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- THE CHAPMAN WEEKLY SSERHON. . : . 1 : , The Pastor- Evangelist Furnishes; a ; Discourse of Unusual iower and Eloquence, . , NewYok City The following reada ble and helpful sermon is by the Kev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, the best known evan gelist lin the country and one of the most popular pulpit orators of New York. It is 'Untitled AANarrow Escape," and was preached from the text, "How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation: Hebrews 2: 3.- The wonder of wonders in this world is Vre plan of salvation ' for the sinner through Jesus Christ. It is so wonderful . that the man with the greatest mind the world has ever known has never yet 'been able to- think " his way through it, and at the same time it is so simple . that the smallest child m your home can appreciate enough of it to be saved. The first chapter of Hebrews presents to us the dignity of Christ. He is at the right hand of God ; He is better than the an gels; when the elements have melted with a fervent heat, He still exists; when the heavens have been rolled together as a scroll, He shall still be the very power of God. With such a description as .'this: in the first chapter we come naturally to the first part of the second chapter. There fore iwe ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard lest at an time we should let them slip. Cunard steamer was making her way across the Atlantic Ocean when the pas sengers were startled with a cry of "man overboard." Immediately every one was filled with excitement. One - man ! sprang to the edge of the vessel and shouted, "I .will give a thousand pounds to any one who will save the man that is sinking, for he. is my brother." Every sailor was ready to throw himself into the sea if only he could win the reward and save the man. The captain manned the lifeboat, and soon a cheer went up because they had laid hands upon the sinking one, Thj? feb t came near the great steamer, ropes were .fastened around the man and the signal was given to lift him up. Just as they were reaching out their hands to make his salvation sure the ropes slipped, and fall ing he struck his head upon tie IjfebQaJt, bounded into the sea ana j was gone for ever. The writer of the Epistle to the He brews must have had some such picture as this in his. mind when he said-JMVe ought to give the more earnest heed lest at any time we should let them slip." I have known of people coming nearer to the kingdom of God than that, just one step and they would have been saved, but they slipped away, and then gave up hope. There are three words around which my thoughts would centre, Great, Escape and Neglect. t I. It is a great salvation because it dis closes to us a great Saviour, shows us how we may be saved from great sin, and also reveals how we may be restored to great holiness and happiness. i First, itis great in its author. The name of an author -will frequently se'll a book, and the name of the author of the plan of salvation ought to commend it to every one. If He is the author two things are true. First that we need not be afraid of Him, "For. God so loved the world that He gave His onlv begotten Son." , Luther tells us of the little girl, the child of the man who printed his first, Bible. He was a member of the Church of Rome, and the child had been taught that God could onl be approached by means of pen ance and sacrifice. One day n the print er's office she found a little crumpled piece of paper which contained a part of this verse, which Luther called the TGoancl in a nutshell;" all she found I was, "God . so lov eel the world that He i gave It produced a great impression upon her. One day. her mother heard her singing and Tasked the secret of her happiness. She an swered by showing her the little piece of . paper, ana ner mother said, "What does it mean?" for, she said, - it does not tell us what He gave." : The childV reply was, "If He loved us " well enough to give ua anything, we need not be afraid of Him." Again, if God is the author, His is the ' only way of salvation. Men decide to come to God by the way of reformation, or by, the power of resolution, but this profits nothing, for reformation may touch the present, and may possibly avail for the fu ture, but it cannot touch the paat. If a man is in your debt $1500 and ! comes to tell you' that he has -decided never to go into debt again, you may; tell him that he is making a fine resolution, but you will not t tell him that his good resolution pays his indebtedness to you, for that is a trans action of the 'past. The wonderful thing about the plan of salvation is that it pro- , vides an atonement touching the sins of the present, makes t provision for the fu ture, and