairable tliat u short occount ()f the remurkablo man who delivered them should bo given. Fr»Miuontly, when a man by tho force of his character is raised from his original obscurity to a position of eminence, exaggerated versions of Hisearly history are forthcoming from tho pen of individuals who are so eager to gain profit, that they scarcely give either tirno or trouble to ascertain the accuracy of the rumours on which, too often, these stateraonts are founded. This is the case, to a considerable jigeat, ^fith the notices of llichard Weaver which have befpen to the public. In the present instance, care hm beenliten to objain the fullest and most reliable information ; and the facts have been recorded from the lips of Mr. Weaver directly, or from his most intimate Irieuds, so that their general accuracy may be relied upon rhejnfluence of earlv training was never more strikingly exeniphfied than in the present instance; and this both for gobd an(l for evil. Richard Weaver was surrounded from his birth, with two opposite sets of influences, antagonistic in their tendencies, and each, in "turn, preponderating? He is a native of Shropshire. His father was a collier, and, like many 01 that class, was a. man sunk in the depths of depravity A victim to intemperance, he gave loose lo the'vices which fol- low m its train, and was a noted blasphemer and reveller As IS too generally the case, his family suffered from his drunk, enness. Often did his drunken maduesii cause him to ill use and assault his wife, and this in the presence of his chiWren ^^ Scenes of this kind frequently repeated, and familiar from his earlv childhood, have left a deep impression upon the mind of Kichard; and ^hen, in some moment of his impassioned ac-i peals, he fulminates in wrathful tones against the dastardly/ wife-beating drunkard, it is easy to see that the secret sprin J of his keen invective and eloquent reproof is to bo found in his owa reminiscences of childhood—a drunkard's home 2 blaspheming father^ and a BUlTcring, patient hinther A^j j^ 'V If IWTMODl'f'TlON. i« to bin mother that w« miwt turn for tho oth<»r nf.Io of this darkp,cturo. From hi« father. h« duriyod uothiuK but ,K,r- nicu,u^oviI influence, but hl« mother woh u Hi^io.. wo- m«n. and one who kept hor light hurning i„ a dark ,,L>. Hhe r.!L7.''u ^''""'""' ""'* ^"^'" *"-'«• '"»«t«>' i"«t«^ of the ShTfKi ^^P^'"^' "'«'•«"' "rHt iHurnc'd to call unoq Ood h«pif ok« ij^ i ^^"'^""' '^^^"'■o that he would tniir«l«.|. trugtinthnpf Tf • r ,' ^^*V'^'* **'°" slay mo, yet will 1 ♦ki** '^f °i °? ^''*"" "^"^l *o woree/ and for years was onA nP SSulia fellow n"^^^^^ Dd^" nlw^^i ^'°^^ himthoiiumo of " Uudauuted •Siv weTn^^'Vif^'r'^' ""•' fiKl'tiu^. blasphemy, ami oS .TBWnity wen, uow the characterisUca of lis carccrj aid, up ^ ■sr\ »U[i* of this litiff but jM)r- >*itgi()iiH wo- t |)lacu(liiif( tho tliruaton to icutjon and (uxiree. 'isiug that, other were I coinpftiiy, red nature, iduatly ob- |uity. As itoxicating' ■efjuentere, } for %ht- s uud bru- when but lack eyes, nees, and an almost , that ho I I would left the lort time, her poor bud, and murder « steady rdeprav- t will X tj laininj;^ ?k thou - I one of he asso- counters daunted and ob- J, up to .r *.■ .4- ♦■* f iNfiifti»rcTi« y. . . IhlVtimo, wn ^.'.^ (ully ».xr,np!i(ld into bin niiml. " Lord, what wdt thou have me to do?" Now the effect of hiH mother's early training began to show itst^lf ; and thouirh thita sunk Ml sin, the see. I, uliih hud l)e..ii long hofow howu begun to bear IViiit |.'or soino da^s he rehisted 5,e striving)! of the spn^t— Ined to ilrown fhir voice of co#eience with drmk—he even attempted suhlde; and when uii/ible to fultil bis nitontion. he ulti'inptMl to murder a poof uufortumite fe- male with whom In- was (oimeit^'d. rorlunateKf a eompa- uiou nw'vented him from uewunplisliing the iiwful cri For - two days longer did his misery (.ontinue, and then, inboumk less compUst*ioii, the Lord spokctions from wounds ho had received in a rwent fight. While I looked j^on him I r©. a ol ved to try wid get hohl of, hiin, and to winijum for Ohriit' Au v« INTHODUCTION, V- . togo to the Sunday School rmri' '^ '•° ^^^ •"nduced. . "otwithoaf^asou, tb^ ^,t^^ ^^'"^ «nd It harm in the ODiuion nf^fi ' ^^k^^^ ni'ffhf possiblv do • courses. OnL day. n th^vet ] «?« Sf ^ ^^^•^"ke his >» Manchester used La £.-^'^^' ^'^'"""^ beiuiriu anS ".ff the boxing &":,^ ^^"-;"ff or boding snioo.? andfe box,ng match, ?ei.ed wi h^«S"^Zn^ ^ ««t"«^"yenffa^'ed in a for sm that he became h "rro^ st.t? TH'*'^" ancTsorrow reared to start up before him owu' '^^^ ^'s Past career an- f ;e.ided, Htare,?him^full in tJ^ V ^'^^ T''"' «"*» to whiS the Wesleyan Society 'L^T^ f»ad become new. He SS ^««ehest4ciSiSr«'&tS^n'"^^^^ oS - i"« residence. -The conductor of ilf\" r""^"^' *'"*« being thereahtyof hisconverZn S *^''''''"'' s'^ti^^ as ta tea and one Sund^uftac^"^/^"'^ ^^' "^'^^ ^ a'r. In company with somp^^f ?? . ^f meeting in the onen fro uthe Sunday sSooJ and ttl ^?T^^'^^^ was returS on. The Mormon Ser af te^^^- '^^ *^ ^'^' ^'h'^t w^is goinf - y tern, and enforci^ittathfLf''^ ofVe"? cl.allengi„g any onetlrep^ v^'!'"^' ?'« Power, closed by Rj^ard Wea/er said " TwJii ''"^''^«^ appearing willin/ acNrtost^ndonTLdmr?hL"p"^^^^^^^ ^"* t musTS ^ fused^to do; but seve?^ "^r th^ni^ *''' ^^^^^^ ^»onof:^Mormon,h:^r^ INTRODUGTION. vH inintnnco waa was induced, lout cpnside- tfaoaglrt, and change took possiWy do couvictioDs ' kehis sJnfQi igiu aplace •», and bav. ■nfe'ag^diua and sorrow career ap_ to which i,t he p]tice ho room, cast erar hours t the Lord 3 sake par- was evi- Old things Ue joined le of the tliis being «^d as to him as a began to they had aver was the open ■eturoing Jis going of their losed by ' willing, 1st have non re- liothing thee tt" n»enced * he coo- koow> '. :! .J lodijfvof tJic siibjcbt; ami so handlod his opponents that they speedily left llm asJioinlily, nnd slunk o^it of tlio viHagc, leav- ing Uichiml inustor of thofi«il(l; and from fliat time thnyjiave «voio ranks of those who seldom or never tittend any plnce of worship. In some towns,* up- wards of a hundred persons Imve been brought to the enjoy-, mentof religion, every night, nndpr his ministry; aod this for • several weeks in succession. Tliough sometimes be may, in his . earnestness be betrayed into exprepsiona which, to say the least, had better have been "omitterl, yet few call hear him without feeling pereuaded that he is a remarkable man, raised upspecially for agreatend. God has wonderfully owned hia labours. Thousaiids have been converted bj^ his instrumen- tality; and to recount but a portion of the thrilling nurrativea which ho gives of scenes in which he has taken part since hia conversion, would fill a volume, and cannot, therefore, be at- tempted in this brief sketch. But no pen can do justice to the power with which he sways the emotions, of the immense throngs who crowd to hear him. Now provoking a smile, almost merging upon open merriment, by some fla.sh of native humour, and then melting them to tears by some pathetic narration, matchless for its artless simplicity and tenderness. A nd it is a sight worth looking upon, to see a large chapel >^ filled with the hard-handed, and grimy featured sons of toil, who have come direct from their workshops to the chapel, thus acknowledging the power of one of nature's orators.— Untaught, rugged, anil sometimes uncouth, he at all times mfearlsssly declares the truth; warning all men, exhorting and reproving. Hypocrisy he boldly attacks, and unsparingly re- bukes. An uncompromising teetotaller, and with his own fearful remembrances of the deadly nature of the evil of drunl?- enneds, ho denounces'the liquor traffic in all its forms, and re- lentlessly lashes all engj^ed in it. To drunken fathers and husbands, he shows no mercy, but pours upon them a torrent of withering and bitter sarcasm, showing them their sinful folly arid madness; but to j^ll ho offers a free salvation with an earnest faithfulness that carries conviction of his own sincerity, and whfch is again and again blessed by God to the conversion of scores and hundreds. / , :f nnd thoso lo seldom iwns,' up- the enjoy- . id this for lay, in his say th« 1 liearhim u), raised owned hia nstruraen- nnrratives I; since his re, be at- tice tothe ) immense ]» smile, of native pathetic sudemesB. ge chapel is of toil, tie chapel, orators.--- ail times )rting and iringly re- his own ofdrnnlf- 8, and re- tfaers and I a torrent leir sinfal m with an I sincerity, onvcrsioa ADDRESS I. f " I w'M arise mid go to my Father."— LvKV Xv. 18. 19. j This congregation is a great deal better than the one J last night; but still there are too many fine folks here.— I - I find that many of yoii are dressed in fine satins and rib^ f boas, and I would rather have more of those with shawls I thrown over their heads. Thoy can come, however, to- -^ i morrow night, and I hope thfit you will invite thetn. If I' I had known I should not have curae to the cfaitpel in my black suit to-night, but my wife persuaded me. We have just buried a little child, and my wife said I should show 4 but little respect for it if I didn't put on black. I think, I however, 1 might have shown just *a8 much respect for it I if I had not put on my black clothe^; J do not feel at ■>■ homein black clothes at all. j^^' .\ ■'■'■■■'- ■.:.'■'' :■':/'- I "I will arise andl go^to my Father.**^ This, is a teautiful f, text You are well aware what chapter it is iur^^it is I taken from the same chapter as my text was lasi uight I I.have no need to give it out, for I never do that. If'you I want to know where it ivS you must look in the Bible for I it as I had to do before I got it. I have Iveen getting a cup of tea with my friend Mr. Cauohey this afternoon, and he said that I must give over preaching sooner and must not talk too long; but vvli«n I begin to preach I don't know where to stop. ** A certain man had two sons." They tell me this is a parablo!; I dpn't Ixilieve tlift this a parable at all, nor do I believe that' the Lord^ Jesus Christ would tell ^^Jie; but when he said " A certain roan ha d two sons , " he knew a m a n th a t -h ad two sons, and that one of his sons \ya^ such' a character as is described m this text. We hjiye no cause to read so much about it. ..■■■;.:.■. •■■:/-^. I WILL -ARISE ■ ; ^'I WMt you to ooraoto theHame (lecision asthisvounir man in the gospel We liave no need to ask where a,5 n a prodigal ? We have all atrayed away from our Fa- tW^ouae; we have fomken 4e fount^n^^wt ter8.^and have hewn out to ourselves broken cistAs that rnliat"'??^^ and we have done despite tol^el^d SL!i f I* ^H« J'^'**!, w deceitful above alJ things, and despemtely wicked Now the secularists tells ustf^t^he heart is not deceitfnl, but I believe that Joe Barker's heart 18 de^rtfuJ, and desperately wicked, even when he S a profession of religion.^ The Lord save you scepti^i rS^-fr^..™'*" .^«« deterrainea that he would We Chnst for his portion. Before this he had been deter mined hke many of us that he would see life I like to ^ gaamongst boys just as they are reaching six^e^ taS lu^L'^Tr^f. *^,^^^^^^^ '^' «^^««*'* witlfcigan theiV raou hs.^ They think they are men, but they oueht tobJ l^dto their motW's apron strings They dSd into S:^^^'^-^' ^^-y^ t4 will ^d^K^t T^Ln ^^*]V-u*^« eyes of the old folk upon me; now I can go and drink, and smoke my cigai^, Ld have mv fP^ punch." And what a^b^ bm^e SS ^„r^ "'''' f ^T ^'««^«dience and prodigality, and your fathe.-s and mothers advised you. We knew ^me- «m.gof the allurements of the worid, and we m5^ afi^ ^ of ourselves^ with^ the devil to help. - We^^^ .however to our feyierVhouse. and we tad it a dS " P^andwearefbund in a diflfe,^„tplace no^ towhat we o^ were.. Weai-e clothed, and iii our right mind. i. AJovely daughter m^he we.t of Scotland went IwAyfr^ tt^bome of her i>irth. ^ She had only a p..^ing nu>th^ ^^7"^ Y «?.*y/'«™ '»ome by a young man J ' |unted^down by aWood-hound of hell, ai.d brOu^tdo^n ^ to^ostiMition. He brou^fht her to Edinburghf and l^ft I left her there without a friend. The poor pravifion sin. Still the ■ '■'■»-. A-SU OO TO MV J-'ATilKU. 11 as thisyouDff i6k where are l»t ; but what from ourFa- o( J'v^ng wa- cistorns that ' to the blood I thinffs, and I us that the arker*8 heart len he made ii sceptics.--^ would ifave been deter- - ; I like to ix^en yearat rai-s in their ought to be fescend into pleasure for world. One m me; now id have mj ve made of igalitj, and n^w some- nade a fine e returned, aditfeient w to what ight niind. ^ avvay frotii ig inotlier, ng mian-*. ' . ightdown 4 >, arid left i^ rig mother .