Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-02-13

] lhe spirit may pose iuf .tOldcn wings
And leave iae IN desn8ir.'
Slime Will soon be oar sith ma. A few
more days or weeks 10 me- OF much AURA.
ton, AMI don'5 care wnal Jsople say Of me
Or THINK OF me Ia this world. Let US live
80 that when we come 10 8 20 thay may bury
us aud say, '1is body lies hure, but his spirit
has gol9 h0m3 % Col
"OH, why will you lie in your sins, There
L. not page in this Til 70 but is covered
With the prom ses OF God Thank God for
IBIS inspired book AMI these calls, coming to
me VITA thu force OF eternity, calling you
md from evil ways to ways of righteous
ness TO God
Il am SO glad that God did not send men
from some sinless world to preach 10 US;
nm 50 glad when hear a minister talk. lie
Is man subject 10 ike plssiona rs | am,
cnd saved by the same precious blood, and
he invites mo to come unuer its dripping
fountains, blessed be God.
H calls u5 by His ministry. ] lived IN
SIN for twenty four years, tut in those
twenty -four years | never heard single
sermon that did not have truth enough IN il
TO save my poorsoul But, brother. no mat
ter .Whst, yeur criticism my he upon your
orobEer 20 matter how much better you
may think you could preach than he, mark
he expression and living words Of his mouth
are the woris OF God to man, AMI no matter
a0W weak the servant AMI how feeble the
ins rument let the truth DO omnpotent in
bringing you to God. tits the word OF God by
a living ministry. 1t is God calling THROUGH
my brother to ma. And may we stand al
ways and talk the vcrd OF God as a message
OF lie and light TO immortal souls.
II have often thoIgh5 how tho husband
ard VIE, just marie starting in life, and
uoW they 90 hand aud hand LOOKING at dlifer
en- locliJes, a1d lCoaing at different lots
aud situations 10 build their home. AT las5
obey cen0er aud agra5 upon a lot-a beluti-
iul lot The wife says: we will have tho
,rond avenue ran ~ Uhis way, ani we win
.u.lI our barn here, and we wlll put our
servants house here, and VIC will build the
mansion up mere, AMI we will bave the
1oHer 6 .rden here, and she picks out the
places for different things.
The husband tuys tpe beautiful place; IL
Just suits them. Bat on the ground stands
IA cd licIety mansion, almost ready tC
,u.nbla down-its weather boarding pretty
near rotten, s sbingl-s rotten and falling
down, the under t.Ulter giving away. Or
ne next Monday Mofn.ng here comes thc
orlcK masca, AM tie carpenters worGmen,
nd tley walk up to thu front door and tell
one t%n'lJ Occupying the little homo, You
must E.cYe cut, move out nos; we are 60
ing 20 tear this away and we are gcing t.
Guild beautiful MANSION AMI 1 saw the
eautitul mansion going higher and higher,
each day, until [ saw the happy welded
couple move in their elegant Lone.
"Brc.h7r, this Old world is giving away.
The weather boarding is coming off; the
shingles are rotC3n tine underpinning Is
coming down, end God says to us, Move
out
I'm my own town an old friend, hoy.
hood friend Of mine, dear and close friend
Le was. | walked down to his house one
/ mo | bol bocr urac cin
Oh, how dissipated be was, and how near he
come to daath's door. walked down to his
louse and walked In; and bis precious good
wife was sitting in the room with the little
apgel darling IN her arms. | looked at the
child, and then said to Der, my old school
late, 700, she was, said /: Virginia. | be-
ieve God is going to take this sweet one,
Oo' The tears JUS ran down out of her
yes and fell on the face of the sick babe
Oh, she sad, how hard it is to give them
Up. This is the fifth one God has taken
rom US Well said l, Virginia, did il
.ver occur 10 you that God is dong HIS best
% save your husbandg She looked at me,
nj ctllng me tamiiiarly by my name,
o. she SAID, If God can just save my
Joor husband by taking THESE sweet ones,
would be wiling TO give up all that GoI
should give me-
Il went up town, hunted her husband up,
laid my hanl on his shoulder, aud said L:
Ny Gear old friend | am jusJ from you;
Iouse | sat there by your wife and saw
Jour child suffar, aud ! said: Virginia,
you reckon God is dong this to save your
usoandF and poor Virginia, with her tears
unning out OF her eyes, sue said: oh il
sod can save my husband by taking these, !
you'd give up all that God should give &c
me- said |; John, old fellow, the devil
Las mighty near bankrupted you for all
works.; in the name of your precious wife
| 17,I my raj vYDr cgi ga
learc to Godr Poor fellow, he broke down,
nd to-day is q steward in the Methodist
cuurch and one of the best men in our town.
Thank God, He will never suffer one of us
O go to he'll without He has done His best to
save us.
God may take your child, mother; ]
son'V know God may take your wife,
aother; don'G know. | have gone home
one time aud felt comfoI table at home, and
said, i believe | Will stay here two solid
lonths and rest; and by and by some day
here comes a great many letters and tele-
grams, ana there comes letter that looks
ike God was N that, ami said, II don't be.
Aeve | can go; | em going to rest long
.lme And then l thought TO myself, LOOK
lere, you go TO laying around home and
navIng big time, and the first taing you
Anow GOO will take one of your sweet
; .hlldreu away from you, or God may take
my wife away from me- II God wants you
o 20 bO1 Will TAKE your family TO heaven
and start you out on your journey. Oh
Lord, help me TO do just right, and to dc
Just what Thou wilt have ms do. Father,
1elp me to DO right and then | know that
whatever God does toward me is right
"O1, when the mother calls the little child
running from her, and the little child looks
LACK and runs on and on, and the mother
calls again, aud tue child looIs round and
sees he mothers loving hand exten led, an1
2 tae little one cannot resist and runs bach
into the mo hers arms. Fa,her, ! may re
slst Thy voice, but | cannot resist Thy low
/ ing hand extended to save me-
{ al have stretched out my hands to save
| you; you have walked off in DISCUS. Now,
whsn you stretch your hand 70 me vii
walk off in soothing and Gerision.' | oon'
] know what it MEANS But the finest illustrs
3 uion of this thought | have ever seen &C
. Cured in the city in which | was bern
S One Of our presiding elders related the Incl
/ dent as true incident as happening in thf
= town where he ha1 preached. He said, il
/ that town, and out in the suburbs, abou
two miles from that town, there was
| wealthy, noble gentleman living there, an.
he was the father Of an only SOP; ana b.
4 sent That boy to college and in his collegt
r course he learned to diSspate. When hi
4 boy returned he was further advanced in
dissipatei drunken life than be was in liter
S allure; and the father, wnen the boy cam
2 home. Law shed all the kininess that a grea
and loving heart and money and mean
. could lavish upon his boy.
3 "Ihere was not a kindness that father