The Sabbath-School Index: Pointing out the history and progress of Sunday-schools, with approved modes of instruction.Pardee, R. G. (Richard Gay)
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The Sabbath-School Index: Pointing out the history and progress of Sunday-schools, with approved modes of instruction.
Pardee, R. G. (Richard Gay)
Sunday schools
How do you think I got here? _On the cars._ What drew the cars? _An
engine._ Did you ever see an engine? _Yes, sir!_ (with emphasis).
This summer, where I live, at Tarrytown, a gentleman said to me,
"Don't you want to go down on the track and see the express train go
by to-night?" I said yes: so we went. By-and-by I heard a rumble: it
seemed to come nearer and nearer, and got louder and louder. What was
coming? _The express train._ Yes, it was going to rush by us at
thirty miles an hour. Could we have held out our hands and stopped
it? _No, sir!_ (emphatically, and incredulously). Suppose we had had
you to help us, could we then? _No, sir!_ Well, suppose all the
people in this house had caught hold of the cars?--what then? _It
would have pulled them to pieces!_ [a little girl says]. Well, in a
minute or two I heard a sharp _toot! toot!_--what was that? _The
whistle._ Yes, and the man on the engine put his hand on a little
iron bar and pushed it, and the cars began to go slower and slower
and slower until they stopped. The man put his hand on the right
place, the place of power, the place that made the engine go or stop.
Now, what does Jesus say to us? "Behold, I stand at the door and
knock." Can you tell me at what door Jesus knocks? _Our hearts._ "If
any man," or child, "will hear my voice, and open--_the door_--I will
come in and--_sup with him_." Yes, "and he with me;" and we shall be
saved. But there must be something on the door, or we cannot be
saved, any more than the Jews, if they forgot, or would not, put the
blood on the doors of their houses. What must we have on the door?
_Blood_. Yes. Well, will it do if you cut your finger, and sprinkle
the blood on your house? _No, sir._ Suppose you kill a little lamb,
and put the blood on your front door, will that save you? _No, sir,
no, sir!_ What must the blood be on? _Our hearts!_ Yes, the blood
must be put upon the right place, the place where Jesus knocks, the
place of power. Our hearts then are--_the door_. And what must be
sprinkled on the door? _Blood._
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