The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-08-19

s~.t-t WORD OF His grace.
IL Again remark, that the Heav-
emily Shepherd is Going to find great
many sheep among those who have been
flung of il habit. 1t makes me mad to
see Christian people give up a prodigal
as lost. There are those who talk as
Though the grace of God were a chain of
forty or fifty links and after they had
run out there was nothing TO touch
very bad case. If they were hunting
and got off the track Of the deer. they
would look longer among the banks and
the bushes for the lost game than they
nave been looking for that lost soul
PEOPLE tell US that if man has deIirium
tiemenS twice, that he cannot tie re-
claimed; that after woman has fallen
from her integrity she cannot be re-
stored. The Bible has distinctly in
tlmated that the Lord Almighty is
ready to pardon tour hundred and ninety
Times; that is seventy times seven There
are men before the throne of God who
have wallowed in every kind OF sin; but,
save by the grace of Jesus and washed
In His bloe d. they stand there radiant
now. There are those who plunged in
the very lowest hell of abomination, who
1or the tenth time have been lifted up.
and finally, by the grace of Co., they
stand in Heaven gloriously rescued by
the grace promised to the chief OF sin
ners. I want to tell you that God loves
" CahO iiolu vi d very Ddu case. Nlen
the Church casts you off, and whea the
club-room casts you off, and when So
c1ety casts you off, and when business
associates cast you off, and when father
casts you Off, aud when mother casts YOU
Off, and everybody casts you off, your first
cryfor help will send The FL ernal God clean
down into the ditch of your sufferinps
and shame. The Good Templars can
not save you, although they are grand
institution. The Sons OF Temperance
cannot save you, although they are
mighty for good. Signing the Temper
ance pledge cannot save you, although
l believein it. Nothing but the grace of
the Eternal God can save you. and that
Will II you will throw yourself on it. A
man said to me: "Unless God helps me
l cannot be delivered. l have tried
everything, sir; but LOW l have got into
the habit OF prayer, and when come to
adrinking saloon I pray that God will
take me safely past, and pray until l
am past. He does help me-. For every
man given to strong drink there are
scores of traps set, aud no one but the
everywhere present God can see t..al
man through. O" they talk about the
ca;acolnpo Oh Maple, and the catacombS
OF Rome, AID The ca;acomb, of Egypt
the burial places under the city where
the dust of great multitude lie; but 1
tell you New York has its catacombs.
Or cans its catacombs, and Boston its
catacombs, and Philadelphia it's cata-
combs, and every town and city neigh
berhood its catacombs. Tner are The
undergrou restaurants, full of dead
mems bones and all uncleanness. Young
man, GU know it. God help you,
There is no need OF gong into the
art gallery to see in sklllful sculpture
tina, wonuerful representation o. man
AID his sons wound around with SER
penis. ere are families represented
In ihls au l. nee that are wra y q in the
mar: yrdun of fang and scale IL q venom
ii l.rEE LAGOON of ehastliness and
MOI ror. WHAT are YOU TO do: Do not
put your trust in bromide of otas-ium,
or il JaIliaca ginger, or in anything els.
that apoi hecaries Can mix. Put your
trust only II ti.e Eternal God, and He
W ii see YOU through. Some o: you do
Lave temptation every day. 1t is
periodic temptation that comes every six
weeks, T every three mo this, when 1t
seems us II the powers of darkness kin
die around about your tAngu-. the fires
of the pit 1t S we'll enough at such
time. as some of you do to seek medical
counsel; but your first and most impor-
tunate cry must be to God. If the fiendS
will drag you to the slaughter, make
them do it on your knees. Oh, God now
that paroxysm of thirst is coming again
upon that MI n, help him. Fling back
into the pit of hell the fend that assaults
his soul this moment. Oh my heart
aches to see men go on in this fearful
struggle without Christ. There are here
those whose hands so tremble from dis
sipation that they can hardly hold
book; and yet have to tell you
that they will yet preach the Gospel. and
on communion days carry around the
consecrated bread. acceptable to every
body, because of their holy life and
their consecrated behavior. The Lord
got to be rebuilt. Your physical health
has got to be restored. Your worldly
business has got to be reconstructed.
The church of God is going to rejoice
over your discipleship. "Other sheep I
have. which are not of this fold"
While I have hope for all prodigals
there are some people for whom I am
not so hopeful. 1 mean those who have
been church-goers all their life. who
have maintained outward morality. but
who, Notwithstanding twenty, thirty,
forty years Of Christian advantages,
have never yielded their heart to Christ.
They are Gospel hardened. A sermon
has 10 more effect upon them than the
shining of the moon on the city pave
ment. AS Christ says: (" The publicans
and har,ots will go into the kingdom of
God before them" They have resisted
all the imy ortunit;es Of Divine mercy,
and Lave gone, during these thirty years.
through most powerful earthquakes Of
religious feeling. and they are further
away fIon God than ever. After awhile
they will lie down sick. and some day it
will be told they are dead. No hope!
But turn to outsiders with q hope that
thrills through my body and soul.
Other sheep have. which are not of
this fold" You are lot Gospel hardened.
You have not heard many sermons dur
ing the last few years. AS you came in
to Il religious meeting to-day everything
WAS novel. and all the services are sug-
gestive of your early lays. How sweet
the opening hymn. sounded in your ears,
and how blessed il is III this nlaca I