Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-04-26

to sweep.it away with a flood. Man
flooded the earth with iniquity, so God
determined TO food il with water. This
hidden spring Of iniquity is still in the
world, sending forth It's bitter waters.
Crime, wickedness and vice, are still we'll
ing up from the heart Of unbclief. Doubt
ing Gods word is still the parent Of all
fhc evil under which the earth groans
to day. Out Of an unbclieving heart,
are still the issues h corruption, crime,
and death. Who is not guilty of this
great sin Of unbclicf; this primal sin,
this source sin, this fountain sin? If
there is mbelief in your heart, you
know not what great anil fearful wick
edness will come out IF it some day.
The stream issuing now may be a small
one, but what will it become in other.
years If suffered to- flow on? The dark
est crime which man ever committed,
yea, the most revolving wickc,lness of
the lowest hell, lies rs germ in the
heart Of unbclief. The egg Of the Old
serpent, the devil, is in the least doubt
of God's word. As germ it MAY sccm
harmless you may hug it to your lOson
aud give it the warmth of your heart,
but time will develop its true character.
1t will grow to Scorpion, when it will
':bitc like a serpent and sting like an AL
der" When one thinks of his unbclief,
is it not enough to make him sliudder :?
Is it not fearful to think that all these
doubts Of our heart, are eggs laid there
by the old serpent himself ? Shall we
cherish them, shall we brood over them,
hearts and thus quicken them to life :?
Shall we breed in our very souls these
squiruting devils of envy, malice, hate,
murder AMI revenge? \ little egg, NJ
doubt, was ,lropled into Ewes heart.
She cherished il it was quickencd ; she
thrust forth her hand and plucked the
, forbidden fruit. The serpent grew she
ate she felt the serpent's tooth /; Col
called; the serpent plunged the fatal sting
into her heart. She stoud before her God
dead in trespasses and in sin. She left
the gar.lcn, that beautiful paradise, with
the SERPENT ranking in her bosom, gIIaw-
iEg her heart. 'But sn"n Gods promise
kindled hope. o blessed pronIise-her
seed should bruisc the scrpent's head AMI
heal the wounds he had male. lIer first
child was born-in the exaltation of her
hope she could sing with Isaiah, "unto
us child is born, unto us a son is given,
and his name shall ',e called Cain, "got.
ten Of the Lord" thc''leliverer, and re-
deemcr. But she was disappointed-ho
proved the seed of the serpent. In tho
untlIankful, ungratcful child, she felt
again the scrpent's tooth. Abel is born,
her hope is wcll-ni. .h perishe't; she calls
him "Nanity." But he proves n good
son, of the true sccd; her hope revives
In him is her support, her only hope
her coming savinr. lut he is slain, he
hope again dics, like that of the disciple
after the cruciiixi"n. She could say will
them, we trustelit had been he, which
should have "bruisel the serpent
head" Another son was given, and sh
called his name Seth, =" for Cod said she
''liath appointed me another seed instea'
of Abel, whom Cain slew )" and thu
her slain savior is rs it were raised to life
Her heart became confirmed in the prom
Use of God concerning the appointed Re
deemer. Her doubt was slain !; the hea'
of the serpent was bruised she hence
borth lived in faith and hope.
: What fearful thing it was to dout
, God-what terrible experiences grew OF
, of it. What train of evil has move
on through our world from that fir
doubt in the human heart. Oh, VIII;
sinners we arc-chcrishin" doubts ,
: Gods word, breeding devils in our soul
t In our anger AMI hatred, we shed
: brothers blood, and in our doubts an
: unbelief, we shed the blood of the So
f of God. Like Cain, we slay the seed {
. the woman, who is our only hope W
+ soak the ground with the blood of or
elder brother. We need to pray wit
David-"Dcliver me, oh God, frol
t blood guiltiness." The blood we hay
d, shed cricth unto God. Ii calls for Il
A penalty of death ; it prays for vengean'
n it prays for the execution of justic
:. The cry has gone up from under the a
!. tar, from the souls of all we have sla
V upon the cartli-"lIow loug, oh Lor
g holy and true, lost thou not Judge All
@ avclige our blood on them that dwell G
s the earth" But is there no hope
!. there no counter cry that has gone up
$ God, in our behalf ? Have we no adv
S cate to meet the prosecution OF justice
D When SO many tongues are calling
5 God for vengeance, is there not one
l. iutcrcedc for mercy? What though o
;. accursed hand were thicker than itst
|. with a brothers blood. Is there not IN
It enough in the sweet heavens to wash
IS white rs snow? Is there no founta
n where we may bc clcansed from bloc
# outlines Though by our unbelief,
f. have thrust the spear into the side
-e the Son of God, is there no tongue p
n into the mouth of that wound to ple'
e for divine mercy? When the cruel spe
r. is Withdrawn from it, does it not OPP
n its ruby lips and pour forth prayer f
Sc forgiveness Are not the lips of tn
r. woulNl "like lilies dropping swect-sme
m ing myrrh When the blood of our 81
le lift up their cry to God for divine vc
IL gcance, is there no blood to lift up
r. counter cry to God for divine mercy :?
le Blessed he God, there is such bloc
st There is blood, more precious til
~ Abel's, which this earth has swallow,
st that lifts up a louder cry than his
IN cry for mercy. Paul says : aye &
le come to Jesus, the mediator of the NJ
ID covenant, and to the blood of sprinklh
e. which speaketh better things than tn
as of Abel" The earth has opened b