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

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see there are some who are freezing in
1 the rigging Of sin. and su:roun ed by
| perilous storms. Pull away, my lads !!
Let us reach them. Alas, one is washed
off and gone! There is on more to be
saved. Let us pus out for that one
Clutch the rope. oh, dying man! Clutch
1t as with death-grip. Steady now on the
slippery places. Steady! There Saved
Saved" just As thought. For Christ
has declared that there are some still! in
the breakers who shall come ashore.
Other sheep I have, which are not of
this fold"
| Christ commands His ministers to be
fishermen. and when I go fishing I do
not want to go among other churches,
| but into the wide world; not sitting
along small creek where eight or ten
! other person are sit ing with hook and
| line, but, like the fishermen of Newfound-
| land, sailing off and dropping net away
outside forty or fifty miles from shore
| Yes, there are non-church-goers here
| who will come in. Next Sabbath they
will again be in the religious service.
They are this moment being swept into
Chris ian associations. Their voice Will
be heard in public prayer. They will die
| in peacr, tn IL bed surrounded by Oh is
tan sympathies, and be carried out By
I devout men to he buried, and on their
| grave be chiseled the words '' Precious
in the sight of the Lord is the death of
| his saints" And on Resurrection Day
| you will get up with the dear children
you have already iuried. and with your
| Christian parents who have already won
| the palm. Aud ali that grand and glori-
| Gus history begins now. "Other sheep
1 have, which are not of this fold"
| II. L remark again: The heavenly
| shepherd is going to find great many
| OF his she-'p among those wiz are posi-
| tive reject"r- of Christianity. | do not
| "a ms n ,riS
| 1ty. 1t may have eeen through hearii!.
| Theodore Itrher preach, or through
| reading Renhn's Life of Jesus" or
| through the nfid-l talk of some young
man in your store. 1t may have been
| through tbs. trio cry of some prof. ssed
| Christian man Who Disguised you with
| religion. o moi ask you how you be-
! came so; but you frankly tell me t.. at
| you do / e ect it. You do not believe
| that Christ is Divine being, although
you admit that He was very good man.
| You do not believe that the Bible was in
| spired of God, although you think that
| there are some very fine things in it.
| You believe that the Scriptural descrip-
| ton OF Eden was only an aIIegory
There are fifty things that believe that
you do no; believe.
And yet you are an accommodating
| man. Everybody that knows yoI says
| that of you. If should ask you to do
kindness for me, or il any one else
should SIX OF you Kindness. you would
do it. Nov l We ii k SIS 20 a K OF
to-day. II is som ethin. that will
cost you nothing and VIII g.v- me gr at
cell 1 want you by experim ent to try
the power of Christ's religion. II T
should came to you. and you were very
| sick, and doctors had given you up and
said there Was no chance Tor you, and I
should take GA; a little bo,;le and : ay
Here is !, medicine, that will cure you;
it has cured fifty people, anu it will cure
YOU" you would say: Il have no c, Mi
lake it to oblige me?" We'll" you
"ouli sly, - if it's any accomn odat ton
to Y, u IL take l." My irieLd will YOU
lie jus; liz ave, .nmodatins II. ma,t.is of
le!IG ION: .1- Ess ksssss sss=-
There are some of you who hive found
out that h S world canno sati-iy your
soul. You are sick for the nee OF Di-
vine medcament. Now l come and tell
you Of n Physician who Will cure you,
| who has cured hundreds and hundreds
who were as sick "a you are. "Oh,"
you say, a. hav-- no confidence in Him %
But will you not try Him? Accommo-
date me in this matter; oblige me- in
! this matter; just try Him. 1 am very
certain He will cure you. You reply:
81 have no pecial confidence in Hin;
but II you ask me as a matter of accom-
| mediation. introduce Him." So I intro
duce Him-Christ. the PLY lean who
has cured more blind eye-. AMI healed
more CHASTITY wounds, and bound up
more broken hearts, than all the doctors
since the time of Esculapius.
That Divine Physician is here. Are
you not ready to try Him? Will you not
as a pure matter OF experiment stale
your case before Him MOVIE Hold roth
Ing back from Him. II you cannot pray,
II you do not know how to prav any
other way, say: "Oh, Lord Jesus Christ,
this is a strange thing for me TO do! I
know nothing about the formulas of re-
ligion. These Chri tian le pie lave
been talking SO long about what Thou
| canst do for me, am ready to do what
ever Thou commanded me to do. I am
ready to take whatever Thou command
est me to take. II there lie any power
in religion: as these people say, let me
have the advantage of f."
Will you try that experiment? I do
not at this point of my discourse say
| that there Is anything In religion; but I
simply say. try iJ-try it. Do not take
my counsel, OF the counsel OF any clergy
man. if you despse clergymen. Perhaps
| we may be talking professionally per-
haps we may be prrjudic-d in The mat
ter; perhaps We may be hypocrifical in
our utterances; perhaps our advice is
not worth taking. Then take the coun-
| sci OF some We y respectable laNmeii-Rs
John Milton, the poet; as William Will
berIorce. The statesman; as Isaac \. W.
| ton, the astronomer; as Robert Boyle,
the philosopher: as Locke. the metz
| phys clan. They nevsr preached or pre-
Tended to preach yel + tting down,
| one his telescope, and another his pariia-
| mentary scroll, and another his eiectri-
| clans wire, they all decliire the adapted
ness OF c. riet's I, ligion To the Wants and
| troubles of The world. II you viii not
| take The recommendation Of mimic, ers OF
| the t,osi.ei, then lake the recommended
ton Of highly respectable laymen. Oh.
mel skeptic;il and struck through with
| unrest would you not lik to h We some
| of the peace " Inch brood, ov. our SOUS
| to-day! l have Gou".cd evcI yt.iiIS
| and yet, out of that no. Ii, sert oil d uDt,
h.,1r IL lIi..