West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-07-12
FAITH.
SERMON ny REV. Dn TAL,IAcn.
The Highest Type OF Faith is that of
the Christian.

commercial depression What ,yas ~, ,'.s,SI
Ter with the storesl With the harvests,
s W d.n the peopiel Lack OF faith Money
enouSh, goods enough skilIful brains
enough, Industrious hands enon0h lint
no lelth Now, what damages tho com.
Inerclat world damages the SPIRITUAL Our
S srh;a lack Is faith. That is the hinge ON
winch eternity turns. go, > saws some one I'M
the audience, "Ihave faith. Ibeieye Christ
Se'uie down TO save tho world.n reply that
in worldly matters when YOU have faith Won
shhmays act upon it. For instance, II I could
snow you a business operation by which Won
could make 5000 You would immediafelv
~ INTO 10; You would prove your faith In
Wnae teil You by your prompt and imme-
S Cl,;, attlon- Now il what You call faith in
Shrlst has lcd you TO surrender vour entire
nature 20 Jesus. aud Go corresponiing action
an yVut life, &c is genuine faith md N A. has
&c is not faith at all
acre are some things which / believe
with the head. Then there are other THINGS
which believe with the heart Ana then
tnere are other things which L believe both
with the head and heart. I believe. FOR i'm.
stance su tnat Cromwell lived. That Is mat.
tS;n =. inc head. Then there arc other
.h,ngs which believe with the heart and
nor WITH the head. That is, have no es-
pecial reason for believing them and vet
s want To believe them, aud the wish il the
1.os.,, 10 20 tne expectation. But there Is
kee,,y great ulheronce between that which we
peneVe about ourselves and that which we be-
neVe ABOUT Others. For instance Won remain.
per not great while ago there was a disaster
a. IennIsyIvaniai amid the mines; there was
an CA I1iosion amid the damps, and many lives
were lost In the morning YOU picked mn
your newspaper and saw that there had been
q a great disaster in Pennsylvania You said:
,,. an, what a sad thing is this; how many
IVES iostl -, what sorrowip Then YOU read
sttle further on. There had been an almost
miraculous effort TO get these men out, and a
rev nae been saved. "Oh,n you said s'what
u oraye thing, what grand thing that was
"a 4 Il.
paper up and sat down TO your morning re-
yast. Your appetite had not been interfered
with, and during that day, perhaps. Won
tnought only two or three times OF the dis
astef. but suppose you and had been I'm the
nine, and the dying had been all around us
and we had heard the pickaxes Just above us
as they were trying TO work their way down
ana after while we saw the light and then
sne ire bucket let down through the shaft
and, suifocated and half dead, we had lust
strength enough 10 throw ourselves over. into
~, and had been hauled ont into the light
liner, linen what an appreciation we would have
na5 . 1l the agony and the darkness beneath,
ana the JOY OF deliverance. That is the dis-
ference between believing a thing about
others and believing il about ourselves.
we take up the Bible aud read that Christ
ZANE 20 save the world. What was beauti-
1nl, you say, "a fine specimen of self-deniaI.
mat was very grand indeed But suppose
~ Is found that we ourselves We're down i'm
the mine of sin and in the darkness. and
Christ stretched down his arm Of mercy
through the gloom and lifted us out of the
PIT, and set our feet ON the Rock of Ages.
ana put new song into our mouth oh
then 1T is matter of handclnpping; it is a
matter OF deep emotions Which kind of
faith have you, my brotherl
Ii is faith that makes Christian. and IL is
the proportion Of faith that makes the differ
enee between Christians What was IL that
nited Paul and Luther and Payson and
Doddridge above the ordinary level of Chris.
tian characterl 1t was the simplicity. the
Drilhancy, the power and the splendor of
their faith. Oh, that we had more OF ~
1od give us more faith TO preach and more
faith TO hear. Lord we believe help Thou
our unbeliefn ''To you which belIeye He ;s
precious. y
First: / remark Christ is precious to the
believer, as a Saviour from sin A man saws.
