The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-08

Low, Chriet's pardo is tn. strong ct
stimulus, ChrisLs comfort is the might
lest anodyne, Christ's salvation is the
grandest restorative. 1t makes a man
mightier than his physical distress.
cart thou weary? Art thou languids
Art thou sore distressed?
Come to me, saith one and coming,
be at rest 1 .tc b5
If ask Him to receive me- will He say
me nay:
Not till earth, and not till heaven pass
away.
Finding, following, keeping. struggling.
is He sure to bless? -t
Saints, apostles, prophets. martyrs, an
swer-' Yes"
Nero tarei and put pitch upon the
Christians of his day, and then set them
on fire, that they might iliumine the night
round about the palace; but while they
We're burning and the crowd beneath
were ieering, louder than all the noise
went up the song of praise and triumph
from the dying martyrs. John Brad
ford came out in the presence of the
instrument of torture that was to put
! him to death, and said: II am
! Christian now. I have never been be-
fore" And so, again and again. the Lion
of Jul ahs tribe has torn to pieces the
wild beasts OF martyrdom.
This grace is also a restorative for the
you say. mean you who used to fre-
quent the house Of God, but seldom go
there now; you who once used to pray
but never pray now; you who once sat
at the holy communion, but take not the
Lords cup now; mean you who once
rejoiced in Christian society, but now sit
amid scoffers. Backslider! Oh. what
suggestive word! Backslider! From
what have you slid back? You have
slid back from your fathers faith, from
your early good habits. You have been
sliding bick from Christ, from the cross
sliding back from heaven. When
man begins to slide he knows not
where he will go. You have been sliding
back toward darkness. You have been
sliding back toward an unblessed grave,
toward precipice, the first ten million
miles of which downward are only
small part of the eternal plunge. You
were, perhaps, professors in the country
you have made shipwreck in the town.
1t may be that the club blasted you (; it may
be that fashionable society destroyedyou;
itmay be the kind of wife whom you mar
RED You have no more hope for heaven
now than if you had lived in Central Asia
and never heard of Christ and the judg-
ment. Oh, where is that Bible you
used to read? Where is that room where
you used to pray? What have you done
with that Jesus whose voice you once
heard? Oh, murdered hours! Oh,
tunities Wake up now and shrek in
that mans ear until-he shall rouse him
self from the horrible somnambulism,
walking as he does, fast asleep, within
an inch of hell. Oh, that he might cry
out now: Golden Sabbaths, come back
Communion season, come back! WOO
ings of the Holy Ghost, come back y But
they will not come. Gone! gone! gone
Sorrow will come, but not they. Oh,
that you might save the few remaining
, wears of your life, and consecrate them
; to Christ! I have seen sad sights.
, have heard sad sounds; but tell you
, ! the ghastliest thing outside the gates o.
the damned is a backsliders death-bed
, Do you not feel like having applied tx
: your soul this divine restorative! Dt
, YOU not feel like crying out with David
.sRestol.. INTO me the ;a.s n Y al
walton :. For greet in. great pardon.
For deep wou,te.s onlrii, tent surgery.
For de.,: -:tr divine .1.-rist For blind
eyes a heav ny ocaiist. For The doad
in sin. Ii" upleaval OF a srcl, !e-urlec-
tioI..
But in the heavenly world we shall feel
the chief restorative power OF religion
This is a planet of weeping we are living
on. We enter upon life with a cry anc
leave it with a long sigh. Ii | coula
gather up the griefs of this audience ane
put them in one sentence and then ute
it, it would make everything betweet
here and the throne of God shudder ant
!, howl. The earth is gashed deep Will
graves. As at the close OF the war
sometimes we saw a regiment Oh on.
hundred and fifty men, the fragments o
the Thousand men that went out so, as
stand before YOU, I cannot but realiz
!, the fact that YOU are the fragments rep
resenting hundreds of regiments Of Joy
/. full associations that have been broker
5 up forever. Oh, this is a world OF sol
E row. But, blessed be God! there vii
be no sorrow in heaven. The undertake
5 will have to have some other busines
a there In the summer time our cite
t have bills of mortality which are friSh
e ! ful-sometimes in New York q thou-an
8 deaths in week; sometimes 1t has bee
(. two thousand in London; but In ths
9 great heavenly city there will be not
g single case Of sickness or death not or
n black dress of mourning, but plenty
: white robes of joy; Misunderstanding OF we
Is come, but none Of separation. Why.
It one trouble should attempt to emit
/, heaven, the shining police OF the CT
2 would put it under everlasting .rres
n If all the sorrows of life, mailed al
d sworded under Apollyon, should attem
to force that gate. one company fro
r. the tower would strike them back how
re ing to the pit. Room in heaven Tor
,e the rapt,ires that ever knocked at q
so gate, but no room for the smallest a
10 nOyance, tnOuSn SHSnt as d ouhiA
It insect Doxology but no dirge. Ba
y quoting, but no !" funeral baked meats
a No darkness at all; no grief at a
no no sickness at all; no death at all.
IS. soul waking up in that place will sa
he tCan it be that I am here? VIII 1
he head never ache again2 Shall l n ey
ed stumble over grave again? Will
tn never say goodbye to loved ones agai
-er Can it be possible that the stream
Ill past, that the bank is gained, that I
ur glory is begun? Show me Jesus ina
,SS may kiss his feet. When the CLOCK
Of Christian suffering has run down. it
IN never be wound up again. Amid
of vineyards of the heavenly En-ged1, Il
ire will be restoration without any relap
are That will be day without any succeed
md night That will be "Ihe Saints EV