The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-06-08
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swarthy arms.
sOhl" you say, s'that was we'll done"
But want you TO exercise some kindness
| and some appreciation toward those in
| community who are snatching the little
| ones from under the wheels Of temptation
/ and sin-snatching them from under
i laundering rail-trains of eternal dis
aster, bringing them up into respectable
/ ity in this world and into glory for the
/ world to come. You appreciate what the
| engineer did, why can you not appreciate
the grander work done by every Sabbath
/ school teacher this afternoon?
Oh my friends, want to impress upon
myself and upon yourselves that it Is not
the number of talents we possess, but the
use we make OF them!
God has a royal family in the world.
| Now, If 1 should ask:
E'Who are the royal families of his
| tory?" you would say; "House of Haps-
burg, house OF Stuarts, house of Bour-
| bons" They lived in palaces and had
| great equipages. But who is the Lords
| royal family? Some of them may serve
| you in the household, some of them are in
| unlighted garrets, some Of them will
walk this afternoon down the street, on
their arm a basket of broken food;
| some of them are in the almshouse, de-
spised and rejected Of men; yet in the
last great day while it viii be found that
some Of us who Jared sumptuous1y every
day are hurled back into discontinue,
there are the lame that will take the prey.
One step further: There are a great
many people discouraged about getting to
Heaven. You are brought up in good
families, you had Christion parentage;
but you frankly tell me that you are
thousand miles away from the right
track.
My brother, you are the one I want to
preach to this morning. Ihave been look
ing for you. I Will tell you how you got
astray. 1t was not malioiousness on your
part. 1t was perhaps through the genial
ity and sociality of your nature that you
fell into sin. You wandered away from
your duty, FOu unconsciously left the
house OF God; you admit the Gospel to be
true, and yet you have so gTievously and
so prolongedly wandered, you say rescue
is impossible.
It would take a week TO count up the
names OF those in Heaven who were on
earth worse than you tell me you are.
They went the whole round of iniquitY,
. they disgraced themselves, they dis
graced their household, they despaired OF
return because their reputation was gone,
their property was gone, every thing was
! gone; but in some hour like this they
, heard the voice OF God, and threw
themselves on the Divine compassion, and
they rose up more than oonquerOrs. And
, tell you there is the same chance tor
, you. That is one reason why like to
preach this Gospel, so free Gospel, so
tremendous a Gospel. 1t takes man all
wrong, and makes him all right.
In former settlement where preached
a member of my congregation quit the
} house of God, quit respectable circles,
: went into all styles Of sin, and was slain
! of his iniq uity. The day for his burial
: came, and his body was brought to the
, house of God. Some of his comrades
; who had destroyed him were overheard
, along the stree t, on the way to the burial,
= saying; "Come, let us 60 and hear Tai
2 mage damn this old sinnerP,,' Oh! had
Q nothing but tears for the dead, and had
Q | nothing but invitations for the livin z.
|, | You see could not do otherwise.
Q "Christ Jesus came to seek and save that
which was lost" Christ in His dying
o prayer said "Father, forgive them"
and that was a prayer for you and for me.
4 Oh! start on the road to Heaven to-day.
/ You are not happy. The thirst of your
4 ! soul will never be slaked by the fountains
of sin. You turn everywhere but to God
u for help Right where you are, call on
| Him. He knows you, He knows all about
. ! you, He knows all the odds against which
: you have been cOntendipg in life. Do not
A go to Him with a long rigmarole Of a
+ prayer, but just look up and say: "Helpl
4 | help"
: But you say: "My hand trembles so
|. from my designations, / can't even take
! hold of a hymn book TO sing" Do not
! worry about that, my brother; viii give
| youa hymn at the close so familiar you
. can sing it without book. But you say:
SCI have s1ch terrible habits on me,
: can't get rid Of them" My answer is,
. Almighty grace can break up that habit
4 and will break il up. But you say:
4 "The wrong 1 did was to one dead and
: in Heaven now, and can't correct that
| wrong"
| a
5 God, go into the presence Of that one, and
4 the apologies you ought to have made on
q earth make in Heaven.
= 'Ohp' says some man, eff should try
to do right, if 1 should turn away from my
. evil doing unto the Lord, would be
: jostled, would be driven back, nobody
}. would have any sympathy for me-"
You are mistaken. Here in the presence
of the church on earth and in Heaven, I
: give you to-day the right hand Of Chris
! tian fellowship. God sent me here to-day
3 to preach this, and He sent you here to
/ hear this:
: Let the wicked forsake his ways, and the un-
y righteous man his thoughts, and let him return
e unto the Lord, who will have mercy and unto
our God, who will abundantly pardon
Il Though you may have been the worst
z sinner, you may become the best saint
It and in the greet Day Of Judgment It will
Q be found that ''where sin abounded, grace
: does much more abound" !" and while the
h spoils of an everl asting kingdom are be-
q ing awarded for your pursuit IL viii be
It found that the lame took the prey.
d Blessed be God that we are, this Sabbath,
% one week nearer the obliteration OF au the
i inequalities Of this life and all SIS dis
], quietudes.
y Years ago, on a boat on the North
; River, the pilot gave a very sharp ring 70
10 the bell for the boat to slow up. The en-
70 gineer attended to the machinery, and
q then he came up, with some alarm, on
10 deck TO see what was the matter. He saw
y il was a moonlight night and there were
'- no obstacles ia the way. He went 10 the
70 pilot and said:
20 ''Why did you ring the bell in that wayf
II Why do you want TO stop, there's nothing
y the matter3" And the pilot said to him
y "There 81 a mist gathering on the river;
rs don't you see thatl And there iH night
@ see the way"
Then the engineer, looking around and
" seeing il bright moonlight, looked
it into the face Of the pilot and saw that he
10 was dying, and then that he was dead.
Il God grant that when our last moment
comes we may be found at our post doing
K our whole duty, and when the mists Of the
Y, river OF death gather on our eyelida may
a the good pilot take the wheel from our
Ie hands and guide us into the calm harboF
], of eternal resti
Is Drop the anchor furi the sail
n am safe within the vale.
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