| years had .1- i ■I the streets Still the tnother's love for her poor child wan right in her hwirt, and she said, <* 1 will Htjarch out, for my cliiM," and 8ho started out to seek hen y ho went to Glasgow, and after searching about the streets for her lor six day.s, she found her in a harlot's dvyelliiig. . Tlie girl, when slie'saw her mother cried out» '•Mother, will you forgive me?" The mother embraced her, and assured her that she was for- given; and she promised her mother timt hIjo would go ack with her to her little cot. The riext morning she prepared for returning home, htid towards night they set off, but she had no so<»ner got her mother lYito the street than she left her. The poor old womari, with her heart almost broken, sought for her daughter a iiiglitand a day, but she did not find her; and then, \vith a heavy heart, slie re))aired to her humble dwelling. Twelve months passed away, and orie stormy night, when the wind wlnstled through the casement of that dwelling, and whilei the door rattled and shook on its hinges, she began to pray forOod to* bless her child wherever she might be; and just as ^e prayed, she heard a gentle tap at the door. She prayed i^i 01, and she heard another rap, and soon the door opened. Jt was her only daughter that had come back andaskiad her mother to receive her: " Aye, my child,'* said she, " I will receive the, be thou what thdu wilt." It was her daughter, though she was dressed in rags, arid she then l)egan to pray tor the salivation -of her child.— " Ti^eLord has^ved mej" said the girl, «' when I was- far from home. I heard a man preach in the streets, and the Lord pardoned my sins, and since then I have wan- dered seven days, barefooted, towards my home; but how was it, mother, that the door was not bolted?" "Ah, mychild,^ said the mother, " during all the eight years that thou hast been away From this dwelling that door has never been bolted." And so it is with the door of for- giveneiss; it has never been bolted. How like this is to poor backsliders: you that are here to-night, that once enjoyed the smile of heaven. You met in the class meet- ing, and^ you delighted to be there, biit you have since r .«j gone back into the world. How like it is to pur heavenly father. Though thou bast gone near to the gates of hell, la I WILL AKISIir % fetherWtlj^^ Knock „o uh3 uoorto nn^I.^, wththeo, aDdUiefeaftt«LaII be everlnsting Jove. Yes. thedoor shall be o,>er.ed. and tb^^^ff« I "^^ to.driniL/«„5 S kS' S"',^.?^«^^'«"^*^»I««"«'liome one night after r : eyes. «er poor heart seemed almost broken, and she begaatopray for the Lord to bless me; T felt like a Wo<^>und of hell, and I said I would murder ij^he dWnotgive over praymg. After I had gone to bed she tZJ^ ?y,T!^H '^^'^' »t the Jied side, and I jumped out of bed, and seizing her by her jrrev Imirs I ^ore I would murder her if slS prayed myi^J^^l She exclaimed, -Lord, though W shiy me, yet wmY jn«^ in thee It ishard wor£ my cbild^raisi^^ „p ^ hand against h,s mother; but Lord, though thou slay X ^oA ;-n P"^'''' ^""'^' ^"^ ^ l>«g«n to fight, but ,nv ^to-s^ kept praying for God t^r bless ^^ prayers did me more harm than a man's fists. I was o?^o^h^r"^ morning, and I had not been to a place hJ^^f, ^' '""'^^'^ y^^"^' ^*^«" *bese words, which I «m;K u*"'^^*'^' came into ray mind,- Lord what Spint w^ rapping at my heart, and the devil said, * 1? :i f. ■■'ft iooi- to niiflif, GO MY FATIIBK. n y bed the said, 'If thou docA g^t'convei-te^ thy c6mpanions will say that thou art frigUtono I of fighting llm and the other man.* The next day I determine'I to got drunk, and 1 tried to walk four injies to a public house, and as J went upon the i'oa before going to bed at night, I took the Bible, and as I knelt me down on the stone on which mv mother had knelt, when I seized her by the hair of the head, I could not pray. My fa- ther began to cry Qut, * It is time for me to begin t.o pray now, when my children have begun to serve God.' My father became converted. That yoimg man was Richard Weaver, and he is in the pulpit of Union-street Chapel, in Rochdale, to-night. I knocked at 4ieirs gate, but the Lord would not let me fall in. May heaven help you to arise and come to our Father. If he am save a sin-'blighted Richard Weaver, he can. save the vilest sinner in •Roch- clale; and if there is pardon for mehecm save y oil. Was there ever a wretch like me? No, never ! As I stand here a sinner saved by grace, I shall never forget ttto counsels of a. praying mother in by-gone days. I have oftwi thought what an awful thiiig it will be for you that have praying mothers, if yoi» do not come to Christ, you will have to be damned. May heaven save you to-night rW- - . 14 .'."*! X Will. ARISE ,• c. ' When I WHB ftghtjnjr, cunning, flwe/iiing. and etter than those I hati ,.heior«). ..■ .. /; :*.■.; Wheii I was first converted T had a companion, and 1 asked him one day to go with me to the chajiel, and be- gin to serve Oolied, " I ara going to dance tor JCS aside to-night, and if I win I Bhall have a good spree," 1 said to'him, "What shall it profit a man if hegain tlie whole world and lone his o^n M)ul» or what shall a man give hi exchange tt»i- his 8<^ui'^ I left him and thieve years after that I went to see hini agam, and fonnd him on the bed of death. It was the same young man that was with mo in the harlot's dwelling, and that cut the rope when I luid nearly hung her. J shall never forgot it, when I went" to see him his mother wjis on her knees praying, *^Lord save my lad," and he was crying out, " It is too late! It is too late I! It is too late I ! !" I told him that the door of mercy was not yet shut, and he replied, " What sliall it profit a man if hegain the whole world and lose his own soul, or what shall he give in exchange for bis souH" Would to God that I luid decided on that day, but I know tljat eternal damiiation is iny (loom. "It is too late!" His mother cried out, " Oh llicdard, do j^i-ay to God to forgive and bless my child, lie is dying." He told his mother that he was damned, and he said, " Richard, pray for ray poor old mother, and tell all young men from the very ends of the earth to beware of < lancing and the public honse.hwt^ do not talk to me, it is too late." He pushed ^is mother away from him and she fell on the floor, and I raised her Up. He bid God to damn his nioiher, and he died saving, . •• I am damned ! ! i am damned !!!" The Lord save'yOn, mothers, and may heaven help you prodigals to-night to decide. ^ If you stop away from you* father's house yon will perish. This young man had ti-ied the world and the d e vi l, a ii d you have taken a pri d e in sin. Nowl w il l gi v i you a little advice, you drunkards that have famished your wives and .families, if you have not a feeling of sym- •S: XUti 00 TO Mf VATMSK. Ift nd •IiinlfiTijr, I'cio my one- - H^rcattiiHny i tUasu I linJ inion, and 1 >el, and bo- il ho re]>li6d, tit, and if I lini, "What >rtd and Jtwe 3xchanjire fov tat I went to f death. It 1 th6harlot*A nearly hiiu^ aee him bin ve my Jad," is too hue I! f mei-cy was profit a maD 3ul, or what )uld to God thtit eternal His mother • forgive ancj her that he ^or ray poor ■ery ends of J honse^Jurtr"^ Jbis rtotlier I raised her iied saying, •d save yOo, to-night to 3 houseyoii »rldand the I wiUgivi» ''e famished ingof syra' "-) 'i t ■a 9 n pathy for them, give them to the guardians, and if you cannot do that» sell them for slaves in America. Oo ami speak kindly to the landlady, and go into the harlot's dwelling and take the harlot on your knee, and spurn your wife from yoa. Rob her of bread and your coildren of clothes, and when she begins to ask you for money so that she may buy bread for herself and children, ill-use her witb your fists. <^ Never mind if. the landlady turns your iittle ragged boy out of doors with a kick when he is sent for his father, while her own children are sent to thd boarding-school with )%ur money, and if slie tells your wife When she calls asking you for bread, to go and get her bread where she can. . I have seen it myself, and I am heart sick of drink and public houses. Oh! poor drunkard, let me invite you to come to the blood of sprinkling, and to be washed from Hll your sit-in the blood of the Larnb. He is coming down in Rochdale to savesinneln. .. I remember being at ai prayer meeting one night, and a young man who had been a soldier canio up to me, and asked me if I thought that God would save him. I saw that his .constitution was brokeii up,\4rand he was dressed in Httle else than rags/' I said that God would receiye him, and he, began to pray very earnestly. The . liOrd did sav^ him that very night. A young woman/ whom I k:ne#, was pointing a sister to the Laml> of God which^td^keth aWay the sins of the world, and the poor ,^yketokno«rwhetWan»ofvou«^.8S ou.ly weking mercy. Salvation » off^rJ^yZ^^l' I ciinnot tell whetliiir ii miii k^ -«■ j . ""J?" iP-mgnt. t'l.rT^.iTi """"'•' "■ "'" ue offered to-you to-morrow .K' i,^w ."""'P ^"" "o J<«iJ« for God to nieht dS thmk ttat ,«, are too vile and too polluted!^ When^^^ ANP no TO MV FATIIRIl. 17 knew that my fieaven, I couW er brother John d. and that he I called into her ith his mother, ^e. His mother also poor John he said to his kway." \ \ >1iight You aceablrandio love feast and your souls.-^ >f a /rood con- > chapel, and live until the 9 in (his place elieve before »t, he will be ^^ I tell him Jturn, I want i»g b>iek to « tbolate.— i^et me enr er a man or ce, for God's lice more to e that onco arsoul, and ray for yon »ave you to- keyou hap^ ^ou are seri- ou to-night to-morrow. :ht. Don't When you I look at what, yoti liavo «toiio amisH yoM will feol like the ; poor pro«li|X'il. who, when lio cnnui to liiinsHJf, naid, •• I , will ariHo and jifo to niy Fallu'r." If liko liim you will ( ftrirw and return, »vliil« you ar« yet a Ionj< way olfyour Father will run to meet you, and will rweive you graci- ously and love you freely. .«« • * '^'« ■3- i ' 1 1 :£-•.■ ADDRESS n. U'f " Ana this is the victory tlmt ovorcomotli tho world' eron • ■ m fafth— 1 John, V 4.. * I 1a '^^ ^'^'« ^ J I'' chapter, of the Hebrews, which thingH hoH for, the evidence of thinKs not .«.n." If h> JrK T- ^TK"^ ^''« r'««ent timo who nrofe«» irfi "'*'""' r/**'"'' '^7«'^ wived. they 4 they bn|,e they are . If yoi, speat to them and nay, - Wo^ my dear fnend," or m My dear brother," or " My dea, bU^ im "'Tr;"' '" ''U ^y' '" I ^^r I «n,/l tCk I nrn. Now I aw tokl ih Ood'« >ord that firith ia Rot a thing wh| doth he yet hoiSIHAthinifri heve different things from these, and tLey try to persuade |. ihat It ,s „ot aU of faith, but I lelievl tLlt^s Xf •JTTI^fi!**'"® **'?' «"^ ^'^«<^ «*><>«* th«other'night r iJKSk,! ! f^^\^ l^^y were , not to go homlto ^ S A r^v!' t ^ '"''^ *^^° ^ ^^^^^ «gntn to-night.-^ th^ ;frlv"^^;rr "^' '^''^ ™ ^^^ blessed^'word tL he be l^ed^ T t ' T?^'' *^"' ^vhosoever believeth .hall 7 Jn^u*"^/ fc'>ow and love pi^er aswell as you, or else >CGo"d 'S' ^"' "r*^^"* faithitisimVsibJet^ please God, and a man that is unconverted has not got faith, because faith is a taking God at hi« word- faiA IK ^trustmg in Christ. Ch ri st is the fbundati^Tm ^ d ^ b in Dti^i iTlfot thero nT- f^]^ " takmg that Saviour to be my Saviour-. ^Chnstishfe; feith is taking that life to l^^l^H 5 tlM ichai • .t- C to-n ., t tti -Mf I ' talk '}. Cbr ■: that • .'r^ ami ■ Jeeti ^hit out, Chr V ulat< tend 'soul Mg a \n flyit flasl ho» thoi tle-fi vicU figh 'i thei gett ties ■ # .s^^ t I U'f 10 world, oTfin jbrews, which subtniK-eof iqt H«<>n." Jf > wJio piofera Ihoy say they 1 my, "Well 'My dear s\»h m; I think I thatfirith 18 a mnn ha^ thingr| bath know there l6 us to be- r to persuade at H is all of IE II un^ Tffot there ) other night go home^to I to-night. — - ord thnt he lieveth nhall you, oreine Bi possible to has not got word; faith IV and fai th ?t is the S&- SHviour. — life. I be^ VKrrORY. It ^ f teve that prayer ii a fhift of faith, and if there is no faith luro will Ik) no pray«r; and you ini^ht pray from now till next year if yuu like, but if you have no faith you I ill never lie saved. It is thy faith that makes thee >yhole; lot that thy faith saves thee, but it truNtN in what (Mtrisl Ihiis (lone toHuve thuo. It is not tliugas pi[)e that giv«s fthe tight; it is the gas; but then the gns-pipu bringH the jgas from the pipe in the street into The chapel, and no lii^tigctthe light Faith is not salvation, but faith is the I channel, and then out of Ohrit^t, the salvation comes tons. f Christ for me; that is the language of my heart again I to-night and I say now what I told you luKt night, that I always fuul that I must preach about ('lirist, and then ' if I pruach about Him I shall have tho victory. 