The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-21

that apothecaries. can mix. Put your trust
only in the eternal God, and he will see you
through. Some of you do not have tempta-
ton every day. 1t is a periodic temptation
months, when it seems as if the powers OF
darkness kindle around about your tongue
the fires of the pit. 1t is we'll enough at such
a time, as some Of you do, to seek medical
counsel; but your first and most importunate
cry must be to God. If the fiends will
drag you to the slaughter, make them
do it on your knees. a. God! now
that tho paroxysm of thirst is coming
again upon that man, Lelp him. Fling back
into the pit OF hell the fiend hat assaults his
soul this moment. Oh! my heart aches to
see men 60 On in this fearful struggle with.
out Christ. There are here those whose hands
so tremble from di s~ipat;on that they can
hardly hold a book; and yet ] h We to tell
you that they will Yet preach the gos!.el, md
on communion days carry around the conse.
cratel bread, acceptable to everybody, be-
cause or their holy life and their consecrated
behavior. The Lord is going to save you.
Your home has got to be rebuilt. Your phys
ical health has got to be restored. Your
worldly business has got to be reconstructed
your discipleship: Other sheep l have which
are not of this fold"
While l have hope for all p~Ioligals, there
ore some people for whom l am not so hope
tul. l mean those who have been church
goers oil their lives, who have maintained out
ward morality, but who, Notwithstanding
twenty, thirty, forty years of Christian ad-
v&ntageS, have never yielded their hearts to
Christ. They are gospel hardened. A ser
mon has 10 more effect Upon them than the
shining Of the moon on the city pavement.
AS Christ says: 1.-The p%ublicans aud harlots
will go iuto tho kingdom of Goa before
them. They have resisted all tho irnportu-
mites OF divine mercy, and have gone, dur
fui earthquakes or religious feeling, and
they are farther away from God than
ever. After a while they will lie
down sick, and some day it will be told
siders with q hope that thrills through my
body and soul. Other sheep l havo, which are
not of this fold" You are not gospel hard.
ened. You have not heard many sermons
into q religious meeting to-day everything
was powell, and all the services are suggestive
of your early days How sweet the opening
hymn sounded i'll your ears, and how b!esseI
it IS in this place! Everything suggestive
is mot far off. You sign, and you have no
tced that there is always a sigh in tie wiad
before the rain falls. There are those here
who would give anything if they could lind
life! Oh, the bitter past! Oh. tho graves
over which 1 have stumbled! Whittier shall
l fy1 Alas for the future! Everything i
dark-sod dark, 80 ,dark! God help me! Cox
pity me !" Thank: the Lord for that last ut
terance. fou lave begun to pray, and wher
a man begiusto petition, that sets all HEAVIER
flying his way, and God steps in and beats
back the hounds of temptation into the ken
mel, and around about the poor wounded soul
puts the covert OF his rardoniug mercy
Hark! l hear something foil. What wa.
that! 1t lis the, bars of the fence around til,
sheepfcad. The shepherd lets them down
and the hunted sheep Of the mountain boune
in; some of them. their fleece torn with tn.
brambles; some of them, their feet lame witt
the dogs; but bounding in. Thank God
Other sheep l have which are not Of tht
fold"