The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1888-11-23

Ing of LAGOON, to try to break away, and
the muscles are distended, and the great
beads Of perspiration dot your forehead,
and the eyes stand out from the sockets,
and with all the concentered energies
of BODY, mind and soul Won attempt 10 get
loose but have only made the chain sink
deeper All the devils that encamp IN the
wine flask and the rum jug and the decanter
for each one has devil of its own-come
out and sit around yon and chatter IN some
midnight you spring from your couch
and cry: II am fast; o God. let
ness. let me loosel Father and mother
and brothers and sisters, help me to get
loosel" And You turn your prayer to bias
phemv and then your blasphemy into prayer,
and to all the din and uproar there is played
an accompaniment, not an accompaniment
by key and pedal, but the accompaniment is
rattle, and the rattle IS that OF a chiun- For
fivA-Eears, for ten years, for twenty years,
you have be6d sss1sEug 2 chain
But here I take a step his.5er and tell YOU
there is power that can break a.lY chain
chain of body, chain OF mind, chain OF soul
The letters that the hammer of the Gospel
have broken off, if piled together, woud
make a mountain. The captives whom.
Christ has set free, if stood side by
side. would make an army. Quicker
than a ship chambers furnlce ever
melted cable, quicker than key ever
unlocked n hanicuf, quicker than the bay
Onets of revolution pried open the
Bastile. you may be liberated and made n
free son or a free daughter of God. You
have only to choose between serfdom and
emancipation, between chain and coronet,
between Satan and God Make up your
mind and make it up quick. When
the King Of Snarta had crossed the
HellespOnt and was about to march through
Thrace. he sent word to the people in the
l. ~. Ill. IL.
should march through their countries as
friend or an enemy BY all means as a
friend answered most Of the regions, but
the King of Mace1on replied: Il will take
time to consider it. Then said the
King OF Sparta: "Let him consider it.
hut meantime, we march-we march
So Christ. our King. gives US our choice
between his friendship and his frown, and
many of MS have long been considering what
We had better do; but meantime He marches
on. aud our opportunities are marching by
And we shall be the loving subjects OF Ills
reign, or the victims OF our own obduracy.
So, urge you to precpitancy. rather than
slow deliberation. and I write all over your
soul the words OF Christ saw inscribed on the
monument of Princess Elizabeth in the Isle
Of Wight, the words to which her index
finger pointed in the open Bible when she was
found dead in her bed after a lifetime Of
trouble: Come unto Ne, all We who are
weary ana NeelNX lalen. anu Will give YOU
rest" Is there drunkari herei You NAV. by
the Saviour's grace. have that fire Of thirst
utterly extinguished. Is there defrauder
herel You may be made a saint Is there
a lihertine herel You may he made as pure
as the light. When minister in an outdoor
meeting in Scotland was eulOgizing goodness,
there were hanging around the edge
Of the audience some OF the most deDraved
men and women, and the minister said moth
ing about mercy for prodigals And de-
PRAYED woman cried out: Your rope is not
long enough for the Ike OF US" Blessed be
tod. our Gospel can fathom the deepest
depths and reach 70 farthest wanderings, and
here is a rope that is long enough to rescue
the worst: "WhosOever will
But why take extreme cases. when we all
have been or are now the captives OF sin and
deaths And we may through the great
Emancipator drop our shackles and take
throne You have looked at your hand and
arm only as being useful now, and a curious
piece OF anatomy. but there is something
about your hand and arm that makes me
think they are an undevelOptd wing
And il you would know what pos
sihilities are suggested by that. ask
the eagle that has looked close in the eve
of the MONDAY sun; or ask the aiharross that
has struck its claw into the black 10 ks OF the
tempest; or ask the condor that this morning
is descending to the highest peak Of Chin
borazo. Your right hand and arm and your
left hand and arm. two undevelopsd wings,
better get ready for the empyrean-
"Rise. my soul. and stretch thy wing,
Thy be;ter portion trac3-h