The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1886-10-15

placid and genial, AMI loving. IL makes
him splenetic and cross; and sc utterly
is be changed that you can see he is sar-
castle and rasping, and that the PhiIis.
tines have left him nothing but file.
Oh, 1.-THE way OF the transgressor is
| hard"' His cup is bitter. His niyht il
dark. His pangs are deep. His end is
terrific. PhilIstine iniquity SAYS to that
man:
Now, surrender to me, and I will give
| you ali you want-music for the dance, swift
sfeeds for the race, imperial couch 10
slumher on, and you shall be refreshed
with the rarest fruits In baskets of golden
| flsgree."
He lies. The music turns ont 10 b, a
| groan. The fruits burst the rind with
rank poison. The filagree is made up of
twisted reptiles. The couch is grave.
Small allowance of rest, small allowance
| of peace, small allowance of comfort.
| Cold. hard, rough-nothing but a file. So
| il was with Voltaire, the most applauded
man of his day:
The Scripture was his jest-book. whence he
drew
Bon mots to gall the Christian and the
jew
An mfdel when well. but what when sIcks
| Oh. then text would touch him to the
quick
Seized with hemmOrhage of the lungs in
Paris, where he had gone to he crowned as
the idol of all France, he sends a messen-
! ger TO get priest that he may I 9 recon-
! ciled to the church before be dies.
| great terror falls upon him He
makes the place all around about him so
| dismal that the nurse declared that she
would not for all the wealth of Europe
see another infidel die. Philistine in
| iquity has promised him all the worlds
| garlands, but in the last hour of his life,
when be needed solacing, sent tearing
across his conscience and his nerves a file,
a file. So il WAS with Lord Bvron, his
uncleanness in England only surpassed
| by his uncleanness in Venice. then going
or to end his misery at MisSolonghi, fret
| ting at his nurse Fletcher. fretting at him.
! self, fretting at the world, fretting at God;
| and he gave the world "Childe Harold"
| and ''Sardanapalus." AMI "The Prisoner
| of Chillon," and THE Siege of Corinth,"
reduced TO nothing but file. Oh, sin has
a great facility for making promises; but
il has just as great facility for breaking
| them!
a Christian life j. the only cheerful II Re-,
| while life of wicked surrender is re.
| morse. ruin and death. Its painted 2 lee
Is sepulchral shastlinesS. In the bright
est days of the Mexican Empire Monte
yuma said he felt guawins At his heart
som thing like cnuker. Sin, like a
| monster wild beast o. the forest, some
| times licks all over its victim in order that
| the victim NAV hs more easily swallowed:
| hut generally sin raSpS, and gals. anil
| tears, and uphraidS, an files Is it not
So. Herod: Is it not 50. HiIdehrand? Is il
not so, Robespierre? Aye. aye! 1t is so,
il Is 50.
The way ofthe wicked He turneth UPSIDE
down.
History tells us that when Rome was
founded, on that day there were twelve
vul;ures flying through the cir, but when
a transCressor dies the sky is black with
whole flocks of them. Vulturcs. vultures.
vultureS. When / see sin Robin. so many
| of my hearers, and see them going down
day by day and week by week. | must
give a pl7in warning. l dare not keep it
back lest risk the salvation of nv own
soul. Rover and pirate pulled down the
vHrning bell on fnchcaps Rock, think
ing that they would have a chance
TO despoil vessels that were crushed on
the rocks; but one night his own ship
crashed down on this very rock, and hs
went down with all his cargo. Col de-
clsres: when / say TO the wicked thou
shalt surely die, and thou giyess him not
warning, that same man shall die in his
iniquity, but his blood viii require at thy
hands"
/ learn from this subject wha. a sad
thing il is when the Church of God loses
its metal! These Philistines saw that il
thew could only get all the metallic
weapons out of the hands Of the I5raeIites
all would be well, and, therefore, they
took the swords and the spears. They
did not want them 70 have a single metal
lie weapon. When the m stal Of the Israel
ties was gone their strength was gone
This IS the trout le with the Church Of God
to-day. II is surrendering its courage It
has not got enough metal. How seldom
IL is that you see a man taking his posi-.
tion in pew or in pulpit or in a religions
socity and holdin. that position against
all opposition, and all trial, and all perse.
cution, and sll criticism.
Yhe church OF Col to-day wants more
backbone, more defiance, more cousecrat-
ed bravery. more metal. How often Won
see man start out in some good enter
prise, and at the first blast Of opposition
he has collapsed and all his courage gone,
forgetting the fact that if a man be right,
all the opposition of the earth pounding
away at him can not do i'm any permn-
4 l. i L.
wrong that he can be damaged WHY,
God is going 10 vindicate His truth, and
He is going TO stand by you, my friends,
in every effort you make for Chrlst's
cause and the salvation of men.
Go forth in the service OF Christ, and do
youwhole duty. You have one sphere. l
have another sphere.
The Lord OF Hosts is W ith rs and the God
of Jacob Is our refu &c. Selah!
We want more of the determination Of
Jonathan. l do not suppose he was very
wonderful man. but he got on his knees
and clambered up the rock, and with the
help of his armor- bearer he hewed down
the PhilisiiDes: aud man of very ordi-
nary intellectual attairments on his knees
can storm any thing fer God, and for tire
truth. We want something of the deter
miBation of the general whe went into The
war, and as lie entered his f. 81 battle bis
knees knocked together, his physical c0ur.
age not quite up to his moral courage; and
he looked down at his knees and said:
"Ah, If you knew where was going 20
take you, you would shake worse than
that." ..
There is only one question for you 20
ask, and for me TO ask-what does God
want me to do? Whers is the fie /,
Where is the w )rk? Where is the anvil.
Where Is the pray Where is
the pulpit. Aud, finding out what God |
wants US TO do, go ahead and do it--all |
the energies of our body, mind and soul !
enlisted in the undertaking. o. brethren. |
we have but little time in which TO fl rhi
for God. You will be dead soon. Put in
the Christian cause every energy that Col
gives You.
What thy hand findeth to do. do II with all |
thy might; for tn ere is neither wisdom nor
device. in the grave, whittier we are al
Fastening.
Opportunities of usefulness gone for
ever; souls that might have been benefited
three months ago never again comma