1 may . j talk to you about the old saints, but if I du nut talk about Christ our meeting will bo of ^ no gooi7 Tnofjns ffotiincr ihn conqiiost ovof them all — And l,IoH8 thoXoiil, D^oplo ilo 'T ^^"^ '^'" ^^^ *^^ ^^^-^'y «^<5r it. Victory. J his istbe victory that overcometh the world, our faith" May the Lord help us to think about it and rejoice in it. ICwe begm to looTc at all the good old proWs and 2^ and the men. of God tl^at ever trod on this^n. bhgl.ted world, i£^ begin. to think about our. good old lorela hei-s, wo sliall see that they wei« all saved by faith and .that, bless the Lord, being justified by faith they h.ul peace^with/ God through oiu- Lord Jesus Christ-- l.o.,k->t old Noah who rode upon the billows of the mitrhly deep. What was it that saved him flom Win^ /Irowiiod? It wa<5 faith. God commanded him (6 dS jomothing, and it #as b<.Iieving God and taking God at his wojd that made him build the ark and ndeWely on the bosom of the mighty deep. And T tell th^, my bro- ther, that there is an ark now, the Ark of the everlastinff ' " covenant. It is not made ..f the gophei-wood, but, ble^ theJ^ord, It IS. made, of a beam called Chrisf, and if thou > geftest mU) it thou ^v lit bo saved. The Lord help thee -W e hav e ?ill our ships, ou r Givat Easterns and our Great — V\ esferns, and I rememl>er when I was at Liverpool ' 3wi r I fit viCioiiY. 21 cr them all. — ry, don't they? 88 in our own >it, and some- rning without d work hard, get the victory •n. And you ke that some- sen bad with r clear, every- > in, and you op, Jest it was I. And then 5ther quarter, g^et the victo- s8 M Lord, )iieve in scep- ess the Lord, it. Victory, d, our faith." rejoice in it. prp^ets and on this .jsin?. w/good oI(i ved by faith y faith they us Christ.^ lows of the I from Ixeing him to do ing God at d^ safely on liee, niy brch- 'everlasting ' " d, l)ut, bless and if thou ^ d help thee. d our Great it Liverpool going to K*'^ 1 he Gh-ai Hi'ij:iiii. -But they found I ho Groat Britiiin would not m.hI, .mkI iIk y-had to take her to |»ieees andiuakti her up again ; \n\{, hlem the Lortf, wo ha\e no call to f us are passengers, cabin passengers, or on deck, or some- where. May the Lord help you to get on board. Then Uiko the case of Enoch ; what a good inan old Enoch must have been. Somelimes I think I should like to see him, and if I ca^iuot sec him here, why, I shall see hitn up yonder. What a good man he must have been, for it says he walked with God. To be sure, I believe in that soi^ibf religion; talking and walking with God. ' If we havp gSt a dear; friighd in this world we like to walk and talk with him. Thave ihy dear partner down in Lan- cashire, and wo talk to one another through the post, and if I do not get a letter from her I think there is something the matter with hor down at Manchesler. We can talk with God through the post of faith, and glory he to God, it doesn't take long to bring a lotter backwards and for- wards. " This is the victory that oveivometh the World, our faith." Enoch must 'have been a lianpy man, and that is a happy man who walks with God. What a bles- sed thing it is to walk by faith like Enoch did; he even overcame death, did'ut lie? Thou -wast a happy man, Enoch, to ride in a cliariot to heaven. Glory be to (Jod, he walked with God, and he was not, for God took him. Then the -case of old Gideon, he was down in a barn threshing ; as lie i» threshing there in the barn and turning the straw over and over, a strange, being cornea in and looks at him. (iideon looks up at him, and he says, "What dost thou coniu hero for? Dost thou want me to sell my wheat to'thtie, or what dost thou want?" "No, Gi(.leon, the enemies of the Lord and of the most High are com and theo:^ eaven 16 wc_^^ ™ David: %8 per of sheep, f in his hand as he is there Jie yonder^rf— A ravenous leep. David after the old thee in. the n." He takes bear. And he shouted, the tribe of I and catches the victory helJ tocon- uerhim, for han he, and >r "This is iith."-:God id Caleb.— le: but^ve lien. The eb looks to tty heart?" - if nobody if the men w^illgp upi did go up. 4 ■I knew that th^ walls \yottld totter down. There were plenty of people at the time who would bo ready to say, •* Why; "what are those fanatics going to do?" " Ah, we are going to Uike your city ; we are but a. few feeble men,, and wo have no swords, and bayonets, and pike; we only have some rams'-horiis." " Ah," «iy»s the peoj^Ie, jiathoy come and stand on the wall, »' what in it they have got ? Only a few rams'-horns ; there is not one sinijlo silver horn among them/' «* Yes, but come down from the wall or else you will fall and be crushed to death." But then the seventh day comes round, and the faint-hearted Israelites begin to look at poor Joshua, and they say, " We have gone round six days, and we can't see a breach in the ■ wall yet." ".Ah," said Joshua, ;« the liord didn't tell us there would Iw, but he has commanded ua to go round on the seventh day, and He has said that He will give the city into our haiuls." So the peoj>]e went round jigain,. and then the sevciith time lhGpeoj)le began, to shout Vith a great shout, and they all blew their' ranW-horns, and there was an Armstrong gun from heaven that smote tjie wdl, and down it all tumbled in a heaj*,* and then the children of Israel could say that victory was the! re. The Lord help you. Bless the Lord, I believe we shall have the victory just now. 1 believe that scepticism shall be tumbled down, and that God will be all in all. Oh.' may heaven bring it down, and may the Lord helpus. And then look at the three lads. Bless the Lord, they were brave boys, and had good courage: and when they would not bow down to the king's image, he commandotl that they should be cast into the fiei y fiunaGc. lle^told them to bow down to the image, but they Svoulcl not. — How is that? ^« Well," they say, '« we must serve the Lord ; and if we are to be burned for it we don't, care, for God will conae and support us." And then tliev cairy them to the furnace. .Look at those three poor b^-s yon- der,, and as they are carrying them to the furnace I think we can he^theJn talking to one another; and one says ^^^ ^be otftei>-Mj^ok up now, Shadrach, for this is t,he victory that overoonjoUi the world, even our faith; the Lord will come with us, and help us." Ave, and poor ■>.'■ -J 24 VICTORY. .jr,«j d^t^th^ft^^Tn^T"- »;!'',;'''': ''■'^ 8"t than, ■ Then take the case of poor old Daniel ««„ „v v 18 that, Daniel?" « WIA tlii t!. j . t . ^^* '^<*^ looked all tUiVmouTl^P '^Ke^" h,^ V^n "I used to pray three thnes a-day, dShe? Ah ' r*' know aomeehmg about this. We know wLt'^; ft *' to do with the lion of the nit n„*^T, ^ ' *" '""''' W8 have with «»_: P '• ^"' ^™. *«>«" "«" I.V Ikiil? L i!:"„ :^^ '^l»'!?y.l'y»°l' ' " Belngjustifed ^ Christ." y^"* iTLiTi"' "-^ ""»"«'' "" i^^ J«« »es, dnd Biuueis wens converted and devil -<»>._ ..(,r,ened unto ybu. kere of Christ's be revealed, ye I, too, when ha 1 king^ had him •look iii, in the Uhere alive? I ay, O king, the ouths of these )." « But how ' bis angel and . y Lord, Daniel Ah, and we ^4 lat it is to have " i We know that chain, ain." , Jvereometh the 3asoit tornight ► the men who Chrislr— Peter, ^^airsandfur- iichable riches Beingju st ified 2d were defeakxl, and many critnl out, " The blood of Christ ha« saved ine.' Oh, may his power bo hore to-niirht. and. may the Lora help us whilo wo talk Ml.(,ut Oiirist ' ^^Ajd then we call to our roinombmnco the times of the Reformation. ^In travelling about froui town to town I have come mto the places where our forefathers in the .gospel used to preach, and 1 l.nve felt gl.ul to be there — ' oJt* ^ «"« PJ"*^^' called Kingswood, near Bristol, and I saw the place where Wesley and Whitfield had been,^and before 1 went away a dear friend showed "^Jn"?. J«*^\ ^,e% »«ed to be, a place called Kings- wood College. Wheu I went into pne of the rooms^ looked at a square of glass, and there I saw Mr. Wesley's own hand-wTitmg, and as I looked at that dear mah's wntinffI/l,ought how I should like to buy the square of daSSy but when I began to talk of that they said they would^not take five pounds for it. When theWknew It was the poor collier, she asked me to pray ; and I knelt mejown there and prayed ou the very /boards where Wesley used ^to pray. And after thaVwhen I wasgoing topreachj^I thought of what I had heard about the col- H!2fi-i!T''''^''^'''"iJ'''^ the teai-s used to roll down tb«r black faces when Whitfield was preaching to them. «L ?W r*; *^ ^r*''^ they set me on a forinr and told ma that that was the veiy spot where Whitfield used to preach; and as I stoodthefe, I prayed for God to give me S'K.TlfTCu*'^* '^^ ^"^' «"^ ^^'^«" I began to preach ^hundreds of the^people and to tell about the tAith of God,.and about Chnst who died to redeem them. I saw Sn^T^i^'^^'^'li^J "*'•«' ^^^«^ ^ they rolled d(jjm, ihe cry of the conjrregatiou was, " Lord save me I I preached thei-e two nights, and God blessed " my labours, and the people' said, "Richard Weaver, there has^ever been such ^ days at Kingswood since the days of Wesley and Whitfield; the Lonl has blessetl your la- bours, and^ we can say that we have got the. victoiT." Oh ' ^^bdp^ y hoi'"nw'"-T"^?r:'V''^«^« gone to Worms if he had not had Christ witK him; but he did not care for all the irLord Jesns ed and devils ^f^^^"^ •• \ vit'touy, ^T'J'n S""""' ""^ ""'W/uof for all tUe <|e»il, i„ hell I how tbo P«P.W dJll^'Sil.e'l.tn^c rn^ jrt me victory that overcouiBtl. the worW, oven our fi..),. cXS? T ^-i •'?»"» l'^''™'- And then look at „H wirsKi''"''And th'""?jr*'' '-^ *'^ - ta;t>J: wmood. And then look at yonder man in Scotland the Lord Chrat triumphed in Scotland, and triun.tfht r;^Whi"n"'",^""» ""•»'>•"• "tt^ntio^^wX and Whitfield, and toour forefather, xJ^howiTiZ feiS-W J5f-'' .8r* '!""«* ^l-^ itW;h.;„gh the^ wKn^rs-ir--„-ss SK^:^tef7itt^:/:,rS aiW a™ M tha^ victory that overcometh the world, our u>e victory that overcometh the world, our faid," t tmdaJfh.Z\ ■'^^f''^}'^^'^^^^^^^ we shall conquer 2 SlSS„«^^7-„ ^^"^ *^" ^H' «ie gospel is preach' adgnn ^^t^^^^^w^^m^m M get the victory. i tlevils ih helf,. ^ if therfe were tho' houses he fh lioaven he stands yoriflen ecause he was it in his heart, )w that this is en oiir faith ; iiace with God »i Jock at- old n, yet he had I list died for e Iiave peace in Scotland, J in his heart. es, aiidJbless id \kiump'h8 >»^W)&8ley k how it was ti rough their the world, old Richai-d minster «nd poor sinner l;"--and he 7, " Loid, the present Ts who are I to Christ, '6 aie gain- . believes it, " world, our "This is faith." I Bless the^ ill conquer is preach- j ■ VICTORY. Q1 ng liberty. TheLor4 < Some people want to go to heaven to see the Lord, ibut I like to oring God down amongst us. I do'not wsut lo go to heaven yet; I'd like to stop here and doalldi^ jj^ood I can, and try to stop the harm the detil is dofng, and when I have done fighting here, then Til go tolieil* ven to see the Jjord there. The Lord help us to live t6 him, and to fight the good fight against the world, the fiesh, and the devil, and then, bless the Lord, We shall get the victory, for this Ib the victory that overeometh the world, our faith. We all have our fighu and our trials. Experience tells us that we have to fight valiantly. Ah, and bless the Lord, that is the soldier He likes, isn^t it-^ the valiant soldier ? Oh ! bless high heaven, we are t<^ belike sentinels, and we are never to go to sleep.— Yo« ,., would not expect to go by Buckingham Palace and a^ V the soldiers, who are always walking about there, asleep! \ ^*^*^'^ "®' .l)een about London much, but I remember ^ going near St. James's Park, and seeing some men there , with great high boots and white trousers, sitting on their horses; well, you would not expect to go there and find -those men asleep. But how many Christians have falleij^ asleep who ought to be watching for souls ; how many who ;. profess to be believers have fallen asleep I May the lK)rd r, help us to keep awake. It is our duty to be awake and to stand on the watch for the enemy. You remember wheti the archangel Was contending with the devil for the body of Moses, he said to the devil, *' The Lord rebuke thee," and the devil was defeated at once. Yes, it is out duty to stand upon the watch-tower, watching for souk and, watching, against the enemy, with our swords ready drawn; ah, aiid the more the s word is dipped in the blJiod the better it will cut. May the Lord bless us and help us, ** This i^the victory that overeometh the world, our faith." May the Lord increase it to night. ' If we have faith we sh^all have souls saved. People say to me, « How i% it Weaver, that the Lord blesses your labours so ?" Well, I don't know^ except it is b e- exc^t- e is nothing else. Bless the cause I trust in God. Ther Lprd, I believe He will work hereto-night Only.belieVe Cifi Christ and yon will be saved. It de})ends upon w^t 98 VICTORY. 