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To and ing per the thai stir: clas resf in t tian exh imp citi( this for prer can tow] trut] add] life. B0\7 with and iatl one whic and thefl nieai heg ou t] BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. -♦>♦-♦- rcB. The Author of the following Discourses is a remarkable matt» To the attentive reader this fact will become speedily apparent^ and the conviction most certainly forces itself upon every reflect- ing mind, that the preacher has been providentially called to the performance of a peculiar and much-needed work. It was at the instance, we beheve, of the Hon. and Rev, Baptist W. Noel^ that " Richard Weaver" came to London, and commenced those stirring and pathetic addresses to large bodies of its working- class population, which have made his name to be known and respected throughout several of the most densely peopled districts in the metropolis. I'o a mixed assembly of Ministers and Chris- tian Gentlemen, held last April, Mr. Noel gave some very earnest exhortations on the necessity, in order to produce a religious impression on the minds of the masses congregated in our gi-eat cities and towns, for employing all available instrumentality to this end. In illustration of his views, Mr. Noel said, "Mr. Weaver^ for example, a converted collier, has been a most successful preacher of th Gospel to persons of his own class, though he can hardly read. He has been preaching at Sheffield and other towns, to multitudes of working men, who delight to listen to the truth from his lips. I may mention that he was, at one time^ addicted to prize-fighting, and that he was never beaten in his. life. His companions used to call him 'Undaunted Dick,' and Bov/ that he has become a Christian, his heroic character remains with him. When he became converted, he was much taunted and persecuted in many ways by the godless men who laboured in the pit with him,. One of them stole a quantity of his coal oa one occasion, and was about sending it uj) the shaft as his own^ which Weaver seeing, said to him, 'That coal is mine, not yours^ and my being a Christian is no reason why I should encourage theft.' ' Never mind,' said the man, ' I shall have it' * If you. mean that,' said Weaver, ' we must see who is the strongest ;' and he got his coal. The man was in a great fury, and struck him ou the face, aad waated him to fight. But Weaver would uot 4 BIOGRAPfllCAL SKETCH. ated man strike him ao-ain ami dM n^l '. ''''^,^^ ^^* ^^^ ^'^furi^ the man had exhausted S fu VL^^',VbtTV\'-'^^^ "^"^'^ was on the Saturday. On the Monrr. v i J "" ^'^ '^^'''- '^^^^'^ trembling and pale as deVth nnVfin i ^ ^'^ ^^'"^ *« Weaver, to be forgiven savir?^ %t " '^'^'^^ ^° ^^^'^ ^nees beggino^ smee Safurda^lf I l^"" ^^Zr-\'rjA''' -"^^^^^^^^^ Weaver replied, 'If yon are sorrv' for wl^of ^?.'\ ^^^^^^^ "^e ?' you freely.'^ The result was Xat the mnn^^"" ^^^' ^ ^^^^ ^^^^ive sense of his sinful characte^ ad now Z ^''^^^' awakened to a grace, j „,i,hv" oon^S^Mr '^^^^^ ^^^ -^--\of ilustratjons of the salutary effect ot' Wp^.? ' ^""^ "'''"^ "*^«^' Christian conduct should be and of IITZ ' S^'V^^ ^^ ""^^^ words ; and I ask, why should LI • ^'^''^*^ influence of his any more than the d^montc of u^'^'^T? ^'""^ ^''^'^^^S went through the teTrctL^ ?>"'''' r^^^ iiewsofsalvltion throu^rh a rrn. /f ?^^-^" P^'^^chiug the good had heard of the demoniac S'^ "^TT' ^^^' P^«P^^ ^^^o- only yesterday you ^^ere a nlpd /'^''''^'^ f ^ ^^ ^^'"^ ' Why, about these tL^.s r-iVup'hp^^ w^^^^^^ '"" yon know but I can tell you what iho{J 7?^"^ ""f P'^' ' '^ '^ indeed so, I have not be^alt , ^^: t?not^"?.,'l ^^^"^ ^^^ my so^! you to love him. It is iu.f hi r *^'^ Saviour, and 1 want now a Christian tha i can nreanr' J 7' ^, ^^^^^^^^a^' and am added, "that hundred^ of" t -f t ' 7 ^u "f '^'^"^^^''" ^r. Noel iBelted to tears under the .i I "l^ '''"'V ^i?- ' '""^^ "^^« «^«"ld be preaches from the ho' t f or? 1"'° ?^ ^'"^^'^ ^^aver. He and in my opinio^is':::^:,'i^^^^^^^ a^tiref \?"' '"" *^^ ^^^^' samenaturalabilitiesandearnest .ni^?;.n 1 • ^^^''?fan get the so much the better • but .no«n vi i?. .^^J^"^^ '^^^'^ education, refuse to encourage; l^ehTtC^^: If 's "' ''^ ^'"'^^ ^^^P^-' - though he lXsev:rVlt^^^^^^^ ^'^--- ^ears of ago, and below the middle hei Jht Pnf' "V-" '^^■''^'" «l<^nderly built bee^n moved to tears ^.^ Vis t^Sf'''"^^'''^^^ nothing tender in hin features '. n ..^ .^- ^i^^"'"'' ^'^^ there is His utteranre is an nlmrll . P^^^^^^^^ m the tones of his voice harsh to the L of lI eT eZ' ^f '"^l^"^ ^^^ ^«o-' is decidedly marked C!S;e^fn^"'' ^' h,s pro viaciat accent of Mr. J. fe Gough,and(mrl??r'^^^^^^ unlike that much of his power over Zi.lf p remnrkable man) he owes ;iw is, h^^v^fer oS^tfarr^^^^^^^ "Theatrical,»abouthisma Li n^ by the tern. -^t v.lent, arising ^ro^^n^^ll^l^^S^^^^^^ I ^ .^\ BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. 8* deep-felt conviction of the truth of all he utters. He left home, be says, M'hen he was only fifteen, and from that day he wandered far away from virtue, and became immersed in wickedness till he was twenty-eight, when he was roused to a sense of his moral condition in a remarkable manner. In the midst of his grovelling dissipation, words of serious import struck upon his ears, and refused to be dismissed from his thoughts. He never belonged, it seems, to the " prize-ring," but was nevertheless frequently •engaged in puoilistic encounters with other Staffordshire miners; and one day, after a nigho of debasing revelry, v/hile he was still in bed, he caught snatches of religions conversation between two persons in the room beneath. His reflections at the time, he says, nad refei-ence to an impending fight, when the question, proceeding from the lips of one of the speakers below, " When God rises up in judgment, how shall we meet him ?" diverted his thoughts for a time, and made him feel uneasy. The momentous question seemed to have a personal application,, and against his will he pondered over it. Presently he was called upon to get up to do his work. He arose, but could not go to his usual occupation. " Get drunk again," said the invisible tempter. He seized the malignant suggestion and went to the drinking place, and for a time drowned his convictions in the intoxtcating cup. Returning at night towards his home from the distant drunkery whither he had gone, and, while yet stupe^ed wit' ^<-', ae was startled by the Scripture declaration flashii his memory : "The drunkard shall not inherit the kiagt ." The awful truth haunted him all night so that he coi In the morning he went out from among his fellows, a,, self in a lonely sandpit, and there — "His conscience felt and owned his guilt And plunged him in despair." But -the Lord was merciful unto the wi-etched man, and a gleam ^fhope en-tered his agonized spirit, as there came to his mind what his pious mother once said to him when he lifted up his hand to strike her, on account of the supplications she offered ©u kk behalf, " You may do that if you will, Richard, but I will never give over praying for you ;" and he thou:,^ht, "Surely this starting up before me ot my sinful life is the answer to her prayers." Then came crowding upon his long-beclouded memory many a holy truth taught to'hira in his boyish days by that Chnstian woman, whose last words to him " before she went to the Alleluia country," had been, " God bless you, mv son Richard ;" and he wept like a child, as be gave vent to the deep desire of his heart, for the pard ~' .1' u: : !•_ 1 J jjaiuuu ui iio iiiaiiiiOiuiUiquluGo. *., f ,ff~-^. \i BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. ^^^^SS^"^^^^ f^^ and the^ «., leap, a good Lauca.hire ^rl . J ^' '*'^^- ^* ^^^ « sadden chapter \f BonS!;io^i^4•^t^^^^^^ out of the seventh that I am" into -no condeninaHon » 1T .I.i^P','^''",^^^^ oiaa into "Jesus Christ " So r S ' ^. '* ^^ ^^'^ ^ody of death" l^ome, and^withotrint^XjsTltecHf ^^^^^ ^-tened great chui.rrc that had h"inDenpf]1k i • i 2 ?"^ ^nd another the ^d otherslhought to w^S'hTnf back ?o 1 • ^'\"^f ' ' ^^'^ ««°^^' answer was, "^^^ *^ ^^^ wicked wajs; b-.t his --; — "Glear the way, liet me go; My old companions, fare you vrell. I will not go with you to hell. ' Iraean^tl^JesusChH.ttodw.U; hJ}: O^nferS^^^^ - I^ondon we:, the Euston Road tLt S hpln f ^!^^'' ^''^^^ and in a room in after night, in tho'^t^^^^^^ Night together in his OT-n rouoh Ld "a^, u\^? ^^^ for hours infrequently pathetic m^nn^r/tXst^^^^^^ ^"^ ^«* them belouo-ino- to flip xm,.x. j,. ''",^"*^w»anas ot people, many of air services a posrtTveTy tbriCT^ "^laptation. At these open- by Mr. Weave'^^.'s L^f ^f ,^7* ™^^ ^"'"^t^e., prodvTced example on oae occasfon-his sut^ " wa, - '"' ^'"^^"'^- *'» obtain ioy au(f fflidlr„ i ^ ''"^ upon their heads ; they shall remaric thaf tLe Smed '? e tTI ^"^ '" ^"""^^'"-^ ""•> the the way to Zionas n^S. wayl-j?evTh„'^l''r"^.P",''P'^' ""<> wrj born Bi.!gin«-. But the .nZ^l^' J"! ''"'' ' ^ l^eli^TO I son^ I love ^now. I rei^n.lt^l'i'f (^rdTo^T °''.* *! ^Britons never shall be slaves' nscl t„\„ " "^ ^""^ '^^ dear men, you sing ' Britons nevet, eve, shalf iS ' 9'"' T'^ slaves you are to your own Ii,«f» ti Ii j ., "^ "'"^^ :' what I nsed to sing, • \VW.n\ I hold dear. Yet I am blest— I am blest!' Again his voice was choked with weeping; but the little one whispered, 'Come, daddy, sing "Sweet is the promise."' And the poor father goes on again— il '9 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCIf. by the preacher. I S tho Tlu r'™'' '' '■™1"'""'>' '"■''Pl^vod though it will be sera thai e ,',,';'" r"*''^"''"''-- I'rHlominatos; «pon oceasion, auTu/thltartlin^ ^Zf ^'^ *"™^^ »'' "^^ '"^^ '•"gtr^renw^'rTsoired'bv'*^'"^'^" ''''■ ^^^''»™-« P^"-''- for the preachi,,/o74rS,^i'' '■""''''■'; "''S^'^men anxious to that portion who nii'ht hT, H ^.^"^ .'^"'''■'"g-ol^^sOB especially nightly sern,oas,a»cSdedbv in '•'''''^>^.,^'- •^"""'^'^ """■ fo' be well to add that thennn,,^ Incjuirers' Mcctin;;s. And it raay discourse,, ZttletSZ^^l'lT ^^^' ™»t^™. >">*■ ^electej one week at St Marti u'sHir f """' ^fs'-'^iitiveiy durins "any pages to teU of the f ' ^'V? ^''''''- " *<"'l'! occupy conve,4,ion of which VtjZV^'^y''^- '"testing cases of "ii does rig?,t he isas m "h entitled to get gain by ,t as those who do wroi.o- T fi„,l „ Eadclirt^^l "■""-, M'-U'^o^vulow Nortli, and Mr. lieginald have neve, bZ to ■■"°''''' "'" ?"'' e'''""'^'''^'''"", while I nC ;i A , " .'^'■'»"»ar school, and ,lon't know much Jriencis, tlinttho love of Josus is the best thino in the world Wiven, you know 8o.n(ahinfr nl»nnf Invln^.t.". ul'''^':.* Aaiuoto thank God fur a lovnig mother myself, and you . IHB LOVE OF GOD* n tiiww that a loving motlier will often do many a ihing for her son that his father refuses to do, will she not ? Sucb love is something like religion— ^aud, indeed, where there ii» no love there is no rehgion. I do not care for your profes- sion ; show me your love, and I will tell you of what kind. your religion is. There are faith^ hope, and charity; but the greatest of these is charity, and though charity begins at home, it should not stop at home, for the Lord commands "vou to love all men as brethren. There are some men who show so little of this, that their love of Christ is manifestly but a profession only, and not a possession. It is the duty of eveiy man who is called to preach the Gospel to be a servant unto all, for so was Jesus Christ, and we oug^t to follow his footsteps. May the Holy Spirit help them, and help me, therefore, to do so. I have not come here to please any one^ but ta benefi^t you and to gJ'^rify my Lord and Mastw. I have not come- to court the smiles of any rich people, some of wtom, in tbi» place, have heard me before. It is not that 1 speat pleasantly to them that they come here to hear me, but because what may do good to one class will do all classes good. The same blood that washed my guilt away, and gave me peace at heart, will do the same for others* There is only one way of salvatiou for the sinner, whether rich or poor. There are many, however, who profess to be religious, and yet would not sit in the same pew at church as the poor man, but would cry out, " Hold fast!" if they saw you going in their pew with your coarse jacket. But Christ is not like them^ He takes the poor into his loving arms and presses them to his bosom and says, "These shall be mine." You may be black, you may be filthy, and polluted with sin, but if you do but come to Christ just as you are, you will be cer^Ain ta meet with a welcome. Look then, not to men, but look to- Jesus. Plenty of people have tried the fiist and have bailed. But whosoever has looked to Christ has been saved. Now, my friends, as I said just now, I am gc^nqr to talk I should not succeed in my object; but it does my own soul good when I think of Christ's love for one who did not love him. If a servant does something wrong, some of you I J 12 THE LOVE OF GOD. begin to scold, and to storm, and the servant turns round and storms agam for there is pride in a servant as well as in 'f^l Ifjoii^ould but speak gently however, and kindly to her, how soon you would kill the devil in h^r. If roii W bad servant, then do try and speak gentlv and lovinW tothem; for the Lord died for them nnd hvecUkem, thou'crh you do live zn the parlour, and they are down in the kitchen among the crockery -they are loNcd by Jesus all the same [.iHt T ^'^^y.^^'^^^'^^^r you tonight, and help vouo imitate Jesus-for "greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." ' Ihave told you about the love of our blessed Lord and wT/rK?'T'''^VV"" "^^ 1^-nowtheditrerence between lTi« ^^f'^^' andl-o-v-e-love; vou would all know the ditierence between my speaking kindly to you and mv upping with my fist and striking y^u, and\speak^ing ha shlj ana crossly to you. When I was in the wokl, and used to be boxing, and swearing, and drinking, and Sabbath-break- ing, jf any man spoke to me it was up with my fist and mA i!JS ''' ''"''"'1^"' '^-'' '^'' '''''' ^he Lord has shown me a^ be ter way, and now if any one abused me I would rZ?/'"'^'^'^^^!^'^^' andass'oon as he began swarhg I would begin praying. That is the best way to kill tl f devil m any. The Lord has tried both ways; he tri d law before he tried love to bring his people back; but now h^ her;iM)".%'" ^'^^^Tf^^>' h.tto.\yly, "for God so loved tne wo. Id that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever beheveth ,n Inm should not perish,n,ut have everlasting bfl/' Where there is love there Is peace and harmony. If you rme' Tl ''"" ^7^' T '' '"^y ^^^^™^ "^ Lanc^hire a'n «ee me and my wife and two children round our fire you would not hear a jangling word tiiere, because the lo^e of Ood la m our hearts. What a thing that love of God is I w^H7' l''^ "''"'P hometoyour wives this night with It in your hearts, and say: *' Mary " or '' Martha I hava found such a thing to night Is] I have\ever fr/u be ore " and she will sav. "Oh. l.uH wi,of i,,...'. ^..._^ ,» . / ' .. T , >■-. ' "' — ""'• ^^ri.-v,-s iumift £ arui may you^say «I have found the love of God, and Christ:" for "groatei- love hath peace in Jesus man lay down Lis life for his friends. " liO man than this, that a THE LOVE OF GOD. 13 As I have travelled np and down tliis country tlie last four years, I liave seen a great doal of Christian love which has been shown to me by people whom I have met, and especially after they have become converted to God, then ])eople would seem .0 carry me in their bosoms. Many a poor man has come up to me and shook hands with me, and I have been ready to say •' Whither thou goest I will go; and where thou lotluust l\vill lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God." The Lord bless tb^m and you to nin-ht, j n ;i I know something about love. Bless the Lord God Almighty, be opened my eyes to see bis redeeming love through Jesus Christ. You may bo the means of drawing many peoi)le to the love of Christ, and get them to look at that "perfect love which casteth out fear;" and if you cau get them to realize and believe that God loves them,the tears will flow with grateful love. Go to the poor outcast, and tell her that God loves her; tell her although her character is gone, and lier prospects are blighted, and her home blasted yet that there is hope for her ; for Jesus is willing to bless her ; that there is a better home for her even than tlie home of her childhood, and though she has lost her character, yet she shall have a name and place better than that of a son or a daughter, through the love of Jesus Christ. Tell her that God loves her, and will forgive, receive, aud bless her; that woman will be made glad at heart forever. It has made my heart often bleed as I have been going down the streets and seen these poor, guilty, polluted women, many of whom have been brought up by the hands of loving mothers, who have prayed for them, and wept for them, and whose hearts, perhaps, they have bi'oken by their, misconduct. But God can pardon them through the blood of Christ. " Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. " There was a time when Popery reigned in the land, and the Bible was not allowed to be read by the people. Thank od, we ure not 10 do tnus ik^i nua uuuim vy x vrpuxj, ^-^ byPuseyism either, now. We will ha\ e tho real thing, and not be enslaved by popes or priests. We will have none but Christ for our priest, and may Heaven help you to bless him. u THE LOVE OJ.' COD. H and to niiiftniTy 1,;^ „;, , and conversati.,,,. But itti , • ,'"*'!.'' •"'" '" yo"'' ^'^ilfe to speak, there was a poo • oW ZT'^ "' ,"^i"='' ^ «'«» "I'O-t and Christ. She tho H il^T'") 7^" '''^•«' "^« ^'^^ «.", and therefore she S'L: B w' ''"^V" ''°>^'- ^^"'"■•'« W, and asked her to give m, «' r-, P'^ P"^^'« ^ent to The hishop ofthe dioeel wa Vd of ^ . ', ","' '''" ^^''"^''^' ^«s aga.n asked if shewoul okI .mf" m ''" P°°' '^"maa «he knew, that it was dea to h. "^^f";^'""' ''"t ''f'l'onff& detennined not to gi™ t , ' w'! •( t'' ''"' "o^. «!'« was and go to the pronTised a" ' The n '^t ^°"''^ ''^'^'^r *«' «aHi:-«Iamgoing to rive vot tl"^ " 'T" 'S'-"'"' «"■"" "^'y b»™ \m Son to die for me an T^ur •? '"^'^ "« «« to give You may do wlmrtC il e w th'? '^"''■' ^ '■"'■'^'^ '^"th! not give up my Bibll " This v^ '"-! f "? ''"Jy- but I wilF abroad m some far-offnlaoe and h?r ''f """'"" "'=o ™« were that So-and-so was e;i„A,, i,^"-''''' .