The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-07-28
Thursday Evening Lectures.
RELIGIOUS.

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RELIGIOUS.
Bible readings are conducted, and lee
lures delivered Oh same by Rev. T. j..
Nonyh, Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, in this city every Thurs
day at s o'clock p. m. We give below a
Reading and Lecture delivered recently
on tile subject of
REPENTANCE.
The congregation assembled with BIZ
bic in hand, tickets are written out Oh
small slips of paper containing the num-
Der Of same, and the b ok, Chapter and
verse in the Bible, these tickets are dis
tribnted, and all open their Bibles to the
place indicated by the ticket, and read
as the Pastor calls their respective num-
bers. A short comment is made by the
Pastor on each verse.
DEFINITION OF REPENTANCE.
Repentance is a Cody sorrow wrought
in the heart of a sinful person by the
word and spirit Of God, whereby from Il
sense Of his sin. as offensive to God and
dctiling and cnt;ulgering to his own
SOUL he with grief and hatred to all his
known sins, turns from them to God, as
his Saviour and Lord.
For our convenience and the better
understanding of this subject, we will d.
vide the same into three parts, viz:
fSt. The nature oftruc Repentance.
md. Elaboration to Repentance.
3rd. Danger of delaying Repentance.
And first, T e nature of Re: elltaucc.
No. |. Psalms 1888.
/ thought on my ways, and turned my
feet unto thy testimonies.
No. 2. Ezikiel, 36-3l.
There shall ye remember Your own
evil ways, and your doings that were
not good, and shall loathe yourselves in
your own sight, for your iniquities, and
for your denominations.
No 3. Acts, 3-26.
Unto you first, God having raised up
his son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in
turning away every one Of you from his
iniquities.
Nu. +. wi IlltilldllS, i--tV
For Cody sorrow worketh repentance
to salvation not to be repented of, but
the sorrow of the world workcth death.
EXPLOITATION TO REPENTENCE.
No. 5-Ezillicl, lS 80
Therefore will judge yon, 0 house pf
Israel, every one according to his ways.
saith the Lord God, Repo t, and turn
yourselves from all your transyrcssionS,
so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
No 6. Zachariah, 1-l3.
Therefore say thou unto them, thus
saith the Lord Of Hosts, turn yr unto
me, saith the Lord of Hosts, and ! will
turn unto you saith the Lord Of Hosts.
No 7. Luke, 1873.
l tell you, nay; but except ye repent
We shall all likewise perish.
No. s. Acts 3 10.
Rep mt We therefore and be converted,
that your sins may be blottcd out, when
the times of refreshing shall come from
the presence of the Lord.
No. 9. Revelations, 3--19.
As many as | love | rcbukc and cllas-
tise; be Jealous therefore and repent.
No. 10. Isaik ST..
Let the wicked forsake his way, and
the unrig hteous man his thoughts, and
let him return unto the Lord, and he
will have mercy upon him, and to our
God for he will alJundantly pardon.
DANGER OF DELAY.
No II, Psalms, ISL.
They cried, but there was none to save
them; even INTO the Lord, but he all
swered them not.
No u. jeremiah, 44-10.
Thus saith the Lord unto this people {;
thus have they loved to wander, thev
have not refrained their feet; therefore
the Lord doth not accept them he will
now remember their iniquity, and visit
their sins.
No. 10. Zachariah. 7-13
Therefore it is come to pass, that as he
cried and they would not hear; so they
cried, and l would not hear, saith tile
Lord of Hosts
No. "a. Hebrews. Pill,