The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-08-26

So there are those hers to-day who are
safe OF the shore Of Gods mercy, bat !
see there are some who are freezing in the
rigging Of sin, aud surrounded BY Perlous
storms. Pull away, nv lads! Let us
reach them. Alas. one is washed OF and
gone! There is one more to Be saved. Let
Us push out for that one Clutch the
rope, o DYING man! Clutch it as with
death grip. Steady now, on the slippery
places. Steadyl There! Saved Saved"
Just as thou Eht. Fer Christ has de Jared
tbat there are soms still in the breakers
who shall come ashore.
Other sheep i have which are not Of this
fold
Christ commands his ministers to be
fishermen. and when l 60 fishing do not
wsntto 20 among other churches, but into
the " ids world; q ot sitting along small
creek where eight or ten other persons are
sitting With hook and line; but. like the
fishermen Of Newfoundland, sailing OF
and dropping ne; away outside forty or
City miles from shore. Yes, there are
non-church -zOers here WAC will come in
Next Sabbath they viii again be in the
religious service. They are this moment
being swept into Christian associations.
Their voice will BE heard IN public prayer.
They VIII die In peace, their bel sur
rounded ~ Christian sympa.hies. ana
be carried OF: by devoat men - lie buried,
and On their grave Be cbis=led the words:
Precious in the sight OF the Lord i the
death OF His saints
And on resurrection day you viii get
up with the dear children Won have g..
ready buried. ami with your Christian
parents who have already won the palm
And all that grand and glorious history
begins nov.
Other sheep have, which are not 0: tails
foII.
l remark again: The Heavenly Shep.
herd i go.n. 10 fad a great many Of his
sheep among those who are positive re-
/ jecters Of Christianity. ! do not know
/ how YOU cane to re.ec: Christianity. II
/ NAV have been through hearing Theodore
/ Parker preach, or through reading Re-
mans Life Of Jesus OF through the MI
+ del tax Of some young man I your store.
/ Itmay have teen through the trickery Of
/ some prote-.ei Christian man wao Dis
! gustsd Won with religion. l 90 not ask
/ you how You became 50; but you frankly
tel ne tha: You DO reject l.. You do not
+ believe that Christ ) divine being, all
though you admit that he was very
good man. You DO not believe that the
be was inspired Of God, although YOU
think that there are some very fine
I things IN i. You believe that the Scrip
tural description Of Eien was only an al
legory. There are fifty things that be-
lieve that you DO no believe.
And vet yoa are an accommoi a;in g
man. Every loiy that knows you says
That Of va. III should ask YOU 70 do a
kindness for M, or If an one Else should
ask Of YOU k.Aiue=s. yo1 would DO il
! Now have a < Illness to ask Of you to-
dav. l. i. something that viii est YOU
nothing AMI viii give me great delight.
want yau. b experience, 70 try the
power Of Clr.st's reli- ion. II should come
to you. and yoa were very six, and dec
to-s had given YOU up and sail there was
no chance for you. and should take cut
H:,ie bottle aud say:
Here s a mellc.ne that Will cure you;
it has cured fifty people AMI twin cme
YOU"
You would say; Il have no confidence
in it."
Iwould say: won, you take it to
oIiige me-"
well" YOU would say. "it it. any ac-
commodation 70 you I'll take ~
Ny friend. VIII You be ju-t az acc9mmo-
dating N matters Of religion:
There are some # Won Who have founl
out that this world can not satisfy Your
I 81 yx-rT n IN
after the service was over:
! IL have tried this world and found il an
| insufficient portion. Tel NE Of something
| better"
You have come to that. You are sick
| for the need Of Divine meiicamant. Now
come and tell you OF a physician who
will cure you, who has cured hundreds
and hundreds who were SICK as you are.
on, " you say, 81 have no confidence in
him"
But will YOU not try him: Accommodate
ne in this matter; obl.ge me in this mat
ter: Just Try him. am very certain he
will cure you. You reply: Il have n
special confidence in him; but if you ask
M as matterof accumulation, introduce
him" So in.roiu.e h.m-Christ, the
ply stefan who has cured more blind eyes,
and healed more ghastly wounds, and
bound up more broken hearts, than all the
doctors since the time Of -Esculapius.
That Divine physician IS here. Are yoa
not ready TO try him! WIN you not as a
pure matter Of experiment state your case
before him now: Hold nothing back from
him. If you can not pray, if you do not
know how to pray any other way, say:
"Oh, Lord Jesus Christ, this is a strange
thing for me 10 do, know nothing about
! the formulas of religion. These Christian
people have been talking so long about
what thou canst do for me, am ready to
| do whatever thou commandest me TO do.
am ready to take whatever thou command
est me TO take. If there be any power in
religion, as these people say. let me have
the advantage of it,"
| Willyou try that experiment? l do not
at this point Of my discourse say that
| there is anything in religion: but l simply
say try it-try il. Do not take my coun-
sci, or the counsel of any clergyman, if
vou despise clergymen. Perhaps we may
be talking profession ally: perhaps we may
| be hypocritical in our Utterauces; perhaps
our advice is not worth taking. Then
take the counsel Of some very respectable
| laymen-as John Milton, the poet; as
William Wilberforce, the statesma n; as
Isaac Newton, the astronomer; as Robert
| Boyle, the philosopher; as Locke, the
| mataphysician. They never preached or
pretended to preach; and yet putting
| down-one his telescope, and another his
Parliamentary scroll, and another his
| electricians wire-they all declare the