The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-06-23
T. r. JORDAN.

the cradle TO the grave, and from the
grave TO eternity with oil its dura-
ton, hope shall have your atten-
ton while we discuss them. must
congratulate myself upon the be-
haviour of my congregations every
where. have preached eight days
here before, and never seen better
behaved congregation than | met al
Waco. | understand some persons
were bothered by children here this
morning, and would like to say to
those boys now that If they do not do
better in future will have their
mothers take them home, give them II
good, square whipping, and
then put them to bed
Qaughtor.) Aud il you grown
people want to talk, just wait till SER
wee Is over, and then YOU can go
home with her aud talk till midnight
il you like. If this won't do aud that
some of You still want to talk, all YOU
have got to do is to hold up your
hands. will then stop preaching,
and you will have all the opportunity
YOU want for talking. One person at
neither of those plans VIII work, then
Nbu Nth lhu iuc hpbl ONtl
there, aud ii leads to the
outside Qaughter) "For the grace of
God that btingeih salvation has APP
peared to all men,. This is anew tes-
lament term. We are not only saved
by grace, but this book the biblc)
tells us we were born and we live by
1t. What is this grace that has APP
pearcd to all men and bringeth saliva
ton? "All meu!" | thank God for
that saving term. The only way we
can estimate what IT really is. is by
contrasting supposition cases, and by
this light form an idea of its value,
given us as IL is free of all conditions
or doubt. Suppose, wherever may
receive the favor of God. also meet
| the disiavor of God; suppose, lie
should put one hand out TO help, and
the other to drive me away; suppose
J lie should promise and threaten me
, in the same breath; suppose that
wherever lie rendered me favor lie
should also be tyranical. Now that's
grace in juxta position. We cannot
estimate the value of this garee TO me
or TO you by the price ofother things.
| Through il 1t we have been redeemed
by the precious blood of the Son of
| God. Without the shedding Of blood
| there Is no remission of sin, and when
God let the dieine stream of salvation
| flow from his laceraed body lie paid
the price of your and my redemption.
| lie wrote on mercy's page, "peace,
honor and good will to men. "Who-
ever live,h aud believeth in the son OF
God, shall not perish, but shall have
everlasting life By the grace of god
we are enabled TO feel and know that
we are sinners. IL brings us to the
church of the living. II gets us a
name and place among the children
of God And this grace of God that
"bringeth salvation has appeared unto
all men" oh, thank the Lord for
this mercy. We hear very little on
the subject of theology these latter
days. Thank God for that, too, for |
believe Me world Is better for IL.
| Formerly VIC used TO hear great
deal about the "otlectual CALI and
other kinds of tom-foolery. Let us
see what that is. An "eticctual call
is--well, say there were 5000 sinners
in chains, and at Gods command
| 1000 of them were freed from their
mauacles. Ii would be what Is known
as n general calf TO those poor fell
lows in chains, aud an "eflectual CALI
to those who were not. But God
would not do such thing as this.
lie would not cut the 1000 loose from
their sins and leave the other 5000 to
grovel in their misery. The devil
himself would not do that daughter
Pm glad the world is getting to y
point where IL admits that God meant
what he said when he declared "God
so loved-not Europe, nor Asia, nor
Africa, nor America-but the world.
that he gave up his only begotten son,
that they who bclieveth In him might
have life everlasting IL is not long
since one grand old church renowned
the doctrine of infant damnation, and
in doing that she took her place high
up on the "whO soover" principle.
God grant shall live long enough TO
see all the churches follow the same
example, and believe my HAIR will
not be white until they awake TO the
necessity and justice of doing so.
| God created man on u common plat
form, and when he redeemed one he
| gave all chance. Thank God for a
gospel that looks into tho face of every
man and tells him he is bad and that
he transgresses the law, but nj tho
same time fills him with the hope that
he may DO better IL he will,
and that II he only tries to
be good God will help him in the ef-
fort. IL Ism good, God win help me
| to be better, aud il am bad, the
| devil will help me to be worse. God
cannot make mau be good, but ole
| Ia III hot lao. LnI
not make man bad unless person
wants TO be, because if he could none
of us.would he good. This is.oommon.
sense theology, and il is in harmony
with the age. | hold that IL man
tries TO be good, God will help him
Isn't that good theology If tempta-
ton surrounds him, aud that he prays
for strength TO overcome 1t, God will
succor him. That Is good theology,
and that's how God acts. In other
words, II you are bad il Is your own
fault, and II you are good tits because
you let God make you so. Some OF
you go whining about
continually crying out al
want to bo good" Why don't your
ST. Paul was blind. yon know, for
three days. Now, Paul was a pretty
big fellow aud II took considerable to
down him, but God fired the shot, aud
he at oncc.saw. You people, too, can
be good IL you go the right way about
II, but you must not expect TO be Of.
| fecteu as Paul was. oh, no; God
does not shoot at "snow-birds." Aud
some of you fellows who Keep crying
out ~ want TO be good" remind me OF
a little snow-bird waiting 10 be shot
al. (Laughier) Right Is right and
wrong il wrong, and the grace OF
God that brings salvation "hath APP
peared TO all men" 10 "hll mon,
mind you. No matter, though the
Indian sun may have turned him