^7 ■'hance, as ft oved her Bible, and wouM ,w V •''""'"''"'^ because sha bimself Why that is T „«„« of n " "^' f.'^' '"^ '^'^ to know she loved her Bible and thai 7 ^'T' "''' -""tber ! I I cannot stay ],ere an 1 Cl th,' ' '"■''^''' '°' "«• gomg to perish at the hands of .1,1"^ ''"T °''' ""^^^ '« day of execution arrived i, ,1 fl, ^''■P'* P"«8t8- The to the place of death Ih^t^^'rr"'",?" ^^^ <=°"'1"«'«^ the crowded streets; ears rolle d^fl i" '''''"' "'""'y through sm,le of joy was on Cjpl ZT ^Z'^^i "^^' ''"t the- man returned, and found ^ his nnfh» . ''^ the young «take; Le rushed thither and Lk„H ".''?'■ '™y t° th! oflicers; all made way for Wm and t""^) "'" "''^'' "fthe my mother. I wiji (a^ („U,T\t ""«' ?»'•-" That .is Jet me take her place." TW lecl 5""'^ "^ ''«"«'■'' "-^d Hedjd _„ot repent but felt ,1,11'";^?"' '« "^"-^t^ke- ivvc narn no man than this thai' „"i , ^"y?—" (-'••eater for 1..S friends." pw a.^h ta .ctly Z ^ri^hr •"■' "'^ o ^jivia, nghteous man THE LOVE OF GOD. 15 •would one die, yet, perad venture, for a good man some would even dare to die." But God commendeth liis love to us, who are in this room — glor}^ be to God. " He commendeth Lis love to us, in that, while we were yet sinners, he gave his Son to die for us." Thank (rod, Christ took our nature upon him, and brought salvation down from heaven, so that, through his love for them, every working man and working •woman in London can be saved. You parents know something about having love for your children, but the Lord has a special love for his children. Some people would tell us we are not the Lord's children, but I do not think the devil ever made a man vet, and if not, why, then we do not belong to him, and people cannot prove it: but God loves every man, and he *-so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Once I was preaching on this love, and illustrating it by the love which a mother hath towards her child — and I can assure you I know something of the love of a mother towards her rebellious son. I talked about my mother wha loved me, and who had so often prayed for me, when up came a man with no jacket on his back, who seemed to me as if he had been weather-worn and weather-beaten and said to me, after he had listened awhile — "Ah, sir, I had a pray- ing mother once ; if she were still alive I should be glad ta see her. Often and often has she wept for me, and prayed for me in times past." Well, after a little time, this man found the pearj of great price, and then he said — " I can testify to you, my friends, that by his grace there is power, in the gospel to save sinners." At thai moment a young •woman came up, with tears in her eye^, and put her arms round liis neck, .and cried out — "Oh, it's my brother!'^ You would have wept if you had seen them. " Mother will be so glad (osee you," she said, '* it was only to-day she was. talking about you." Then the 'sister asked me if I would bring her brother home, w^iile she went first to carry the good news, and to prepare her mother to see him. She said to her mother — *' Would you not like to see your son again, mother?" "Ah!" said the poor mother, «'I would rather 16 TIIE LOVE OF GOD. [■I see Inm than any one sliould give me a thousand pornida; this niglit I" ^\ hen we reached the honse, the sister rushed down stmis, and Jed us up. We went to the bedside, and as soon as tlie mother saw her son, she jumped out of bed and clasped him in her arms, crying—" Oh, my child, my child, thou art still alive then !" It was some time before they could separate them, and then the son said " Why motbei-, I see thy heart's still the same— a heart of love " "Yes, my lad," she said, *' I never forgot thee: and when I have been praying, I have always prayed for thee, and asked Crod to bless thee." He asked her, " What made you love me so ? '' Ah," she saiJ, " it is because God loved me." Ihatis something like our blessed lord, who loves us all good and bad alike. There is not one here tc-night, even the best of us, who can dare to point the finger of scorn, and say, I have been a good man, and you have been a bad one —the best of you in this hall to-night— you gentlemen and you ladies, as well as the poorest man down there in his fustian trousers and barragan jacket, are as bad in the sight ot bod as the blackest sinner and harlot in the streeta of i.ondon. 1 our name is sinner, that is your name in the T 1. ""l V " ^"'^ ^^'^ '^"^ ^^^^ sinneth," we read, '* it shall die.' But icmember God loves you, although you are a sinner, and however great a sinner you may hav6 been. May God bless you then, and help you to believe this to-night Xhere is one thing I have seen as I have travelled about that in many families the parents have got their lo\ed Ben- jamins, and their loved Josephs, whom they love better than all the rest of their children. Now that is wrong; if you have ten children, you should love one as ^'ell as another. I know tliat 1 was the biggest rakcapelt of ten children, and yet my mother loved me moi-e than all the rest; I believe if she ju-ayed once for others, she prayed twice for me. And • there s many a parent now who shows more favour to one child than to another; but it only brings jealousy into the hearts of the other children, and strife into the house If you give Johnny a coat, and don't b.-y little Benjy one like It, thtire will be jealousy between them. If you would ke^n liJHi Hway, you must keep the tavr.uritism outj and treat thein all alike, and then they will not be so likely to faU out witJU THE LOVE OF GOD. 17 one another. But tlie Lord is not like you— he \s no Tespecter of persons; he loves the poor man in his barrngan jacket, and the poor woman whose clothes altogether are scarcely worth sixpence, as well as those who are well dressed 'and rich; and he loves the poor slave in fetters as well as the free man. May heaven help you to imitate Jesus in this. There Vvas a family in Manchester, composed of two sons, a daughtei' and their father. The poor mother had ^died happy in the Lord. One of the lads, however, was addicted to what I used to be — to vi^it li(|uor halls. Oh, I have no comfort, as 1 look into them, and see tbem brightly lighted • «p, and men, and women, nnd little children standing round them. Don't countenance the devil's work ; have nothing to ■""- 1 ^viU have a God who loves us .t ,11 1? ^ ' '^ *^""'"''' "'« our sin vet lm„ 1 ? . ■ , ' "'^'' ^^'"^ ^-''^^ "» ™ined by oui sin, jet lo\ea us notwit istandino- nil T ot „= . i , • '' for our friend, and imitate In Hu 'h 11 'ir'-f C . '^ become a fnend to us 'md ?n i '^ ^^"^ ^'^'^ Leaven, vvlio loves YOU witVn^ ^'T ^'''^ "" ^''''''^ "^ THE LOVE OF GOD. 19 rand your homes, and spend your money tliere, and pei-liaps take a harlot upon your knee; and then, when your poor wife comes to ask you to ^o home, you will up with your £st and give her a blow— I ask you, is there any love m your heart towards the wife of your youtli? Nay, there an- >le8s- 1 for "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only hegottett >- '!»"»<= "^iu-iiBait€ci, Bin-Wiiftited wretches, and whosoever believes in thi. n;anife.tation*^of my lov.rBban ^rought love down to m. u aODS LOVE-GIFT TO THE WORLD. ^m " 'Twas love that did the world redeem No other help was found." ' I have spoken to you about the difference between l-o v-e' and h-a-t-r-e-d. \ ou know when a man is lovin^r toward you, and v^-heu there is rankling and backbiting, and^defiaud- ing around you Thank God, we have a FaSer in htve , whose name is Jehovah, whose heart is full of love If T ITl^fi ^7-.''"^ ^''^^■?\'' ^^'^ '^'^^^' ^f redeeming love, I BhouM find It unpossible. There has never been 5 servant ot Orod, f.om the beginning of the world, that could fathom LJil^ "''• '"^ '■^^- 'T^ ^*' ™^^'*^^ ^'-^^ to describe how much thei-e is contained in that little word "so." Thank Uod, though I cannot understand it, my heart can bow to it,, and eay, *' God so loved the world." ^y.7r "^'t^ '^'^ ^^^^"' ^^^''^^' *^^t learned expositor who has written commentaries on many texts which nobody coud fathom beside himself; but when he comes to this, he Zm ^ o' '"'" -S"' '' ''' '^"^^ '"^y^ "^^^ '0 loved the f M 1 1 ^T ""J-^^ S'^ t^ t^^t P^^^^s »^a"> Mr. Fletclier. uf Madeley, and stiidy his sermons; but it is not in that pious man s mind to lathom the depths of redeeming love. Bless the Lord lus love ,s unspeakable. You might follow that iDighty champion of the Cross, George Whitfield, who held S^' ^\'\T.?' ""'': ^^^ bottomless pit, and terrified them, md then told them of the heights and depths of redeeming love; but they were depths which he could not fathom ; and while hm bones are bleaching in the cold grave, the love of S^fpf 'T^''''}^' «^'"« mighty theme and fathomless myste y You might sit at the feet of that sanctified man Mr Wesley who sacrificed everything he had in this world for the love he had for perishing souls, but he would tell you thathfl noil ( nnf faii,^,.. *i.^ ,1 :r..i .. ^ . i . , ^"j^^^ that he could not fathom the depths of redeeming iovZ" You Bedford, and read his '* Pilgrim's i^ay go with the Tinker of ........ «„,, ,,., ,,, .. ^^^ Progress though from beginning to end; but the love of God he could not fully describe. O, bless the Lord, hil love 18 both unspeakable and unfathomable ; and as these mighty men could not fathom the depths nor scale th« h^in-hts 01 reat^.nuig love, it is not likely that a poor illiterate eSiier can. But I do know that « God so loved the world as ta give his only begotteu Sou." 60d's LOVE-GlfT TO THE WORLD 23 If I had winofs, and could fly from this iiaW to-niirlifc fight up to yon blood-wasked throng about the throne, to Abel, that first martyr, who haa been singing, "Worthy is' the Lamb " for so many thousand years, and ask him about the love of God, he would tell me that we -have it set forth- m the third chapter of St. John's Gospel, " God so loved the world." If 1 could go to that wise man Solomon, as he sits on a glorious throne up yonder, and if I were to range over the sweet plains of the celestial country, and ask. every blood-washed soul how much God loves us, they would say we have it in tho third chapter of ^St. John's Gospel, "God so loved the world." If I were to go to the angels, the- Cherubim and Seraphim, in the angelic Avorld, and talk to them about the love of God, they ^"ould be at a loss to tell me how much God loves us. They could only point to the third chapter of St. John's Gospel, and say, " *God so loved the world." If I could (jnter the celestial company to-night, and go to that mighty champion and preacher of the faith once delivered to the saints — the apostle Paul, and say, "Paul, Paul, how much does God love us?" he would tell us, "There are lengths and breadths, and heights and depths, that pass knowledge, which I have not been able at present fully to comprehend. The knowledge of this love is not within the eorapa«8 of my mind to understand, much less to tell you^ how great, how high, how deep, is God's love in redeeming sinners by the death of his beloved Son." But, bless God, my dear friends, that we have it stated in the good old book,, that, " God so loved the world," and if God loves the world; he loves you, my belove<.i friends that are hero to-night. 1 know something about the love of earthly friends. I know what it is to have the love of an affectionate, tender- hearted mother; and I hfivebeen reading a letter to-day from my brother, and from my poor old father, seventy-eight yeara ©f age, which deeply ajleeted my heart. And oh, when I take a retrospective view of my past life, and take my mind back to the time when I was led by the hand of a praying mother to church, to hear the word of the living God declared Bunday after Sun^iay, imd when I think how she would tak-e me on her knee, and teach me that beautiful prayer, " Our father which art in heaveu" whcu 1 think of the lova B "\ X 88 111 OOD s LOVE OIl-T To THE WORLD. Of that poor oU and aflectionato mothertowanls mo, it almos£ overwhelms me a.s I remember the blackness of my in..rati- tude towards her. I can remember the time when she' put her hands upoir me, and said, " God bless thee, lad." ^ A father now myself, I can tell how it was that poor old mother loved her pro.ligal son. Let mo tell you I like to mTl mol her pnttino. her hand npon the head of her little one and ^chmg ,t that praver, "Our Father." Oh, what a bea^VtM thmg .t ,8 for children to call God their father, i <;an re- member the time when my mother taught me that beaHtiful prayer, .and I shall never forget it. When I was converted 1 could not pray much besides. I was preaching one t^^me and a young man was, through God's grace converted. Ts soon ,as he found peace ami pardon, he said, " Oh, ih: Weaver. Will yon allow me to pr.ay V He was one of the sons oTtoi a poor labourmgman, thatliad to woik with hard hands for the bread that perisheth, and the tears were runni gdown ♦hv I- ' ''"'?, "V' '" l"^"™"; hallowed be thy name- thy kmgdomcorne"-! never felt anything omj v^ithl^ nmch power n, al my life. I .said, " My dear yonn! b othe, where d„:,ou find thatprayer?" '■ Oh, hesaid! " my mothe; taug,. me that when I was .a boy." And wheneverisee a fa her or .nother teaching their children that, i" prov^T ine tha a la her or mother loves them. We know Lme- thtng about love. I know I like to see people IhZ 3 I know very well that my dear little boy. if I gi to Wm w th a ov^,"es*^^r r'l k.^^'-'V" T'^' ""'' ^"y'"% fettef joves rje s. II. G,„l A.mighty loves us still. Glory be to y.t,t'mr: '"■'"'"'" "'""?• ""'••-venly Father t^ us still. Others may spurn you from them.and sneerat voii «nd say you are only the working classes, and put you down ttencr'h'irril" ,"". ^'"f '" ""^ ^"''-^^ l^" "". m^ triends. th.ink God that ha loves you still. Others m«V ty mnmze over you and oppress you, and builu their L™^I wuh the money you ougbt to have for your families b7t God loves you slill. If there's auv of vo„ th«. 1,1"™. 1- aaiapceila.^ or up i„ ,,„H< garrets, dod loves ,^.-"':.For God sc love.1 the world, thatle gave his only begotten Soa >l ■?!^t god's love-gift to the worlds 2% it almost y ingrati- sLe put lad." k Ed rnotliei' to see a one, and beautiful 1 can re^ beautiful nvei'ted I )ne time, ;ed. As Weaver,, 18 of toi], lands for ig down nd said^ 7 name; with Ko brother, mother er I see roves to V some- e, and I I with a smiling ^ father y be to er loves at you, u down ^h, my •8 may houses ies, but 1 .iiat whosoever beh'eveth in him should not perish, but havee everlasting life." There in something sublime and beautiful in that verse. It is God that loves us--not the Queen or Piince Albert — but God. You remember my telling you that as I was going to preach at a certain place, and was travelling in the railway tFain from Liverpool, a gentleman was in the carriage with me, and we got talking about the Lord. As soon as we got acquainted, he brought himself down to my simple talk. We travelled by ourselves for some time, and, as there was no one with us, I said, "We will oifer up a short prayer." He seemed quite pleased, and he prayed for God to bless me,, and be with me where I was going. When we got to a certain town, a lot of navvies got into the train. They began to talk in their own dialect, and to pray God to damn one anothei'. I said to one of them, "Hold, stop; you. shall not speak a word ngainst my father." The old man looked surprised, and said he had n( t been speaking about my father; so said the otbers. I said, "You hj.ve; you nave been talking against my fatlier." *' I don't know your father." " More shame for you to say so." « What's your father's name ?" said one : and I told them that God was my father. Then we got conversing about God's loving them, and when I told them that, and about other good things, they began to ask me how I knew thnt God lovod them. I pulled out ray Bible, and found this very verse, " God so loved the world." Then I began to toll them about the love of God being greater than that of parents to children, and so on. — When we got out of the train, we left tliem in. As we shook hands, the tears ran down their cheeks, and they said they hoped we should meet Mgain ; and one poor fellow said he did not think they should ever forget it. When wo got out. of the carriage a woman caught hold of my hand, .'uul said,. '*Is your name Ridiavd Weaver?" I said it was. She then told me the following story. She said, "Twelve months ago I was without a friend in this world. My four litlla children had only a bed of straw to lie down upon, and I could not set a meal before them. My husband was mora like u devil than a man. He had just come out of prison^ Hq saw Kichard Weaver's name placarded upon a wall, aiiii is god's love-gift to the WGRtDw i ,ii pt^^'^f w"*^ ^vondered for a moment, and said, < I know a E.chai-d Weaver, and if it is the same man, I'Jl L and hTar to put upon his back, or shoe upon his feet, but he went out of curios, y to see the man he had worked with Whe^ Sedfobrthi'T^'r^'^''"? "'''^ those who we're Iter- mmed to be the Lord s people to stay behind, and to come ne^el loiget tiiat night," she said, "as lon»r as I hve I wa* fear TuK 1''' '" ? ".'' '''"'™*^ ^''""'' '""^''"g ^"'^ ear, and my knees shook under me. 'WeH' be sav" When I got down stairs the next mornino- f],« rr,«^ Olorv be to GnrI •; r^^ creatures. It is without end. ~ ■ ^ i -^vjo 10 tiiuiiibijives aa way that.— :i*. '-% '■ know a md hear )t a coat ^^ent out When e deter- :o come iee vou, I shall I was. urn out r some- nth my ig with 6 says^ fie told I knelt bought father 3 arms^ IS sent d then st time a hus- e maa ildren> loved of our b God t end. b eight )ut an ilieves rsonai ;(.imea I he!i> nd as. at^— GODS LOVE-GIFT TO TITE WORLD. 