7^ God has doue, and not upon what we do. I tell you he / has done it all, and tbat he can Have you. If anybody had told me years ago that I shouKl have been saved, and •hould have done what I have, I should not have believed him. When I say to ray wife sometimes, <« Well, la«L I do not know how it is that people come to hear me, and :: how it is the Lord blesses my labours " she says, "WelV ypu know, you ask for it; you know you trust in the Lord, and that is "how it is, and he that trusteth in the Lord shall never be confounded." Ah, may the Lord help us. We have been praying for God to make bare his armin the present day, and I believe he^will. Oh Lord, awake, awake ; thine own immortal strength put On ; with terror clothed hell's kingdom shake, and bring the foe with fury down in London to-night. May. God shake him out of your hearts. s I say to you all, the blood can save yoy. You have u^5" ®^'f^"S ^®*'^ perhaps a ])Oor degraded character ; too bad to live, too bad to die, too bad to go to prison; tdo bad to go anywhere, but just not too bad to go to hell. The blood can save you. May the Lord bless you. I know a poor deluded drunkard, who blasphemed God's name, and ruined his family, and did everything that was bad. This man went home on^.niirht when his wife had been out washing : I think it was ten pence she had for her day's work, and the man said, " Qive me that money." She said, *' 1 want to buy my children soixje bread for >. '■ to-morrow, when I am out washing." He said he would havejt, and they began struggling, and then he began to , .: -y beat her— and his little child came in .and got between y , her father and mother, and looked at the father and said, y ■: «« Oh father, don't beat my mother; beat me father, but ^ don't beat my poor mo^^her:^ The ftithbr looked at his Jttle cjMld, and pushed -her out of ttie way, and struck her till the blood poured out of her little face, and she BtiUcnefl to her father not to boat her mother, and then . : Bhe said,'* Lord save my father." I was sent for whilg they were quanelling in that way, 'and when 1 went ' ; into the house the poor man seemed cowed down, and I «8h»m0d of the wron^ he had don^ I knew that tb^ ?. /. / I. tell you he . If anybody Ben saved, and . have believed , " WeII,la«L > hear rae, and ) says, " Wellj ist in the Lord, [ in the Lord Lord help us. are his arm in Lord, uwako, n; with terror the foe with i fihake bim \f.- You have iharacter ; too to prison ; t6o to go to bell, bless you. I »bemea God's erything that when his wife ce she had for I that money." nje brciad for said he would ri he began to got between ;her and said, le father, but ooked at hi^ , and struQK face, and she her, and then mt for while f *] / -r I VICTOR V. 99 ^ Wr woman was a child of Go*!, ami that God had iriven her hburtv. When I wMit in the lif tie girl said, "Mr Weaver,, doesn't it say that whatever wo ask in fait t be- lieving, it sl,,,ll bo do..or "Yes, it dou8, my dear," saidl. "Tlien let you, and my mother, and me, ask God to save my father," she said. « Wo f&ve him, don't we mother ' " Yos, m do," said the poor mother.-^ " Veiy xveH, then, Mr. Weaver," said the liltlogiiil, ''let us pray for hm,." -That is right," I «aid. And the littte girl knelt down and pmyed, and she said, "My friend Richard Weaver, and I. and my mother, agre^ to ask Ihee to save my father: O Lord, save my father." She prayed, and then her mother prayed, and while they ' werepraymglgot^up and talked to him, and while I was talking to urn I saw tho big tear begin to roll down nl"*.^^? fl ^"'^ ^5 '^y^T^ /^^ '"^°^>' ''»' 0^ his hands ^ on to the floor and at last he knelt down, too. I told him though he had boon a bad and a wicked father, the blood could save hmi. Ho was there groaning for liberty, and prayed for >n or tweiHy nun utes. At last tlie poor . Jittlegirl put up her haiKlsand'shesaid, ''Oh, ray God ' T^ "^ ^'^^ ^''^ moment; save my father now."-- ^ Aud^asshe prayed it pleased the Lord to set him free, and hejumpod up and cried, " Glory be to God : I do l^ iioye ; 1 do believe ; I do believe." Ah, yes, " this is the victory^that overcometh hell, even our faith." May the Lord help you to have fiiith to-night. The Lord save ' the transgiesssors. You that blaspheme his name, you that have lo^t^your character, you that robbed your family togetd|.nk I tell you, have faith in Christ, and hfs bl<^ will deanse you. M.ty God save thee, sinneiu «T,»ir '" r ^ *^'"? ^'^ ^^''^- ^^ ""^ "^^«'' have faith we shall never have salvation, for without faith it is impossi- ^toj,^a8e God. M:ty .the Lord bless. He I^^^fc ^d that whosoever prays shall be saved, or whosoever ' , feels shall be saved : but whosoever believeth shalJ be saved -^an d whosoeve f bel i e v e t h not be d amne d. The Lord heb y^ to believe to-night. This is the victory i^ ? -four hours a wo weeks a have all our all be able to . ■ VICTORY. ,. , . gg say, " lloro wo aro; wo aro re«idy to gu." Mav the Lord help im t<> have a faith like this. % ^ I was riding j.long on»* (Uy with a gentloman in a car- W«- ^,^"" l'«*'« f^'^ tl'" l>«<»r <'<>nioi- to ri «. Husband to the widow and a Father to the ihou hast been pleased to take my husband me, Lord, wilt thou not provide for fatherless/ way from my poor children f f /■ V t 'If l-r V- 1 1 !f \\ ^iltTliou lot my cliil.lr.(ii U\ out of a homo? Lor<|, Kivo 111(5 l)mi, and put his arms round his moth<^r, and «ai(l, «• Whatevor two of you. shall ajjroe to ask touching His kingtlom, it shall be done," and ho prayed again, "Lord help us; Lord, bless ns; Lord, open u|> our w^y," and as be WHS praying, there was a knock at the door; the woman opened the window, and said, •• Who's there?'' And a in«j.n said," You must conio down directly; the Lord has aentyou this;" flffd whon she went down staii-s, there waa a big bflusket,* with as. much as she could carrj- inside, and the man said, " ':;he Lord bo with you;" and the poor little boy said, " Tliore, mother, didn't I tell you that God was our Fatlwr ?" An ay," wilt Thou inot^ier, Oli e mother said, t down again, in to thy care; tho little hoy h<;r, and saiil, touching Hi« •gain, "Lord w^y," and as or; the woman oref And a the Lord has lirA, there was ''^ ^inside, and and the poor you that Ood j.' •YeisRiiJE^ 3 I was one of 'ord to us,"- — ^tircometh th^ Illy and want, ■U8tin Christ; iin, for this is li our fnilb. — way the Lord have the vic- out of tJine ''on have seen Some of you haven't you f . ■■■■■■■;,',;'V"- ■;•»■ ,, Haven't you gol some of iho«6 you love gone to Heaven f- . Ah, you reijieuiber seeing tho.n di«. don't you? Thev d?I? fhT' .^"Vi'^ v"'*'^ "^''' '" ♦'"•■'••' "HdwhentheJ died they shouted, " Victory, victory !" Oh, glory be to God that they had m.ch a '*'"• ^^'y ^''^^ f^>'-'« »>« w^tf you, and then when you con.o to die. and when your blood Wins to sto|, and your .yes begin to got <1i,„,Cu shS^ be-abJe to shout, - O I'is poor wife went to «^on-ow that T '" ''"'''; ^'^' <^» H'chard Weaver t* sorrow that I am one <% too iate; I am damned to- I 11 ' t I' I. 84 VICTORY. night! May God save mel but I am one day too late; I am damned to-night l" Sinner, to-morrow may be one day too late, and thou mayest be damned. May God help thee! There is time now. Bless the Lord, He can save thee now. May the Lord save you wicked ones to- night. Wouldn't you like to have the victory ? If there is one here to-night that would like to have the victory let him hold up his hand. Can't wft get a volunteer? (Several hands were held up.) Yes, bless the Lord, there is one yonder, and there is another yonder, and there are some more. May the Lord help you. I don't care who you are,. You may have to live in some back place here in London, or in a dark, damp cellar in Spitalftelds; but if you look there is a housd with many mansions, and the way to^it is through the blood. May the Lord help you to come to Him ! Ah, there will' be no Spitalftelds' weavers there. I tell you the same, if you are rich or if you are poor; there is the same for the rich and the poor; all must come through the blood. May God help you, and may you have faith in Chiist, and then Christ will be with you while you are living, and you will con<|uer death and hel|, and when yo\i come to die you will be able to die shouting, •♦Victory through t^ blood of the Lawbl" , *i ir ay too late; may be one May God »rd, He can :ed ones to- r? If there the victory volunteer! Lord, there id there are I't care who )laC6 here in I ; but if you ind the way lelp you to ^Ids' weavers )r if you are >or; all must m, and may be with you ath and hel|, die shouting, 4. 4 ADDRESS I?^. P - How wilt thou do in the swet/hig of Jordan?'^-' J EH. xil. 6. , ' I have not had a week's rest for the last five years . t have had no Whitsuntido. It hjis'bcea all trippiug up and down. The louging of my hejiit is for the welfare of my fellow-working nieu, aiicl 1 am sure if 1 were to stop in ^chdale, we^should soon become very good friends. There is something about \n(i that they cuiiuot help loving, because the Lord Jesus is in my heart. I am told there is a reporter prpsent tjiking down what I say ; 1 hope the Lord will convert him. I fear we are often led to mur- mur and complain, when we have no business, to do so. We often shrink from meeting trials and tribiiiations, as Jeremiah calls then), yet if they do not come to us, w6 fiometimes go to them. People while looking mournfully at their tribulation, often take the devil's side. The devil has a close connection with desponding men. The devil likes to see clean chapels and emi>ty pews. I like to see men's arms brushing off the paint [a sound and broken glass] and theirelbowsgoing through the window. Never mind that, so that he has not fallen through and dropped into hell. Sometimes if the devil does not come to us, we go to him, Jeremiah was a good old man. He said mans heart was deceitful and desparately wicked. He was not a selfish sort of a b^iing. He could weep and pray for those who could not pray for themselves. I feel more interest in the welfare orthe souls of people than they do for theniselves, as Jeremiah did for the slain of the daugh- .t»n of his people. We have many good things bestowed g pon^^ lA voice in the g a ll e ry .J There are more, preach^ besidieB'me, but it is not your turn yet. I will try to make you all hear==^v6r upon the stairs. Now S Ill Ir: 66 IIOW/WILT TU«U 4)0 the best of uh Iihs loonv (o meml, and none of us lian a great deal to boast of. Joieniiah was a man loud in his iBurmuriug and coinplaining of the wickedness of tlie world, and of the i)ro8|)ei'ity of tlio wicked. How many of our honest neighbours are there, mjon wlionn Wo what they will, prosperity doosy not seem to shine. We j/o so far, sometimes, as to disiW^st God and to doubt his wisdom because of the prosperity of (be wicked. I now and then see some of my old pals, who have got on in the World, and who appear to be blest with greater worldly prosperity than me. I met one not long ago, who told me he had six or seven houses of his own, and tjiat he was doing very well. I do not, howevef-, begrudge them of their worldly goptis, for 1 know that I have a mansion in heaven, that Will last for eternity. I often think that God allows wickQd people to have a heaven here; because of the dread- ful hell they are to have heretifter. I would sooner have, the trials, troubles and tribulations down here, than miss the glory prepared for m^. Jeremiah seems often to mur- mur at the troubles of this life. He says, " Righteous art thou O Xiord when I plead with thee, wherefoie doth the Way of the wicked prosper." And further on he says, *' But thou O Lord knowest me,thou hast seen me and tried my heart toward thee— pull them out like sheep for the slaughter and prepare thou for the day of slaugh- ter." Jeremiah was not a selfish man, nor alone in the world of trouble ajid trial. % do noC think' there is a child here, but wjhat the Lord has tried. But my friends, we have ho business to murmur or even to complain, much less ray friends the Working n&n. I amsui^ I sh^not get to heaven by murmuring. ' Do what you will poverty will come into Our dwellings. Thei'e is not one of us who " «ca|)^hefig tribulations, ami the wieked man with all his^TicWl has them doubly, We come to the feet of Jesus and wash away the impurities of our hearts in the blood of the Lamb. It is now about nine years since Jesus washed my sins away, and he will wash away you re too if you come to him., S ince then it has not all been smooth weath- er and; clear sailing. Bless the Loid, when all has been storms about me, it has bee^ peace within, all tribulation « IN THK SWiKLUNa OK .lioKUAN ? 37 I of 118 linH il I loud ill his ilness of tlie How many im, do what I. We go so t his wisdom ow and then n the World, )y prosperity 1 me he had e was doing era of their >n in heaven, t> God allows )f the dread- sooner have . 