Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-11-17
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CONDUCTED By
REV. ROBERT LATHAM.
s9 The gospel is not fully preached, unles

CONDOCiED By
REV. ROBERT LATHAM
s9~ The gospel is not fully preached, unless
it is positively proclaimed that "Whosoever
believeth not shall be damned" Jonah was
certainly very successful preacher, and so
far as we are informed, he said nothing but
"Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be des-
troyed." A law without penalty is worth
nothing. The only condition of the Covenant
of Grace is faith-believe and be saved-but
God always deals fairly, candidly and hon.
estly with the sinner. Hence, he makes it
the duty of preachers of the gospel to pro-
claim in the ears of every one, that whosoev-
er believeth not shall be damned.
pa- The devil has a peculiar affection for
idIers. He employs them to do all bis little
dirty jobs. They are his retailers of scandal,
strife engenderers, and mischief makers gen.
orally. They are his most faithful servants,
ever ready to obey his commands and always
on hand when needed. They take special
delight in defaming the character Of honest,
hard working men and women, and stirring
up strife and contention in the community.
War is thing to be dreaded, but few
idlers are able to accomplish more for the
devil than large army Of veteran soldiers.
Bay All true Christians are striving to effect
the same thing. The object of their faith is
the same, and they are all animated by the
same spirit. There is only one Christ, by
whom all must be redeemed but one Holy
Spirit, by whom all must be sanctifed and
made fit for Heaven but one Bible, by which
all must be instructed in the way of life; and
only one New Jerusalem, the everlasting
home of all the redeemed and sancti6ed.
However much true believers may differ now,
the time will come when all will see eye to eye.
sa- There are in the Church as we'll as in
the State, some men who are very pleasant so
long as they are permitted to direct every en-
terprise and enjoy all the honors but so soon
as some one else undertakes to direct, they
are off at a right angle. A good man rarely
becomes insulted because he sees some one
manifesting lively interest in the cause
which he himself is laboring to advance
Benedict Arnold was good soldier so long
as he was permitted to do as he pleased; but
when he was restricted he turned traitor.
sS5- 1t seems that one of the principles up
on which the human family act, is that when
one of their number starts down hill, all
must give him a kick and thus hasten his
ruin. This is brutal. Many an unfortunate
man has been bounded down. In an evil
hour be sinned, heinously it may be, but is
this any reason why all the community should
pounce upon him ? 1t is often the case that
those who are most active in completing his
ruin, are far greater sinners than he.
sS The Bible teaches US that I'm six days
the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea,
and all that in them is )" but some wise men
have found out that this is a mistake. They
have discovered that the Lord was many
thousand years in making the world. 1t
would not be at all surprising that some wiser
men than these would find out that the Lord
did not make the world at all but that it
made itself. Vain man! he would be wiser
than his Maker.
sg- Whoever is striving to enter heaven
alone, must repent or he will certainly never
get there. One evidence of true religion, is
that its possessor is anxious that all others
share its blessings. A selfish Christian is
a contradiction. In fact, it is impossible to
90 alone either to heaven or hell Either we
are the instruments in the hands of the Holy
Spirit in saving some one in heaven, or we
are the tools in the hands of the devil in
dragging some one down to the pit of woe.
s9r Those who make the greatest noise, are
not always those who do the most work. The
drones in bee hive are noisy fellows, but
they gather no honey Those who are con.
tinually devising plans, are generally idlers.
God commands US to 60 into his vineyard and
work. He proposes to do all-the planning.
By his providence, he suggests to each man
what he must do. If all the planners would
become workers, the cause of Jesus Christ
would be in more fourshing condition.
aas- No doubt there are some men who 81
lence the voice of conscience by rejecting
that they are not as heinous sinners as some
men whose names are mentioned in the Bible
we're. This, no doubt, is true. David was
certainly great sinner, but the sinful con.
duct of David was source of no comfort,
but great grief to him. Whoever expects to
live life of sin and be happy, is badly mis-
taken. We are commanded to follow not
David or Paul, but Jesus Christ.
par 1t is a notorious fact that our sympathies
for the benighted heather, in lands far away,
are at least apparently far greater than they
are for the poor benighted heather within
stones cast of our door. This is plain con.
tradicton of the proverb, "Charity begins at
home" Strange as it may sound, there are
not few persons who are kind and obliging to
their neighbors, but unfeeling monsters toward
those bound to them by the tenderest ties.