29> There's proof that a man loves you when lie comes and puts liis shoulder to the wheel. If you saw a team stuck at the bottom of a hill, you would not go and pity the driver, or pity the poor horses; you would go and lift up the wheel, ^nd push up the hill. Now, there's a good deal said about love, and when {)e()p]e p-et conxerted, they often say they will do this thing and that tiling, and nothing comes of it. But I always hke to see a proof of love, and then I know it is sincere. Ood Almighty didn't say he pitied the world, and then leave it peri.sh ; He gave us a proof of his love. He gave his only begotten son to die that we may live. There's many of you poor people have not much money, and you cannot put such food upon the table of your family as you ought to have. It's hju-d work, often, I know it is, ibr a poor man to get enough to have a comfortable Sunday's dinner. And suppose one of you had no bread for your child len to eat, and yon were to hear that I was a man that loved God, and that if you were to come to me I would help you. Suppose that when you came and knocked at my door, my wife held th« door to prevent your entering, and suppose when you had told her your story, and said that your poor children ■were starving, she should say, " We pity your case, we will do all we can, we will pray for you, and ask God to bless you," and then thrust the door in your ftice; you would think that a very strange kind of love, "wouldn't you ? There are plenty of that sort of professors at the present time. But Ood is not like us, he don't say he loves us, and then givea us no proof of his love. When there was no eye to pity, and no arm to save, his own arm brought salvation down. That sal vation is irae Tor all who seek it. Oh, there is enough in th*;6e words to draw souls out of hell, if that were possible. There is enough to draw you to-night to the blood of the dying Saviour. May God bring you right into the depths of redeeming love. " God so loved the world." We do not come heie to tell you people to go to your dosets, and pray, and weep, and sigh, and groan, in order to bo .saved. You may bo saved to-night. I tell you before God, ho iha )eJiovetii shall be saved. He that believeth on the Son hath o\erlasti ng life." You men in ragged fustiaa jackets, who may be thinking you have not got'a friend ia tQ m god's LOVK-OIFT to THK -WOEID. the worW, God loves you, «nd k ready to save yoTV ],e wiTk oZvt'?:;;'',. V' '""„'"',^ "'" ""^'""y sLon^perish- ot J te trBcly. I have come from Laiicashiie to tell voa and dll i t ' i '" ■°' *" >'°" ••'«'''"• ^'f" '« ""certain m, f . if !'?,'■ '" •'■"" "'"■'' '''"^"'•'^ ^lo™'-'' life to-night What a blessed thmo- ,i: „„ui,| !,« to that young man Ivinff lu/tt :i,.f';'r';' "'"•/'"•^ ^^■^'' ''-^^ --i^reihi; ,;x? him wftif . n ''"' 1"'" '" ^^ ^'' '"f«- '^ I co"'d go to him ivith a Q een's pardon. Thank God thouo-h I have n^ P? don tiom God for all the world. May God be oleaJd i^ Bless the Lord, Jesus Ohnst has done all the work for us Jiim. It ,8 not throuoh my tears, or my pravere or Vn» ^o^kZ^ besavod, hutthrough tL[,lSZf Chr"[ ^ay you ook to Christ to-night—to the blood which sneaketli fceUer thmgs than that of Abel, which speaks LferLifet iife. iuto-eveij sm-bJighted heart. ^ •fWfei JOY Oin ^^OELS. '■^^ Likewise I say unto yon, there is joy in the presence of tlhe angels of God over one sinner that repeiiteth.'' — Luke xv. 10. You know these are the words of our blessed Loi-d and Saviour Jesus Clirist, — they are the words of him who spake as never man spake. I would sooner take his word than any one else's word, because he was the pure and holy- God, and as a man ho was the ti-ue and faithful witness, and Bever told a lie in all his life. The language of his hps was the language of his heart. He knew what there was on «arth, and what there was in heaven ; he knew what sort of creatures sinners were, and angels too: he knew all about the angelic country, for he was King of the Celestial City, ■and he is at the present time. It is that blessed Being, then, that tells us that " there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner tlint repenteth." We have to tal' about this at the present time, and just 1o bring it home to each one of us. I mnst take it home as well as you. There is a poor little child sick at home at the present time in my own dwelling. Do not we always feel more about those little ones that are sick, than about those that are in healrh ! Look at that poor weeping mother, who has watched close to tint little bed, morning after morning, to give her dying child its medicine, or its'gruel, expecting to see it gasp its last every moment. Her attention is exclu- sively devoted to her siek^md dying child, and all her anxiety is to know what slie can do for the little sufferer; she tries to soothe and comfort him. The physician comes, and if lie can give tidings of restoration, what joy and gladness does he uot bring! "There is joy in the presence of the •angela of (jod over one sinner that repenfeth." And it seems to me that angels are specially interested in man's spiritual welfiire. The poor inr.n may not have a friend in the world, and yet he may have friends in heaven. Ycu may be crushed down and have taxes and rates to pay, and cannot got along comfortably and pay your way in the world; but S2 JOT OF ANGELS. 11 Whatever your circuTnf=(tances may be, if you nro a Chiistiaii you have a friend in lieavon. I holievr-tlial OAH^ry poor work- ing man that is godly has a guardian angel, and that when God gives over protecting m, oar danger is great, and our ruin is certain. What a blessing it is^ to know that God's angels encamp voiind about the head of the ])oorest and humblest Christian, and that the Almighty has respect to the lowly. « Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God." "Biessedare the poor in spirit, for theirs is" the king- dom of God." 1 often thank God, as I wend my way through this sin-blighted woi-ld, to think that I liave^got a companion always standing by me and who says — " I will never leave thee nor forsake" thee." When I have been working in the coalpit, the angel of God has been with me — he encamps round about those that love and fear the Lord. To those who are timid and fearful he says, " Be not dis- mayed, for God is by thee; and nothing shall hurt thee." "Trust in the Lord and do good, so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed." It is hard work, some- times, is it not, trying t^ hig up the hills of difficulty, as we go^along in our pilgrimage; it is haixl work, and hard fight- ing; but let us always remember we have a friend who is ever close at our elbow. It may be Gabriel, the angel of the Most High God; but, at any rate, I believe that angelic bemgsare in this hall to-night; I fii-mly believe that my guardian angel now stands by me. When I look into Holy Writ, I find that the angels of the living God were always interested in, and promoters of, man's s]);ritual good. They are messengers of the Lord our God; when he tells them to go thither, they go; and when he commands them to come iiither they come; and when he tells them to take his sword, Mid go forth to execute veno-oance uv)on his enemies, thev obey him, as in the instance of Sennacherib's armv, where he s»ew so many lh(,iis;.nds in one nioht. 1 b,di(,n-c in one Supreme Beiag, the C real or of this universe— the Creator of the heavens and the earth-^this world in which we live. We read in Scripture, that as soon as he had made them, the morning stars sang together for joy, ;nid the sons of God rejoiced together. I believe that he made the sun to govern by daj, and the moon by night; and I believe that as soou p^'-. JOY OF ANGELS. 3^ m this was clone, and man 'Vas created, the angels of God sang together. Before man was created, I believe the angels jived near their Ci-eator somewhere; but where it was, I neither know nor care to know. I aon't want to know the- deep and hidden things of God; what is revealed is enough, for me; it is just enough to take me to heaven, and bless God for that; it v enough to find out that Jesus Christ died for me. But you will find all throuo'h i'he Bible that the angels were interested in man's chief and highest good. Take the case of Lot — there he was, poor man, in the midst of Sodom,, ■with blackness, and darkness, and sin, and fiithiness round about him, filling the land. Yes, in the midst of all this infamy, there was that good and righteous man. Now the Lord was about to take vengeance upon this wicked city;. but before he would let one flash of his lightning fall ujDon '. the ano-els of God were sent to brins: Lot out. He did not know that they were anccels, but he prevailed upon them to come into his house. The next morning they began to* tell Lot somethino- concerni!io> what God was about to do to the city. The good man felt alarmed at that, for all his family were there; there was his wife — she was an enemy to his soul, she was a snare to him — and many a woman is art enemy and a snare to a pious husband. I have to thank God to-night that I have got a good Christian wife. Well, the angels were determined to have him out of the city, and they took hold of him, and his wife and daughters, and brought them out; and when they were all safe on the out- side of the city, the angels said, '' Escape for thy life !" He- went into a little city, called Zoar; but, almost before he could get there, the Lord rained fire and brimstone, and a horrible destruction upon Sodom. Farther on in the bible you may read about Caleb and Joshua; when Joshua's enemies o2)posed him on every hand, he determined to fight, but not to trust in spears and swords, but wholly upon the arm of omnipotence. And he said, " God has promised to be with me, and I shall be able to go up before these enemies." He looked, and saw a being before him, with a drawn sword, and Joshua said to him : " Who art thou?'*" The answer is, " I am the (Japtain of the Lord's host." — ''Then," said Joshua, "we shall gain the victory, because 34 JOT OF ANGELS^ f pi i- LI ir we have the angeJ of the Lord upon our side," There are many of you who had enemies to contend with, but you have gone to your closets, and have prayed there, and thank trod, you have come down from thenyj like giants refreshed with new wine. Then you have the case of the tliree Hebrew youths. Ibey were to be tlirown into the fiery furnace, because they would not bow down before an idol God ; but they trusted in an unseen God, and did not worship an image, which some caJied God—made of wood, and stone, and gold, and silver —they did n t hke to worship him. He had ears, but he coukln t hear, for there were no drums to his ears. Their conhdence was placed in another God, who could hear, and who could answer prayer. So they brouoht them before the- Kmg, and tlie princes, and nobles; but they would not bow down \\ hen they were brought to the fiery furnace, did they flmeh ! ]S' o ; but when they were asked if thev would worship the image which the king had set up, replied : " We are not careful to answer thee upon this matter," and so on. Ihen they hurled thorn into the fiery furnace. Did the fire • burn them ? No; But it slew the k^'ng^s enemies— for they were enemies to hiiD who advised hiin to do this thinir—Jt Blpw thein, butdid not hurt Die three worthies. When the King looked, behold they were walking about unhurt in the ai]dst of the fire, and a fourth person was there with them. And the king said : - Did A.e no. casfin three n-n, and be- hold there are four." The Lord had driven back the fire, and turned that fiery furnace into a little heaven; and so he has turned many fiery furnaces of trial into httle Bethels, has he not ^ When there has been this enemy here, and tliat roaring hon tiomhell yonder, and those infidels sneering here, and that woiklJing scolfing there, God has brought u! through the fire, and has made us more than conquerors, through him who had loved us. Then turn to the case of Daniek Lecause he prayed many times a day the enemies of himself and his Qod did not Jike It. If you go mto the house of one who does not love God you will soon find out who and what Ai^ people m-e who ive there If you begin to talk about Jesus Christ, ttey will move the cnairs about, and say: "Oh, wc'ro so. lere are Wt but you m d thank m ^freshed 9 youths. S ise they m Listed ia fl h some « d silver fl but ha '^ Their k i ai", and * 1 fore the m lot bow « ce, did fl would fl : " We fl so on. 9 the fire fl )r they ' J ing — it ^ en the fl in the fl them. fl nd be- !■ le fire, ^m ^nd so. ^B ethels, |H -e, and H eering ^M [;'ht us fl iierors^ S i)rayed fl 3s not, :fl people. U ^hrist^ ^B 'rc §(> a^ JOY Oli" ANGEtS. S^ busy we haven't got time to talk." 8uch excuses as these" show me they don't like religion or prayer, but good people' will say : " Let us pray for one another, for it is good for our souls." Thei'u is a great deal of ont'.vard show of godliness, without any reality, at the jxrwcnt time. It was not so with Daniel; he had the root of the matter in him; religion was grounded in his heart. '^IMiei'e are many in our own day who will go to church or to chapel, as the case may be, to get vsixpence more to their \Vages, and not because they love the Loi'd. Daniel loved the Lord, and he was determined that neither hell noi eanh should move him from his dutv. He did not care for all the noblest princes in the land; none of ihem should destroy his trust in the living God. Wheu there was a decree passed to put Daniel in the lion's den, did lie re olve to recant for a while ,till the danger was passed, and then go and abk God to forgive him? No, no; he said, — The lion has a big mouth, but the Lord will [shut it. The king could not recall the decree, but he said to Daniel:' " The ^ God whom thou servest,he will protect thee." He had signed his hand to the warrant for his apprehension in an unguarded moment, and then it was too late to cancel it, but he said, " The Lord go with thee !" Daniel was then put into the den of lions, but tlio angel of the Lord had been there already to shut the lions' mouths. He dropped Tjpon his knees and prayed, and the Lord made that place a* little Bethel to his soul. There was an ano^el of the Lord there to watch over him ; and he lay down that night upon the lion's mane. It was the first time a prophet had lain upon such a bed. When Daniel awoke in the mornir^ he offered up another prayer, and then he heard a cry — " Daniel! Daniel 1" He knew that it was the voice of the king himself, so he answered — " O king live for ever." Then the king asked: "How is this, Daniel, that thou art not hurt?"— " Why, O king," was Daniel's answer, "because the angel of the Lord went before me, and shut the lions' mouths." — God can shut lions' mouths still. In this London, and in this hall to-night, my friends, he has got the same power now as lio hiis alvvciys had. When the good news of salvation was to be proclaimed to this sin-stricken world, that God would emancipate man- m Joy of angels. i.f|. kind from deapi, 'and sin, and destruction, and hell, and? eternal woe, tlirong-li liis only JSon, just before the Saviour eame into the world, ani:^p!s were sent who b.vouoht the o-lad tidings. It A\as an ano-<.l who iir.st appeai-ed to Mar}/, and announced the fact of lier hc-iiio- chosen to bi'ing the Saviour to man to rcvleem the world. She was, indeec),"blest^ed above all women in tins. At the birth of Christ, there flashed a light over Bethlehem's plains, such as had never been seen before; fear, ti-embling, a!)d dismaj^ filled the bi'easts of the shepherds, who were there keeping their flocks by night, and they began to run hither and thither, when, lola cry was heard of — "Fear not, shejiherds, we bring you glad tidings of great joy, for unto you is born, in the city of David, a Saviour — Christ the Lord." Then tliei-e was heard a- heavenly choir singing. What was it? It wns — " Glory to God ^in the highest, on earth peace, and good-will to man!" When our blessyd Lord and Saviour took the cup in the garden, and jxissed over the little brook, and knelt before his Heavenly Father, with the cup of our sins in his hand, of which he was to drink even the very dregs, the angel of the Lord aj)j)eared and strengthened hin"). And when they laid Jesus in the tomb, the angels were watching over him, and appeared to those who came to seek him on the third day. As soon as the Ji|)ostIes began to preach Christ and him crucified, the devil said — "These are the men who are turning the world upside down ; we w ill i>ut them in prison and put a stop to this. These are the men, who, at the day of Pentecost, preached so that the ])eople cried out — *• What shall wo do to be s.aved ?" So they put Peter and John in prison. They each slej^t there between two soldiers, and I dare say had as good anight as ever they had in their lives; while, yonder, the Christians were ])raying, «• Lord, dehver Peter!" And according to their faith was it granted unto them; (or, as they were I'r.iying, an angel came with a key that can unfasten any lock," or draw back any bolt, and ' entered the prison, and said to iY'ter—«' arise!" I»etei- jumped up and siiyok him, elf; ajid the angel commanded him to follow him; and accord i!>"lv h^ hm'! .b'hn followed him out of the i>iison, and were botl/fiej. That is the way the Lord can do to-night with you w hose souls are iu boudagQ I w JOY OF ANGELS. 