3, than miss iften to mur- ighteous art erefoie doth rther on he last seen nie It like sheep lyof slaugh- ilone in the sreis a child I friends, we plain, much il sh;ill not win poverty le of us who ' lari with all feet of Jesus the blood of esus washed ' too if you Doth weath- lU has been 1 tribulation- ..1 ; 'f of tho world has been harinless. There is one tliinrr which is a consolation, there is never a winter but it has its sum- mer, and there never come tears, iuu even tlieyhavfi their smiles. There is nothiiig^witliout its beautios. The sun never sets but it rises again in the morning, And we are all right if we stick to salvation by the bjoodof the Lamb. That makes the thickoat fpg and densest storm without, a calm within. Lord help you to got it to night. So'rrows and troubles will yet wear away, all Will come right in the end. All shall be rectided soon, Never miiK( those who build themselves up in prosperity here, and go e wrong. I want to have n^ght todo with the devil. , t will do altl'can to' keep him under my feet. The Lord will help you to do the s^ine. The devil has tempted us all, but we must be deteniiiued tb resist him. I haye plenty of clothes at home, and if any one wanted' A suit at Manidiest^r yonder, I could give him one. Thank 38 'HOW' tviLT Tfiot; bo. '^. f^ OoifWthaU We shall Imve a l.e„e, ...it hf I,e;u ,„._ Mtbrough^^^ tUe l^mib, win he >v«sM What then If there be plenty of tri«l here— we may alf get^ heaven at last, and there we t;hall be hannier and inpi« merrj. r do not believe in goilig to hell while, wo . have a chance of heaven. Men nmy be led astray by Joe Barker and- bi8 associates, who may j^roach despair to you, they may teli yotrthot yoi, cannot "contend xvith horses." BuUn8werm^-.How wiitthou do in the sweilingof Jor- - rtanl Some, will no donbt say, " I cannot tell." -Joshuii . kJS,"* ^V^,«^«ter8 of the Jordan overflowing their bafiks, 80 that men women, and children, were in danger. ^nW iSuT''";'''!^i^?^^ in the swelling of Jordan? How wilt^thou do.mfidel lectuicr^Iconoclast and Hol- Ji^L»S'I''''i^^"i^^"*^^"' backslider? God bless them m the day of trouble. I^remendber one instance of a poor collier, who had his teg taken oft by the conductors of a pit. The poor fellow Va8 comW^,m the shaft, when his leg was caught, cut ofi;and It feli to the bottom of the |it. I shair never foijMttheBcene on that occasion.^ Bless the Lord, O mv wul.vl^hada deep love to jlSus. I remeWiher hiitt > when laid on the pit bank. His master wished him to have some brandy, but he begged he would not give him ^A^rJ"*^ ^l^'i^ Hes^id^ie felt he\^ got his death Wow. .Oh, how he rejoiced in the prospect of • heaven^ He «nd to me, "Richard, if I can butU „n^ dear wife, J shalj be satisfied." J„st as we were renm^a ^Jiis wifecdme, for .he had. heard of the accident.^ Herfiwt words wei-e. " Is he alive?" I said to lier, « Ho walive. And she joyfully exclaimed. "Thank God, if he can only sp^k to me,! shall be.satisfied." .The d6ctx)r was trying> stop the bleeding. buHie could not, and we ^. oonld .we thkt the palepess of death ms coming over him tfie wife k,88^4h,m~the face. dirty as it was-it Was fhe ^^Vf.^^ iT. i'"^^^ Jo;:aa n. And then the daughter ^from ^altwoul th^faulory to. see him di& They were dertftin lid be nghto. her.and • .mile upon ydh. ?»''"™l'i''^^Jru.S l"er. theyouftg festv^aia -ws^^^J M" " » '- ";- • r- . T f^A I iim on the on"*. ">> ' ■ '°g -^ the ^uiaow, nj^ no. , 1 ^ J^^^'ill^^t^riar^^V; ' the awtql livei: called dcHtli. i »o } vu h ^ i / 40 HOW WILT THOU DO a: ■ to^rf r"" »? '"Ik- She cried «ut, "O v« 1 .i-i to talk to you, Rchnirl" '« AKf i • ^,3^®*^ waftl that when my faS WH« H.«h t ^^,« ««'^'';' -^ remember of Barker M v mn k! '' ^ IPmbraced'the infidelitv 1.1 -rt ' rnpther was a ijood ChrWian »• t - i» ^ her if she repented and beliVvpH nrwi «k j' , ^ ^^^ "Bless theXW" I «,^i M ?^^^ "*^ '^® '"'^ «^« <^''d-~ - Christ can «4vVvo/ ^^J j^^"^" «'et^'^e parte damned. Wiieve. iSKKSt^'Lnl?? ^t"' What does thanLn a^" '"^''*'' ^^"^"^ ^""^^ fa«V— y «*«.hSi^L^ SLriL:^'"? y^^«I><>rting characters; tian, ,Y absent frortheWt?^'^ the .j>,rit of the Chris, The.path from Sfo tb« ;V *"'''^" ' ^'*^ the Lord.- • may heaveS p.^m^Voti ifS' % "^^tb«^ tides, and Thi^ «"ot JSXL ^f ^tf''"^ ''V?g to die.-- . through death. Ju^t ^,7 vf, 1 1 r'^" '''^*'^^ How uncertafn V iS'"'! ' "^'•« ■"•<"l'«l»l% «f death. New Briahio,, : mi in -ii,. >;. i '■""'•>• «» '« >eiiiovectorl<.ia me that my H.ewa« getting veak r Then I said my prospocts "•^^'••f ^^,^" '^^ journey is only over the rive,-, wh.re eO"«I?t,on j^l p^, ^ inc^rrnptioM. and mortahty shall pu on ^•"«'J^;j; Bless the Lord. As th<. l.moh.e« sent spm to vww the land of promi^ flowing witU milk ^^"^^ »«"7; *^^J ^JJ Jaave gone over the river l«lora «.. Paul ^^^"^^^Z ^to L third lieavon. ^^'"•^^^^^^^'^T^ ^ '„ K^ have been faint-hearted, like the «« ^^^'^ '^,^^'n„^'^f Srds, and said tViey could not go. 'Mr. Barker «^ ^ them-the land he says is «ot l^^^, Sk iconS^ parates us from our dea» fnends. I should t^mk ^^e^?" clast. Holyoake, and Barker have no fnefcds. With Clui^ ° tn^s iii^&i'o..t. My wife wished tokeep our little^h^ the rifflit way to look at deatk There afe W^Th. S» S V th^tthey have cWld.en_on *eother «Je rftto rivir, Mothers who can telUf the,r 1"|'>M»'^^^^ there have ehUdren aow crossing "«' , "^V >Sti*S felhers.too. Cannot Ibey remember how ««"*""?» Spl^od round t h eir ^nee^ »"%% ""»? ^^^T ^ A ^y Se fiSHryand the 1<«m„.^ Let Je»"^'-^ Barker sav what consolation tiiey can give «ith their devLh doctrinev Kulhei-s, don't w^ft all » w«ll.<*»"k ■J 42 JIUW WII,T TflOf UO fom,« mu^ t«,.u,os, but v,,u think you muembet thorn I? nS^/''";^ T^'"" - '^" '^'^' > ""'• "•^"'«'- ^'^ the river! to ,S H J r J'.^" '•^•;'«'»»^«'' I'-v faniilin? voice, amjcall UMnmcl tiK. «>« not remember , whon^eathHtruek,loun her husband-that Holitary mo- £ uL^ r V "^^'*' 'i*''"'' ''"« wafted ac.x>s8 the river f wet e husband shakn.ft- hands with his wife in Wen; an(I that praying- n.other, who tau.rht her child to orav iS^' iS^^"*''"^ '" '^"^"- "^y "^^ ^ ^ ^.S"" f^"^*' "''^''*''' ""^ ^"^t W child to^ray, a- f^rlr - * ^o^n »PO" I»er head, is calling ^rQome. corae,come." ye8,^we will. Only let us cross^the riv^^ I imagnie I see dfnldren who have gone before their Z wpte dressed m robes of wlnte. Mothers, don't yZ ^ Aosefou- and Jovely faces which you lovod so dearly on earth. Only let us bo prepared to cross the river, and ourj^ will be g.^t. Thank God, for Christ hSm^ hM bles^n^^upon us. The guilty, souls are in da^r^ Sol '^ ^««^'en «ave every one of you. There is no ?vi«?? fiJT '*n''''5''''''°^''*"^^^^«*- Listen to yonder djing ,nfidel,^---r)eath comes, ani it grows darker.^ Now for the grand secret. Dark! darklfdarkl!! I think f wnatsthat?^ Tlie devil has seized me. What a fool I' havebeen. ^lajn^inking. [Preacher goes down in the Th^ Z f "^^'' ^> voice ascends with an awful effect.] hdl Oh . r^^,^^ the damped, and I see the flames of fl!m«. T ^^'i ^«^^1^«*» Barker? my feet are in the >■ Mav God „^A. »«)^« you fk)m scepticism. The Peptic ha^ ^othing worth Irving for. Let Joe Barker, IconoclL. and Holyoike, hold fast their infidelity, buttot me^be purified ■ I A . . .ii.iuB HWELLINU 6V .lOUDAN^ \\ 40 ,y,. uooa oaiio |;«t. ^ "Sot^n'M^ " dtuultnrds. inino""'" i » ,i,„„l,iml ones told m4,>. wkenl spoko (o '•""■"»»M'" „"""'' „e.,7,.„o,l me out of; >ife a»ked menot t« pve l..m up. «^,J" ™; , ed for doom, btft 1 kneetert ,lo«n ,i. '''?^ »;2t" „„ d/jefomi , drunkard, «ho«a»in th« *« , ^^t 'of tl.; b«r. land. c «l ADDRESS V. '?! I ' *' And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion . mth songs and everlasting Joy upon their heads: they shaft obtain joy and gladness, attd sorrow and sigliing shall Jlte avay.^* — Isftlah I don't expect that I riliaJI pleflse everybody nn this large conpfiegatfon. I should Jike to please God, whether I oftend you or not. Tliore is too much of man-pleasing, and too Jittle.of God-serving. Too many think how d5 the congregation Jike that sermon ? What did they think about the composition? But it is Wore God that we 'must stand or fall; tcf him that we must give an account at the last day. I do not think that I shall please the dandy hearei-s; I l»ope that I shall offend them. The M Lord help me, and the Lord help you* It is a beautiful text, and one tbjit I like to, reflect on. It brings many a , blessing to my soul.. We know there is a rest remaining for the people of God. I should have been preaching at ' Dublin to-day but for the death of a little child. Let the Infidel believe that children die like a dog, but I be- lieve that mine is gone to glory. 1 don't, want to be led by Iconoclast, or guUeow." It seems tome as if he stood by him ^^f" ^e said to th. blind man " See;" and to \^>« !'""«;"'*" rJ;^^ up thy bed and walk." For the prophet foretold that he woul/open the eyes of the blind, and cause the lame roan to leap ^ a hart. ' Though ho was before Christ he wr ote afterWm,fbrhew.s inspired. ^^^I'^f^l^'^ or any sceptic t«ll how ho was inspired? Til they can prove that there is no God, and that the prophet was not in- apired. I shhU continue to believe that there is a God and that the prophet wasinspired. 1 believe tlfere is ft God that lovesyouaud me, and that there are mansions prepared for you and me. "The lame man shall leap as a hart , the tongue of the dumb shallwng. In the wilder riess shall wi»- tera break out, and streams hi the desert ; and a highway shaH bethere." Thishighway i^a grand raid. ^Proprietors and contractors like to have ^ good road. ^Waggonera and carters like a good road. This is a good higliway. "It .hallbecalled the way of- holiness, and (he unclean shaU ' not pasa that way." There are many Chnstians, who Bay, they shall never reach their journey's end— never get to heaven, for everything makes against tUem. 1 txy to live near to him, but something comes to draw me from the fount^iin of livinjr, waters.'' There is so much mourn- ing amongst Christians, because you don't live apcordmg to^ God's^ruth ; you don't show m sinceri^ in your Chriatianity. There is always a <*=!» on each side^^f a good road: When I used to get^dmnk I ti'ed io keep la &e middle of th« hijrhway, or else 1 soon got .uto Ihft ditch. You voung women of fashion, you youuginen ^ fashion, you k«ep too neartheditch Gel "ppn the hig^ way If you go too near the ditch their is danger of 4d Tlilt KANSOMKU gietiiMff your. Imxda iiit« Ihe li«f ^^P {"^ S« ta«n «2ured, aWd the gos,«l trumpet sounded, and that /'" 'fllW^^R* • 48 THK KANSOMED we «i« iwdeehied not with* corniptible things but with the moBt precious blood of Ghrist. I had lived a slave of sin and the devil, for twenty-five years, but thank God I heard tell tbat there was hberty procured for Uiose that werefapt bound in sin, and— ^ -iii-r , "Sopn a» my all I Tontnred, < i, • ■ "^ ■ ,,Pn tho atoning blood, ' . . ^' ' ' , : . His Holjr Spirit entered, . .. v ■ > And I wa4 born of tiod." . . I have heard many of the Wprking-classes say that if we wanted to find genuine piet^, we must only go amongst the low«»gt grades of society, but I deny it I have travel- ledfive years, and if I wanted to find genuine piety I wouW go to "some women of title and education that I know at the present time, and who are tnie and clprfriends of^ mina. When I looked at them and see how humble-Md sanctified they are, I am ashamed of myself! They are found with David upon the throne, and in all degrees and > ranks of life from the king to the beggar. They are found with poor old Jack in the mud Walled cottaee, and in the »lendid mansion of the rich—there ijve the ransomed of the Lord. Let me Jbe one of the rangomed of the Lord It is not going to churches and chapels that naakes you the ransonied of the Lord. Yoii may ^ and sit in the class meeting, and when the leader comes and asks you how you feel, and you reply that you are bill ZionWard, I would say, " what do> you believe?" Th^reis too much lAlking about feeling, it is, what are yqu believing ? that is the question. It is not going and having your name with this or the other people, and doing this thing or that thing. Some people have told me of a man upon the bed of ddath that had been baptised, the minister's hands had been W onhis head, and the prayersof the church had been offered up for him, but it was a delusion of the devil. There waa something else wanted. We are redeemed not by water f"* ^y **^ood, A great maiiy people in the present day thmfc thiit if they became connected with this place or that, that they are aH.tight, and they go lo public-houses after tbeservioe, drinking and think that they ^ire all ri^ht. God Syr,^^:? ?.'. / faf ^^ "^QQ P»t>J'«'-ho»f^e8 as I hate to see heU*ud the devil. May God takedown the signs of every OF THE LiAlU. 