The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-05-05
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may laugh and shout and thunder and
applaud-you wi not hear it, Spring
will come with all its wealth of blossoms
you will not smell the aroma. SIM
mer harvests will throw their crowns OF
gold at the feet of the husbandmen-you
will not lift your head from the dusty
pillow to look at tLem. Frosts Of winter
will come, but they will not send any
additional chill through your last en-
Campment. There will not be single
person in all this audience living after
awhile. Some of us will sleep in the
country church yard, 30 ne of us in the
more pretentious city cemetery, some of
US in the deep blue ses; but wher, will
the soul be? What will our immortal
nature be doing2 Some of us, some of
us will be in heaven, some of us will be
in hell What are your prospeCtsP You
need hope for heaven and some OF you
have not got it, What have you been do.
ing, my dear friends, all your life that
you have not got this hope? You could
have had it for the asking. Have you
not asked for itP 1t is most astound
ing thing that in this land with 30 many
gospel advantages and privileges, people
will 90 out of this world without any
hope of heaven Friends standing
around the room waiting for some little
indication that all is we'll waiting for
just one enc >uraging word from the de.
parting spirit. And then to have such
a one as have seen him turn over N
the pillow with his face to the wall and
breathe feebler and feebler ard then
just give one long sigh and all is over
Oh, no; it is not; must take that back.
it is not all over. 1t has only begun. l
make an appeal especially to the young
"Oh," you say, ~ can't attend to this. l
can't break away from my associations"
Why, my dear friend, it will be a greater
struggle at last to die without any hope.
Come Come in hands. Come in h)cks.
If there is any one over whom you ha'
especial influence bring that one along
with you. Before th night comes, be
fore the benediCtion after this service is
pronounced, give your heart to Jesus.
He will take it now just as well as he
will ten years from now. He would
rather take it now Commend your case
to Him and be saved before you go out
of the bulldog. l appeol also to those
who are in m'd-life. You have lived long
enough to know that the wor d is an in.
sufficient portion. Begin to pray to day.
Establish your family altar, and ga her
your children around il. 'Ol," says
some one in the house, II can't pray"
Can not pray ? You can pray. You must
pray. Before twenty four hours go by let
your household, which has been a
prayerless household, be praying lest
the Lord come upon thee in way thou
knowest not, for, do you not know the
announcement OF Gods word, in which |
he says: II will pour out My fury upon
the families that ca not on my name"
Oh, pray for yourselves; pray for your
children.
must have a word with th aged who
are out of Christ Wha' flther, m other,
80 long q prod gal? The sun is going
rapidly down into the west and the
chill of the last darkne is c>ming or;
and let me tell you that there is not more
then one in thousand thai ever goes as
far as you have in life and yet finds
peace, God Grant that you may be that
one 10 thousand. Oh, come, aged man,
aged father, mother l call you by the
tenderest of IRmes. Fa her, mother,
come and take hold of the arm of esus
in your declining years. He has waited
to hav yo'. What say TO one say o
all This day is saliva 10 come to yol r
house. Re use Christ now, and you re-
fuse him forever. T) fom in this built.
ing this morning it is the last chances.
| wish l coul go through the audience
and take you ali by the hand, and in
Vite you by the tender mercies of God,
by the worth of your soul, by the thun-
lers of the last day, by the glories of the
saved, by the SORROWS of the everlasting
liscomfted.