37 Our text is not concerning tlie delivery of tlie good and tighteous Lot from Sodom; "it is not concerning the delivery of Joshua from his enemies; nor of the three Hehrew youths iTom the furnace of fii-e; nor of Daniel fi-oin the den; of lions: nor of Peter and John from the priso!i house; nor even the redemption of this woild. IS'o, bless God, it has to do with the poor sinner coming from sin to Jesus. There- are many men who cannut say amen wlien they see pool? sinners coming to Jesus. Tliey think it all excitement. Thank the Lord for it ; it is good excitement when sinners are converted to God, and lin t^i-»M 38 JOf Oi' A^(=IS1',S. arms. There arc inon uJio seott'aiid sneei-, ixnd say tLcfe k nothing in religion; but sinn-rs hare been converted, ifiid there is a cry in heaven of—'' Unto him that hath loved us, and washed us from our s;in8 in his blood, to him l)e glory ^' evei- and e\er. Amen." lie does all things vadl. Yety 1 believe, if Christ were lO come hej'c, there arc many who ■would not come to Lear him, becaus<' lie wr.uld not be intel- lectual enough for them, some jteo^de like intellectu: 1 thinga, -—but the Lord liked to talk about those things that were interesting. He always tried to make things so plain that th« wayfering man, thouirh a fool, might not err therein. — It IS plain ]n this cha|)ter before us. The Saviour ihustrates lihis by the parable of the woman having ten pieces of silver, Trvho, when she had lost one of them, which she had taken great pains to find, and when she had found the missing ]»i^ce, rejoiced with her neighbor.' ^. So does the Saviour, as wo come to hirn, and the ani-els rei<:)ice as they see us comincf to Christ. Praying frithers and pi'aying mothers that are dead, praying children that ai-e dead, could they but look and see you coming to Jesus, they would raiyj such a joyful shout in heaven of — " Worthy the Lamb who lives nguiu, For us to interccik'." Thank God, we have a friend that does love us, and is yet alive. Christ also asks us — "Which of you, having a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, would you leave it in the wiklerness?" Some of yoii are farmers, perhaps, and if you have a hundred sh^iip, when you get home you begin to count them and find one mirwing; vou count ihj-nm but there IS one Jost. Do you go into the house and sit down, and never say a word about^the loss? Wo. You say as soon a,s you get in — " There is one of the sheep gone, there must be an enemy got in, all the doors of the fold are secure, it must have got over the hurdles and strayed awav." The devil can always help us over the wall. ' Well, when the farmer goes to be.l that night, he thinks about that lost Hiieej). and dreams about it, an-l wiien ho awakes he thinks about ir siill. It is foremost in his minon it, and before long it i^ as frisky and playful as ever. Thank Hod, we \\ho have gone astray, like a lost sheep, have a friend who is the she]«herd and bishop of our souls! Jesus sees us down in the field, in the mire and the bog, and you cry, " God be ni^rciful to me a sinner." And the Devil sa\s, " You are too black to be saved." Christ says, *' There's a fountain opt'iied for the houso of David, for sin and for uncle;inness;" and he takes you, not upon his shoulder, Init in his bosom, aud he carries you to that foun- tain, and washes you from all sin: and then the Sun of Rigljteousness shines down \\\nn\ you, and you sing: — "Thrice happy, happ}-^ day, Wliou God washed all my sins away." la it not so! Christ came to seek and to save tlie lost, and he can wash away all your sins. You are none too black, none too far olf from him, none too much sunk in misery. Thank God there is still a fountain open that can wash all your sius away, and cleanse you from all iniiiuity. It is uo<- 40 JOV OF ANGlELr-i. fi stagnant pool, Init it is a running stream, and flows out of the til rone of God, and ]'nns thioiigli llie world, and wher- ever it Hows sinnei 8 ai'c wa>,>hed from their mvi. Thank God, it can BMve to-nidit, even the vilest transgressors, for " Christ came not to call the righteous, lut dinners to re].entance." May God in his mercy oiiaMe you to receive this truth. Then, not" only in heaven Avill there be joy, but there will be joy somewhere else too. Theie is a poor woman liere to-night, perhaj/s, who has prayed often for her husband, and asked God to bless him. 'J'iie husband has come here it may be out ^f curiosity, and tlie word touches him, and the text goes home to his heart, and ho turns to God, and has faith in the love of Clirist. I ask you, would not that man's conversion be a source of gieater rejoicing in his own home, and to Lis W'ifc's heart, than if any one were to otier her a thousand ])ounds ? The money would be a mattei- of time only, but the salvjition of his soul would be a theme for eternal rejoicing. I remend)er a poor child coming to me once, when I was sitting at breakfast, and saying, "Riehard" (I always let children call me by that name), "" llichard, will you come and pray for my father?" I sjiid, "Yes, I will." She had a poor little starving babe in her arms, and an old tattered shawl round her, while the tears were in her eyes. The child said, "Father neai'ly killed my mother last night— can the Lord save my father? If you will come and i>ray for him L think he will, for the Lord v ill hear ])rayer." Well I went with her, and she took me into a dark cellar, where there was only a small candle to light me down. As we went along, the child ke[>t coiistantly asking, "Won't God save my father?" TNon't he save him to-day f' a\nd 1 said, "Yes, he will, if your father looks to him." In the cellar I saw a ]»oor woman, \\'itli both her eyes swollen and hlack from the crublty of jier husband; the child went up to her, and ttdd lier she had been to ask me to co]);e and ]iray for her t'ather. The wife could not see me, but she knew my voice, and said, "0, sii*, I have seen better days, but this is all through drink." NoWy you drunkards, Lake heed to this, and may tlie Lord bless you, and save you. ^'he continued — "I have seen better d?ivs L>ut lhroUi>'!! v.W mv i)o\ertv 1 loNcd tho Loid Jt'suR Christ, and nothing iu this world — ihougii 1 am so poor» JOY OF AXGELS. 41 "witli my six cliildven — iiolbiiio- in tin's world would do me so much good ^s luy ImshaiKr.s (Oiivei'sion !" "And do you love your liusband yet ?" 1 asked. " If I ^lid uut love liim, sir, who would ?" — w;is her reply. Slie opened her bosom, and I saw it was all black and bruised with her husband's brutal violence. The child then said to her moihei", ''Mothei*, can't the Lord save mv father ?" " O ves, He can save him, but the drink lias kept him back." l asked where he was? — She answered, " IJo is in a di'unkard's bed — a led of* straw." The husband heard me, ;nid he came out of his de?% and he looked at me, and idanced at his wife, and he sat down upon the only seat there was, and that was formed of a brick and a board, and put his Iiaixis upon his kiu'es, and presently looked at her, he said, '* 1 would sooner take that knife and commit suicide than live another day." "0, my husl-and," said the ])Oor wife, •' don't do that, the Lord will forgive 3'^ou, and make me hap|)y yet." And then tlie little jiirl cried out, *♦ Yes, the Lord can sa\e you; and slian't we be happy if you :are converted] Won't you give your heart to God to-day, father?" The father looked at his little child and then at his wife, and he said, " What have I done to \\\y poor wife? 1 have mv two pound, or tiftv shillino-s n, week, and I mio;ht liave a hajtpy home, but it is the driidt which does the harm." I said, " (liive it up to-day, and ask the Lord to blcs you. (./ome to Jesii^; He will save you." lie looked at me atid ho said, " Do you ihink he will save a rebel like me?" Tlu-iu he went up to his wife, and s.n'd, " Will you forgive me?" The child then said. " Fathei', I will })ra,y for you," and they knelt down, and the little crcatute said, ■*' Lord, make my father into a good fatlu'r." The poor man hegan to believe, and he soon vetitured all u}v)n Jesus and said, "I do believe." Since th.cn they linve hkI nx', and the ])oor woman said, "0, sir, vou have done such a thing in my house that all the world beside coultl not have done !" "i'hssthe Lord for that," I paiave a poor old :j:::n such . pHtance had to hve upon it ^f - -^f ^ - a month ; thev would know then whr.t it was t- P<^oi and in need. When 1 saw this poor woman lying there I elt ife mv duty to relieve her distress, both of mind and bod>.-- bL paid one shilli.g a week for the phu:e she hve-l m and then she had si.peneea week to support her. ihat was jti t a penny a day, and stnrve on Sunday. But (ukI is good, and God can' hear and answer prayer. On one occasion, when I went in, her landlord had just been there bothering The poor old creature for his rent. He wanted the money.. y)001' be said, or the bed she was lying on. The tears were uv>QR,> tll^ SA12^t's REJOlCIl^a. 47 'm "her cheeks, I could see, and when slie put out her hand to me, she burst out crj'ing again, and the big drops ran down her furrowed and sunken cheeks. " I am so thankful that you have come," she said, "for my landlord has just been here for his sixteen shilliiigs of rent, or else he must have the bed I lie upon ; I shall not be hei-e very long, and then he can have the furniture to 2:>ay himself with. 1 would to God that the Lord would take me." That poor woman lay for some time longer. The Lord helped her in her distress, and a friend cara« in who paM the- money foi* her. What a blessed deed that was ! One morning I was called in to see her, as she was near her departure. She had one daughter, who lived in the town, and who had come in to see her before her death. I shall never forget the sight as long as I live;. We all know something, by experience, of the love of parents, especially of praying, pious fathers and mothers. When I went in, with my Bible in my liand, I saw her with her arms round the neck of her daughter. She said to me, ** Thank God, you have come to take a kst ferewell of me before I depart Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word, for mine eyes have seen thy galvationJ* I said to her, '* Well, sister, have you experieneed the tru'th of that part of God's Word to-day?'^ <*My dear Richard,*' she answered, "blessed be God, my daughter has just now- found the pearl of great price, and she has professed her hope of meetinu l„j dying mother in the land of pure delight. Thank God, there will be no parting in heaven, and I can die happy now." Ah ! it was indeed a blessed sight to see that aged mother, with her arms locked around her weeping daughter, and saying, ** All is well !" as she departed from this life. JThe words of my text w^ere the words of aged Simeoir. It h«d been revealed to him that he should not die till he had seen the Messiah's birth. He had been waiting for many years for this time to come. Babe after babe was born itt Bethlehem, but not the little stranger that he wanted to be- hold. At last, however, he had heai»d that the plains of Bethlehem Ave"e ht up with a light superioi' to any light id that place, or to any hght tbat had ever shone before upoa this sin-blighted world. He had heard the tidings of that U I I 49 THE saint's rejoicing. briffbt. and inorningslur— tlio Starof Bethleliem— whiclihaJ directed the shepherds in their course. And he smd, whenr the^e things were tol.l him, -1 will go and watch for him as he comes to his teui].le,and I. nhall be able to distinguish Lim: the Lord will tell me by his Holy Spirit, for has he- not revealed it to me, that 1 sliall not taste of death till I have seen the Lor Vh Christ 1" At last, one d-v, a virgin, hearing an infant m her arms, and such a one as had never l^en seen in the temple before— no mother had ever carried' Buch a child inio that temple before. He is lying (a lovely and helpless babe) on his mothei's breast, but he is conscious of all around him. If ho had a mind he could speak, aiid though, but a babe, he could tell all ihe thoughts of his mother's min.l. Poor old Simeon sees him, and knows at> ©nee that he is the Sr'viour. " i should not like to die," says he, "till I had held that dear babe in my arms. I have had inauy a babe in my arms, buf that is the Litant of Days, a babe superior to all his race, who is the mighty Cod,and_wh<> has come into the world to raise it from .-in and perdition. The mother let him take the babo in his arms. The Virgin- Mary looked ui>on the aged patriarch, upon his hoary locks, his llovfingbeiud, and saw the tear standing in his eye, while his heart's joy ghstened in his countenance, as he says, "Lol I have been Vailing for this little lamb these many yeare;' and I knew that this" babe was the Christ as soon as I looked upon it. Lt)rd, now lettest ihou thy servant deimrtiupeace^ according to ihy word, for mine eyes have seen thy ealvation." The Scriptures'do not tell us whether poor old Simeon died then or pot, — and that is no business of mine, but it suggests to me a word to sav to every poor sinner here this evening. 1 remember the •i.e when i was seeking hither and thithes for comfort and happiness; going to this })lace and that place of worldly amusement to -et peace: I used to go to boxing matches, to saloons, and tiicatres in search of pie-isure. But, O, my friends, earthly pleasure is like a bubble upon the occiin, it soon bursts; it is like the thorns which they put undei- the pot, thev blaze for awhile, but they are soon con- «n«.»..1 Thert' is "iov. but it is but for the lio^ht, and sorrow ma::, who have been Cometh in ihe morning. Vou, younj^ to the theuire, and v u, young woman, who have paid a TffE SAIFt's REJOICIN'G. 4$ stilling to go to the pit— thank Go(,l, it is not the pit of hell j-though the pit of hell is on the other side— if you had died in tliat place damnation would have been your doom. You, young man, and young womjin, I ask you, did you get any peace, or happiness, or comfort there, while the man who had blackened his face sang the negro son^s ? or cau Sims Keeves, with h\s oeautiful voice, gWo you peace and joy, and comfort? I ask you, would you like t. depart this Hfe in a theatre, or m a saloon? «'No, Richard Weaver," you say, •♦if I died then, awful would luue been my doom." Thank God, you are yet ahve. but still you have triea .o get pleasure tore; and that poor i erty-stricken husband over there has tried to drown his sor. v, s at the public-house, while his poor starving wife follows aaer him, in her tattered dress, and hei- poor puny infant in her arms, and in she goes with eves blackened by her husband's violence, and her cheeks bruised and bleeding. The man, perhaps with a harlot at his side, takes ro notice of the wife who stands before him, but he calls to the landlord to give him another threepen'orth of gin. The poor wife looks at him as he drinks it off; and says to him, " O John, look at my poor starving babe in my arms, look at my ragged dress; I have had no bread to eat." But the husband heeds her not, though she has, ft may be, four children starving at home, in that dark damp cellar; and when he lifts the glass, and looks at the gleamincr liquid, he sees, if he does not say, '« Here is the bread out of my wife's and ray children's mouths; here are the shoes off ray children's feet, here are the clothes from otf their backs, here IS the roof from over their heads; here is death, here is he?l here is perdition : although there is all that in this glass, I will not forsake it." O man, there is the curse of thj family m that glass ! Can you get peace at a puhlic-house ? Can you purchase real hai pmess there? I have been within bar parlours; I have rtood in tap- rooms; I have stood there wntil the black floor has been covered over with filth. I have stood in it at such times, and I say such a place cannot give comfort or pleasure. As a man who has had bitter experience m sucLi courses, 1 deny it; and, as a man whose heart and ta enta God has changed, I deny it. Go, as I have gone, mto their wretched homes, where their children are dying of i 1 tHK SAI^VS IlfiJOlCmG. * want- whore, if they lie down, it is only upon a wisp of stift^j ricked up from .ome corner. Ask that poor broken-sp.r,^ ^twS^ runs to hide her youngest cW'd as you approach,- rD"e7C-Astr.ll'Sr^^i.e 1^0 bids tUe^ *me htther^nd go thither, and they shall have comfort^ I Ce tried' it for t^wenty-flve years, ^t the '.ge;J jf ^"^ J; «vn away from my mother's door I bade f"««« ' *« "J mother's cot, and to ray mother s_ advice. B»' d d ^ g«t SmfoTt? No. I bave been in the lowest haunteof^wqm^^^^ but I found no peace there. 1 have been m the fociety M MoU and thiev^ee, and among all sorts of ■"«"• ^1 on'o ,88 no peace for me there. 1 remember a young man onco Ihowi addicted to drinking, and other f"™' °f/"=g„,^t was lodsjing at a cert-in house away from home. But he ^ Xlood CM , .ying mother, and ^^e had prayed^for Shatfad miiiv a tiro.., asking, aa an answer to her prayers, Iha she 3 «ot depart tilfthe had seen her serfs salvation^. That lad^e^nt up stai™ one day when he w»« very wr^hei. and unhappy, and was determined to do tb« same thing to Mf Xfthat youn^ man of whom you ^^^^^l^^f this week, has done to his mother and his t«° J'"' ^^"^^"^ We ffot a piece of chalk and marked upon the place, foi he ^nlf not write, but endeavoured to m.rk it as ««" «; ^e eou d. v-hat he intended to do; and then he took a.i'^w' J' ^ Wn drawing it backwards and forwards upon bis shoe to K,n tt and while he was doing this the thought came tX mi^d-'-My poor old mother prayed for me; what ;^U ^: Zt when't^ey tell her the Wl *ehas^ prayed for has committed suicide? But I cannot hve m 'bis jay any loBger; I am so unhappy.there . no P' J"-^ VeU fiira^ wmtobed sinner, and L may just as wen (,w i" " ^ ]ul for that is mv doom."' And the young rmn ««»'!;";; hi handkerchief about the handle of bis razor; but just as k« w" about to draw it over his throat, the thought of hi. THE saint's TEJOICINO. fij praying mother came again into Iiis mind, and be drops tlie razor, and runs down sbiirs to the woman, and says, ''Mre. , I have been attonipting to commit suicide!" and he covm his face with bis bands, and sits trembling in a corner. The poor woman di-ops ujion her knees, and she savs, " Lo-d have mercy upon you." The young man begins to weep, and wnng his bands, and tear his hair, and to curse the di f when he was born. She looks at him, and, although she is an unconverted woman, she says to him, "There is hope for you yet." The poor young man looked at her. " Well,' sajd he, at length, " I am determined to lead a different hfe from this time." But, 0, my brethren, that young man did not go to the right source; be trusted, at first, to his own strength but finally he was led to believe in Jesus. And that young man is Richard Weaver, who stands here to-night before you, to thank God he is out of hell. And, thank yod, I can say to-night, "Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation." One time I could not have said that; I waa ternfierl at the thought of death, and the last judgment tilled me with atfnght; but now the terror of death is done away with in the bk od of Jesus Christ. Thank God, throutrh that blood — ® <'KowIcnn rear! my tit!o clear Tu liiaiiHions iu tiio skies ; I'll Lid vw well to ovoiy fnar Anu wipe my weeping eyes." I bless the living God that Christ has died for me. Some of you, Chiistiau brethren, can remember the time when hke me, you bad no title-deed to the l,elter country ; but now youcansav, We are on our way to the city of the living God— there 8 our home and ].or(ion there, and the i^rize is before us. Yon can romemh jr when you were unwashed by the blood of (be L;imh; but through the mercy of God you can also rememb»r when your deaV Saviour took you in his arms, and yo-i could say—" i„M(|, now lettest thou thy servant acpurtin pf,iue, aocordiiig to tliv word, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation." ' We whose heart* Go ,^;°"^ f.^'.ltord, now lett«^ around US-then ^^_e can look up, and say^ 1^. ^ ^^^^^^ thou thy servant depart in peace, ."