40 iiv C / **' **./;•■•■■■. ^ - '■ ■■ \i^. ^■' '^ :■.- ^- "•' ■■■■•■-•■■'■ "^ " Hertto'er the eaith as iTIteanger I roam, ' ' ,. Here is no rtfst." ' \ But he could get no further. She aslsed hiih once mor^^^ and he knelt down and began again. He went on untit he came to-— ♦• Sweet is the promise I read in thy word, ' ' Blessed are they that die in the Lord, They shall be ealled to receive the rewaid i - • .There, there 18 rest*" He said again that he could wng no more ; but she threje . her vois around his neck, and said, " Father^ we will sing il in lioaven," and died. Have you never stood by - the bed adeof a dear friend, or relative, and heard them ging sOme such bymn as this-— V ^ " Bright angels are from glory come, ' ■■.■'■■■'■ They're round my hed, and ^^y room. Waiting to waft my "P»r«t.V'#'i, i.' "* ' ^ • . ■ All is wfllT, lUl fg j ycll." • - You mothera have had to soothe your dying child; jrou 53 tow^U;Je8t'8.1va8 come, att^ calls me ^m- > "tend,londyourwm«8,Iniojint,Iflyv ^\ ' . O^avo where is tbyvictory, ' " \ -. T^"!.^" Si«^. .Walk forward, and pre- Vpwanl, / .. how weather-beaten she lqpk«. We Mw an .1^ ^ an'old woman. wiOi. spectacles on. «nd »h«"^^,^>X4 , woman with a childj. hor '"■nvThe "^/^'^^V «,, »0t thought that l»««t>^»^ *»!^^? f ^"/ -;?« rma m „^>hoir.HU«>hoe,«nd^k.ngs.;and^^g^^^ ZaT but they are Bow i n heav e n,' aad they « >'^.Tg /to^twT-Soon, TM^f&^S can fememb* b W or ■ ^V-»- 04 A*. TIIR RAKSOMRD dying wife CAlHng Ilim to lior 1)edsu1o nnd flRlcing bitn lb ^ tnun up her cliildren forlieaveq, and if you coipe to the* Saviour, both your wives' and children will welcome you there, and then you will have a bright prospect of being with them where there ia no more weeping or sorrow, and no more sighing. May God bless you/ Twelve months ago, last February, my poor old mother died, my grey. headed father being 72 years of age. She called him to her bed side, and put her hand on his grey hairs, and said, '* George, the next time thou seest me, it will not be in this chamber, I am going to leave thee: the Lord bless thee. Tell my lads I am shouting victory.'*,, I went to se^ her, and I shall never forget it as long as 1« live. She said as I went to the bed side, "The Lord bless thee my lad, I can die hnppy now that I know my children are converted, I have offered up many a prayer •' for them, but I never thought my child would have come to pray for God to bless me in my dying hour," when^she laid her dying hand on my head I felt electrified, and as I passed away from her, she said, « The Lord bless thee. my lad, the next time thou seest me, it will not be in this chamber, but in heaven. I said, « Yes, mother, t'll meet yoii there where parting shall be no more." Some time ago there ytni a colliery explosion, and anltmgst the suf- ferers was a pious lad. He was a poor widow's -only child. His eyes were almost burned out of his head, a nd the flesh was dropping off hiei face and his handfi. His poor mother not knowing but that he was killed, knelt down on the ccwJ-pit bank tQ pra) ; shci said, '* Lord thy wiU be done." At las\ she, heard her boy, calling, V Mother, mother," and she ran to him. On hearing her voice, he said, " thank God^ mother, its not hell fire. — The blood of Jesus has' giver) me the victory, Imd I am going to exchange the *coal pit for the crown." I have friends in heaven, btit they have only gone before, and I am going to meet them, are not you? If you don*t ' oonie to Christ, you'll as sure go to hell as you are listen-"* v ^t, On wise en( vorketl the woi Hsfroiii -] in the < I then eonld fi and ct) the lop beaver togiv« I aim to.Rot shed { it atoi , Hreoi ftlU « but I - in tb . toG. If I . area here will t^ youi i ng to me now. — A friend of mi ne who fo r merl y profe s s ed to be an iniidel, told me a dream he had. He said, '* I ^hsftmed I was at heaven's gate, and I got to look through anu tfi ■V|. OF TiiR i^ono 56 Therftftball inno . -X On .l.<'».el'W«y ^'«™ "'" "^^!:; 'o'r'Ty thing "tl'"' i:i« enter in^ i'^ «"y »"^ ''» ^'^^ ," r/abovl*^' the^words \''^J^'^7}. ;,„,„,it„„K,j, l,ut tboso «!«> «ere HB from «in. 1 »"k«" "" " , , _ . ,„ i,Hik uniit thawordfc I then lookea ^owa fehroi^Kt « W^^^^ eo*W see the flu.n#^lmt U«,^eU,r^^^^ heaven. I t»^e« i'fV^* *¥ ^^ ;,«a ^^^ I am now wa8he4 iivlhfi ^'^" "V ^^^ ^ ^^f Christ /raa toJU,chdaletoinf^^«^TtT L^^ it' there is any- ope are about to couclucTe this meennn»^ ^ Lord,! «.iU gl«aiy »t«P aoJ l'"y J" ' { .„f Chrirt'thHi. to have - 5:;^riS;edi»m%«« start this »ftern.«n. ■ , / -r • If^- ADDEESS VI# *# I. "^ /aw»A»»^rMrfy /o &« oferett, and the Hme 6/ my tiepttrHt'f u *L, fi. f *.^^*'Io»gf^i o good fight. Ihavefimthedmifcouw, that* Ktpt the faith. Hmeeforth there is laid up far me a crown of Right- tjmtneta.yhtch the. Lord, Ue righteous Judge, shall give me at that mVf and not to me oftly, but unto all them alto that love hi* appear- «*J'.'^^2 Tim. iv. e.-8. ^'^ Jltig 8^> affecting scene to see a father giving his dying charge to his son. I have seen the dying silvery-headed l^aretil? giving his last advice and his last blessing to his son, before he gave wp tlie ghost. When like David be' Mid, the Lord wiJl be with thee, and will hotMI thee^ nor f9«ake thee. , Thus, in ray text, a father in ihe gospel Is giving his dying charge to his son in the Lord. « I chargtt thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Ohrist, who sbAljI^p'udge the quick and the dead at his appearing, and nia/kingdom. Preaph the word, be instant in season, out season; renrdvfe, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering d doctrine.' * « * Not so m^ny of us can stand to be f oiir fnulte; you niay ti^ll a man about his good iies; but reprove bini, ^-ind l^e will turn away from yf>y-„ I^ I find a man out to be a liar, I call hito a liar. il 5"- * ™"" ^- * hypocrite, I call him a hvpocrite. If I find him to be a murdei-er, I call hitn a murderer. This I do whether they likejt or not. It is the duty of every mmister to do so too, bht God knows there are too many who neglect their duty in this matter. You would not hke jrour minister if he told vou of vour faults. If a man When — J - -. •^' ■ ; r, ..^.. your preaclier rebukes you, he does so because he loves you. If you find a roan is a liar, an adulterer, a gambler, or a hypocrite, tell him of it When ministers do this, they onlv fulftl P»« like. W from ^^ ioBult iai do so, 'y< meroy u at the pi 18 inost tare, th< a good] liiswell was so tome, » told yc forgot sometl .•^- / • M ' ^i I toigL what he 88.3. IV^^nedamnea, jou wtt*"™ Something aVort *a£. , „^Mi„ h» time, for te t«riwa ^ to Christ if y.»»,W f.?i^"er«ioD of «?>•"-*.»• ^y'^'.^o^Ftove tola 1* X^^"£ ^ABo;^ "?"r T,. .t« nihor dav, toW ""* S"t. -:.i, man hem what €JbnBt aio, so x Lazarus in A W»^»»" ^ . JiTand looking up, and seeing >^ ,^^ told tHj «^lWttiiZd quoting;--''' ^Kpl«S»I •* ttVpreaehed^i;;;^ «^,t''S?.4v^ dfi^t datntv heaieva, that w]**** » , ^. wealth* and tjiey «" " liketobetoMtlattneHSj a solemn triith, »na_i™ :^s::t.Shrihe%a;-f -0v^^^^ for tbe rigbteoup, £8 mfmif^ ' itiADr. -mi •« to be , chnsliai, .»' Felix uid "Oo thyZv mTii^ ThM uaa tre,„be<, because P«„| .poke iH)methine ^t SL «ri,e wSl".""^ Call a rtai; . ,i„ XXS wT^n* t!.i ~"'^*?*^ ••« void of the offence, L« he wffi; n™' ?• ■"*", ''1, " » "''«''• "nd if he be not on* w« s"* ben 1 *« *• wte'tra^f^rr £v^t|u^e«^^ l^otruth^hadcometol,is heart, and he told what he i^ji?!i'^^'"«t ^ '' '« ^'*J^ the Chmtian he ^nnot r„LT • * J corainon prostitute; then he will geek out another to degracleinhicemanne. It is^af he Wood of Mch men that we «eek to clean«e our muds, such men ' l^:^Zir7 ^P-fitutionthanothcn^^^ «l.il^ ■ '^^ ^'^^^-^«"n<' on the track of a man b2r Ket/^ ^'7:?^ "'^^ ^«-*- I^ia^to wa^h^ur .?j t.i„ Y* '"°^^ *"^ the ecotter who d ^ ny Q od^B ty^ino: ' aud^blaspheme his name. They Sn/ny U.e M^ f«uw Ma^ Uw Lord hav^ mercy upon you. p«ul REAby.. (^9 p^ea ^•e trut. on i^^ {TtM atid told J^^^'?;>^„f ^>' ' fu and the poWer of Wemu^t preach ^^^^ «J,,i*??^,Srt<> ^e faithful, and ' God unto salvHtion. ^!«. '';' ^ T^'^i bo preached in we must bo HO too. The P'7«' ,""!". ^"^^^^^ hypocriteR Union Btreet Chapel, 'jf >-^,»^^ ^e ','"^1 if^hey do you must repent and walk ("^^.^^'^^^ noon this or that Jhriatians. Mini^^^--^ ^rr^rJ tt S^ matter, and not attending to {^^^ ^^^^^^ instead poacher. '^^-^:^^^'':,'L^^^^ of lecturing in ^,*"^J^,7 To save souls well, I •ball preach Christ, io « ovoclaim far and It i.' the blood of «»y. ^'^^S^^t^lt^^^^ ChrUt wide. I'-iWgl^'-^rri^^aletme H^^^^^ may talk . ice Barker, Iconoclast, and Geoige^^^^^^^^ ^ ^^ .bout leforni, but there ^« ";^f "^^^^^^^^ truth of the rottBtieign ..Whoro'ertWBmi,, Poth hia Buccessivo journoy'Mun. dilligent, reprove and rebulie. f am u "iSl^dl w isa ■# KKADV. oilored. I ptii-bajw hnve no itioro thiin tlirac^ ur four liovrti to call my own, This in vnry ditl'tirent lanfiriiRge to wbiii the Hceptic ciin uho, and FhuI w»h a very inu(>li ohangV. al ''A ■ ■ . in...- muVlhuv nWtig^r^ thepiU ,K^"[^;;fw..a i..MH).tnnc« ^^^^j^'^ While ai „^r H Uttlo k>y>« - , j .„e ,a Lock J Sintt ^ J^ ^„ carried l»V'" VI ^ ^„„rtj^ shov, thHt a««":»^V J ^^ only S'iv'our. ^r^oX^ J^^^y^ once make ch.. 0^0^^ tho^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ tbey have given up i^^^^^,ee of ^ Bot preparejl to RO^ ^ ^^,.^,1 U) di;^ l^'^Jii' ^ be re- To those ^;"/;;JiIuB Christ 'l^^^^^^^'^^v that i*' believe cm the Lord J^^^^.^^^^^^,a.^T^^^ ^''?*?^Z and am now ready U.b^ ■ ",vcrlM,Jl have - a good figH »« ^^ ^^a «"»<^ Ij^^i ' ,,„d what 1 can ffuago of ^"® V thit I am ready to uie, » ^^^^ ISSSsSifSK^ 62 RKADY. ngbt. Ihe world ,8 now much aifltated. Anier^ RuMia, Prussia, arrtl Italy, ar^ much "disturbed, and Det' ^ou^drr tfi li*"^"" Tf V'^' «« '»«^f christians stand snoulderto shoulder and fight the eood fiirhL I trr ♦!! iDW> eveiy Street and every house. We. have nfl«mA« - I^re i^dy to%htagain^ the F,^nch' wlcr^'iS eSvln^ll^"'''"' ^"^ ^*'^ ^^^-^ '»^« 'destruction^ - • SK/tf ^*;"'«»v lt«« jr.-eatey honour t« fight , - wods battle than that of any earthly kinff. When w* i«v^ won the victory/we shall receiVe ammn of d(^ e^JII^ wS ''' '^^ {inHiancy, bnt shineX^^S IvIrnL ^^^^u^ Pohsh.ng, There we shall re& for ever aftd ever ,n the piwuce of the Lamb that diS^ ' h^T **'«'*-«'-e ««*»^e race-runners here, whoino^ i^ two racers a^^^^ M^^^^^^:^ hi^pistle^ISm^ I^^UJ^Sn!! « i^ ^h' 'f^^'"^*^^' *"^ describing his end . -t^ncran^? ifJh' *f ^^^** describe. some of the --iirecian games. If there be any race-runnere. Diff€on-flF« J^ on tJ^e Lord Jesus Ohnst; then follow the golden rule do b^ told me that though he had oj^^^^^j^^^^^^^^^ door rather than go to the poor-l.ou««.)^^^^^^^^ the futur*. # - heaven. He t«U {'^ f^^^f ^ „f ^fen. lie^eli and a crown was laul ui> *«' *^'\^ " Q,,een Victona ^ remembered a.e.o^n«^^^^ was crowned. ihe »^H J «^ ^^ ^^ li, rejoiciiUiC; ^ ^^ ehapeU were ^I'^r^'*"*^ "^M^"^^^ - wlEe when aUe shunted ciowd^n^et^^nu.1 ^ .^ thia world^Uyingibr heaven. Bu^the^^ arenotliv]ngforafutm,■■ Jesus lovor of my soul. Let mo to thy bosom fly." She said to her little boy» «' will jpu meet me in heaveaf^ and then turning to heir husband she got him to promisb to meet her in heaven too. But he was very slow to t«^ he would, at list h6 said, « 1 will try. She died with her little child clinging round her neclt, arid in the armsr* that husband who had jUst then solemnly promised meet jier in heaven. They had otheir children but tbey were at^work, and she committed them to the care of her Almighty iifiviour, Friends, are you nearer heaven than yoti vreie yesterdayl I am, and I hope y<>u are. I am nearer glory t^ian I was, 'mfd nearer my crown. Every man and woman in this chapel may haveacrowri of life if they will, for I believe no man or woman ever lived that had not a portion of the Spirit, and if they have gone to hell it has been -there ow#f«ulL Salvation is free to aH, and if they will not receive it they will surely be damned. Redemption through the blood of the Lamb is what all may have, and if they refuse it no one is to blame but themselves. We must get to heaven through the blood of the Lamb which was shed for every man. I ask you all to take it as freely 'as it is offored. and you will blessTGod that ever you atiended Uuion-streei«Chapd. fi You know h< I can, a all that and we wiUbl« yOtt wil lastSui |ectard< ■iUlteto thepi^ «hould the Of pie to persoi chape we cfi heart 10,0( at Al day, I am Som bav< I w< thei • and of: ,,. ^oi heart, I PT'^^^ 1 th^^^e^^^^^^ shapter t*^ ^Kr««ry.anaI.-»"'- f •..