The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-13

with these words, and they are simple.
old-fashioned thoughts, yet OF supreme
Importance and need TO be presented
again and again-are these. First, that
man "a greatly In need OF salvation, In u
position from which he needs to he res
cued.
Togo to work and prove tina, man Is
sinner would be work OF superoroga-
tlon; like trying to establish the truth Of
An axiome proposition already self
evident to convince one that black Is
black bitter Is bitter, sweet Is sweet, etc.
IL Is n matter that needs no proof, adj
mits ONO argument, and whatever may
be said by man In reference TO the ques-
tion Of his depravity or Of his ability to
recover himself. much rs he may de-
ny the former or insist on the latter, all
the facts UfhistOry are against him; his
impulses, his salvations, his doings, have
ever been in the direction Of The bad,
and were we to place before one, and we
may select the best of his kind, the
heavenly world, with its Holy God and
with the absolute endlessness and pur-
ity Of its joys, pursuits and worship, we
venture to say that his answer to the
query as to whether he was fitted to
participate In them, II honestly given,
would be in the negative; that he would
have to undergo some change before he
could enter upon them. That however
there may be no doubts or questionings
on the subject, let us examine IL for IA
moment, and what says Scripture. Turn
to its earlier records and we read: God
looked upon the earth, and behold II
was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted
his way upon the earth, and as cOrrup-
tion is contagious, difluslve, 1t was a
oVIL" pun ..n, 1N'enu.u W, vVi''a AMI
"tou az" i"'nuu wy, P"in,i u''''u'
nv"I'' sun, ""'eleo', WIN, ""eo.,o,s,i
aug ho'hing was eAenip.' iSia 10
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s"'up' nUa U"Y la u" nd p,.V anI
missry mr.. Inv ,h.irP ways There no
,',',r -, ,.nd hof',r" tnsir .vss and al in
,',,,,,, ,,G,r ,.i,,.,s maj mar nr, i'm
n,,j of s,,iy,iti,,,,' ,,,os withont tho sav-
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.'.,,a and n ,nat,ars n,,, hn,v .arS,..t-
Ia, md ,nthu.issticnIIv a man may enter
,,,t,, ,i,. ,',,rs,,its ~ M, hn,v d,a,Iv he
,nay he ,,h.nrh.d In his labors and
d,ti.s ,h,re ar. Times in IN, midst of
'''. nn,i,'.s bis ,,iaasnras mr. hi. rev,I-
a. 49,, h, is .rrsst,ed hv th, thon,,ht
W., ~ 81" n, come of nv souI INV i'm,
, n.,' 70 -, w. "A ha, ANIL din IN h., saved.
49,. p now sh,II / Ind s.Ivation
Ia. &C. '" The snsgest,on he can.
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'',i,, h, g,,o,.rs .yarv Ja,th hs hs.rs of
,',',r,' ,,,a, ,,rnve Ne. sees evsry funeral
ns ;tsnpJs ill., so many bandvritings
mon Tho y,oI nnint Win yhostlv nm
~ -, tho a. ~ rscLoning and IN a
s'.trit,,,,i,,o into, ,hot u,iii ,I,',nond The
,,,,,,,1o,,, ~ tha ,,tternos' far,bjnv And
,c,iis salyatinn ia nor nasdad. If In ia
,',t n,a,,ar ~ vital snnram. eternal
i,on"rp"nce. # os wa are toId he some
,I,., daa,b ,n,is a,,' ~ ,ha ,,r,y,. coyars
eya,vihing thsr,. L. of a man 1,.dncing h q
snni If ~, ',.r ba hod ona as veil ne his
hodr to dnst. If there ia No Immortal
avist.rco harond a,hr ,bis universai
',,,rs,ia,'sn.'ss9 w IT, h.ar, str,m
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ss.Ji,,i T W. "a, ,h ri,,o W., ' iha a,
ares Tho ltJa,ioia tha sai,- insip,aJ
tnr',,ro "" ,1a n,orns ~ ' 80, ,ha aIn,s.
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- I'll os iands9 az ~,
Eonca ,aora, Tho nrnd,oa''s arhr,y
agnr,s ' ng "a Al II,aiss ,h 'aaIahia