The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-09-22

| .HNPPO'O hO SluuudItu dJ IldINdTu,
suppose he graduated at Princeteo;
suppose he is at the head of one of
the German uniyersities?" can
not help that, One rule for all-for
great brain and little brain; for high
fOreheaded Greek Professor and for fat
skulled Esquim8 lx "He that believeth
and is baptised shall be saved; and he
that believeth not shall be damned"
By this announcement of Gods word |
stand or fall, come scOrn, OF criticism,
OF ranathemal An infalliablH Bible! su-
pernatural religion divine Savior in
whom men must believe or be lost! In
behalf of Gods word and the Old-fash-
Toned religion of our fathers, and the
cross of Christ on which have hung
my hopes for eternity,I proclaim ever
lasting war against ratiOnalism.
Know all men in America and Europe
to whom these words shall come, where
we stand. An infallible Bible A su-
pernatural religiOnl A Savior in whom
men must believe or be lost! ..
Further, learn from the scene in Sa-
maria how God provides bread to stop a
famine. If God had opened the gate
that morning, and but a few lOayes of
bread had come in it would have been
mercy. But 10! the -four pOurs in. Ev-
cry possible vehicle is employed in
bringing it. What is in the pail? Flour.
What is in the sack? Flour. What is
piled up in the markets? Flour. So
common that it is cheap. A peck for
five shillings! You know that all the
Nations are famine-struck by sin. They
are dying for bread. Here comes
through the gates glorious supply
not one loaf, but an abundance for all
pardon for all, strength for all, sympa-
thy for ALL Will you have this bread
that came down from heaven, and
which if man eat he shall never
hunger? Word came to the Su-
perintendent of a Sabbath-schOOl in
New York that he was wanted in a gar
ret in one of the lowest streets. He
went there and found boy dying in
the straw. He said: "Why have you
esnt for me?" The boy said: 81 at
tended your Sunday-schOOl" The Su-
perintendent asked: "Why do you
look so happy?" "The boy answered /: |
Il heard you on Sunday say that whom
sOever a fellow cOmeth to God He will |
in nOwise cast him out; and believed |
1t, and Christ has pardOned inf sins, |
and am on the way to heaven, and l |
want to bid you goodbye" Glorious |
Gospel! So wide in its provisions. |
WhOsOever! WhOSOeverI Mark you,
that God stopped Samaria's famine not |
with coarse meal but the text says fine
flour; so the bread of life with which |
God would appease our hunger is made |
of the best material 1t is not the |
grOund-up cOrn-cObs of morality ming
led with little grace, but it is fine |
GOspel-an unadulterated GOspeI-a
pure Gospel. Jesus was fine in His life,
fine in His sympathies, fine in His
promises. 1t means no coarse supply
when Jesus offers Himself to the peO-
pie, saying: II am the bread of life;" |
''fne flour for shekel." That day,
when the gates of Samaria were opened,
why did they make such excitement
about the -four? Why did not some one
send in figs or pastry or fragrant bO-
quets instead? The people would have
run down the bOQuets and thrown
away the figs, and trampled upon
the pastry in the rush for bread. Effort
has been made to feed those spiritually
dying with the pOesies of rhetoric and
the sugar-plums of ritualism and the
confectionery of sentimentalism. Our
theology has been sweetened and sweet
ened until it is as sweet as ipecacuanha
and as nauseating to the regenerated
soul. What the people need is bread
just as God mixes it-unsweetened
plain, hOmely, unpretending, yet life
sustaining bread. That you must have,
o dying soul. Better the smallest crumb
of this that ever fell from the Masters
table than every thing the world can
give you. Bread on Cavalry, kneaded
by knuckles of earthly torture and
baked in the fires of the cross.
One of the old writers wished he
could have seen three things; Rome in
its prosperity, Paul preaching, Christ in
the body. have three wishes: First,
to see Christ in glory surrounded by
His redeemed; second, to see Christ in
glory, surrounded by His redeemed;
third, to see Christ in glory, surrounded
by His redeemed.
"When on my new-hedged wings rise,
Po tread those shores beyond the skies
I'll run through every golden street.
And Rsk each blissfu soul meet
Where Is the God whose praise we snRS
Oh, lead me, stranger, to your King"
Are you ready to-day to accept him?
Instead of tiOundering about in dark
ness, trying this, that and the other
thing, now taking the Gospel of TheO-
dOre Parker and now the Gospel of Dar-
win and now the Gospel of Herbert
Spencer, and now the Gospel of COmte
and now the Gospel of Huxley, take the
Gospel of the two old people who had
more religious peace and happiness in
one hour than all these scientists have
in lifetime-and two old people who
sat at either end Of the table in your
childhood. I mean the old people by
whose side you would like to be buried
when your work is done. nlace tho