blotting out th& transgressions of the past. It .'is great also in its sacrifice. The way; back to God has always been sprinkled with blood. Study the Old Tes tament and you will find this is true. But when the sins of men became so great that , the blood of bulls and goats would not suffice then Christ died for our sins, ac cording to the Scriptures. ) It was . my privilege some time ago to ... preach to the convicts iri the State Peni tentiary of Tennessee. I said to them I. can give you the secret of getting almost any amount of money, and their laces in stantly were a study, for the most of- them were in prison for trying to get money in their- own way. But this is the secret I gave them. Take a piece j of paper and .write down upon it the amount of money you wanti the length of time you want it, sign your name to it and carry it tb the bank. But this will profit you nothing, be cause you have not found the secret. It is thus frequently that men stand before God and ask to be saved. If you will take 'that piece of paper .to some one whose ..name , stands, for money, then have him . write his name upon ; the back of it and .carry it to the bank, you will be surprised to see what a different position you have, and ycu will receivesthe money, not be- . cause of what you are, but because of what ; your security is. It is thus we have our l '. standing -loefore God; our security is per- ; feet, and simple faith unites us to Him. It is great also in its pardon and for- ; . giveness. Pardon means more with God i than with men. With men a nanlnn mav ; - open the prison doors and send the guilty ; .one back to his home, but if he is a mur derer the chances are he will ha I peaceful nights, and then in his dreams as 1 -l ? 11 wa"g moments his sin will ,!be before him. This f tvimVa doned and not justified. When, God oar- f r Jusunes ireeiy ana torever. And forgiveness means more Hvith God than with man. When we forffivp va.nn. Btantly remember the one who: has sinned against, us, but God forgives and remem bers against us our transgressions no more . forever." ' - " ' A 1 distinguished minister, in preaching: viiiijit tlu me siory oi nis own "Auuiuyr ' TiHeil-mrr-where Glodfrith Ak was.lier son.,.. Then told how GodJiad far-, .given him, and when he made his appeal the effect was profound. His officers gath ered around him to say kind words about his sermon, but when they left there came an old woman with gray hair and ; befit form. She threw her arms, about his nek and said, "My son, why did you tell it; yu never was bad in all this world ?" and this was his mother. He had almost broken her heart, ,' and yet for her mother's love she had forgotten; it all. This was ta pic ture of God remembering our transgres sions no more forever. The Scriptures sfiy when we come to Him our sinsare passed into the depths of the sea. This must pe where they never can be found. They are cast behind God's baick, so that now He is. between the sinner and . his si4s. They -are taken from him as far as tie east is from the west, a distance whi?h' cannot be measured. . When preaching one day in Philadelphia, in the, Young Men's Christian Association the Secretary ' told me ot a man sitting In the rear of. the room, a most awful sight lo behold. - -He had been sleeping in the streets, but the services had touched hfen and he came to Christ. He became in honored member of my own church. He was a professor of mathematics, and hid been slain by . the power of strong drink. It was my custom to hold a service every Sunday - morning for men in that church, and one morning I told them that God hid cast their sins as far from them as tfie east from the west. Then I turned to this old professor and asked hims if he coud tell me how far that was. He instinct ively reached for his 1 pencil and his note bookv then suddenly burst into tears, sapr ing, "It can't be measured. For if you put your stake here Hvith the east before you and th? west behind you, you can go around the world and come, back again o the stake, and the east is still before you and the west behind you." "Thank Godl" said he, "that is where my sins have gonef" It has become somewhat unpopular n. these days to preach concerning the lc3t world, but it is not what I think I mAt preach, rather what the Bible states. 