^'o'/,^ " Mavvoir Ghrist ever came to t«ke away the sting «f "«^"h . .^^''y ^^^ be enabled, who are unconverted, to come to Chnst , you can, *"^^rerX,tthe Sahbath-school of a litJ^chapeV a little boy who was taught by an ^ged in . w.th fuiro«ed fpon h sknelt an^* said. •' Lord, bl-^s thee, lad" Mom I "d^ L rnay 1 see thy salvation ^J^--^, fyf: aftr Th^tllr 'd"t Tadte^- m^^ the" He had^gone co. aoeitain voung man was going to p^«'>- "« ^^^„ Z »ame, ami he said, "I will go and hear 1''™- ^''f" ^ ^ent into thechapel. the voung ™«^ '""^ r'7'-i"\7J".ile ^av The old min knelt down, and after tho«'*>.«;)?|„'*,7^ rpeaking. he held up his furrowed hands -;> -^'^ ''-1"^^ eyes to hoaven, and said, "Lord now lettest 'ho" thy servant depart in peace. accor.ling to thy word, fo '"'"« ^f^^;^^ «een thv salvation." The young i""" l^^"''''^ ' ""J^tTu^ . .r _ -_ ^ ..:n.,.-a- *^^'^ KW.«»iff c)f God was largely poui««i out upon the people, and hundreds wore brought to a know tedg^of tho. truth through the bibod of the I'«T'*- , -JH"^ ,nTof the w«ek be wassailed U> attend the dying bed ot «. THE saint's rejoicing. S9 .« ^very old man. When he went into Jhis room the aged wife •Mas at his bedside weeping, as much as to say, "0 Lord let me depart with him." As ^oon m he approached .the dying man s hed, the latter caught hoJd of :hi8 band, sayip& ur^l"^^ d^i' young friend, you forget me, .don't yonV— *Oh no, I don't hrget you," vva^ the reply. -Do vou re- member me in that school," continued he, "putting my hand upon your head, and asking God to bless you ' ' ^' ves" baid the yoi-g man. ''Thank God, then,"sa .1 the othek T A ?'''^rf -^ i;'^^^' is answered, I can now die happy in the Lord Then he ...ed them to sing his favourite hymn— All IS well His speech seemed at last to have left him. but his daughter, who was anxious that he should leave behind iiim a ti-iumphant testimony to the truth, asked him, "Now If you can speak tdl me all is well, and if not, hold up youil^ hand father." Ihe old man raised himself up, and with a dying effort cried out, -Victory! victory! through the blood of the Lamb ! and almost immediately after departed. lHank bod, that young man is here, and he it is who is speaking to you. Let God be praised for what Christ can do When the good martyr—the first man that .died for his blessed inaster the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ—he upon JL ?i l.t*!;'^ Weaver rests all his hope, for there is no prop Ike the blood of Jesufi Christ-nay, there is no support bisidC that ot which John speaks, when ho says, " The blood qf Jesus Christ deanseth us from all sin"-wheii, I say that fii-«fc martyr fetephen, was being stoned to death for the Moat High God and was near his. end, he saw heaven opened, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God. When aged Paul came U> die, he laid his fetters on one side and said, ** I am now leady to depart. I hnve fought ft good figLt, I have kept thy faith, henceforth there is laid HP or me a crown of glory, which Christ, the righteousJudge shall give me, and not to me only." There is somethinir ■which conoei lis you and ,i»e, my friends dawn thece in thi body oMhe hall, to you up there in the galleries, and to you ^e«iuu iiio ; - and iiot unk) me only,^^ mys Paul, •' but also t© ail them that love his aopennng." David, when lie drew Dear to death, after all his adultery, and all his hlack.iess— through the mercy of God, he was forgiven his transgrcssiom^ j^ THE SA1^'T'S REJOICING. DavUl. .hen he was on the ver^e of *e valley w^^^^ Bay ! Is he afraid to brave the «tmms ,sh. a r. ^ Je darU valley ;,f-j!,t." .^If tC^rth: .^.Uey of tecause his mind is centeved no he ;'l-^^ ^^.. p„,. ^v,„„ Pope or priest? No; .«t ho P^^^^,, ,," Glory artwitli me, thy rod and tli} .«aii 1 1 ej same.— be to God, there are many no« «l.o can^ay ^ Christ's word comforts us 1««'";« ^'',? f'^'^ ^li^ If it is as lights up the valley, an.l Hieretore we *«;^J """"•; ^5^^ dtk as'^l.ell when Christ enters .t, l^^ »" g^j; "Je have heavenly glory, and with such a lamp fiom heaven, . ■no cause to'feav evil. .i,„ =4nnpr's end present! I 1 But what a contrast does the ^^^f" ^^>'' ?, ^^ the lave stood at the beds,de o^ d^^;^ ^ ^oX'g n a coal mine last moments of infidels. I «• » """^^ "" ^J converted at a certain place. It was soon »ft«' \''- ' ^'''^ib me, one to God. Tb^M-e was a sceptic tl;-'«J">^;^°S ^/^l gr;ce to who denied the being of God, and l"^ P^™«^^' ,^,.,f ^ „« save sinners. We were .irnnig north -n^' ""t*; , ' ,^ ;,^ „„ -\rinTGor.nX;ut:ira:ittdhe;ar^^^ one there but lioiJ, ana uie IK. . , when I came v„« A'- ,r''\;^.iruT Wlievein Chris- rleinsed ri<^ from all mu and th;.t it i clie in f THE saint's rejoicing. K« I heard a cry coining along tlie working. It drew nearer, and nearer, and presently I could make out the poor boy's voice, as lie cried to me, " 0, Richard, my father's dead." He led me to where he had left his tather. He laid hold of my hand, and j^uided me along, and I shall never forget the poor chiid'ri agonizing cry, which he constantly repeated, and which echoed in the it as we went along. " My father's dead! what will my poor mother do now? my father's dead ! my father's dead !" Wht-n 1 reached the |)lace I found the poor fellow was lying on his f;;ce. Upon his back was a great Jump of coal, which had fallen out of the roof upon him, and crushed him to the earth. I tried to heave it otF from him, but could not stir it. It took four men afterwards to remove it, and get him from beneath it. There was no one at hand to assist me but the little boy, who could cry and wring bis bands in the agony of his grief. I seized my pick, and endeavoured to break the lump upov the poor fellow's back, as the only chance of releasing him. Just then he heaved a sigh, and I could hear he was still alive. Presently he spoke, and said, "0, Jxichard, tell my poor wife I am dyi?)g her(!. Tell her to train up my children in the way to heaven — tell my wife to tell my child len, when they have laid me in the gra.e, that their father is dead and damned!" lly Iriends what a dre;idful thought! Here he was denying God, and as he l;iy at helfs dark door, his last words were, ••Tell my wife 1 am dead and damned.'' Who can tell the throbbing of that ])Oor wife's heait, as her little boy runs home, and clinging round lier. he cries, "Mother, fathers dead !" When the body was taken home, one little boy whispers to his almost broken-heai ted mother, "Is father asleep?" And she has to say to him, " My little lamb, your father is dead." I can never foiget the scene at the funeral. The poor woman sat at the head of the corpse, while round her were groujKjd the orphan children, and the friends who had eonie to p.iy n Inst vi^it to the mtn whom they had known as a neighbour, or loved as a friend. There were, too, his ohi g;ey-her;:]ed father nrul nether. I was there taking my last look at hinj; and, as 1 looked upon his black tflieeks, as ho hi) in his coffin, 1 said aloud, "Poor fellow I 1 -he is gone to his ro^^ ard." The widow looked at mo witli m THE saint's rejoicing. tears in her eyes, and said, " O, Richard, did he not teR ym SLt, sly to me before h^ died?" Tl.e l^tUe boy an- swe ed for me, and said, "Yes, mother.; father t^ld Richard tnell you he was dead and damned." Tho poor woman .Loniwhen she hea.d that ^ When she came to herseli. sl»G said "What ! my husband dead and damned ! It was kdeed 'a heart-brcakh.g scene, which I hope never to see again. Take warning, wicked fothe.-e and mothers lest your .end be like his. Take warning, for God cannot look upoQ sir.; and he has said, "The wicked shal be turned into t^U and all the nations that forget God." And lie ^a. als« declared that only " he that believeth shall be saved. May Ood save you all to-night. I don't cave how black you are 1 don't care how far you may be sunk m sin, how degraded vou may have become, how polluted you are;; Christ can Lve you; his blood can wash away your sins, and the angels may rejoice over you in this hall to-night. It is time for you to come, it is time for you to begui to pray. I have ffot sorrow to contend with, and affliction awaits ^e, perhaps, when I get home; yet it will gladden my heart •much, as 1 travel, and as each mile brings me nearer Lanca- shire, and also when friends come in to see me alter i get home, and to ask me how I got on in London-^it will glad- den me much to be able to say, "The Lord has been savmg dinners, and -his grace has been abundantly poured out upon my work." I was gladdened to-day when a man said to me, ^' Thank God, sir, that ever you came to London; I have tfound salvation and peace through your coming. Ami it ^ill gladden my heart, when they write to me down there, and tell me what God is doing in London, and how he is .-blesfling the work of his labourers here. Yes, the blessing ^f the Lord has t)een felt. I can depart in peace, and aJthougU a may never meet some who are in this hall on earth again yet I hope to meet .many of you on the other side of Jordan, where parting shall be no n»ore. I was.pment once at the bedfeiclti of a little giil who was laying, but who loved the Saviour alihough her fatucr was an infidel. I was called into the chamber, and siiw this little gaint depart this hfe for the celestial country. When I had heen there a little while she asked me to sing. I asked her THE SAINrs REJOlCIirai «t -wUt I should sing, and she said, «'0 sing me, Richard,. ^ There is a land of pure delight' " Then I sang the verse " There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign ; Infinite day excludes the night,. And pleasures banish paini" "0 ! she said, " ' How I long to be there, Its glories to share, - And to lean upon Jesus' breast.'" When I had done singing, she put out her hands, and' f caught the gleam of her dying eyes. She turned to her mother, and said to her, "Mother dear, will you' meet me in- heaven ?" The mother could only weep, and say, " O, my dear child !" But the little saint went on, « Dbn't you love me. mother?" <*0, yes, I do love you, mv dear little one,"* she replied. " Well then," said she, "if you love me, won^t you meet me in heaven ?" The mother, overcome, fell down and said, " The Lord save me !'^ Then the littfe one immd^ her head upon her pillow, and, looking at her father, said,. *' Father dear, do you love your dying Annie?" *'0,ye8, I do love you," he reph'ed. "Then," said the child, *♦ won't Tou meet me in heaven ?" The father never answered her; be was a helievor in the creed of Tom Paine and his ''Age 0/ i?ea.9o?i," which can never give happiness in the dying hour. She repeated the question to him, when he burst into tears, and said, " O, my dear child, my dear Annie r Agjiin she put the question to him> "Father! will you meet me in heaven !" At length he dropped upon his knees, and said, " Jf Christ can save a wretch like me, I will meet you, by Ihe love of the Saviour, in heaven." Thei-e^ locked in the aims of their dying chiM, they both promised to meet her above. Since that day the mother has died, and on her death-bed was able to cry, " Victory I through the blood of the Lamb." That is what I have to ask you, who are hsten- i^ng to me in this hail to-night— will you meet me in. heaven f: ^my be, I shali never have the privilege of addressing you Jgam, and I implore you, therefore, before God and my ftaviour, will you meet mo in heav«n ? I ask you, by th%- gg THTi! saint's REJOICING. Wood of Christ, wWcb cleanseB from all f "-?!;" f^J^^^J rno in TiMven ' Who amoii'r -you will meet Kiehard weaver r 8 Those of you xvUo will meet me there, in.t up your hands Th" k oir- we have got some who have gone St who will be glad to see our salvation. Many of you ^oor won en have parted with children who have gone to Zrv IhmK^h roi had to bury them in a pnnsh coffim- f he ha^-e Sone before vou to the pronnsed land. You rememetirenrmother.; fathers, when they stretched theu^ itX hands in death, and you have ki.sed then, for the la.t time and whispered, " Wo will meet m heaven. You have nms^d them on^vour knee., and Christ has taken them m his arms to heaven^ Some of you have pious mothers m the Zvdand You can remember her hand c aspmg yours, a,,d the iCv which lit up the vall.y of death when she ened *Fa? Je'll. Mary ! Farewell, all! I am g3,'«be|.'en Jesus is there. Farewell to th.s world for eve ! f^^^ there the mother who bare us .». living to-night. Thank «oa for the m^her who put her hand upon my head, and gave "^ tXoS'3-ds, I shall leave wh^t I have said with vou. i have done all I could wh le I have been w th vo If there is anv one here to-„iglit who neglects thrs Cin" and dies witlK.ut repenti,is-of his sms and behev.ng in J sns f .r snlvati .n, I say to you most solemn y, before God and with this Uihle in my hand, I am clear of his blood. I hall U you at ;he bar of God. There may be some here who when wo meet at the last day, will be on the left hand IfUie throne, an.l Christ will then -T- '' ^f I"'''- ' ™J the man whom von poim-d out in St. Maims Hall, and whom vou warned toUek salvation, but he 'l-'-heved and temus; depart into ever! .sting punishment, prepared for he Devil and his angels." You vho are w.«hed by the blood of Tl e T,ani!„ -H u,, your hands that we m.v see who are on t le Lor 's s'i.le. 'rh.nk God for so many who can rejoice °n the name of Eumiauuel. Are tliero any who are not ye !,". l,„t. v>ho desire to come to Jesus? If thoro are put up your gave "bands, and look to Cbrist, and that gave the dymg thief pardon will give vou peace and pardon also; for he who opened paradise for the dymg thief to eutev fHE ^\II?t's RETOrCIKGf. 5^ in, can, and will open it for you. Christ will help all who' desire to trust in- him, and he will bring all who trust in him* safe to the promised land. It is hh name which defeats hell,' drives back the powers- of darknesd, puts devils to flight,^ enables us to go iuto the enemy's camp, and rescue souls- from damnation. His is the name which is above everV' name, and as long as Richard Wea\'«r has breath he will preach the power and grace of the dying Saviour, who- will- save unto the uttermost all who come^ to God by him. i have come among you to seek your salvationi Goti knows that that is ray mission to you woi-kiug men and women of Ijondon. I have no other object than to win your soula to €hrist. Will you then come to Jesus ? May God help you^ to come. Wiii you decide? Infidelity cannot support you^ in death, Barkerism will not serve you ; and all the isms' which are contrary to the Bible will be of no avail then. The blood of Christ, which cleanseth from all sin, can alona give you a title to the glory -land. May the blessing of. Godi ha upon, these words. Am«n.- GLORVllSrG- 11^ THE OrOSlPlSlt.^ ^ i "'■ " I am not a.hamed of the Gospel of Christ; for it is thod unto salvation to evei'y one that believeth." May God help you and me to believe to-night, and then according to our iaith will it be unto us. . i .t, 1 The apostle Paul, in going from one city to another, and from one nation to another, preached neither this eect nor that sect, but held up the banner of the Cross 1 here are plenty in the present day, who ^ay, "Come to this church or to thkt c'uipel, and if you do not belong to this or the other denomination, you do not belong to Christ's kingdom. But the apostle gloried only in the Cross, and he is not a Chris- tian minister who does not make that his constant theme. 1 would not go and hear a man lecture on matters of mere excitement, if he did not pre;icn Christ. Mr. Gough has been lecturing in Exeter Hall, and other places, but when he is speaking on tciinperance, ho tolls you also what God has GLORYING iK THE GOSPE'T. 61 done for his soul. He does not hang his soul upon the tem- perance cause. He says: *• Thank God I am a sinner saved by ^race." I am uo foe to the temperance cause, for I have boen a teetotaller seven years ; but then I know that I was broUirht to the saving knowledge of the truth through the blood of the Lamb, and I am, therefore, not ashamed to declare to all, that my hope is alone inJesus Christ, and him crucified. It does not matter to me who scoffs r.nd jeers, since God, for Christ's sake, has pardoned my sins ; and I feel it my duty to preach Jesus to perishing sinners. ^ This is my object in coming to London, to tell the sinners in this great metropolis what a Saviour I have found. As long as I walk in this sin-blighted world, that shall be my one, my only theme. I do not think I could get upon a theme I should like better than that, for Jesus is evm dear to me. — The Lord has permitted me to come and speak a word to the people here assembled, and I am come to teU you that "I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth." Now, the apostle had much to contend with in this; and every true Christian has also much to contend with. People say at present that the days of persecution and peril are done away with. Only let them come [in the front of the battle, and they will soon fiiid that they will have persecu- tion. But the Lord commands us to be up and doing,^ to press forward towards the mark for the prize of our high callinjT of God in Christ Jesus." May he graciously help you and me to be faithful and diligent, doiug all the good pleasure of his will, in seeking the salvation of our fellow- sinners. There's many a one thai preaches Jesus Christ, and him crucified, that is ashamed of him. I have had it said to me, «« 1 have to preach out of doors to-night, but I should be thankful if you weald go and preach for nie; I am not called to preach out of doors!" 1 do not think a man that is not called to preach out of doors is called to preach at all ; I know that my blessed Lord was called to preach in doors and out of doors. ' There are many that would not let me prerch because I am not ordained. in their chur But if I am 11 m fit to talk about Jesus out of doors, I believe 62 GLOlttrKG lis* THE Gc^VPX. _, . j.ii K; it'S 111 that a man is fit to talk about the Saviour in door9. iWe^ is many a one at the present time would be ashamed of us, because we are poor working men ; they would not admit us int > their society for fear we should spoil their carpets or their furniture, or something of that kind. But, thank Crod, we are not ashamed of Jesut^. They may scoff, and sneer, and ridicule ;-but, after all, there's something grand m the Crospel.