Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-12-24
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My father left me and went on deck. I
was stunned by the rebuke and overwhelm-
ed with modification.
ga poor, miserable, drunken sailor before
the mast! BE kicked and cuffed about the
world, and die in some fever hospital !!
That is to be my fate," thought I. "I'll
change my life, and change itat once. Twill
never utter another oath; I will never
drink another drop of intoxicating liquor
l will never gamble" l have kept these
three VOWS ever since. Shortly after I had
made them, I became Christian. That
act was the turning point in my destiny.
"WILL THE LORD ACCEPT Me ?"-You
may be interested in the case of an old Wo-
man who had been led to the Lord by Miss
Crickmay. We wondered she did not ask to
be baptized, but she seemed to have some
difficulty about it. We are careful not to
press any one to be baptized, but we had no
doubt that this woman was converted, and
one day went and sat down by her side,
and said, "How, Han To-sao, (that is, elder
sister,) what is the difficulty? You 40 love
the Lord Jesus?"
eyes, 1 do love him."
"You do not doubt that he has taken away
your sins?"
"No."
I said, "Where is the doubt?"
Then the old woman said, "You know
| that Jesus said to his disciples Go We into
all the world and preach the gospel l am
a poor old woman, nearly seventy and near,
ly blind. cannot 60 into all the world and
preach the gospel. am willing to tell my
husband and son and his wife, when he
marries; lam willing to tell my neighborss,
and 1 could, perhaps, 60 to one or two vii
lages; but cannot 90 into all the world.
Tell me if the Lord will accept this of
poor old woman of my age"
felt as if I could take the old woman in
my arms, and said, "rhat is all the Lord
! Jesus wants-he wants each of US to 90 our
best" Then she looked at me, with her
eyes full of earnestness, and said, 'Tell me,
can I be a disciple, and be baptized, without
going into foreign countries?" L told her
She could, and she replied, "Then | am
ready to be baptized whenever you like"
THE CRoss.-And now the cross of Christ
is uplifted as an ensign to the nations. NO
symbol or watchword invented by man IN
any part of the world awakens such faith
and hope, such joy and peace, as the cross
which is sacredly associated with his blessed
name. BY his cross is meant no material
image or halloWed sign, touched by the
hand or visible to the eye of man, but the
shame he endured, the death he died, and
the doctrine of salvation through his pre-
cious blood, his accepted sacrifice: In the
cross of Christ, so understood and felt, all
true Christians continually glory; while
they seek and hope through him who died
on the cross to be crucifed to the world, and
| to win the glorious and incorruptible crown
of eternal life. AS we gaze, then, with the
enlightened eye of faith on him who was
lifted up from the earth on Mount Calvary,
let us feel and own the attractive power of
his cross, and be drawn unto him, and Joined
indissoluby unto him, along with the null
titudes of men over the whole world, who
have felt the preciousness and the power of
his atoning blood.-Rev. James Dodd, OF
Dunbar.
baS There are many persons who talk
through the telephone without understand
ing its mechanism. Even so it is possible
for many souls to believe in Christ to the
saving of their souls, without understand.
ing how it is that he who died for them and
rose again saves them. 1t is blessed thing
that we are saved by faith and not by
knowledge. 1t is nevertheless q privilege
and duty that we be 'neither barren nor
unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord
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