Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-02-27

nut LUG AdibJu Ills uDu pay YOU
good Presbyterians, Brother Hopkins. In
advance. He don't pay you because He
thinks you may have the idea you have ii
dead sure, and you might try TO pay OF on
him. He tells the old fashioned Methodist
10 keep moving because they think they'll
have 20 wor6 bard To get to heaven and
they're afraid they will lose 1t and 80 they
Keep on working and working. Ii did
have dead sure thing on IL, brethren, like
many of you, don't believe I'd work an.
other lick OF work as hard as do will
work as If was hired by the day, and then
III cling TO the cross as il couldn't work
a lick.
st Paul was the grandest man God ever
made, but the only trouble was be could not
see the truth at first of the divinity of God
But God took down his biggest gun and
brought him down, but He never had to use
1t on any other man II Col was TO turn
that gun looss on some Of you He wouldn't
leave a grease spot. Snow bird, sitting on
fence waiting for cannon ball TO hit himi
Haven't you any sensel IF you do this, and
that and the other thing Some of you
have sense, and that Is good dsll to start
with and with level head an1 a determi-
nation to do what God tells yon to do, that
opens the gate Of heaven, aud In tnere you
will pass at last IL you continue on that
line
whats the uso in forswearing bathrooms
and then wanting To go back to them.
What's the use in giving up car1s and still
you're nearly dead TO play cards againl
Delievein Christian liberty, in u fellow
getting religion anu dong right and
don't consider fellow is safe until be does
do as he pleases. Whenever you get to
rubbing up again ball-rc oms ami car -rooms
AMI theaters, end sac1, you make mis-
taEe-you haven'6 given mp anything.
loved 10 dance an1 do bundled tlings that
are wrong, hut, az Go1 is my ia ige, | have
had as much desire 10 go to nell as to ball
room since | goG relig. on
II have had as m1ch desire to go to he'll
as to go into saloon, an a salo IN is moth
ing tut the an @ room to h H. You've only
got to go through one more door AMI you're
there! | believe Ia a religion that sets u at
liberty AM makes us do ths thingi we love
to do, and makes us love the things we
ought to do. You can't turn away heartily
10 haven, and yet long for the IL shpogs CT
Egypt I've got into Canaan nov, where
Inc grapes and the pomegranat-s ard tao
figs clastsr thick above my heal, and [ CAL
eat and rejoice. / have had enough OF tue
leexs ami onions 1t is all choice. ] take
Gods love To nv heart and pl5 it on aud
FOLLOW His directions
III beard of gambler in Louisville who
gave himself to God, aud no joined the
church; and then he went Gu the streets
QeAu uhJ anu WIeu nS illeU MS lOFIu 81 COM
panions, he lid to them, Cool oys poys;
will never do THESE things again; AMI unless
you come into the church and make stand
wien me will cut your acquaintance to-day,
and cut it forever That Is what | call
ia Eing u stand. And if you want to be re-
lgious take n stani! Taxe a stand May
the good LORI give these poor sinners grip,
grip, grip. That is what we want; th4 nerve
ID come up AMI gsserG our manhood, and
ciHsS fhlg N oral Isgna
And when Gen. HANCOCK droppel over
dead without a word, he passed int eternity
without a momenJ's notice AMI on, with
thes9 tn!ngs happening all around us, hao nit
we better stop? How many more sermons
will we hear! How many more gracious
opportunities will we let pAsss Ga, brother,
whatever you do, do 1t in hurry You
can't 10 in TOO biz a hurry in this great
gu esticn or preparing for eternity. Ana
DuanA God, when man prepares to die,
then he IS prepared to live; he is prepared
Tor every good WORK aud word. L. is an
Immediate turning away from sin that is
necessary.
IAN immediate turning awayi The curse
of this worl1 is: We are going to be re-
ligious after awhile Alter awhiie
nave been preaching about thirteen years;
but listen, brother, as young preacher as
am / have preached co thousands of people
who are this moment in the c,maGery. Oh,
sir, when will you be thare2 When will you
be theres w will you be there2 Poor
old gray-headel sinner, have watched you
night after night What do you want tc
puO it off fora With every hair silvered Tor
the grave, ami totJering in your steps, will
you, win YOU put this great question oI
any longer? Young man, you may be il
your grave first And whatever We do il
ought to be done quickly Oh, let us begin
Tonight Let US begin to-nigh,!
"When Gen. Lee under the apple tree al
| Appomattox, handed his sword 10 Gen.
Grant, he said with his whole heart, and
said il for bis whole army: 'We will never
take up arms against the grand old flag
agalnp Not in two months, or five years,
| but n1ver--nev er-neyer!
"Oh, God, Thou art better to us than we
know. Ii a man had Loid me when was
| bowiug down before God, In less than fiji
teen years from to-day you will be stan ling
In Music Hall, with seven thousand people
around you, preaching this gospel to lost SIN
nors,' l could not have believed it. God
| Tuou art good 10 a poor sinner. And you
will be astonisned at what GID will do for
| you If you will just give up your meanBess.
| JUST in proper, ion as you give God room to
WORK in your soul, He will work for you
and help you God will take all the space
YOU give Him; and He will work that space
to the best advantage, just in proportion as
/ =
so CRAFTY thai when you see one crop you
will Just turn over to Him the whole plan
| tation. Let US turn over everything tc
! God tonight and forever Tnat is what we
WanJ.
"Weil. you say, You argue these things
so that | cannoJ understand them You
have understood them. Whatever else yor
may say against ma at the judgment, you
cannot say, 'lheard you preach two or three
weeks in Music Hall, but / could not under
sand you; did not get thu idea you were
driving at On, brother i have not only
said it, but have said it so that every chic
has Understood me. Won't you hear met
"Why, sir, got letter from man tht
other day. and sal he: Some of the Chris
tian people of Cincinnati are CRYING yol
| down because You say hell TOO often Loof
here, you ought to like to hear that subject
discussed. II | was going to emigrate TO
country | want to know all about it befori
| go there don't intend to go there, Cox
being my helper, and l don't read much OF
thst subject; but if | was some of you
would get every thing on that subject, and
would understand 1t the very best | could
and then go there.
"Hear me- Every preacher in Americt
and in Europe that has ever had any power
with God AMI with the Master has believe;
4 in real genuine, scriptural, burning brim
stone he'll, every one of them. Now, we vii
! run back to Luther. AMI Wesley, and Whit
field, and Melanchthon, aud Jonathan Ed
wards, and Spurgeon, and Charles q
Flnney, and we viii take Dwight l.. Moody
we will take the men of this century tina
had power with God, and every one of then
believed the word of God was true, and tina
] al H,r.