The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-15

! yOu tuIu iliA lOUbo no Will udFn hii
hell mortraeed before shutdown. Don't
you do it." The devil himself was afraid
of the whole thing. Oh. / expect
some of You think. "Well. Mr.. Jones. you ought
| to have more respect for the devil and the bad
world than to say such things a0ont the bad
world Why, nave got no respect for the
devil; not bit in this world; not particle And
/ have got respect for his dominions at all;
not bit / never have learned why should
reverence the devil, nor anything concerning
him.
Purity. want to say to you. my brethren,
that man is not saved in this world until he
reaches this point / will illustrate it to you.
Here is 3 mother. sitting in her room, quietly
and stands around his mothers knee, and
he sees her little pen-knife beautiful
little pearl handled pehkuife, lying open before
his eyes; and he takes the little penknife up
Mother does not see him come in or. 60 In
about an hour mother calls the nurse and says
where is Wlllie9" And nurse commences hunt
ing for Willie. Mother begins TO look about for
him. Nurse walks out into the flower yard and
as she is walking out behind the rose bushes, she
sees little Willie lying PROSTATE. She goes up
close to him and she sees the blood all scattered
around his head and face; and she sees
the blood on that little penknife, on the
open blade. AS he fell the open blade jabbed
into his jugular vein and there he is gasping
his last in his own blood The nurse picks him
, up carefully in her arms runs into the house.
ard mother takes him up In her arms and says
'Oh, precious Willie, speak one time to mann
ma But the poor little, bloody angel is eone
the spirit of the little one is gone. Mother takes
the little one and dresses 1t for its cofn and the
next day she bures it out of the sight of man
and comes back to her desolate home and in a
few minutes the nurse walked in and said
Madam, here is the little knife Willie had
Yesterday" Mother looked at its blade that was
covered with the blood of her precious child.
and she shrank back in horror and said, 'sOh,
take that knife out of my presence; / never
want to look at it again; it has the blood of my
precious little child upon It," And whenever
Christians in this world can reach the point in
their purity OF life where they that every sin
in tie moral universe is covered with the pre-
cious blood of the Son of God, and turn in hor
ror and say, AWAY with It, my soul loathes 1t;
it has got the blood of the precious Savior upon
it, | will have nothing to do with it."
There is safe ground for the Christian this
side of total adherence of sins You may
take the Presbyterian the Methodist, the Bap-
tist the Christian, the Catholic, and all the
books. and they all agree on these three PROPOSE
tons, brethren. that salvation means deliver
ance from the guilt of sin. and from the domin-
ion of sin, and from the love of sin. Is not that
so? Does not every book define it that way?
Salvation means deliverance from the guilt. and
the dominion, and the love of sin: and no man is
safe saved IN the sbs shrsso Sn va ne
That is it. The purity of the
Christian character. I will tell you how we
work it. You cannot 60 into sin without cost
and fearful risk. Ii is dangerous brother
Here illustrate again. A man is sitting on the
top of large fve-story building; he is sitting on
the comb of the roof, and see him whiting
with a pen-knfe; and all at once the pen knife
slips out of his hand and slides right down to the
edge of the building. He sits there and looks
knife But Something says ns 10 s sha s
only worth half dollar; that is
all it cost Well, he thinks II
know that it is not worth much. but would like
to have it; believe will go down to try to get
Gus, indeed; and it is rsking too much for too
little. All. but he says, Other people have
gone that close to edge of buildings aud did not
fall off; will try it," and he walks and slips
right down. he eases himself until he gets to the
edge Of the building, grasps the knife, and his
hold slips and he is crushed into jelly on the walk
below. But he got the knife. He got the knife.
Many time girl, or boy, or man, or woman
has been introduced into some place where God
disapproved. They have said, ''Pl risk it," and
gone 10, and are lost forever. Dancing, playing
cards, took drink, and are in hell forever
Lastly there is an imperviousness of that
character to sin who is born of God. If man
had told me this morning that Brother McCon-
nell came. last night to his room. aud stole his
watch and run away with it. could not believe
it. would say; Brother Mcconnell Cannot steal
your watch: it is against his purpose against
his way of life; know ne did not do it. If see
train the Vandalia line running to st. Louis
and a man tells she Is going to Indianapolis,
i say she can't 60 to indianapolis. She's going
full tilt the other way. That man can't go wrong.
WhyY Because he is going right. He cannot
sin because he is born of God. There is the
idea Of preeccupaton. AS to playing cards, do
you know the chief use of cardsl They used
in lunatic asyiums to amuse people You find
them in all the idiotic wards.
have never seen an intellectual person dance.
It's a fact. If had daughter without much
-
train her feet. and would marry her off to one
of these little ballroom bucks, and buy them a
little plantation about ten miles from town. /
would then take my wife go to see them about
twice year. But I wouldn't want my little
idiots to come and see me- They might happen
to drop in while had company.
There is Job standing there. Here is the
devil walking by God. The devil looked at Job
the same devil that deceived Adam-and said:
s'Let me take his property away from him and
thing away from him. but keep your hands off
him." When a message came to Job that his
sheep, and cattle, and camels were destroyed, and
one piece Of property and another, and at last
a message that his children were dead, dear old
job said, when the last prop was knocked from
him. sThe Lord giveth and the Lord taketh
away, blessed be the name of the Lord" 1
imagine the devil said. "Why Adam fell at the
first temptation. bat. here Job stands. secure.
when tho last earthly prop is taken from
Kim" Then the devil said to the Lord, ''If
you will let me af1ct his body and
his health he will curse you to your face" The
Lord said, Il can bank on Job take every
thing he has on earth, except the breath of his
nostrils'
The devil went to work on job, nd the next
thing VIC read that became Of old Jso, he WAS af-
licted from head to foot. He lay in the
ash-heap. and scraped himself with a
potsherd. His wife walked up and said,
1,Job your breath is stencil in my
nostrils and your body mass of putrefacton.
Curse God and die" Job looked up and said:
Though the Lord say me, yet will trust in
Him" And the devil stood and gazed, and said:
"Wonder of wonders! There he is, with every
earthly prop swept away, yet he says glory to
God, and is more loyal to Him than he was
in his prosperity" The devil got Jobs
friends and they turned loose on his character,
the immortal part of him, and at last job stands
up in the sublimity of his strength and says, II