Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-16
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CONDUCTED BY
REV. ROBERT LATHAM.
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WHY DIE /?

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WHY DIE?
The course which multitudes are pursuing is
destined to terminate badly. An old age of
poverty and misery awaits that individual who
spends his youth in prodigality and vice. The
laws Of nature cannot he violated with impu-
nifty. He who swallows poison must suffer !;
he who leaps from an eminence must be crushed
by the fall. Sin must end in shame and re-
morse. Its wages is death. Ruin follows sin
as the shadow follows the substance. What
the final and accumulated results of sin will
be, no mortal can tell. None know what they
are except those who have passed the bounds
of hope and entered the regions of deep des-
pair. .ass..Er
The description which we have of the final
results of sin, are enough to strike terror into
every soul not hopelessly insensible. The
place III which the final and full results of sin
are experienced, is described as the region
where God has forgotten to be gracious. Moth
ing is heard in that God-abandoned region but
the despairing groans of the miserable occu-
pants. Piercing shlieks and hollow groans
are answered by gnashing of teeth and bitter
walls The occupation of the inmates is said
to be disappearing God day and night.
This region is not far distant. 1t lies just
beyond the confines of this short life. A few
brief years at farthest will bring vast multi
tude of the human family to that point where
hope will expire and despair begin. "Why will
you die 90 is the question which God, in his
word and by his providence, asks all. Why
will you 60 down to that place occupied by
none but the lost What answer can we give
to this plain inquiry? Will we say that God
has made no provision for us in his mercy, or
shall we say that we have applied to God for
mercy and he rejected US?
When we appear before God as All angry
Judge, we will be speechless. If lost, we will
blame only ourselves. |t5z r = s5.trs
The only reason that can be assigned for the
final ruin of any in gospel lands is, they will
not accept of salvation offered to them freely,
fully, and in good faith, in the gospel. eye
will not come unto me,' says the Saviour,
'that ye may have life" Men 60 down to the
land of deep despair because they refuse to be
saved by Jesus Christ.
TO take away the life that is in our body is
usually regarded as an evidence of insanity.
What must we think of him who murders his
own soul To waste our property and ruin
our health is usually regarded as highly crimi-
nal. What must we think of him who de-
prives his soul Of allaccess to God, and shuts
it up in an eternity of woe? To squander
our earthly goods in reckless speculation is
generally regarded as an evidence of madness.
What shall we think of him who barriers his
soul for trash?
REDEEMED SINNERs.-Who gave Himself
for us that He might redeem us from all iniqui-
ty and purify unto himself peculiar people
What, then, was His object To redeem US,
to buy us back from bondage, tosave us by the
payment of a ransom price, not only from the
punishment of sin, but from it's power, from
it's pollution, from its foul and hideous en-
brace, no less than from it's sword and from it's
chains 1t was to set us free from sin itself
that Christ redeemed us not from some sin,
but from all sin ; not that we should still re-
main, or afterwards fall back under the do
minion of the very tyrant from whose power
He redeemed US, not that we should merely
exchange one hard master for another, or for
many no, lie ''gave Himself for u.s." He
laid down His life for us, He died upon the
cross for us, ''that He might redeem us from
all iniquity" Nor was this deliverance from
as well as punishment intended merely for our
advantage, but for His. He had an end to ac-
complish for Himself. lie died to purify US,
not merely that we might be pure and there
fore happy, but also to purify people for Him
self; a possession of His own, church,
body of which He should he the head, king
dom of which He should be the sovereign.
Over none but purified and holy kingdom
could He condescendto reign. OF none but a
purified and holy body could lie he the head.
Justification would have done but half the
work for which Christ died His end would
not have been accomplished if lie had not re-
deemed us from iniquity as well as condemns
ton, if lie had not purified a people for Him.
srlf, for His own use and His own honor; a
people in their measure like Himself, His own
exclusively, His own forever, His inalienabe
right, His indefensible possession, His ''pecu-
liar people. ."-Dr. j. 4. alexander.
| On LISTENING TO EVIL REPORTs.-The
longer live the more feel the Importance OF
;.dhering to the rules l have laid down for my