The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-09-03
ANDERSON, c., THURSDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 3, 1885

avenue Hotel of New York, with its
rooms, some lighted by as high as forty
jets of gas. How do you know how much
gas is burned? The proprietor will take
you to the cellar where the meter is, on
whose dial is registered the amount con-
sumed to the Tooth part of an inch.
If a man Gun do this, what can not
God do9 Record Record | A record
put in by yourself, and by no one else.
The witness who had the. best chance to
know the facts, the least inducement to
alter it, has put it down. Some people
say they are not afraid of their record.
wouldn't take that of the purest girl
that blesses Kentucky to-day. That girl
sits ths ere, still nerveless and like dead
person, unaffected by anything say, yet
the record is bad enough to damn all the
State. 1 want to talk to you Baptists,
Camplellites, Episcopalians, Presbyteri.
ans ard all, but not about the way you
are bapti ID. That question will not be
asked yCu in the last day. What about
your r!cord9 Men are here to-day whose
record, if it could be read aloud, would
cause Them to be despised by all. If all
could l:ead it as God does, you would fee.
Man, if the wife of your bosom could
read it, she would spurn you. Record,
record, record. Members of the church
with frivolous record, with progressive
euchre. records, with ballroom records,
with horse racing records, with licentious
records records 80 black that the devil
would flee from thsm. "Many will say,
Lord, Lord, have I not prophesicd in
Thy mime, and in Thy name done many
good works? But He will say, depart
from nle."
= look more at my record than to what
people say about me. Many good men,
sometimes Bishops, have asked me to
change my style little. I tell them
they were not put here to judge me. No
man shall tamper with my convictions
God help us.to keep all we have. Breth-
ren, what about your record? Is there q
preacher here who shall be turned away
at the last day? Mother, what is your
record ? Is it ballroom record Have
you been spending ten hours week fix-
ing your daughter for ball, not ten
minutes on your knees? That record is
true, and when itis read there will be no
scofing or laughing. There is your
record. What will you do With it? You
can't destroy it; you've written it your
self. When the Ethiopian can change
his skin and the leopard his spots then
we'll 20 to manufacturing records. Can.
you take back last weeks record? You
can't alter one word. All.the tears you
may shed for years will not change it.
Your cid mothers pleadings can not alter
it. The combined chemicals of earth
will only make the characters stand out
clearer and more brilliantly.
THEORIES OF LIFE AND RELIGION.
There are great many theories of
life. When I get through with Darwin's,
how cln / believe it, when he has con.
:fessed at the end that it was but his.
imaginings, and that he had not one solid
fact upon which to build them7 look
him in the face and say, what about
conscience, record, God? Those are the
things / want to know. Spencer knows
all I do, but when I ask for more he calls
in the nnknowable. 1 shake hands with
him and say, I can't 60 with you, Mr..
Spencer. Those things are precisely
what I want to know about, and you can
tell me nothing. If came from Oar.
wins monkeys, want to know how came
the conscience. Brethren, let's learn all
in this book; it's good to live byand good
to die by. Christians outlie any people
in the world. Think of that little boat
on the Sea of Galilee. The Saviour was
asleep in it when the storm came up, and
the disciples were sore afraid. at last
they walked him. Jesus sat down in the
boat and dandled the lake on his knees
like it was little child, and it quieted at
once. The arm that stilled that sea has
saved me.
GODS pARDoNING POWER.
7 believe in the pardoniEg power of
God stronger than I do His omnipoteace.
You might persuade me I wasn't stand.
ing here, you might make me believe l
amt Sam Jones, and that / don't have a
wife, whom I love better than my life,
but you can't make me believe that l
haven't experienced the saving power of
the Gospel. You may charge me at the
great clay with oaths, and | have sworn
10000 Of them; you can charge me with
Sabbath breaking, and I've been guilty
of that times out of number, but where's
your testimony? Bring out the book, so
it's all been blotted out By the blood ufT
Christi not q particle of evidence is
there. God says: "Who is there that
can lay anything to this mans charge 2"
and 1 so free.
'There is fountain filled with blood
Drawn from Emanuel's veins;
Ard sinners plunged beneath that flood
Lose all their guilty stains"
Thirteen years ago | saw one hanging
on q tree. 1 saw his bleeding wounds.
bis anguished face, and | felt IL was my
sins that had helped to drive each nail
there. Then l went under that fountain
of blood, and I know that my sins were
washedsaway. Lord, let this great con.
of immortal soulsg go under that
fountain. It's the hope of the nation.
When I look at my life up to "a years of
age 1 wonder how | was ever saved. ]
feel like John Knox did when he saw a
man being led out to the glllows. He
.aid that man would be John Knox if it
wasn't for the saving power ofthe gospel.
Sister, lady, young man, if you die with.
,ut going under that blood, there is no
nope for you. I can't explain it; but
vithou; the shedding of blood and its
application there can be no remission of
lin. Great God wash US clean to-day
hen I will have no fears about anything.
believe in good works as much as any
,ne, and I've always insisted upon them
out want you to be like the old sailor
Who wss dying. He kept picking at the
luilt, and his wife asked him what he
vas doing. "Ob," said he, II was gath
.riug up all the good deeds 1 have ever
lone s.nd throwing them overheard,
where I can lash myself to them by the
race of Christ and float till I'm picked
Up by His mercy"
When I come to die, l won't rejoice
hat I've preached to thousands of peo.
lie at time. nor that through my min.
stry ten thousand conversions have been
wrought I'll rejoice that I've been saw
ID by God. May He in His divine mer.
y forgive us all.