Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-05-29

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set aside and overrulcd for his own
good.
You now understand how we are
all able to appreciate the words of
the Apostle contained in the text,
viz: "rlerefore came | unto you
without gain-saying, as soon as |
was sent for; ask therefore for
what intent ye have sent for me?"
l. We see in the text a servant of
the Lord obeying his Master without
questioning His command.
.. lie obeyed Immediately as soon
as the way was made clear.
3. We hear him asking what lie is
wanted for, i. e.. what is expected Of
him.
Note the obedience of the Apostle
TO the command Of the Lord, There
fore came | unto you without gain
saying"
No matter what plans Peter had
formed for himself, 10 matter how
long he had expected TO remain with
his friend, Simon, the tanner, nor
how pleasantly lie was being enter
tanned at his house, no matter how
necessary II seemed to him that he
should remain longer at Joppa, we
do not hear him speaking Of these
things, nor once complaining, or
nurmuring, that lie must thus so alb
ruptly take his departure; but lie
tells Cornelius that he came" "without
gain-saying."
Thus should Gods servants aud
people ever act, when the path Of dn-
ty is made plain and open before
them. Even though our action should
cause our friends TO forsake, or our
enemies to sneer and point the finger
Of scorn, still, we must, like the Apos-
tie, "go forward without gain-'ay
ing, without questioning or coupling.
1t is not for the soldier TO ques-
lon or find fault with the commands
Of his superior officer.
Just so with christian. Every one
Of u4 is (or at least ought to bc) Il
soldier of the cross ready to do any
thing or 20 any place where the
Great Captain leads. Yes and as
ready to relinquish or lay aside
any cherished or pet plans we have
arranged for our ease or comfort.
Oh that you and | could make a
perfect and complete conservation OF
ourselves and our all TO the cause we
have espouscd, saying as we do so,
at may not be my way, it may not
, be thy way, but in some way or 9TH
er the Lord will provide
The self-sacritcing David Living
ston wrote in his journal, Feb. 22nd,
1853, the following resolution, which
his subsequent history shows was the
main spring of that lite which was
laid down in the wilds of dark Riri-
ca for the cause of the Lord Jesus. lie
says,I will place no value on anything
| have, or may possess except in rela'
ton to the kingdom of Christ. II
, anything will advance the interests
oflhat Kingdom, it shall be gwen
: away or kept, only as by giving OF
keeping it, shall most promote the
glory of him to whom | owe all my
4 hopes for time and eternity. May
: grace aud strength sufficient to ena'
: bic Inc to adhere TO the resolution be
! impaired TO me, that in truth, (not in
!, name only)a all my interests may be
i identified with this cause.
llow well this great explorer and
: traveller, the noble and grand chris
- tian missionary carried out his reso'
: lutiou,is shown in his giving up homt
and family, to travel often alone in
!, wild, unheallhful and inhospitablt
IL wilderness inhabited only by wilt
) beast and savages. Yes to give hi
= life for the cause Of humanity ant
the glory of his Master, mourncd b!
. all christendom.
Such lines are the true evidence
of christianity. For it was he, bu
>, Christ that lived in him, the Chris
= who, like him, once gave himself vi
:, for a lost and degraded race, ant
I now repeats himself in all the chosel
7 vessels Of his grace.
Let this glorious and deathless lif
=, speak on and on, ever echoing, still
~ -, in the ears of false glory and vail
>, ambition the last words published
" from his immortal pen, "who woul
!, not be a missionary p Had thi
10 great missionary and soldier of tn
- cross consulted his own ease an
!, VI comfort, had his heart been set upo
u seeking an easy position in life, on
~ in which he could make money an
+ receive Il large salary, he would neve
=, have gone to the wilds OF heathe
= Africa, but like Jonah of old woul
90 have gone to u Tarshish in the opposit
81 direction or remained in the quiet el
y, iovment of his home, notwithstant
80 =" ing the call from his captain on higI
- however urgent and Imperative,
:, 30 to the front And as result fC
~ acting the part of desertcr, I'll
~ glorious crown which he will no.
- be permitted to wear through etel
W. nifty. studied with its many brlllial
sI gems, each representing an immortt
sn m soul that he was instrumental
~ rescuing from an eternal deaf
" would have been bare, even had |
-, been permitted to reach that blesSC
an habitati0n at last.
~, Oh the ecstacy of the tbougl
ams m that it is within my power to so liv
~" ", act aud talk while here with yo
~ that in the endless ages of eternit
., as | pass from world to world, fro
"o "o sphere to sphere, may here al
,,o no there meet with mother or faith
ho h who may say: "Do you see that sc
aI ',I of mine, or that daughter of min
W. do You see that immortal joy su
,o rounding them; why You are the i
,oo =" strumcnt that was used by God f
ni i their salvation, you are the cause
ii ii their being etcrnally saved, you a
.t;i ''H the one who caused them to stop,
hn o cease travelling the downward rot
."J "i TO destruction, during the time V
"' preached in that lower world" OI
-, if tears could be shed, will not Il
.ho h tears Of joy flow freely2 will not n
" y" heart be full to overlooking? w
nc not my happiness be increased
~" ~" hundred fold, when remember tht
"o '"' like the great apostle, came to "
PPo "without gainsaying," SO soon as "
IT, iGo sent for me.
nd In the second place the Apos
ay- obeyed Immediately, for he says,
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