Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-23

have you ever seti Arc you doing moth.
mgr Is 1t possible that q man or woman,
sworn to be q follower Of the Lord Jesus
Christ, is doing nothing, Then hide the
horrible secret from the angels. Keep 1t
away from the book Of Judgment II you
are doing nothing, do not let the world
n 1t out, lest they charge your religion
with being a false face. Do not let your
cowardtce and treason be heard among
the martyrs about the throne. lest they
forget the sanctity of the placs and curse
your betrayal Of that cause for which
they agonized and died. -
May the eternal God rouse us all to &C.
tion! As for myself, I feel I would be
ashamed to die now and enter Heaven I'M.
I'll l have accomplished something more
decisive for the Lord that bought me. I
would like to join with you in an oath,
with hand high uplifted to Heaven,
swearing new allegiance to Jesus Christ,
and to work more for his cause and king
DON. Obi brethren, how swiftly the
time does go byl 1t seems to me I never
saw such a swift summer-never a sum-
mer that had such nimble feet 1t seems
to me as If the years had gained some new
power of locomotion-a kind of speed
electric!
IT, this afternoon, you take q short
sleep, and you are entitled to iu, for God
intended the Sabbath not only for rest
for the soul, but rest for the body, you
Will at least have n or two hours in
which to lay out a plan for Christian
work in this ecclesiastical year. Hus :
band and wife talk with each other.
Brothers and sisters resolve upon some
new work for Christ. On your knees cry
unto God: "Lord, what wilt Thou
have me to dol" and STAY
on your knees until you get
the answer. Are you ready to Join
with me in some new work for Christ?
l feel that there is such a thing as classi-
cal piety, that there is such a thing as
insular work, but it seems to me that
what we want now is concerted action.
The temple of Berth is very broad, and
it is very high. 1t has been going up by
the hands of men and devils, and no hu-
man enginery can demolish it; but If
the $4,000 ministers of Christ in this
country should each take a branch of
the tree of life, and all their congrega-
lions should do thu same, and we should
march on and throw these branches
around the great temples of sin, and
worldllness and folly, it would need
no match or coal or torch of ours to
touch of the pile, for, as in the DAYS
of Elijah, fire would fall from heaven and
kindle the bonfire of Christian victory
over demolished sin. 1t is kindling now.
Huzzah! The day is oursl
Still further, I learn from this subject
the danger of false refugees. AS soon as
these Shechemitss got into the tenn
pie they thou hit they were safe.
They said BERTH will take care
of us. Abimelech may batter down
everything else, he can not batter down
this temple, where we are now hid" But
very soon they heard the timbers crack
ling, and they were smothered with
smoke, and they miserably died. And
you and l are just as much tempted tc
false refugees. The mirror this morning
may have persuaded you that you have 8
comely cheek; your best friends may have
persuaded you that you have elegant
manners; Satan my have told you tina,
you are all right, but bear with me if
tell you that if unpardoned you are al
wrong, l have no clinometer by which tt
measure how steep is the inclined plank
you are descending, but I know it is very
steep. SWELL" you say, ''if the Bible is
true l am a sinner. Show me some
refuge; I will step right into it," I sup
poae every person in this audience this
moment is stepping into some kind Of
refuge. Here you stop in the tower OF
goCa works. You say: II shall be
safe here in this refuge" The battle
ments are adorned; the steps are varnish.
ed; on the walls are pictures Of all the
suffering you have alleviated, and all the
schools you have established, and all the
fine things you have ever done. Up ii
that tower you feel you are safe. But hea1
you not the tramp of your unpardoned
sins all around the tower? They each have
a match. They are kindling the combus.
tible material. You feel the heat and the
suffocation. Oh! may you leap in time
the gospel declaring: "By the deeds o
the law shall no flesh living be justifi I'D. "
SWELL" you say: ~ have been driven
out of that tower; where shall I go?'
Step into this tower of Indifference. Yor
say: "If this tower is attacked, it will be
a great while before it is taken" You
feel at ease. But there is an Abimelech
with ruthless assault coming on. Deatt
and his forces are gathering around, anG
they demand that you surrender every.
thing, and they clamor for your immortal
overthrow, and they throw their skeleton
arms in the windows, and with their iro1
fists they beat against the door, ant
while you are trying to keep them out yo,
see the torches of judgment kind
ling, and every forest is a torch
and every mountain a torch, and every
sea a torch, and while the Alps, and Py-
~renees, and Himalayas turn into a liv,
coal, blown redder and redder by tn
whirlwind breath of a God omnipotent
what will become of your refuge of lies?
But" says someone, you are en-
gagged in a very mean business, diving
US IRON tower to tower" Oh, no! 1 wan
to tell you OF a Gibraltar that never ha
been and never will be taken; of a wal
tn at no Satanic assault can scale; of
bulwark that the judgment earthquake
can not bulge. The Bible refers to i
when it says In God is thy refuge, AM
underneath thee are the everl astinl
arms" Oh! fling yourself into it. Irea'
down unceremoniously everything tina
intercepts you. Wedge your way there
There are enough hounds of death ant
peril after you to make you hurry. Man,
a ian has persisted just outside the tow
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