-■v. 00 THE MASTKu's C.Khl Itrhich wjw a lovely spot. In the hwtoiy of the Roileemer ' we tiiid that he often wended his way to Bethany,' after l)eing tired with the, toils of the day. Why? Because there wero/eome Uf \ml hosoiu friend'* there— a hrother »nd twosi/ters— tiud they loved Jesus. Tlio people 0iH Jove Jesus are his friends, and 1k^ is fond of being with them. What a thing if is, to ho a frionped the deaf ears, and inada the lame to walk, but they did not kiicw that he hadevev worked siieh a uiioicle as that of raising the dead. Infi-. dels may sneer and scottl Joe Barker and Iconochist wy that there was nothing superior in Christ. If he is only » man, tb|te is no man in the world that there is so much said about m there is about Christ. Only nanie the namo of Jesus seriously and solenudy, and what an effect it seema to produce. Cooper said that when he was a scof- fer be always reverenced the name of Jesus. Chrigt was fouji^not with plenty of this world's goods— ^not making his abode amount the rich meti, but amongst the outcaste"^ of society. If his parents had been rich, and of noble bloody the people would have sjiid, " all hail," to him ; but lie was poor-— :the carpenter's son, and bad « to use the finilet) and the hammeri and plane ; the j^ople rejected im. He was all the bjetter for it; he \knew what men Itftd to do, and ho could sympathise with his fellow-mor- talft, Though he took upon hini our nature^ he was God TOaniftwted in the flesh ; and though jou may scoff about -him, his name is extending, and will extend from pole to-~ pole. .The^excelieiit of the earth will publish this name ahmad, liet Joe IJmker get another printing' press, and {niblish his Natmuul Reformer^ anry of the cross "has doiu*, don't olily ask the iilan who lias been' s Til* .MASTKb's V.K\X. 67 after CHUM otlier 111 At with He ) liirh ' at. lie mada I ever t my only nuch lame Mit it scof- > was castR loble ; but J the jcted men mor- . God boat '^-J ^„ they >»»'' "' ""M^m" Vopp^o «* f" T fcl to W« ¥ "ai-'-rtlSmed the fe Vato « .1"^^. l>ow to htm as »^"'U^t,_„ turned tbe now ^n''" " .'-^^^ . iHe name of Jesus. « Y«f ^^^^^ ^. U\^J>^X^^ \ hilt while you are la«g">"g ' i v„ ti^e power ot my andWp the "eeiJ^- .."y,„ r^rist ie eoing^oWB to Bern •"in thi chaptef before ™^hroM taken «> ill that he ivA, J"".^" „ „y brother » w™?.^ „*ev.h«i their tear* ^^^ The Je«» haJ tnei to T\^ y» no M>»1 «o «°"''?l"V,,ttheV cool* not bring. ' Sterile P<>?^«'»?t^?SS^ 4^ H t"^^ : 5So housee m one week. T >t^ ^,Uies. bui I vras^ P««^ 1"^ 08 plaioe ti can bi den, ^ again. ** pon^ef 1^ ntj full of %m ^iic!» kt afti Ul^ * i^^lMili^Iw^eth ' in TtitK • I n I i*- 4 i a fnei ibve-tl , arid^th^cleviHi^bU Ipi cleaci to tiv< |iii6t dead, but vn, an^ he had rivftie; his heart waa sisten^' aa he Baid,^ said, i»l know that nj-*fibum'ctiqn morning." .. But h» ifpecti^n Atid the life,, he that belJev- were Umd^ yot jshall lie live, and ha^ , m^ "^^^' ^^^^ « Martha, believest '^ ;Sbe'8ai(f '< J beKeve that ^u art the Christ.** , ui'*?"^^^?.'^^ ^> **""' *f^* h^i#^the.Son of Qod J^icb 'iK^ttt'into, the worlcj^ ani«b^w^nt' to her- sister ***7-' VP»tMaic|,, •♦ Mary, th Jtf this WorW»>5« V *«1£*^^SlWeWm--yo« t>'J^Pi ^d many » and been **''?^^tv^rii*ht^ ^^^*^ ^?t* St-3E»^'»*»^" «i . ^e bftve «ot g^K^,,j^ and be has ^^^0i:Mri^% ^-^ miidea and tolf^ ME^ witb every '^^'StoiiEW^ ■.^^ */\.m0Dt. Ill" ■ ' ■"■ ■ It- , J Uereto-wg^^ ^^ \- >*'' •¥? .^4 J*- V ^0 THR MASTKK*a CALt. •tnven with thoir he«rt8. There are pWy of p^nk who don't go to Gocl's bouse ^because th^^now^^^ w^ll -lu" T'"'^^'*"^ they Jove 8in and^the iTu tS iW l5*"l*'" don't like to look into the Bibirb«.«^ ther Imow^ev are guilty. There aie plenty of pwriSlS ^hdale tiat dur«t not come into the cLpeT ; th^ffow tW would be converted. Let them come> God7|ro.D3 Ji tfce plan by which mankind must be reform^ .nd w Ijnow n must^e don,. Oall man by whSH^^tS^ t^^^"^^^ them.^ Theit, ^Jw «r fl!Li I "^ """"^ i^ ^f^' me preach, arid the Spirit rL^^'^r^'**'^^ ?l**"'' **^'*- When she w^t hSme is te*^ r^' *"^ ^'r ^"«**«°^ ««^™«d much .urpriS! and 1 went to see him. He told me if ever I preached fZTw ^'u^T"^' ^"^^^ P"" me out of th^/™S L^hf^ i!"f; W^,^'''^'' you pull meout of theWp^ SwSiT?*' liere again." I did preach, anS ^ Chi?! S.t™^ and I said, -Who will volunl^ for he said, "I wiU volunteer for ctrist; when I Sme to tha Chanel to-night, I was determined that I woulHrne and 2n^r^ i *»r ^^""^ V"^ ~^^<>»^" I have not aeen ftat man for two years, but I know he is on his way^ to heaven, and that he is living as a resoectable , consistent christian. Perhaps you hafe gone toTJTa T:^JTf''^^i^^ ^"^^ haifSnS ;S tJ go agam; but you have gone, and the Word has come S^ and Christ hts come and tak^^iTS Ih^A K r^ ""^ *h^ ^'"^t Reaching of the ffospel on the^day of Pentecost. The people saidT '' These S^S^..^ third hour of the day, and he preached Christ to W * rtotasr'T."'*-" ^'\!^-^-' what mr^i^e qo to pe saved ? Thereia s on io th n g in the ffOBfwfthst men cannot withstand^and is it hS no'^^TT ^"■■^^^"■^■^y- ■■■■■:. ■.," ■ \ « !m'«"*s,T '■ :-'A-- Itt^ MA8TRH ft O*!-!- fl tbeprbBeht t»ne. 1 JJ»\3,^^ i,.eon». tlnrty cocks. 1 to hSar me prA^ ^".^rT^SoSn the team begati ^, and bens, and ^bree rnl^^>-^"t^^^^^ ^^ preaching «g«5 to fall down bifl f«ce. He came ^ ly ^^^ ^^^j^^ a • iJ nigbt^ and ^r.^b^^ ,e -nt V> b^J ^ like a child. A)n tueioii^w i? . ^^^. j cannot :Xk^„ the <7»:f :;>f ^;ta\"wibe W ^^^ be- • -work,\I am afraid if \^^'*' Tnravod for God tosavii ! ttm, and be said, *'^?^„r .1^ went to. bis woik on.the ^ I winaef if be loves me? . f^^^' ^ he came out of iT^ay^buUhe^couW^ge^B^^^^ the coi-pit in ^»« ^^. r^^no peace, and he went Wediiesday, but coidd ^^» |^^t.Uit up stairs, M / • home. As soon as he j^ot "»«'\. , j pible, and the AV^eyan Hymn-book. Who^ j^^, ,tj,ther; ^be : ^, i^Look, this « ^^'J .f ^^ x^ have never read^a made me a present ^'Jj J^\j^^„ the Bible, : and , he , chapter out of it. , He Ima a ^^^^^ ^^. took up the hymn-book and m mencing ^ i« My God I l^now I foOl t]?;^? ™*^''» ' f ' . He i.»teBtly ""^.a.t.^Uft » '"'"y"' "■^ .• AtWgbere ^f^^^J^t Go^^^^^ find peacS^n sik n;S^*«- g^„^^^f .ou can -el uu to-mght sinniTiiteCcmyeri^ JSm ,^l vour^ins. . Some o^ l^d 8«y *bat ^^ ^:^1KSU Aivd^y^^^ have to thank yMtore you, that you wouM begin to serve him. May the Lord help you r> keep yoOT vow. I once saw an old woman lying on a bed of;ffifli|tion and ^le said " IQthe Lord will restore ine, I will do differently." The Lord did reatore her; but when the doctor was not wanted, OhriM was not wanted. S^^ wns laid iHj^n a bed of affliction a second time. I called to e^ her, ajid sh^romised God if He would oqoe more mercifully restore her she would give up her evil ' course of life. And she safd. ''If I am laid upon bed of affliction again it will bo too late thef|r^e|yill have nothing to do with me any mbiu The lust time I mail be damlied. . The Lord again raised her upAMt h^sows wool was laid upon a bed of » affliction and he proimised ^MlMJpoi'^ i^ ^^^P^^ PQ^ restore hinjplie "would lead ^^P^rent Jife, d|N| he wouW not ne^iit his family as he haadonie'be* ' restored%im, but the iihm went on in sin. Ii second tfufie and restored. His di ^iilto laid down a third time. Some for him,l)it^he't(6|tl them thej^ might devil toJ^ savdd as him. The last wor( w %lcVed fail comes bor out of l)od bear her c her pray that all w came to ^ «*Ob, Mr ^^yfathe ^^d whe with her She aaid shook hi asked h< sUb repl ftod abo go witl The fat to the would said vr1 and "lie e to pnj ell^y for tlie" he uttered were, _ __ ned," and gave up the ghost Have you not promli^ God when \e has afflicted you that if he would restore ^ou, you would Serve him, but you have broken your vow. He calls sometimjQsby^ a little child. They came to GocVs house^ and hear something about Jesus. Thexso home and tell their parents, and uie father seems to i>^ilftrmerl, How many parents have to thank God 'that ever their children went to the Sabbath SohpoL When a Christiaii mother was once dying, she put her ■ ^ | band on her only chikl*H head and saidj^ "liook to Jesus I ^Q^ and meet me in heaven." I went t5 preach at tHe plaot I ' ins shortly afterwards and the little girl said, " Will you tell me *. 1 tul how I can meet my mother in heaveii ? I have got m waBC< that 1 been i agreJ look! jump asl^it wasl **W Iain all i« ' can was •»i» w»»^« T'^v n bear her crow. Ij**^," .,1, „»ct an unction anW^poww. ?^r pmy in the ^^fc^^ When the mcctnigvvas ove^^^^ ♦Li »U vere wtonllkeci. ^ *'* • ^^^ uU» »he saw, iime io^e «nd gStin^ f^^fdRO Cl Uve with vp«, ^vfitherw to, wicked. °»5 j aid not nhftke hand* l^when 1 HiK!*"^«i hiTie sat down and wept. ^^< AhA laid ** l-aw^^'y 7 ? »^niwht but me " Her tamer „ked bet t.Ue ^W^;^, ^Iked ^ her .bout b»»«»^ ;Hb replied thai Mr. "«?^ ^ -.he .sked her WW' " «n with her to ask MJ. »Y» • ^^ »ith you. nec»ui« t> the ho«« "'■"•.^ClTehXn handewi* me. 8to *^a af great «»^;' ^,tJ.S hi. "^ H"*' S""*""' f * t nrtoiri «ith him, and tT^'^y^ " nralSu^^'-^^ "<«!:• 'T»hf«idfoC father. «A^»P»««*»'<'*±r He "pliS. "Tell.b« ircomingtohea^n. a^«»'«^„ ^^1 «•» f'^^ •» » •tU"elMk'Sitdo«nin»mo^^^ «»» 'tXll whihadinftdelparente^and^y*' „^^ „j waaa litUegin w» ^^ ^\^^\^ to reau *" , „, ihat they would not ft"<>^.;r', ^^^h whom she waa ptay^ S^ Iheliekrd some J^^^^^e^ they \^ ^^'^ • 1^Kr,-»im'^*T?" u fBI MASTlR'fl CALL. is^ f ff (lifjr would ullow btr to |6 to th« Mbool. She w«iif borne and (oM her rnotber tnat she waa going to th^ Sab- batb Sobool, thai she bad protniMxl and sbe would go.-~ The niotber told her that her father would not allow her. 0he told her father, and he aaid if she went she would have to go without hi^akfast. Well, the rooroioff oamor and she wended her way to the Sabbath School. She was there rii inontha and the teacher prayed for the Lord to bleat theehUd. She waa laid upon a bed of aflSiction^ and the man would not allow any%>ne belongmg to tbeacbool to eater the housa The doctor came, and when the fath- er asked him what be thought that rooming, he shook bis bead. He saw there was no hope for the child ; sbe would be dead in less than three hours, and they ooidd do what they liked ibr her. The father went upon the ■tairs and be began to weep as if bis heart would break. He tok) his child that the aootor bad said he had done all be eonM and that they would have to give her ud.^-^ She said, ** Father, do you love ine V* And he said *' Vesr 1 do Jove thee," SlSe then asked him to send for her leadiers to pny fo^ ber. The parents said ** Let as do sci if that will do her any good." The mother went to the aebool auperintendeitt As soon t» she saw her teacher, •be said "The Lord bless you that ever you told me aboat Jesas.** I was there and she asked us to Mng a byinn, and we sung—- / ; " Tkere is • land of pore delisht," Ao. She Aen said to ber mother, " If you love me, won't you meet me in heaven." She repli^ *'By the help of OojKk I will " She aaid to her fether;^ " Don*t yftu love me^ and be said^ **I do love vou, my dear child." ♦• You wilJ meet m« in Wven, won^t you then." He dropped upon bis knees, and critd out, *'Tbe Lord nave nie,"and he •aid ** I will meet thee in heaven by the help of God."— She said "Gome Lord Jesus, and come quickly; good by^ good hye.- And she died si^ingt, *< Hap^, b^py» hiappy." Since then I have been to the bed side of thai motner,and she died happy. I wen||ginn and the father was at the point of death. He savp* I bless God that ever my d died, be s^ bim on nij dying cbil the Lord, terroined takea an bad a pin Godo stricken more ha good, ar sent to drink, s pell 1 Qodb€ way to not wb Williai aback baih-l tbou < oppor warn and and « tbee entre ally ,„■<»» ^^"^tit 1 „o« hMin in tbe "fj^ „T° X«ffbter-ho««».Pf>P'lEi good, .nd while «e h«ve tho«" 8 .^j^, who trfw S™tto hen wholewle- How c«n . ^ ^, (j<». dri.k^»«nd»pi-<'^P;Jj'^^t!^rte™Vnight. »?!' „H If iheroi" > poor j^^'^Thou once wm on the ^id help thee M.tnrn.ndlve.^T^^^^ wsY to heaven end d d «t «»'» „ ; John, ThomMS or Tot what thy name i»-:">'f*f ,* Thou didi* become a om)ortunity. 1 believe there w a v ^ ^^aster w come Sa.onettatm»«.J.v^J»^^ S >» bacWidere to-night. pie, »«« - Lord save # \ oy '/ .■' I "JT^m^ , ^ *,*■ « , ADPRESSVni "TJke voage* of «m u deaih; but Oie 0t of Opdi$ ttenuU liftf ihrough Juu» ChrUtovr Loira/'--''Rom. vl 38. This text has been upon my mind, both while wstiiig upon my bed, and while standinc; upon my feet torday^ J know plenty of people who say that the Bible is a fopl- ish book. One day when I was away from home, beiflg fatigued, I laid myself down upon » >pfa, and closed my eyei. Two young ladies, belonpnc to the house wheirol was staying, came into the room. They stood and kwked ^Ht tbemsetves in a large mirror. One of them was nice tooking, and tha. other, Isuppose, would have had a much * .prettier face if she had made herself. One of the sisters Said, "Is Richard asleeprv The other replied, "Yfis.