'I have an argument with you," said a man wno had listened to the minister preacfii ingv "What is it ?" sajd the minbter. fI dq not believe what you laid about tlie lost -worM." "X?llZ said the tninistir, "you havean argument with God, not wth myself."; And since it is true' thcrefofe, that God speaks continually and waris constantly, is it not right that I shoilld present the claims of the great salvation! u II. Neglect. I I It is possible for one to so constantly neglect God's appeals that after a while his heart will become like a stone. It lis said that the little birds that build thir nest in the Trinity steeple scarcely lift their heads when the chimes ring out, be cause they have become so accustomed fto the ringing of the bells. An one may fe come so accustomed to Christ and His story that he may hear itfwith perfect In difference. I am on the river in a bojat and the rapids are before me. I need only neglect the oars to be lost. I am inl a burning building, and in order, that I mxy be lost I need only neglect the hre escafe. I am a sinner, and if I am to be hist finally it is nly necessary that I shoild neglect Him who died that I might live.J ; In the city of Minneapolis I stood soiiie years ago looking at the $iins of the Min neapolis Tribune building,6 and heard trie story of those men who perished because they were on the upper floor gathering o gether important papers and waited tpo long to descend by the elevator, and cvfen too long to come down by the fire escape. But at last they started, nine of tbefn. The last man could not hold on to the bjot iron of the fire escaoe, and in fallijhg struck those beneath him, and the ntte perished, all because they neglected j' III. Escape. .:.!. How shall we escape? This is the in portant question, and the answer is writ ten in large letters throughout God's wofd. First, stop trying to be -a Christian afid trust Him, trust Him who promises fto .save you. . ' . . . , : ' When Mr. Moody .was going through an aftr meeting in Scotland he saw two gifls crying. Stopping to assist .them if lie could one of them said she wanted to ba a Christian, and taking out his Bible fie asked her if she could receive God's proln ise in John 5: 24. Verily, verily, l sliy unto you, he that heareth My word aid believeth on Him that sent Me hath evr-' lasting life and shall not come into con demnation, but is passed from death untoc life. She told him she could; The nefxt night he found them in the same place afid, was curious to know if they were still fin the darkness. He heard the girl of .toe niffht before savintr; "I sav. lassie, do hist as I did, grasp a promise and hold on tot, and He will save you." And this is tiiie: for us ail. . 1 ! Again, if we would have Christ save us we must believe on the Lord J esus Christ.' To believe in Hini is not enough; to believe on Him is to throw ourselves at His fet; by faith lay hold of Hini. And havijhg done this, He will be true to His word, and your name hall be written in tiie Lamb's Book of Life. 1 f Spear Points. ,. Prayer is the abiding background in t3ie life of the Christian. 1 Prayer is a holy art, in which the best of uh are but beginners-. When God plans our way, He', will, ifot neglect to provide for our wants. " God never makes us feel our weakness except to lead us to eek strength frlm Him. . . - When , we make all the centre of lfej God becomes a mere point on. a far-pit' circumference. . The ground of the Christian's hope! is God's word and God's oath, 'sealed by fiis love. - , - If God puts you in a dark place it nlay be a compliment to the light that is lin you. Ram's Horn. ' 1 Prayed For a Kevival. ' i It is said that in a certain town in Nfw York a good many years ago there occurred a great revival of religion, the work be ginning without any known cause. The inquiry was made, "Who is praying? Tfiis work must be. in answer to . somebody's prayers."- It was afterwards learned that two old church members, who lived tine' mile apart, 1 had made arrangements jto meet half way between them in a piecefof thick bushes every evening at sundown Ito pray God to revive His work. : Their pray ers were 1 answered, and one hundred aliad fifty were added, during the months of July, August - and September, to the . .church. ' I,:--, '. .. a I . The Pentecostal revival did not begin with preaching, but with prayer. I : " Service. ". . ' ,: The old idea of service was that it "vfas degrading. "With Christ came tile change. And his '.announcement' that the perffct' life is one of service., for others has ben confirmed; by-nature. Not a 'molecule x ists for its own sake only, but for other parts. ; Thel ideal is ' one of service. Tlhe Rev. James Grant, Watertown, Mass. - is stay- tf.iM.a' v itaii "nnWnnfrTZif Tims rhnTrp run V'flPTlTns," ' :. -. For a Lame Back, Sore Muscles, or, in fact, all Lameness and Sore ness of your:body there is nothing , that will drive but the pain and in flammation so quickly as , " - Mexican Mustaimg If you cannot reach the spot your self get some one to assist you, for . it is essential that the liniment be rubbqd in most thoroughly. Mexican Httstang Liniment overcomes the ailments of borscs and all domestic nnimnls. 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