The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-11

compared Win the rum OF tnht Man WI
deepoils his own soul, and by example take
worlds feel the defalcation. William tn
Conquer pulled down forty-six of the church
60 of tod, in order that he might enlarge hi
park for games. SO men sweep ava spirit
nal things, that they may advance thei
amusements and worldly gains But tn
great day of eternity will reveal the fact tina
the most i'm rortant of all business on cart
and In Heaven IL the King s business
The Kings business is not only important
but immediate. Ii we do not attend to i
quickly We will not attend ito it at all. Her
10 o Christian man expecting some dav TO b
thoroughly concerted After q while he viii
become diligent in searching the Scripture
and in prayer. Meanwhile the day of grac,
10 gone. 1t will soon be zone. Out will
your Bibles and begin to read Down on you
knees and begin to pray. For the business
are neelecting Gods business. Your soul il
losing its best. perhaps its last, chance. UP
man! the Kings business requires haste.
In the day of the worlds doom, what viii
become of that man who had q Thousand
eabbatbs and 10000 opportunities for use
~fuiDess and . million chances of being made
better, but comes to the gate of Eternity q
pauper in Christian experience, and with
but one sheaf, though all his life he wai
walking in golden harvest fields. You hav,
postponed your higher life until God tell.
me you will not come to IL IL you postpone
1t any longer. The Kings business requires
haste.
A GREAT WORK TO BE DOM.
There is q great work of comfort to be
done. fit is not done speedily, 1T will never
be done. Yonder is q heart breaking. Now
Ii the time to say the healing word &C
next week with your balsam and it will mo-
touch the case. A man yonder came under
your influence, and you might have cap
tured him for God. You will never have
another chance at him. To morrow another
man will be under your influence. You VIII
have but one opportunity OF saving him 1t
may be at 10 o'clock, at II o'clock OF
at O'Clock; miss that and you miss il
forever. Do not say, Wal until the next
time" Next time will never come. Be
prompt and immediate. The Kings bust
ness requires haste.
In the city Of Basic, Switzerland. it was the
custom to have all the clocks OF the city an
hour ahead of time, tor the folio Is ing reason /:
and their stratagem was to take the CITY at
IL O'Clock. noon; but the Cathedral clock
by mistake. struck inst-sd of II;
and 20 the enemy thought that they were
too late 70 carry out the s,ratagem and gave
up the assault, and the city was saved and,
there fore, Ii was arranged that for many
years the clock struck / when it was IL, and
IL when it was IL. o, man and woman OF
God engaged in Christian work, set your
CLOCKS on If you want to save the cityl Bet.
ter come to our work too early than come
too late. The Kings business requires haste.
We a. Q exefc sing Q fatal elaboration. We
sit calmly in church. mediiating aboat how
to save the world. Meanwhile. six millions
of people will die this year. You might
start the millinnium next year, but il would
them no good. What you do for them
you will have to do within the next twelve
months. What you do for them you will
have to do this menth AYE, this week aye,
this day Have you never heard that aneIgh-
Dor was sick and said to yourself, II must
90 and talk to him about his soul, for l know
that he is 1t prepared to leave the world"
But that day you were busy, aud the next
more busy, and the third day you went TO
see him. You pulled the door bell; a ser
want came out. and you said, How Is he to-
cav, 1T can't be- possiblel How long mas
he been dea3?" She answers, Five min
utss." God have mercy upon that Christian
man who comes to his work five minute too
late. The Kings business requires haste.
l pray to God that nv textmsy be brought
home with special power to those in this au-
dience who have never %Yetsought Christ As
many of the causes that come up in court
are adjourned, sometimes because the wit
nessss are not ready and sometimes because
the plaintiff is 7 OF ready and sometimes be-
cause the Judge is not ready, until the bill
of cost is ruinous and hard to psy-so there
are men nd women who have adjourned
the cause of the souls salvation from youth
&c middle life and adjourned IL from health
to sickness. and adjourned it from prosperi.
ty to adversely, until there will be an inf
mite bill of costs to pay. O, procrastinatiDg,
celebrating, hating SOUL Let me tell you
that the Kings business requires haste. Be
fore you attend to it you mental faculties
may fail. Your intellect works admirably
now, but In this country the ratio OF intel
lect 0 that are giving out is larger every
Something in the climate urges men
on TO such extremes and the pressure on
active men Is 30 great, that before they are
aware of it the brain s~oftens, or, more sud
denly, the mind drops dead from its throne.
NOW IS THE ACCEPTED TIME.
Pythsgoras, studying philosophy, wa so
anxious to keep awake aud improve all his
time that with q string he tied he hair OF
his head to q beam above so that the very
moment he nodded In sleep the pain would
awake him. So there are men now who
nave such morbid and unhealthy notions
about how much work 1t Is necessary to do,
that they never take any rest They can
not stand the stress. the most brilliant are
In the most peril. What II the mind. that
God has given you for high and holy uses,
should perish before you ave found Christi
A heavy fall, an accidental stroke on the
head, . sudden affection for which yea are
not ready may kill your intellect and 50
YOUR last chance of Heaven pass away
tho ieh you should live on for many q year.
In the great populations that occupy the
asyiums OF the country or are carefully
guarded in private dwellings. are hundreds
Of men and women who e xpect. d some dss
to be Christians. They had abundance o.
time. they thought; but mental disorder
dropped upon them before they had decided
the matter, and although o they ars IL
respop 8 BILE aud shall not be brought to &C
count for thing they do under this men
tai eclipse. yet they SD all at last be called
into Judgment for the long years of menta
health when they neglected the Gospel
What will become OF them | leave you u
Judge. While your reason acts, On. IL to TIT
grandest use. Look out how you carry tn
m .gpiicent torch of your intellect. lest Cos
put 1t out in darkness forever. The King
business requires haste.
I would have you regard the text becaus
you may have come near TO the end OF God
patience. There can be no doubt bat som
men in youth or mid-life or old sge so sggrs
vatipgly reject the Gosp q that God lets then
alone. They slam the door o. their soul II
God's face and tell Him TO begope; then
when they call after Him to come back, II
will not come. Eternal affront has bee
given, and in that book where no erasure