^ Infidehty opens its mouthj and says, "I will destroy it. Infidels cut down the tree of life ? Impossible ! They may hack and hew about it, but their axes will grow dull, and^ they have no grindstones on which to sharpen them, so as to enable thenr to cut it down. May God impress this Gospel on your hearts to-night, fw "it is the power of God' unto salvation to every one that believeth. I have hears lips soemea to be 0X1 with a Gospel fire. . He knew where he found i^e honou and where hi realized the divine power, and got fl^cMed akT Inlde happy through the Gospel; he^knew^e was for from God once; he was a Fbarisee ']' '"" ""^;°-7 » blasphemer and injurious enemy of Christ. He waing in a railway vrain, 1 alway.- endeavour to speak something about Jesus, f hero's plenty will say they are glad to hear about hitn, therefore I always get somebody to listen to me, if I do not get many to love my Saviour. There is a good deal in us wo ought to be ashamed of; and there's a good many tljat don't like the Gospel of Christ because it's like a mirror, and shows them what they are. — J ney ClOnOi IIKU IUHL. XiiC UJIty.nrvi Jm-uj* ait^j. iag^v--i, --T-- not like looking at themselves in a glass; they are ashamed) of looking int*_> it. That is the w.*y with many profissingi GLOllvreG Hf T!HE CfOSPEL. 65 Christians; tliey are ashamed oi looking in the Gospel glass, because they can see their disobedience there. There are few who like to be told of their faults. Not me, nor you ^either, do you ? Yes I do. I 'itsed to say to ray fellow- •.workmen, " 1 am a Cliristian man, nnd ifyou^urse I shall tell you about it, and if you tell lies I shall t.?ll you about^ it, and if I do anything wrong you shall tell me about it." — And sometimes they would 3ee thing:, which I thought were .-not altogci-ber wrong, and they would ask me if that was religion"; ^md T can stand ut> and say, ''In me dwelleth no allowed evil," for (^' riwt is in me, and I have the evidence of my salvation. I have known many professors who have been ashamed of going home, and praying before their friends. A young man said tt. me one day, "Oh, sir, I cannot; my father is a scoffer, and my mother a reviler, and if they were to see me upon my knees before God, they would mock me." What ^would 1 care about mockino-, if-God blesses, or about sneer- ing, if he says, I " will smile." Let the Devil roar: what •matter if Jesua bless 5 1. pressed upon that young man to go home and to open his mind, and to begin by reading the Bible. He went home, and after the door was shut, for it was a public -house, he began to read the third-chapter of St. John's Gospel. The father said, at last, " you are not goi: g to read that here; I am determined I will not have it read in my house any more." He said, " If you will not allow me to read my Bible, I will take my clothes and go uud live somewhere. else, and prny for God to save you there." ^\cil, the man got annoyed, and said, " I am del nined you t>Ull .not read another verse; if you do, 1 will turn you out of doors. I do ,not care for ^our crocodile tears; I am deter- mined you shall go." Tbe lad ^was reaolut* and read on; as soon as ho bad done, the father .caught hold of him by the collar, and tbouish the motl»er bogged bim to let bini alone, he turned tbe ktl out of doors. He went to a friend vthat I know, and wh«n he got there, he dropi)ed on his knees, and wiid, " Go she came down stairs, th.o stern lather says. No v, mi^ wl ett^e you going this .nornhig? If you go mstde tha ehawl voumusl not darken iny door fS?'""' ,,/''« 1^?^°' ; '^etr The -extwas " Wbe-i thy father at.dhy^no her Lake thee, then the ^^ , -'' -^^j ^ ^../^^X'td seemeil to preach all to that youi ""y \ , ,„ clown her cheeks all the t,me. V; Ijen she g.,t ho e e^ wicked old father turiud her out ot d-ors. J^^'« « "^^"^ tell tttiv one her tale, hut she wan lered away unltl the dark winter's night came on. The ^tornr ^v^s ragmg. ohc^had nowhere to go, and ui t.ie darK m>dn,s..> .^= «• - - ^ down by the wayside. When her poor old niothe. auU bcr *$$ GI.XRYIXG IN THE GOSPEL. fallier thought about her, they would have given the world lo have had her bad; again. They sent the bellman round the town to say she had left home, but no one knew where uhe was. But a man who was going with a cart past the place where she was lying, saw the form of a female, and went to look who it was. She told hJni that, because she was not ashamed of Jesus, her father i.ad turned her out of lier home, and that hei- heart was broken. " Well," he said, *'if thy father's turned thee out, I will be a father to thee, if thou luvtst Jesus," When he ^vot to the town, he left this young woman at an inn. The b.-Ilman was just crying out that she had left her home ; the old father aud mother did not like to say that they had tuinel her out of doors. The man went to them end said, "You havelo3ta young womau that would not be a^ihanied of Christ, and I can find her."— ;He took her home. The poor father trembled when he ?r.v/ ;ior, and said, "My daughter, will you forgive me 2" T.ie mother clasped her to her bosom, aud cried, *' Will you for- .givfi me T Poor girl ! with a loving heart like her Saviour, ■she replied, "Yes. I do forgive you— and may the Lord iorgive you." But that night was the cause of her death.— Before she died, she asked her father and mother to allow lier to have her coffin made and brought home to her, and -ahe said, " I should like to have my sliroud made to lie in, ^and look at death that has lost its sting through tho blood of Jlhe Lamb,^and smile at hin] before I depart." When they were brought she was sitting in the easy chair, and her sparents were standing by. She looked at the coffin, and at tho shroud, and she said, " Father, those are the robes I am -.to bo dressed in till the resurrection morn;" and she shouted, •" death! where is thy sting? grave! where is thy vie itory? Thanks be unto God, who giveth me the vicu)ry, .through the Lord Jesus Christ." Tiie poor old father and jnothcr were (|u lie owrcome, and they wept, and as that dear :^irl prayed for God to save them, the power f the liviog •^od came d(jwu into that chamber, and they found pardon .ana peace through the blood of the Lamb. That* is not ashatued of Christ. Christ. him, I w Ther< and cam human ] against i purifying in the w on the < him cru and fool and mac we do Damasc power c « Lord,. sinners are on t fire, if t dieth IV tho pri you. ] Gospel Th( sneer, f\ stand s can nn< God! 1 nil that in it I above power it; if : aatronc the eai miles i there i S>eing Jf it cost us our life we outyht never to be ashamed of GLORYING IN THE COSPEi;, lie world tn round kV where past the lale, aud aiise she ii" out of he said, ) thee, if left this fmg out ther did ra. The f woniau I her."— n he ?r.v/ r T:ie you for- Savjour, he Lord ieath.— to allow her, and Lo lie in, blood of en they and her , and at bea I am shouted, thy vie vicu)ry, ber and -hat dear e living pardon it ia not amcd of I Christ. I say before God, that, sooner than be ashamed of him, I would die at the present time. There is a power in the Gospel we cannot coi..prehend,. and cannot fathom. It is the power of the living God. No^ human power can withstand that. Infidelity cannot stano.%n/^f ir>]\ v.4»ovfl tVilj irwu iiKi- nfjw'Hi' comes from, nor th<5" •. rill tJ\-"V r~. sr ......... .^ |. -. . _- •istronomer either. Ko with the waves of the ocean; as w^f- siund upon the -^ea beach, and gaze upon (he big waves that TO GLORYING IN THE GOSPEL. I are roliinisf in succession, dasliing against the roclis, and making the vessels saih'ng on its bosom creak and tremble^ we see there is a treniendoua ])()\ver soniewhere, but Avhere it eomes from we cai'not teil. I have stood by the side of the river, and have seen the tide coining in in its regular course quietly and slowly along its way, but the tide has rushed along, and it seems to say, " Stand back, for I am mightier than thou." And the tide has i-olled onwards with mighty power, but where the power was I could not tell. But, thank God, 1 have stood by the black river that leads to hell, and its waves have swept all before it like the sea; I liave looked at the mighty power of God which has arrested them, and brought them back, and I have heard the cry, " God be merciful to me a sinner;" but I have not had the least doubt where the power has come from, for ** the Gospel is the power of God unto salvation to every one that beheveth." Thank God— " Christ e'-'cr lives aliove, For you to iutercede, His all-redoeniinj)^ love, His precious blood to plead." ^ Glory be to God ! there is a power men cannot withstand by which the Gospel is accompanied, arid there is an efficacy in the Gospel that can save eveiy man and woman in this piace to-night. Thank God, Jesus i:s mighty to save, his aa'ne is the Mighty God, the A> ondeiful Counsellor; he can Save to the very uttermost of humaTi gu'lr and desert; I know it, i'.ud can bear testimony to this fact by happy experience — " God is lovo, I know, J foci ; Jesus v,e(!ps, und loves mo still." I will just tell yen one ciicumptance to show you how tho Gos]K'l can sustain a man in the hour of trial and in the time of dc'Uh. 1 know a poor collier at the time of the Crimean war, who was a great mau for reading the ncw^papeis. Wo used to meet one another night and morning; he was a capital reader, and we Utsod to ^it dow!i together; and he used to read about our Boldior-;, and we used to kneel down in the green fields, the tears running down our black faoos, and pray to God to bless our fellov. -creatures, whose lives and souk dtORYING IN THE GOSPEL. It iks, and tremble^ where it e of the 11" course i rushed mightier mighty it, thank lell, and e looked em, and God be St doubt le power Thank ith stand efficacy in tliis ave, his ; ho can I know rience — how the tlie time Crimean IS. We e was a he iised n in the nd pray id souIa Were in great peril. There were plenty praying at thattim©' besides people living in London, I can tell you. Well, thk- Than used to work at the same colliery as I worked at. Oti©' day, as be was poraing up the shaft from 'the pit, tbe^' machinery someho got wrong, and came down upon hira^ and took off his leg. "We soon went down and took the poor fellow out. When we got him up he said, ** Richard, tbf^ Gospel is the power of God to me now. I thought God^ would be as good as bis word, and I now find be is so t. "How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?"— Heb. ii. 3. How shall you get to lieaven if you neglect so great a salvation? O, think of this text! There are thousands in London, as we]] as in otlier places, who are steeped iu wretchedness and wicl^ediiess; 1)iit it is not with them I have | to do now, but with you in St. Martin's Hall this night. I ' ask you, therefore, this question as you sit tliere — if you do neglect it, hell is your doom — for " the wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations tliut forget God." You who are sitting before me, and you who are here behind me, are addressed in the woixls of the text-^these are not my words, but the words of an inspired ajiostle. Don't find fault with Richard Weaver, for it is Jesus Clirist liiivisf If who has said, *^ He that belioveth not shall be damned." If you have not believed with your heart unto salvation, you 'will have to perish. As sure as there is joy in heaven there is agony in hell; and as sure as there is a sound of glory in heaven, there ift a sound of horror dojvn yonder in the pit of hell. Many people beheve there is a heaven, and they like to hear more about it than about hell. They don't like to be told about this awful ])lace at ail. They say, "1 don't feel sure there is such a place as hell : I believe that theie is a place of sweet eternal happiness." Now, I say -it is prepostei'ous to say such a thing, when the same lips' tb.'it declared, ''Whosoever believetL m me shall never i)erisli, tiut have everlasting life," ako declared, ^'The wicked sball be turned into hell." You may go to this place or that place, you may be elders or deacons, and yet not converted— you do not like to hear the word damnation mentioned, because it strikes a terror into your licartd. You down there know that if you were to die in your present state you would lyo to hell as surely as I, who am standing here, know that if 1 were to die to-night I | BDOuM go to heaven. You iujow you h.svo never believed with nil your heart; you know you bave never loved righte- ounpess; you know you have never forsaken Satan or his ) tHE DABGBK OP THE CNCONVaBTEU. 1$ ' works; yott know you have never gone to the Saviour, as a lost and ruined sinner, for pardon aad salvation. I have no need to tell you all this; there i» something within you which tells yooi, as Nathan said to King David, " Thou art the man !" God has declared you can go to heaven in no other way than through believing on Jesus Christ; and if you cannot get to heaven in any other way, why will you not forsake your sins, and turn to the Saviour ? May you my brethren, be led to do so. I left home when I was fifteen years old, and from that day I wandered far away from virtue, and became immersed in sin and miquity at that time. And I know Uiany young men who„ like me at that time, laughed at religion. If there be those in this hall to-night who make a mock at sin, and laugh at religion, let me tell you there will be no laughing, and scoffing, and sneering, and jeering on your death-beds. I don't care what you call yourself — you may believe in th^ creed of a Tom Paine if you Hke — ^but you can't meet death without dread. In that last hour yon will still want a sup- port that will bear you up. I remember a poor young woman, of whom I have toW you, who was an infidel — a believer in Barkerism— which is a denial of Christ, and a denial of God— by which delusion the devil leads souls astray from God. This young woman, I could see, was failing in strength, and declining daily. As I was talking one day to one of my fellow- workmen who had been out on a spree, as they called it, and remonstrating with him, she was there, and heard us, and turned to roe and said,. *' There, you're always talking about that." And I said to her, <*Yes, and if you were to believe in Jesus Christ too, it would make you a deal happier than you are. You are fast hastening to the grave, and one of these nights I shall hear the death-shout of a sinner lost, if you don't believe," for I lived next door to her house. ''But," said 1, " He that believelh shall be saved. No matter what you are, nor what you have done, Christ's love can save you." She looked at me, and said, " It is all very good, but I don't believe it." About three weeks after that, when I was asleep one night, there came a knock at mj door. I opened the window, and looked out; there was a young woman beneath it, a sister of the ou« of whom I 74 THE DANGER OF THE tNCONVEHTETJ. have been speaking to ) on, and she begged and entreated of me to come and see her dying sfeter. I went in^ and I shall never forget the sight I saw there as long as I live. At her be<:!?>ide Ht lod an infidel, who was saying to hev as I entered the room : " Now then, hold fast, lass !" . " Hold fast !" said the poor dying creature^ " what have I got to hold fast to I Tell me of something that I can lay hold upon. I now find that infidelity cannot support me in tiie valley of the shadow of death. man,'' said she, "go out of ray room, if you ean^t tell me of souietiiing to lay hold of, and to hold fast to/* Yes, there she was dying, and the infidel telling her to hold fast, and the only answer was—" I have got nothing to hold me up, I have felt it is all a delusion ; I must die, and hell will be my doom. Is thei-e no one who cares for my soul ?" She was one of three sisters, who had lost their parents; they all worked in one of the cotton factories of that place,, and this poor girl had been deluded by infidelity, and now,- when she was dying, her cry was, "No man cares for my soul." Infidelity cannot support her, and Barkerism cannot suetaia her — the plank of infidelity cannot bear — th^re is no strength, in it at the last. She had sneered and jeered at Qhristianity, and she found that infidelity would not support her in ihe final struggle When lying upon the point of death,, she exclaimed, " If I die hell is ray doom and damnation is my portion." Well, I preached Jesus to her ; I told her of his love, which could wash her from her sins. " 0, sir !" she said, " I have denied Christ." *' I don^t care," I said to her, what you have done, or how black with sin you ai'e ; if you are out of hell Christ's blood can save you." I went down upon my knees, and there, by her bedside, began to pray for her salvation ; and while the devil was anticipating his victim, Christ laid hold of her, and there was a cry of " Victory ! victory ! through the blood of the Lamb !" and she died a penitent believer in Jesus, in whom she found peacer 0, my hearere, infidelity can do nothing for you ; but, thft-nks be to the Saviour, although you be as black as hell iteelf, his^ blood can save you. You cannot escape if you do not come to Christ- There is no other wav. To all who die reie^itin"' the Saviour, it is out of this world into hell. There" is no back door from this world into henven. A praying father^ I THE DANGlilR OF THE UNCONVERTED. Y5 . a praying mother, a praying wife, a praying husband, or a praying child, cannot save you ; but " he that believeth shall be saved," and he that believeth not shall be damned." May God help you to come to Him through his Son Jesus Christ. There is a poor dying man who has not known Christ lying upon his death-bed. His children look upon their dying father, as he groans and wiithes in the agonies of death ; his poor wife looks at him, but she cannot comfort him ; his doctor can bring him no curative medicine, though the sick man says to him, ** 0, doctor, can^t you give me but three days longer to live?" Look at his poor broken-hearted wife, as she bids him farewell. There is a parting, and with- out a ray of hope in his heart that he will meet his wife in heaven, for he dies shrieking and crying, *' Hell is my doom I" It will not do for you to take your stand upon anything short of the merits of Christ's sacrifice. Your blood will be upon my head if I go away without warning you against doing so. Infidelity sneered at good old Noah ; but at last the door of