^ ,She then fqund fault with the glass, and sud that sheWlas better looking than the glass made her appear; *'«ndi^e wished her. father would sell that glass." There are mwy A peopWiooking in the mirror of God*s word; but because ^ . ft shows their bad deeds, and sinful habits, they don't like . it, imd they abuse it. That is the way with Joe Barkeiv Iconoclast; and many otbeHjB. ? was a rum-looking 'oldr cusiomer when I looked in it at first, biA-since that'^me^ J God has used his jack-plane upon me> and squared iH; " •^p. I am gtad that tl^ere are so many working m« assembled 4n this place of worship. The text |f^pplica!l| to fkM Of us— «* The wages el si^is death/* - ■ / : • The text concludes a v'cii^ powerful exhortation to cdme to Christ. I believ;e thiS there is a w|pt of christian chanty on the part of professing christiMiiB, If I fook sound at the different placed in Which I have labouredi I a 4o tKA> **^, workmen i worship; ii if he is a c men are U masters, fessing chi If we are ^tionsiipoi * pocri»y * ' |he pride ^ nian is n 4«^^doiJ Such at oufs^** helping great tr is too m and wo ought 1 do not and th three t thede< inany gold i bappi mi weu4 God, Ood /* I-P -jme!— «« WA<«B OT M» " »»*** :V( d my lere.I v. Mked nice /* . mucli tiftem Ym.^ e^ . di^e o, DQany A ' : .<-' ■■ 'tlike urker^ ). ^oW \ , ^ 'timfr's^ v^ ^^'^ i m«(i '"»' 1 vtian ' ' 1 rook I ed. I 1 ■ ■-..-■,«.■; ]■...., A THP WWW- ■.•,, ■ ■■_:.;; wtoen think «»»» *,*!^h«pel.th«y ^o^^fS w beta »«'""*''?"* ^m&minit *• x™* "^^ nto- - - 1*^^ U»e up to the ""''^i^S ^" Wtto. ^woor • ;.«^Sl.-ti«.e mo, 1 «»»«?»Jl«:t'lfeJSt being -ell. # '7»> T^S WAOB8 OF Bltt ^^ ■'.'s. c^rriagtt or a tkfrd-Qlam, I should liayo been a ee«tleniati, because the love of Christ was in my heart Neyer mind, iny friendiif you have not sixpenoe in your pOckiaiti; if you have the love of^Chrisfe "you a*© a gentleman. Our oonversation had referencei to the war in China. I want to brine war to an end, for my Bible does not tell me to go* to the battle-fi4lld. He aisked me whether I liad read about.llie ransac^ifi^ of Pekin, and how the places there were destroyed ? andlsl^4' *' -^^^ ^^^^ ^^ \>^xv done by a a Bible coitnitry." I 'said, "Bid the Bible tell them to do itr He said. "No." I said, "Then do not talk so, let us be giiided^by the bpok of God. The heart of man is terribly deceitful and desperately wicked." He said Dr. Watts was going to prbve at the Free-trade Hall, Man- chester, that man's heart is not naturalljf deceitful. |^id, **Does Dr. Watts know his own heart? Suppose you were tQ lend me^lOO just now, and when you wanted it baipk, I told you that you could ik>t have it, what would you say ?" He said, " I shfi^ld swf that you had deceived me." I said, "Would you say my ©yes, my ^ead, or my heart, had deceived you *' He said, " No, I should say that your heart had deceived me." Well, that is what thd Bible says. I ^o not need to say that Joe Barker has a deceitful heart, for he haa told you that himself. If you do not mind him he wflH blindfold you. I.said toa Ciq»taJn in W<>oJwich (^ friend of mme) the other day, <«I wish to God you would^e up." Bathe said, **What can I and my wife (k*. ]^aiMM>«red him, *• What *'do I and ray wife dof I'rusi in the Lord and. he will pro- vide." And r Wieve that if the people would do so, we^ should have 1^98 scepticism th^ we have^ • There is nc^ one here but has something to be ashamed dt. . Plenty of you woi^ld be thieves if you could be so without t|ie law getting hold of you. Ijots of you would ^be the greatest scoundrels on record, if you coiild c&rry on your ne^rious practices without being found ou);. But therel is a day of retribution coming at last, and, " Tho wages <^f sin iS iie^li."' There is not an unconverted jf^jiiti ti^rejnft has something of the devil' about him, if yoii do po( uiiiad yo^r souls will be brouglit to ruin. • As I travel O} abotttXtne mendottoi 8«bbath, b are i)rie»t-| «in-ridden. bouse, mo liook rou! souls iii y out prayii prevails', follow-m( Ther€r come of big one, -one will. place he thought said th< esis to ■all thy bow J Bible^ notit'i M man to bet Th< takes ««Bea in oni IjancI - tod* a^di - '; beg£ pare * r^ ■■ ■■.,," j^ou nut *- 1^ ■■> .x ;•*:;•• ..... .. ■ . •■.■•> •. ■ •• ■ , ■.-■■-. ...\ • ■■•». ■■. ,■ SS^Via not consider it^ «^ J^^f ^^i'„ irelund the pecq)^ ^ • I^irround:about yoii, ^'^ /^J^^ to 1>eB to-iyi rople Mijr ; '^ '• Richard, you want to cause' war." I 4a vriint'to CRUfle war against poverty, pauperism, and (IrUtikJ^tineas; I know that lan^dlords and lamtiadies 4o , not nke me. Go to their houses, and gaze on the drunken father and deffra(le4l husband; look at the wife» with her pale wan cheek, and see what drink has done there. I would take that drunken father by the band, and say- — "God UeHs you." I have seen much of drunkenness and siiii The other day I heard a kndiord call a drunkard'a .child a h'ttle devj], a& he turned him out of his house, while the landlordVson was being educated at a boarding- school. In the public-house people say " What a fellow Richard is.** I dare say the landlady will say, "Yes,! wish 80»nebody would turn him out of the town." But. I shall not leave the towtai ; until Ghriist wishes it. When living in Prescott, there was a m»n who was a very witty character— a man whx> had-Spent his money like I had spent mine. He had been a fool for the devil, and a fool for the publicans. I paid a visit to his family, and found °no one at home but his poor, careworn wife. Her face was sadely disfigured, and her nose was broken. I ques- tioned her about the injuries she had received, and she .told me that her brows had been kicked lu by her drunken husband. Now as I looked at that woman .1 cpuld not but syivipaihise with her. I had known something of that in my child howl, and I know what it is to see a mother'sj heiart brokvn though infamy and the devil. I prayed with lier, and believe she got peace And pardon that night. The ■ husband came home about two o'clock in the morning, and< because thare was not r^gat in the bouse; he dragged her down stairs, by the hair of the head*g| He broke uiree., of her ribs, and swore be would kill .W^he bad -blinded [ one of her eyes, and bruised the othet** I ikwoke' about; tiiat time with an inapression that I niust go at oncie to see that man^ I dressed myj)0]f and went out. Numbers . of people were running, they told me that he had half killed his wife. I went to the house and asked where he The ueighbottl^ l^>e^g«d iiie not to gqfiurfls Be h^d- ■'*'. wa& aworn he would kill the first man tliat entered the door. I Went la. V Ht^had in his hand a great big i^ife. I went in wHb the Bible in luy hand, aiKl be said^ '< I shall* not have you it." He you;"l)U flion/* ) "Ireroe wiih DM ■ay y^ Qe aaid, my tntf 'fbrthe€ Baid"C you," a a jBinpe if you p: He<«««; got b' : thoug] devil i bis wi prom" Dr bastil It i» youti wors initj pov< rain wbi ««F . ed ..mo • Sh bei «b "■'•'■ ,•. ■ .to • \i^ »» « " f y ■ f ■■ I*, '■r. IB 0«ATH., %1 / «iiK me. and teach me w »«P V* . ,. j. ^^j^ gatne by y- ■ SIS -Kicbard.|it do^"^* l\t\ei'l leave off maying Sy motfier wa. dying sbe "^^^^X^^er forg^^ ^±^ 'S; thee nobody ^^ae^^V , V« i «^d. "Cbfist ca\«^* tidV^ blei tbee. ™y ^^^-l-lCcknl 1 have been Irinper for «> many years.;^^ ^^J^ ^ ^ •»:^yTl. to -ife" fetehed «. I'* ~»^ ,„. They •« ""J •'^'^ She Bail bei: name ^,^^J"^^^ not got one now. .ibe in dead *nd gone. J^^\,^, and sbe; "^^^^ J'^ Lked ber when bet mother u , „ ^^ ^ ^^^ b'^rwftereWfal^^^^*J\i^ ber cheelc a*d.«iWl* \- _ • I. - >b TUB irAaiJS dv sm ■ «»■«■■ bIcM th«c." the roother dead, the father iii fiildren in the baatUe, that is the fruit of 8in.-r-^ < 6s8dd, thing it is that though wo have pronged .merejjr 18 juRtthe same. Lopk round about on ■ of 'sin. .You see it in every ho^e— every street ley family. "The wages of sin is deatJi." Look . , i*and Gomorrah ; look at the ante-diluvian peo^f pie; look at Judas; and you will see that ''The wages \df , sin is death;" death temporal, and death eternal. Ilie penalty of teurder is death, and neither prayer nOir eii- ^ treaties eiin avail. Velverton got the^best lawyers to plead his cause, but the verdict was in favour of the wo- man, an^ very properly so. Good husbands make gp6d wives and children. I am sorry wheft I hear some ex- Kessions made use of in the public street,-^such as "1*11 ► aaiTined if I do," or " Ijl go to he'll," Ac. I heard one motherly to her child, " Young devil, I'll kill thee^". People think nothing about using such expressioiis. v But God ^vs, "The wagesof sin is death." How many there are wMo would sacrifice everything to go to hell^whd) w6uld commit' murder, suicide, and everything that was itifaltnous. Look at the conflicts that are raging in socie- ty-^hushand against wife, children against motheFS and fathers, and mothers and fathers a^inst children. If you look these things in the face, it J^ ^<)ugh to foake Vou shiiddeivv ■■;■-. . > -^ ':::■ ;:'^' ^H;,-'?^'* ■,■"■ v'\,;;v-" Siich is the sin of this worJdy that it^ unsafe to turn girls into the street, for there isa slaS^h^r-house here, and a devil-house there. There was a yOung man in Liveipool, newly married and dothg very, well, but he went td a pi^ liio-house. The office was given up, businetenl^Iected ito¥ character lost, and his friend^ deserted hiin. The publio- hpuse, washis ruin. The children are begging thehr hmdi and the mother is in poverty and ^misery now. lS>u cair see him now at the xjorner of the street, looking like a- walking ghost, with l^is wan ^d 'Ciire worn wife beside him. He (iomes out of that public housed his wife imploni him to come home, he fells hto ip, the grofind. the S* V felit falls out of her arms and sdreams.out. He seizes it, by its feet: and^ dashes its head against the lamp post and throws k lifelees on the stone^'at hisfeet. .He is arr«st#d and came into the b picture tb feUleyH* .;^Pa a W01 any clotl lt'»«g • her nak^ the sobs Fathers fescue. teno^dl 4»n0 ro wOh! and »ff Bow n while J "Mptl ..■"Coi ; engttri waviti ,•:"■.; You I same «ftgin with mow €omi ware posV Euis the -dan i>Tei I te liv< for i& an Ol tb . ;><: 18 BSAtB. ■ •8 ?i™»o the back streeU of l^^^^'P^, ^ Walk down tUitdirty mnv clothing. !« * ^"l TRoe; without » rag to oovej her nabA«e«^ IJ^J^,"^.^^^ my drwAen fattier,^ ^"^ '^^!f««tS*Thi8iB throu^ m^^^^^ the BObs and «ayB^ itt me entreat y<>tt to co"'®^^*" fathers and«iotbei«l«tine ^^^ jo»xi i«^i» wa- C^ to deaA^ ;f 'I'vSrUi^ ^"^ «^ - InoineiwJJ^f,^^^ t«med^i^«* : wOh! niy cHild. n>y:cnjK»' r the cause of thia. fiow maoy ^vU ^^^'^^.^^JSIou is g<5ng forth, will aay whileJheientence «f.f^^'^ ^:, %jW many ^^ " Motber, you w^re ^^ ^ the cau8e:of tbi«; . ^ . y en^-?^^stling andtbe^^ „,^ wav^g a ted flag. «««! ^'''^t^o trains approaching on the !lw " What rouat be done.^ ^ ^ po > : *• The ^ft of God is ctornal life." God ia willing to take you into hia arms to-night. If I had a cofnmijMion ttoxn the Que^n, to go up and down the street and tell th« |>eop]e that they must quit tfa& milla, for I had a pen- jftloti of £52 a year for them, would not that b« some- thing good and great? Would'nt you' be sayinff, «* Richard, have you got my name down f That would be a nice thing for a poor man. I have hot got that, but something more precious. J have a commission from the King of Kings, to tell yOu •* that he that beUeveth on the Son of God shajl be s»ved» and have, everlasting life,^— (t is a free gift and Christ oifdrs it to ypu. yi^'hile I was , in PreHCot, a man who kept a public-house commenced cursing me. H^ cursed God, and I' blessed him, and said "Lord have mercy upon this man." I said that I believed that before twelve hours had passed , away some of those ^ f resent might be dead. The man asked if' it was him! said, "That it might be him." That same night his landlord ^ave him notice to quit the ho|ia«i, when he jumped up and said, "You may go to hell;" and stepping back he fell down the cellar stairs and was killed, crying oat» **I am damned." " The wages of sin is i^eath." I would ask the young men and women now present, where they will be in 1862? Ohild ren will be^ weeping for a lost mother or father ;^ — fathers and mothers foir their. , lost children. If you wish to know what are the torments of .hell, ask the evil spirits who were CMt into hell 1800 years since. I believe that if you do not come to Christ yoii will go to hell. May Christ save you all. An old woman aaid^ne day, "if I go to hell I'll keep a bawdy hiiuse.' I said, "Before December, 1857^is out, if you ^o not repent 1 brieve you will be deild and damned. Shtf toid, " Who made yon a prophet?" I said *« God." Shortly aftw a friend told me she was dead; and that she had died calling upon God to damn her daughter. 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