The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-07-26

| made very firm. God is going to conquer
them, and they will be turaed into asy-
lums and art galleries aI1 churches. The
stores in which fraudulent men do busi-
ness, the splendid banking institutions
where the president and cashier put all
| their property in their wiVaN haAds and
then fail for two hundred thousand dol
! lars-all these institutions,t1e to become
! the places where honest cAristian uaen'
do business.
How long will it take yo,R bows to get
through your ill gotten gains? The
wicked do not live out halt their davs
For a while they swaggei and strut and
make a great splash in the newspapers.
but after awhile it all dwindles down
into brief paragraph: died suddenly,
July %, 1888, at 35 years Of age. Rel
atives and friends of the family are in
vited to attend the funeral on Wednes-
day, at Q O'Clock, from Ills late resi-
dence on Madison square. Interment at
Greenwood" Some of them jumped off
the docks. Some them took prussic acid.
Some of them fell under tile snap of a
Derringer pistol. Some of them spent
their last days in a lunatic asylum.
Where are William Tweed and
his associates? Where are Eetcham and
Swartwout, absconding swindlers? Where
is James Fisk, the hbertinea Where is
John Wilkes Booth the assassin2 and all
the other misdemeanants2 The wicked
do not live out half their days. Disem-
bogue, o world of darkness! Come up.
Hildebrand and Henry II and Robes
pierre, and with blistering and blasphem-
ing and ashen lips, hiss out: 1.-The tri-
umph of the wicked is short" Alas for
the men of All when Joshua stretches
out his spear toward the city!
Lesson the third: How much NAV be
accomplished by lying in ambush for op-
portunities. Are you hypercritical of
Joshua's maneuver? Do you say that
it was cheating for him to take that city
by ambuscade? Was it wrong for Wash
ington to kindle camp fires on New Jer-
sey Heights, giving the impression to the
opposing force that a great army was
encamped there when there was none at
all? I answer, if the war was right then
Joshua was right in his stratagem. He
violated no flag of truce. He broke no
treaty, but by a lawful ambuscade cap
tured the city of Al. Oh, that we all knew
how to lie in ambush for opportunities to
serve God. The best of our opportuni-
ties do not lie ON the surface but are Sc
creted; by tact, by stratagem, by Chris
tan ambuscade, you may take almost
any castle of sin for Christ Come up
| toward men with regular besiegement
of argument and you will be defeated;
| but just wait until the door of their
hearts is set ajar, or they are off their
| guard, or their severe caution is away
from home, and then drop in on them
from a Christian ambuscade. There has
been many man up to his chin in scien-
tific portfolios which proved there was no
Christ and no divine revelation, his pen a
| scimetar flung into the heart of theologi-
! cal opponents, who, nevertheless, has
been discounted and captured for God
by some little three-year- child who
has got up and put her snowy arms
around his sinewy neck, and asked some
simple question about God and heaven.
Oh, make a flank movement; steal a
| march on the devil; cheat that man into
heaven. $5 treatise that will stand all
the laws of homiletics may fail to do that
which penny tract Christian entreaty
may accomplish. Oh, for more Chris
tians in ambuscade, not lying in idleness,
but waiting for quick spring, waiting
until just the right time comes Do not
talk to man about the vanity of this
world on the day when he has bought
something at ''twelve'' and is going to
sell it at ''ffteen." But talk to
linn about the vanity of the world
one the day when he has bought some
thing at Fifteen" and is compelled to
gell at "twelse. Be not rub mans
disposition the wrong Way. Do not take
lhe IMPERATIVE mood when the subjunc-
! tive mood will do just as well. Do not
talk III perfervid style to a phlegmatic, nor
try to tickle torrid temperament with an
icicle. You can take any man for Christ
if you know how to get at him. Do not
send word to him that tomorrow at 10
O'Clock you propose to open your batter
les upon him, but come on him by a
skillful, persevering, God directed anbus-
cade,
Lesson the fourth: The importance of
taking good aim. There is Joshua, but
how are those people in ambush up yon-
der to know when they are to drop on
the city, and how are these men around
Joshua to know when they are to stop
their flight and advanced There must
be some signal-a signal to stop the one
division and to start the other. Joshua,
with spear on which were ordinarily
hung the colors of battle, points toward
the city. He stands in such conspicu-
GUS position, and there is SO much of the
morning light dripping from that spear
hot oil no
it. 1t was as much as to say: ''There is
the city. Take it. Take it now. Roll
down from the west. Surge up from
the north. 1t is ours, the city of
All" God knows and we know that a
great deal of Christian attack amounts to
nothing simply because we do not take
good aim. Nobody knows and we do
not know ourselves which point we want
to take, when we ought to make up our
minds what God will have us to do, and
| point our spear in that direction and
then hurl our body, mind, soul, time,
eternity at that one target. In our pull
| pits and pews and Sunday schools and
prayer meetings we want to get repu-
| tation for saying pretty things, and SO
we point our spear toward the howers;
or we want reputation for saying
sublime things, and we point our spear
| toward the stars; or we want to get
q reputation for historical knowledge,
end we point our spear toward the past;
OF we want to get reputation for great
iberality, SO we swing our spear all
around; and 1t strikes all points of the
horizon, and you can make out Of it
whatever you please; while there is the
old world, proud, rebellious, and armed
against all righteousness; and instead Of
running any farther away from its pur-
suit, we ought to turn around, plant our
foot in the strength Of the eternal God,
lift the old cross and point it in the di-
rection Of the worlds conquest till the
redeemed of earth, marching up from
one side, and the gloriied Of heaven
marching down from the other side, the
last battlement Of sin Is compelled to
swing out the streamers of Emanuel.
Oh, church Of God, take aim and con-
guer.
have heard it said: 'Look out for
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