the ark was shut, and, when once closed, they might knock, and knock, and knock, but their only answer was — " Because I called you, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded ; but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof; I also will laugh at your calamity, I will mock when your fear Cometh." But Jesus saith, " He that believeth shall be saved." May the Holy Spirit bless you, and enable you to believe. You will remember my words when you are struck with death; you will remember me when you are gasping for your last breath. Some of you I may never meet again — bu' I tell you again, the Gospel is "the power of God unto salvation unto all them that believe." It points you to One who is mighty to save, and leads you to the fountain where you may be washed from sin and uncleanness. My hearers, ai'e you saved ? Are you on the way to heaven ? I ask you now, I entreat you now, before God, have you come to Christ? — will you come to Christ? Look unto him, and be saved. I beseech you let nothing keep you from him. Look at hia blood, and believe, in his atonement, and thus ero down to your houses ju.stilied, having peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ. Nothing will satisfy the Judge at the u THE DANGER OF THE UNCONVERTED'.. last grand assize but his own blood ; and, if yoU' are washed in his blood, he will welcome you to heaven ; but if you have? not the blood, he will not let you enter in, but you will have* to depart accursed to hell. O, may God help you to believe*, and thus to enter in. I appeal to you, young man, who visit the hariot's house; will you come to Christ? And you, who go to churches and chapels, and are yet unconverted, will yoU' come to him ? Thank God that you are still' ii^ timo, and' not in eternity ! There is still hope- for you, if you venture- upon the mercy of God in Christ, by believing in him. J: ask you, down there before me, are you on the Lordls sid'ef You in that gallery, are you on the Lord's side^ And yoUj, yonder in that gallery, are you for the Lord?' Here I, Richard Weavei', stand before you a sinner^ washed in the blood of the Lamb 1 My brother who has, addressed you has told you about heaven, while I have warned you of hell. Which will you decide for? May God,, in hiis- mercy, enable you to decide for heaven to-night. Rernembeir the last words of ihd poor dying man in the coalpit, who said^ "Teli my :vife to train up my children to heaven^ for I anot dying, and shall be damned l" [ ALt a very interesting prayer-meeting held on a recent Sabbath evening, the following exhortation, written by a. deaf and dumb man, who had been for a short time a pro- fessing Christian, was sent in to his n.Inister, and read by him. to the assembly. Coming from such a source^ it produced a marked effect for good, and as Richaid Weaver, when preach- ing from the above urgent and important question^ was pre- vented, through indisposition, from discoursing at length upon, one feature of the text — the greatness of salvation— the exhortation referred to has been added to this address^ — Ed.J Now, ray friends, allow me to address you on the greatness of salvation. A salvation great indeed, beyond descriptioiit or conception, contrived by the wisdom and love of God' fo^ our poor lost souls ! A salvation procured by the death of the only begotten Son of God, It discovers a great Saviour, and shows how we may be saved froip grout sins and great misery, and elevated to. g¥eai THE DAKGEK OF THE UNCONVEKTED. If Jiappine^ snj hoHness. It contains all that can make the ItZt oT ""'fV^ ^" 'J^'^.^'^PPy ' ""^ ^uree hfm from wh»*eveT can render hie condition miserable. The bleasinOT «. .are inexpressible, and beyond imagination. It i c^l"fd g eat because ,t saves from great sins. You are a srea sbner ^, MS » a great Saviour, ft is adapted to ^'eliveffrom S ':0,j— all sins no matter how ajrgravatsd. ^ Again, it is great because n saves from great daneera — r^e danger of an eternal hell besets the path of each one- this danger hove™ over the path of every mortal • its mouth » open v-,deiy waiting to swallow every^sinne This Xl *ondel,ve™ the greatest sinners from everlasting burning t such ajloomi If that salvation is neglected the danger still fc«ng« on every man. It i. not a matter of little imSnce whether we embrace it or not. Yet the mass of men vet' the neglect of it. They attend to other things ; tlryarbu^; tbey neglect rehgion now, as a thing of small importance ^nwT^*w ''"'"^*? '' ^'"''^'^'- ^ 'f they acteS on tie pnnoiple that eveiythmg else was f,o be attended to before ^^he chief of s,nn. s. If you neglect it, how can you ICTIOI^. vi- « Go, and the Lord be with you." — 1 Sam. xvii. 37, My text to-night is a prayer, given lo me by a poor old Irish woman, as sh€ lay upon her death-bed. The teara fitreamea down her cheeks although there was joy in her heart, while she said to me, " Go, and the Lord be with you.^ The words haunted me, and when I went to preach in a certain place in Liverpool, I thought I would take it for my text, for it seemed to come to me ^rom heavfiii through that poor old Irish woman. I found out where it was, and you will find i% too, if you look through the Word of God. 1 am sure it is there, because I have got my finger near it now, and the words are — *^ Go, and the Lord be with you." I may not speak to please you all ; many of you are pro- fessors. 1 shall try, by the love of God, if you are hypocrites, to strip you. There are so many hypocritical professors in the world, and it is very little use talking to them ; we may hit them in the face as much ae we plea'ie but they won't hearken. Give me a possessor, and not a p^oiessov of the truth merely. If you read the Bible, you will understand when this prayer was uttered. The words were those of King Saul to David. The Philistines had drawn out in array against the children of Israel, and they were going to have a pitched battle. The Philistines were men of great strength and skill, and they had among them a champion a great deal larger than Heenan, from America, for size. He wanted to fight a battle with the champion oi the Israelites, and he challenged their champions to come out and engage with him in this 3ontest. It seems to me as if all the great people had departed out of the IsraelitiBh cainp. Joshua was dead, Caleb was gone to his rest, and Moses to his reward. It seems as if there was no courage in the hearts of the Jews at this time. Why ? Because th«y disregarded the law of the living God, they were discarded by Him. It seems as if all faith had departed, for all fled in fear of this (ioliath of Gath. I don't know his size; some say eleven feet, some ten feet, but at any f . \ a: r I • n A BENEDICTIOX. 79 peop e are stronge.- Ihan we," Jo/ua replied, "We am well able to go ,,p, and tl.ough there be an inDumerable comnll against us, yet the Lord is on our side and hlT;! '"'"P""? ) we will defeat all our enemies. Our strenihi bth/r"?"' God, who has said, he will never W^^ I ? .®''""S through every obstacle anT] in hi nrrsh." "^ZT victory." He commanded them togo o„nd Jerichf and M have thought that the walls of that g at dty Jmrntt Buch means? But they went at the bidding of God a"dhe was w,th them, and when they shouted together wUh a loud shout, there was a crack in the wall, and^downl fen and they entered m. No>v, howe^^er, it seemed a.s if God had not fhehoir" 'r^?'rdWm; nevertheless he had got oneTn he hollow or h.s hand, as it were, and under the shadow of bis w.ng Dismay and fear have grasped the heart of tl?« ned and temptK,d Israelites; but dtwn in the fi itramon^ the sheep, th-re is a youth of ruddy countenancrtLr. r/l liis head, and tia^ been ano nlod. On hii rpfnm f.-r. Kx sbeepfold to his father, thefather begi^'to'l' Zk 'oThow the children are going on in the battle-field, and ,Z who w 11 go and see how they do ? Du> id says, " I will ,.0 '' li? his challenge to the Israelites: " What „.e," *ai,l he, •■il' here k voii "Jr'T'^r """"''"■'^ ''■^•^''' ■'•3"» ''■■'™ 'i-n pin. » n your caiTip, let thmii come out and Huht with me for r gives tlie l.rothren tlie hrmd and ch TT : , H A, I. ;_ A %•" '^i''' > for the cause of truU, there V„'"['' '"'' ''*<' ^^'•«'" «ooo Mp of the Lord Kichard ll r'' ^ «"«'«' only in th* I'eaven when he laboured t Tru ''^l'"^ ''Von his Father i,. l»«'or of God i,po„ h m Zl^u I'T'""': P""' ^'^ '^^ John, or Jam«,, or ."ny of 1 fu *' ""', '""^'« ^«'«'-. o^ way said, "TleGo3/I '^""''-apostks but inhisowa Men ma; go on imllt n^ ! T ^°""' f *^^^'' ""'^ ''"™tion." imitate Jesus^if th^'l' ,"f !l';T '"''f "'«?' """ '^ "'^y ''« not WoodofthelJnd-fll ",'''■"''"'' f'^t'o-' trough th» a«Klo all such mtlTmrvI^ "'''.'•''" ''"^ S""''- ^'f"''"' was acouainted^itli n I • T'^'' ''""• ^ Vonng man I have taken to-, ^W^^ But"^ -'^'' f"^ ^' '"»" «^« '^^' ^ whenhegotthre^trlf, ,.t 'm T T'."" ™'y "«"' •"'I «n'' P"lpin oan'i do it. W len we If ' Y T.t"'^ ^"'^ ■""' " ^ou for him." Tn"(o!,d „f hn r ^^"■'l'"''' ^'^^"•«'-- •"« wiU «ond that which GodTcL I,,, '■'J'"''- ? -"'y. they should say like .nother , a C" ?i o" ?,, •''"? z''** ""' "^ "'«'' ^""t '■' ;^t thing, n V ;, i 1 H ir'^, l'"^'"" '"■ *'" ''o "'« -i'-l clothe vou H hi" ■'■"'" "'".'^' • "'!• I'-' power, good in hisial :„r/"::'/ ^^^ ••■"''"" «"''''l«d to da »<1 rea,l (hem o vo„ " ^", ,"'' "";"'^«'' ^o"'' -^fmona into my head nnd^.^ ■ 'i'""''' '■*'"' -"^'^'y- ""d !?«' it eg H BENEDICTION. This is the viclit sort of preaching, for I am a poor man, and ^n't undl.tand leled things. I "0"^ not g.^e twopence for all the skeleton «^™°-;° f \J^f ^ J 'Tf God. this is the volume of sermons for me, th s HMe « any man lack -sdom, let h.m ^k of God, wh ^-* .^^ every man according to ^>^ J^^^^'^ j " j, j.^a and gone, ,vho are «P<=t"!,roftalpi', and from cobbler's stalls, brmgmg people «''iL "f, ^^^^^ „^^ is being defeated, and and other places. The pow«f « "^ yf^ j ,.ictory ! devils are being routed, -Me^ JY '\i,, ^f ll/.eard to- through the blood of the Lamrj . i y night It can bo accomplished, for God ^^^f^^' ^ ^ Now David determined to go m b,s oj'; if', j;*"' But took his staff in his hand, and h.s slmg ^Jl^T ^^ «o„l«ml "TVouartnotabet«goupagam8ttiim. iutn -.t'Tpursued after hi. ^^^^^1^;^^^^^ of Abraham, and «i I 1^^ tUe prey out of his mouth. B:^ UookT^^rbS' to thH'd ,7le,^- came, and t.ok a Urn "out :?a.e flock, and I pursued him a'-y -/^^^ of the God of Abraham, and o. I_^^.c, and ^^ -ob, and by his power I slew the b, ar also. I he «'";• "^'i" ^ , Sj, , power then, will s'ivc me power now lien saul ba«l w linvi,! "The Loril be w lb von." The youth goes wiin m» La fu'.'o Wtl. !"«<><»•' He goes down mto the broo^ nml ,iks upafew round stones, and nuls then m hishttle :::^i;:f:nd\.omos to,.,, to .uoet Gohat '^f^l^^ Them be ands, but David is trusting in the na,ne o the ,nd ' Fear not, David," sai.l the Lord, " i am with thee. ^hde Goliath i^ laughing ai 'l.-''-"'' ^I'i^.l'ry^^r.l against h,m will, a sling and a .Mone, Dav,u i^ m erf...... -.- n A BENEDICTION^. 83 tU eye Is upou one object and is -)™g ^n W^^^^^^^ .. tok direct my «*»"«• L'^rf^V^J over hrow; the giant I stone." He lets go and ^e !J"« ^^^ ^Zt and cut. off hi« Then he runs in, and draws ^f '*'°47t^',J„„h the Jewish head at one strode. A ^"'y '^.''^l, ie"f God !" And eamp-'-TheLord,he,sGodUheL^^^ so 1 say to-mght =? ^ '^^^fJ^^Xt^^^^ direct thy blood U> and m my hand-Loid, ''f'^'^ " ' ^ (.^ ^^^,^ is a fountom sinners in this hall to-n.ght ! .^ b'™; "J""^ By the power in the blood of Chnst wluch IS 0P«"*"^;t,^^7be defeated. of the living God, ;"fid« '^y-''"'^^^^'^ that infidels and dcvib For there is something m the Gospel tnat muue cannot withstand. , i • ;„„ of There ..e two things we may ^^^^^^^^ Goliath and David, ^.^^^-^^^^p'^^' ^f .„ t t^ke it, is a type from the y vt of destruction ^;f^J^^^^ \, '^^tue David is of the great devil f^om the bottomless pU,^^^ the type of his great antitype the Loid Jesus unri «« Jesus, the name high over all, ■ In hell, or earth, or sky; Angels andmenhefore It fall, And devils fear and tly. • « ,n,^ thk armv and that army, and Now you -"^y^'f,.! col in order- that the enemy this rifle corps 7/ *^ '^'^iV^iriand: but there is a greater you dread «\°f ^°«^ '"^^trtime. You can find his bat- enemy than tl" ^f^ *f J'^,e,.y town-the liquor vaults are tones m every st eet ot e\eiy J enemy could doing as much ™««^b«f ^»" \° terly should have over t • r:i "" it ninXce for Hell" L there they train trr^:^X thrCtlless pit what can pot a s.^to Th^e! Nothing but the Po»«;" the pubi c-house, and men, anu A ==,. wv 84 A BENEDICTION*. oui^lit to be burned, every one of them," tliey would put me in the lockup. But my loving Saviour says, "Every obstacle eball be removed, and every sin be banished away." " Jesus shall reign where'er the sun Does his successive journeys run." *' Go, and the Lord be with you." What a blessed thing to have God with you! What a blessed thing it is for a minister to have God with him when he is going into the pulpit, and his knees are trembling. Sometimes I ha^e felt this. To-night, my knees shook from the greatness of the work the Lord has given me to do. Thank God, the secret of the Lord is with them that fear hira, and, bless his name, they that are weak, he can make strong ; he can make one man put a thousand to flight. Who would believe, when the day of Pentecost came, and the people met in the upper room— who would believe that, after that sermon on the death on the cross, there would have been such a slaughter in the devil's camp ? Hell never had such a shaking before. Calvary had rocked, and the temple had been rent in twain; the graves had been opened, and the dead came forth from their graves, and had been seen in the city. But at the day of Pentecost the baptism of the Holy Spirit was poured out; and Peter stood up for the first time after his Lord's death. The Lord touched his lips with a live coal from off his altar; the man of God preached Christ and him crucified; and three thousand souls were converted to the faith of Jesus; and the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved. That was a time, indeed, when the story of the Cross was being proclaimed, and the cry was heard continually. — " What must I do to be saved ?" Let it be heard in St. Martin's Hall to-night! « Go, and the Lord be with you." God has ever been with his people in by-gone times. There is Gideon threshing in the barn, and an angel appears before him and talks with him, and says, " Go and fight against the enemies of Israel; lead my people on." Gideon had never been used to fight with the enemies of his country in the battle-field, but God povs irt him. «' T will !>« with vou=" He wants to prove the truth of the angtl's message. " Wliat does he do? Ho takea A BENEDICTlOif. ss-^ tir" Th u^'hlgoesand'colUa number of peopl. to^etC" but only selects about three bund re( from them, aU Ihofwho lap the water from the brook like dogs He goes forth with a'^andful of men out of the camp, and gives only lortu wnu a, ^Uoliprto each one of them. So a trumpet, a lamp, and a pi'^n^'/''.,^*'"' ",, nnwerwasnot be leads them on arrainst the Midianites. 1 he power was "oi in the pitcher, nor in the lamp, nor in the t™mpet, but m God • and that niffht the enemy was scattered. You may look 'all thr^ough the Bible, but wherever God has been wrth h°s people he has defeated their enemies. May the Lord defeat the armies of Satan here. You will find thatPaul, when he went to Italy, and was shipwrecked was met by a few brethren, who went about m^Zlt meet him ;V -Ken ^e came to stand b^ore Nmo thev all left him ; none"stood by him then. He stood befm-;*! and talked to him about the resurre.tK», and about the crucified Redeemer, and God Almigh.y put a ^u,/le unon Nero. He has got power to put a muzzle upon sin wEogoeth about like aVoaring lion, seeking whom he may Ivom- Bless God, there is power in his name to defeat ''%ur txt'ra1r;ver often offered, " Go, and the Lord be with YOU " Now, in the coaVmining districts, it is often r rd'wTen the m'en go out i" |''^™---f > -VXr^ ng " ■wives and children, the husband will say. Good rnormng, Td ho wife and children reply, "The Lord be w'th yo^ 1 am sure if God watches over his people anywhere, he needs to mo let hem down in coal-pit^. There are not many Ut^^Ao run out at there ^nd Ijmemb- , u^^^^^ ihe last dvinc words of my mother—" The Loid De wiin you, mv lad 'The Lord bless you !" Is it not the ^ving prayer 7manv a m^her 1 I have seen many a mother stand i^on the pier hel^l at Liverpool, and say, " The Lord be wuh you ! "hen lads were about to leave this '""'V'^S'', t,ft v^ith two countries. I know a widow woman who -- ^^^/J" children,agirl an^Uboy top^^^^ H- ^^^^ ^^, employed ,n an office, ana usea lo^g^ ^^^^ ^^,^^^ ^^ ^^^^ sixpence or four bDUiingo a KOTa. ^^...^ — 86 A BENEDICTION. hard work to get a living. Slio used to eat dry liread, and drink lier tea without sugar, in order that he might have butter on his bread, and sugar in his tea. One evening ■when he was stirring his own tea, and saw his mother de- priving herself for him, he said, ♦' I am determined I will not stop at the ofRce; I will go to sea, and seek my fortune, and I am sure we can get on better than we do now." The mother looked at him, and she said— " No, my child, I would sooner have bread and water all my life than lose you."-— However, in a day or so he persuaded his mother to let him go; he was determined not to go on thus any longer, so she consented, and they went to look at the vessels, and at last found a good captain, who said he would be kind to the lad. Then his mother packed up his clothes, and the day for his departure came. On the last morning, as he was having his breakfast for the last time with her, she put a little Bible in the chest for him, and asked him to grant one last request.