10 whom are you talkingl am one OF the
most respectable men in this neighborhood;
do you call me n sinnerp Yesl 1.-THE heart
Is deceitful above all things and desperately
wicked You say: GLOW do you know my
tning apout my hearts" know that about
what God says Is always right When a
man becomes n Christian people say: "That
man sets himself above US" oh, MOI Instead
OF setting himself up he throws himself
now am found 1 was blind once. but now
see. PROSTATE myself at the foot of the
cross of the Saviour's mercy.n
What grand thing il is to feel that all
uttered.
the bad deeds have ever done ard an the
bad thoughts that have gone through my
mind, are as though they never hal been for
the sake OF what Christ has DONE You
know there IS difference in stains. Some
can be washed out by water, but others re-
CURE chemical preparation. The sin OF the
heart IS so black and indelible a mark that
no human application can cleanse it, while
the blood Of Jesus Christ can wash IL out for
ever. -, the infinite, tho omnipotent chem
lstry Of the Gospels Some man says: II be-
heve all that. i believe God has forgiven the
most OF my sins, but there ia one sin I cannot
forget What Is IT. do not want 10 know
what IL is, but j take the responsibility OF
saying that God will forgive it as willingly
as any other sin.
Ger sins Ike mountains for their size,
Ine seas OF sovereign grace expand,
The seas Of sovereign grace arise.
There was a very good man about sevsntv-
I'VE years Of age, that once said. al beiiaye
God has forgiven me. but there was ono sin
winch committed when / was about twenty
years of ace that j never forgave myself for
and and can't feel happy when think of if. u
He said that one sin sometime COMO 80. ~.
heart, and blotted out all his hone OF heaven
" ny he lacked in faith. Tho trace that con
lorgiye small sin can forgive n LARGE sin
Mighty 70 save. Mighty TO save. Who is
soe ,sod hte unio our Cod, that pardoneth
inlquityi q, what Jesus is 10 the soul that
beheyes in himi The soul looks up into
Chflsts bace and SAYS. "To what exfenf
WIZ thou forgive me" And Jesus looks back
INTO his face aud snys. ITO the uttermosf .
The soul says: VIII it never be brought ar
AGAIN. Never" says Christ "W6uit rs
be brought up again In the Judgment DAVE
no, SAYS Christ, ''never IN the Judgment
bay.' Whit bread is 70 the hungry. what
barbor rs % De bestOrIned, what Hght Is to
the blind, what liberty is 10 tho cnptive.
That, and more than that Is Christ 10 tho
man who trusts him.
,, Just try e ct Christ away from that
Clflstlan. fut on that man tho thumb
screw. Twist 10 until the bones rack Pnt
that foot into the iron boot OF uerrecntion unt N
u is mashed 20 a pulp. Stretch that man ON
the rack Of TIE Inquis.tion and louder fbon
an the uprOar Of The prosecutors. Won will
near his voice like tho voice OF Alexander IL
iroiE above tne cracking f1v0fe NJ he cried
nubs ~ jesus %, my blessed Jeeusl ID
1i.ine Jesus. Who would not die for thoe3r
. AGAIN remark chat Christ is precious TO
5ne believer, az q friend. You havgcomrner-
sial friends and you have family friends. 10
the commercial irisud you go whom you have
Dusine troubles You can look back 10
some day-it may hive been ton or twenty
elI. a8y-"hen 81 you bad n0t bad that
lllenu, you would n1ve been entirely ovor.
thrown in busine1 But want ~ feIi Won
tui8 morning Of Jesus. the lo7t busi1o.e
friend IMAM ever had DO can uuU Won
out ~ the worst perplcEitios There arc
peDpe pro- this aulIenc3 who have got in
tle bant of putting down an their
Wyf lNly troubles % Che feet Of jesus YVhv
~ meets tne business man on the street.
ao1 s4y8' ~, business man. j know nIi fnv
tTouDle+ VII ho with fhco viii .oo fheo
LtionEn. LOOK cut how Won frg ~ rqrnr.