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


"Bretlron, will call your attention to
the following words from the FIRST chapter
CT The TOOK Of Proverbs: 'Bacaass / have
clileI ye have refused. | have stretched
out my Land and no man g.vetn | also will
laugh at your calamity. | will meek whrs
your fear Comctb.
"Because have cl1,cj.' That ore utter.
anc9 ought to be enough to brin. every maa
to bis feet. II cause navs Called
"Ihe great Jeboyah, the Maker, the up
holder or this great Universe. Your Father
and my Father, who shall finally he our
Judge. Because | have calel. | may turn
a oeaf ear to my father OF mother, miglt
walk oil i'll contempt in the presence CT on
OF my best earthly friends, hut, brother,
when God speaks leu Us he9r what he has g.
say We are IIving in His world, we are
breathing His ail ana enjoying His blessing
and benefits, and we are finally to be judge
by Him, and let US consider what the LORI
mas To say to US.
Il am fully persuaded in ny own mnI,
alter reaIins Ule word OF Go1, and feeliu
The impress OF the tru, h upon my heart, an
seeing the power OF tee truth upon others,
feel persuaded that CID is Ill earnest aoou,
It's salvation OF men. Because | havi
called Let US sop ami consider tao
myriad OF ways III which we or
called. | say M rlad-thay are many. Il
many calls there are to a better life-Aoa
many calls away from sln-how many calls
up unto righteousness. o. brethren, toes,
ans as they come pouring down upon you
point you TO better cnus, 10 higher life, 20
DOUltr eXlStepc1-gOma where you ma
honor Cos, and be a good example to al,
around. Whenever Goa calls you TO Aim
he is calling you there 10 tell you something
Jr calling you 10 give you something. Coz
calls yoa THAI ne may give you the things
you need. God calls you wnere you can 90
Tain help. God calls you That he may ad
Use you in the things You n9ei advice.
"On, thank God for rnls double parentage
hat means life here and life hereafter
kInd tatnerl My best triend!! l have
often bought OF Inc goodness OF God to tn g.,
cullIran OF men. BreUuren Of the churCu.
treChren OF Christ, let your hearts be me,tel
,o-nignt v hen you think how gooa God is TO
you and your cniilren aud to your neigh
Uors. On, how good He is, and now mere
tul, and how kind 10 tue children OF meu.
some months ago | was aboarI train, an
d gentleman g0U on, anu as | knew INN he
aid TO me, i came near being killed last
light why, how? l ASKED.
last night the agent at our depot was
ying Deastly drunk ON the platform, ana /
went to help him up and he Grew his pisto
anu shot at me twice. The poor fellow mas
Ieen on spree two or three weeks. )
Why said |, that road is pretty STRICT
how does he hold his position ana dlinGP
| why, said the man, 'that agent is brother
ln-law TO the president OF the railroad com
pany.' l saw Immediately tnrou yh the
whole thing, and rode on thiuAing to my
sell, God GEARS With me, and puts up wiCn
me, and loves me, and cares LOT me, and |
see it is in the fact not thai Goo IS my
.atherin-law, but because be is my father
On, how father wall pat up with way
ward soul Blessed be God because he calls
Himself my father. He tells the TO say
Aboa, Father, my Lorl AMI my Godp
II remember an instance once: my wife
lad young colored, girl for servant, and
one morning, after she had been there for
some months, my wife sail: 'Slllie, you
IAN 60 home and tell your mother don want
you longer Her face was so0l covered
nth sadness am tears and | heard no re
treating footsteps, and she sail, On, Mrs.
/ Jones, dol't drive ms away. | snow I'm
! ne poorest servant you had but let me
/ say In few minutes my thoughts too
/ nis turn; II my Father III heaven this
morning wax to call me into ais prosenc3 and
! say, 1 don't want You any longer, you may
| 20, | discharge you,' ! wCuld have cri ID
| Iae that poor coored girl, and there would
! ne no sound of retreating footsteps, for
would have stood IN His presence and said
! oh, my Father, Pm the poorest servant yor
/ ever had, bat don't drive me off; my great
! est honor is TO live in Thy presence Blessed
/ Christ, let NE be Thy servant forever.
Because | have called Ths5e calls
around Us are but the whispering of tue
oreeze, and they are but tue small voice oi
zen thousand tongues in nature calling us
| and oh! brethren, with what strength doe
God call us TO a better life First, He call
US by His divine spirit, We are taught il
the blessed Bible that when the spirit ha,
come He will relieve the world of n Tha
divine spirit-the third person OF the Trinity
whose only o.Jice in tae world is TO war;
! and conjurs men to leaf better lives who's
Only office in the worli is to put us in re
membrance OF God, and to teach salvation
and adapt it to every human here Oh
blessed Spirit, Thou are coue TO show us tn
way TO GOdl That spirit touches your hear
day after day and year after year.
The best teacher a man ever mad in thi
world is the Spirit of all truth that WOO
him, that warns and entreats him, aut
would take him by the hand and lead hin
to Col. Oh blessed Spirit, va have nevel
given You enough prsise, and never talke,
enough Of Toy wol1rous work. May tn
Holy Ghost come upon us tonight aud show
us the way to God. Don't insClt and driyt
that Spirit from your presence, for unles
that Spirit come back egain You ara lost
Your early hope for q crown ani pain