-— *'What is it?" he asked. " To kneel down here, and I will pray for God to be with you, when you are away upon the bilowB, and that you may remember you have had a mother's prayers for your safety." They knelt together for the last time and she said, " The Lord go with my dear little Johnny ; the Lord be with him." When they got to the pier, and he put off to the ship, the mother's last words were, ♦' The Lord be with you !" And when the ship had left the shore his mother still prayed for him. One night, about five or six weeks afterwards, they were still out on their long voyage, when the wind began to blow, and threaten a storm. The poor old mother was awake, and thought of her boy out at sea, and she fell upon her knees, and prayed for God to he with him; there was one upon those billows whom she loved. And there upon that ship the lad found his Bible, and read it Hnd talked about it to the sailors, and they grew to like him very riuch, and to wonder at the number of thmgs he knew, as he said repeatedly, "my mother taught me this, or, my mother taught me that." When the storm came that tii^ht, and the vessel was expected to perish, the crew got into the boat, till there was no more room, and two were left ^jj fV.ii AacI^ thfl widow's son and a man. He had the Bible in hirhand, and he said, " Tell my mother, if you live to get A BENEDICTION. 87 xT_ *!,«+ >ipr Tohtinv went down in the ^r-^ Z Bibinr .^ A a.t God .. .itu In time the B,Ue go to Uud .^ .^. .^ ^^^ ^^^^ school P"^^. ^^^^^l'^; ."^^Le how she felt hy imag.n,ng to lier. lou cdu umj tVipva was only one tning yourself in the same P°«f 7" „ ,^^7^^ that te lad had which could give her comfort, and h«t >^^^ „ rp^e blood Tavked the passage «hero he had been .eato^^ .^ ^^ of Christ cleansoth from ^1' ""'„ „^" ;„ „pon earth, I wiU ' Written, "Moa^cr. ^f .-^Xw^ /a .^Cd'away, .nd the „,eet you i" heaven ^ «^, j^^ /„-,o„, she had tnown old woman heard of her cUugm , ^^ her mother nothing for a very long time a>«^ "^^ ^^"^ ,,^i,„, knocked at when she was nearly dying. ^'^^ He said," I have the door, and wanted ^^ ^«« /^'^^;„^ ,,,; "^uh him, and the news of her son ; I wa on t^-« J^^^ \^^ Lord is with me. message he9entw.as,'reUrayraote>^t ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ The message «f . f 7™ '"Jo Lr When the poor woman sailor to go up sUm tol'« "««;'';• ^^. ,bout my dear saw him, she \^"1', '.'^^ ^?\.T™^as on the deck when John Johnny^ - . '+i!l%pa- his last words were, 'i ell my v^ent down ^"^0 the se., his i ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^3^; mother that the ' '^^'f,/^; J, "^^ mother, and has ^''^'^^lZt%l,i,.nvV' Very shorty i, it not? I can >-emember w en m,; m^t. ^^ ^ ^ words to me, " The Lord be '"*'^^^'' ;,„;,„ so distressed ;:yeritis! There was a ^^J^^/^^'S bread, for the hey did ""tl^"««',\"" ^.^ul wa\ upon his death-bed.- 88 A BENEDICTION liis bedside, and asking what sLe should do with tljem, auct "where she should go, when the husbaud said, "My dear v/ife, trust in God. He has said, ' I ^Yill be with thee.' All ^vill be well yet." She said,. " Thou hast been one of the best of husbands in the world, rri now you are leavinf>* rae,. and I am sure ihe workhoust will be the doom of myself and these poor little ones." '* i^^o," he said, *'I don't believe the Lord will suffer any of my children to go there." He departed happy in the Lord. Affliction came again very soou. The poor widow used to wash for her living, but she was taken ill, and there were six months when she could do nothing, and there were no friends to come to assist her. — When one is down in the ditch there are very few who will come and hel]) him out. She contracted debts, and was in great difficulties, and her rent w^as behind hand. The land- lord came and asked when she would be able to p^iy him. — She said slie could not pay it then, but she would pay him all if he would give her time; her children were beginning to grow up, and they would pay him if she could' not. — *' Oh," he said, ''that wnll not do for me; I must have your money now, or I will have your goods." He was a chui'oh or a chapel going man, but he had not got the love of God in his heart, had he ? No, he had not. Well, the poor mother sat there veiy ill one Saturday morning, when there came a summons, telling her if she did not pay before twelve- o'clock on Monda}^ she would be turned out, and her goods sold. Then none of them had had anything to eat since the morning before, and what they would do if no friend appeared to help them she could not tell. By-and-by her little ones were in bed, and she was v.rashing their little bits of things up, so that they might be dressed clean on the Sabbath. Perhaps some of you have had to do thai. While they were being dried at the handful of fire in the grate, she knelt down and prayed, saying, •* Lord, thou hast seen fit to take my husband from me, and thou seest me with my six children, all starving; what must I do? O Lord intercede on my behalf," A little foot was heard tripping down staira and in came her little boy. *' O mother!" he cried, '' tho Bible Bays, 'Ask what you will in my name, it shall be granted,' does it not, mother?" " Yes," she said, " it doeyj* ,&^. A TJENEDlCTtON. S9 .Well an. JB not <^^[:t"ut ^^ ^^ „eve,- told a lie; you know h,s '"')?, ^^^%i,e the little be with you, my dear wife and *.' «^; ^^^^ ^ ^nock fellow wis there pray.ng and «^^^^^ was beard at the -" ^,1;"^" D^wif'came he children, yon this and the Lorf ^^-/^^^ " „/ ^:"k„„eking, and they who had awakened at «** ""'.*? °'„". f,:,„„j the?e iustwhat .oon Pu"f I'^V'f to earan^ weUe ris-U, besides they ^f «'l-'r'^ ,'^'** ttie Thus their eiitremity was ■what they owed at that time, i ^^^ God's opportnnily. .^''^'Jir\Z\T^ltZ Martha,' many there's many ^'««<^P"'S ^^^^'Z™ t^lTtreno-th is ik God. a weeping widow, who finds 1^«' " ''7.^^^',,= could not get A ma'u came to ine this „K.rn , g ul sa d he ^^^^ ,^^ J ,nny peace m his hea, . Once 1^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^ ^:^rhi4^afi^lfi,;No.doyon,^^ ;^C';tr;;!;;y::k'o"i:;ilo;"risee there hte ana immortaUty in Jesus. „ . ; ^ tl,i„2 for " Go, and the Lord U with you. it is a g ^ professors to 1^-- . «» V"' u H-li ''C I kiio™ the old 1 saw some ^PK'- -vebs ^J^^^,,, turned up tho spider IS near. 1 pi« a Jig" , ]^q1^ ,i^Bb,andthe spider soon ''HH'^^! "1 /^,« «;^ ,1, ^„„„ ti,e ,„to the heart and -o '.ny -V, tWe yot ^^^^. .^^ ,.^^^^ sp der IS there too; but it ) »» ';^""; V , ,i,„ Devil, wil soou ^,d burn up the web, that f J ;';;*;„,"«, us? The q„a. What should we do i «.od « as^no^^^^^ ^^ -TIs^!too'd^S V' vri\tu;:;m r:^^^^^^^^ ,S>. -'v^ v^, ^^^-^■ IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-S) I <• w 1^ liiBi nil I.I 2.5 =^ i^ 1^ us u 14^ 2.2 2.0 U 1.25 1.4 1.6 — — ■• : 6" — *#■ 7 f ^t'^--' ^^ ''^J> Hiotogrd[)hic Sciences Corporation 33 WIST MAIN STRUT WnSTIR.N.Y. USIO (71«) •72-4503 4> ^^ ^ ^m 90 A BENEDICTION. God over us, and to know that it can defeat hell. I La\e seen sinners as black as hell could make them infidels, and scoffers, devil-haunted sinners, as if the hosts of ho41 encamped round about their souls, and apparently nothing could move them; but I have known an unseen but iiresistibie power arrest these men, and I have seen the big tear course down their sooty cheeks while they cried, "Lord be merciful." — Bless God that there is this power still. What a blessed thing to have God with us ! Some say, " I am so wretched : if I knew only whei'e to find peace, I would give the wojld for it." But the Lord does not want you to give a world. — It is not yours to give away, even if you had it. Your money and your gold is not your own ; it belongs to God, my father. "Well," but you say, "I would give anything that I had to find peace wilh G(»d." If you look to the Lord, he is liere and he will give you pardon and salvation. May you be helped to look to the right source for it, and in the light way. When the disciples were sent forth, Christ said to them, " The Lord be with you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." He promised them the Comforter, who should convince the world of sin and of righteousness, and that he should come unto them, and com- fort them. Is there not a warfare even now between King Jesus and Satan ? You try and erect any new battery, and see how soon the Devil will invent anothei-. There are the slaughter- houses of which we have spoken, those inventions of men, aided by tlie Devil, where they slay husbands, and destroy the happiness, and even the lives, of wives and children, by wbolesfile and retail too. May God interpose to put a stop to it. Nothing but the omni[)otent arm of Clirist can put a stop to the e\'il. Wo may try to make thin a moral people, but we must have power from on high. Thaidc God we have got that power with us. May we be helped by God to put it into f)ractice; then sinners shall be converted, and God be magnified. " Go, and the Lord be with thee." I have seen in the coalpits Bccpticd, who did not believe in God, or hell, or anything else. I have seen infidelity knocked out of such men. 1 have seen a lump of stone or coal fall from the root' A BBKEPICTIOlf. •1 ^ their back as .^ey l.ave been wcnUmg »a^ be. fi^t Trds have been-" Lord Lave «^ yjj^ ""^^.^ ;„ « biggest cowards in tte v.'oAA «« ■*X,"'''°'„; . he worked JL market-pla^. a 7".;^%^^;^ Lfatewards. wheu with me in the same coal-pit as I_«'^~^\ » j,;, comrades we were down there he began aga.^«^ ^^^ ^^ what I had 'aid. " He told ue^ he ?»"*' ^"^^ ^ j^e «e«t out of that congregation who 7«»''lJ'^„^ts a Cand if I Sabbath-day; ww I boheve that man >^ a i - ^^^ ^^ know there is '"ob*"!? /ead. I wBl U>U h,m o ^ the "'f.^7«7'^tW• We par^d rom him/but be dead thyself ^fo"* *»• , ^^^ an hour before he was « had »«' l^/^Si S^V*« ^'Wnr in of some|Mion rSie-ttrttps :-^ ^•-*^— they saw death ^^^^^S *X ?ov, (tfG;d m his heart, there 'as long as \?'!'°"X„\..o death! where is thy is a power by ''^^'^VVtrtv victo--v ?" I once was asked .ting! 0/™\ttnuKra%oov woman whom I to go and see the sick aaugut ^.. t ^at there some Vnel.whohadk^th^rbedior ™^^^^^^^^ . ^„, time talking to the ™f J?^ , 7^/^ happy as a princess. I the woman told me her child w^'^.^Jf heard her singing. went away f" 7l»'^^;::tTesl» I went in and said. "Ah. -Heaven, the ^laoe of "^ »«'^ ,,/ .,o,"said she, "I am Mary, how is ,t with you nowf , ^^^ ^^^ ^^, ripe for glory, for God s w, i m«. .^ ^.^^ ^^_ valley before her, she said, " ' ~ ™h.ve Gou with us. *nd heaven is my home. ^' « |^f J ,„,h have much to Yes the CVistian in povei^y knows tbat^^^^ .^^ ^^^ «)ntend with. But ii is ""^ . ; u man, saiJ to ma to heaven, too. -i^ f''^''\°,^'"!'.,*'o bother you."- .,„oe. "Yon have none °f/„^^''^ry.. if l don't make « ..No." I said, "and I 'l«" ""^f^;, ^, L^rd in it. be will will," he said, "and »-= "S^^ ^ ^^^^ ^ Z, in my anxiety to <:aU ma to account. It does "°7',,j'to be thinking of deal justly to all ; wben my "^c^ ! vill do as well Ss I ChrJat it is Bxod upon that monej , 1 w'» 92 A BENEDICTIOK. <:ati, and the Loi-d will help me." I have promised to go ;aud stay with him when his end draws nigh. He says h6 Icnows "Old Sam"— as he calls the Devil — *«will be with him when he diesf but I tell him the LoFd is stronger than the Devil, and he can give him abundant entiy into rest. Bless God, as a poor man I know what it is to have God with me. I have been in the ooal-pit when the fire-damp has come, and my fellow-workmen have been killed around me, and I have heard the ciy along the gloomy passages of th« mine — "The Lord save me! the Lord be merciful to me, a dinner ! " But none of these things moved Richard Weiiver, ^because he could smile at death, and could rely on tlie promises of the Lord, and say, " God is my keeper, and, if I die, heaven is my home." We ha^^e got an antagonist to iight with, but we will go at him right and left; we will dip our hands and feet and faces in the blood of Christ, and we will dip our swords in it too, and the more we dip it into that "blood the better it will cut, and the more execution it will perform. I-t is an invention of Jehovah. Bless God, that through the blood of Chnst the woret of sinners can be saved; that blood can defeat Satan ; the power of the Gospel caa make men in this London ciy, "What must I do to be «aved ?" And the blood of Chnst can make them shout, ^* Victory! I an? saved !" ^'Go, and the Lord be with you!" Eternity is drawing near, and 1 take this prayer and commend it to each one here to-night. Thet-e are some hei-e who, it may be, will be dead before this year is out. Thei^e is a man here who is not a heliever. He had been poor, and has known what it is to be in want; but now the Lord has blessed him and his family -with prosi>erity ; but I teU him if he is unconverted, befoi* this year has passed he may be taken away, and, if he die unpardoned, damnation shall be his doom. When you are 3ying on your death- l>ed, your children will come round you iind say farewell to you; and you will ciy," Wife^ can't you «ave me? chiUhHjw, pray for your wicked father; he is dying, iind devils are in his rown; they aie hovering over the bed, O, children, pray for me! Fetch the Sunday -«chool teacher, that he may pray for me. 1 am dying, and God is not with ma; hell is alvout to open to r*jceive me, devils are waiting to I A BENEDICTION. §1f fltrag me to tlie bottoraliess ]^it. FaTewell.** That is what yoit will say, and you will die» and if you are not forgiVon will go down to bell. But I beseech you now to come to Christ, that you may live and not die. And there is another man m this congregation- who was never worse- off in hife life than he-is now ; but God is with him, though it is hard work for him to make both endls meet, and to get along. Before- 1860 passes out of time into- eternity, the angel of tlte Lord shall come and summon you hence^to the realms of the-blest* The Lord \vDl go with thee in the valfey, and will never forsake thee. I once said in- a ce<-tain congregation, " Before this year expires there is a man here who will go home to- glory." Three weeks afterwards I was sent for to sec a dying man. I found a» aged pilgrim of that congregation draw- ing near his end, who said to-rae> **« Blessed br God-, though my strength is gone, yet I am firm upon the rock of Christ." And he died shouting, " Hallelujah! Chsist is come, and I Miust depi. ." So it is to-night with seme old' believer here^ Before this year is out, he" will be in glory, wearing tbo crown, and waving the palm, and shouting,. " Victory ! vic- tory ! through the blood: of the Lamb l"" '* Go, and the Lord be with you !" Some of you re- member my tolling you of the poor litttle lail, one of twenty who were burned in a coal-pit. The poor boy was so dread- fully burned, that h3 could hardly be i:ecognized, and as they were brmging him up, his thoughts were turned upon Ith poor mother; and he kept repeatingj "O, my poor mather ! what wUl she do- when the Lord has taken nie away V* Whofli they reached the top, where the crowd of friends aijd relations were weeping, and waiting to pick out their h usbands or their children, tiie little lad's mother heard th« sound of bis voice, and she criti out, "That is my dear lad's voice; where art thou, my dear child ?" and she rushed through 'the crowd to where he was placed. " Mother, what will you do now he asked. *'Iwill trust in God my dear lad.— Dost thou trust in him ?" " Yes," he said, " God is on my skie: Christ is with me." She. kissed him,, but the skm of his poor burnt face peeled oif ujwn her lips. ** The Lord b» with you my boy," said the TO^►the^•; and the boy replied,. 4UbankGod. it is not heJl-ficre; Christ is whk me,aud hoavea u A BENEDICTION. is my homa; and you will meet me there, will you not?'* ** Ye8, my lad : I set out for heaven years ago, and I will meet you there." The poor boy died therein the crowd, and liis last words were — ** Heaven is my home 1" Ah ! it is a good thing to have God upon our side, is ft not? You mothers here to-night remember standing by the dying bed of your httJe Johnny, when he passed away shout- ing, " Victory !" don't you ? And as you wiped the sweat from their brows, you wished you might have gone with them then. There are some here too, who have stood by th© dying bed of husbands, and pressed the cold hand for the last time in life, while the cry was raised, ** Victory through Christ;" and you have found your husband'^s words were true, when he said, " The Lord will be a husband to you : he will never leave thee nor forsake thee." You young men, too, can remember the pious mother, who said, as she departedr *'The Lord be with you, my children!" Perhaps that mother up there who is now wearing the crown, sees her weeping son in yonder gallery, and she v*'Ould say if she- could speak to him, "Look to Christ: he can save you."^ — That blood of Christ can save you, There is something beautiful, sublime, and grand in Jesus; he can pardon your sins, and save your souls. He is in our midst to-night; and he can save that son up there, and that daughter weeping down there. Now, sinners, God is not with you ; I may never see you again ; and I believe that ev ^ if I were to preaeb here next Sunday, some of you would be dead, and if you die in your present position, your souls will be lost for ever. I may never come here again. I know that my journey is short,, and my days few. Christ is in sight, and my home and my Saviour are yonder, and I shall bo there by-and-by. I a<*k you then to-night — will you come to Jesus? I knew a man once who is now dead — and if a poor widow were here s would say to- me, "^Don^'t speak about it; don^^t tell me of ray husband's death ;" it makes me mourn and pine to think of his death. I had often prayed the Lord to save thia poor man, and his wile hiul asked me to pray for him, and I had done so continually. I met him one day, and snnkA f n Kim fthniit hift Roiil. ^nd Raid. ^'Th»Lnrd can sata> 1 BTSiraDICTION. 95 I yotr, only turn to him."' His reply was, " Go to hell ! I iaid, « I am not bouTid there ; bwt you come to the Lord, and he will bfess you." He said, « i wi^l come when I have » ftiind to.'' " God wiM not have yon w'nen you have a mmd to come to hrra." In a few days I was called out of ray liouse to go and see this poor man, who- was said to be dym^. A voice seemed to say to me, " It is too late ! it is too late I There were policemen round the house^ and a number ot the neiehbouTs and people round there. "Oh," they cried, "li re indeed a fearful sight r I went up st^its and the word* ** Tea late-! too late!" kept ring-ing m my ears. The wiie met me and said, **0 Richard, do pray for my poor hns-- band r' I went up to him, and saw him lying there witli lis face as black as my hat; he put out his hand, and said, « It is too late I I am damned !" and he died. I teP yon nnbelievere that death will make believers of TGU, when he cmnes to cnt yo« down. 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