The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-06-01

there the old engineer lay, tainted dead awa5.
the little child alive in his swarthy arms.
'O,n you say, THAT was well done" But
Iiwant you 10 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 laundering rail- trains Of
eternal disaster, bringing them up into re-
spectability 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 afternoons
MAKING Use OF TALENTS.
y, my Friends / want to impress upon my
self and upon yourselves that it is not the
number Of talents we possess but the use we
make OF them. God has royal family in the
world Now, If | should ask: 'Who are the
royal families of historyF' you would say:
House OF Hapsburg, house OF Stuarts, house
of BourbOns." They lived in palaces and had
great equipage. But who are the Lords royal
famllyf 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 q basket Of
broken food; some of them are In the aims
house, despised and rejected, of men, yet in
the last great day, while it will be found that
some OF US who Jared sumptuOusly every day,
and hurled back into discontinue, there are
the lame that Will take the prev.
One step further. There are a great many
You are brought up in good families. you had
Christian parentage, but you frankly tell me
that you are thousand miles away from the
right track.
My brother YOU are the one want to preach
to shis morning. | have been looking for you
l win tell you how you got astray. 1t was moi
maliciousness on your part 1t was perhaps
through the geniality and soclslity of your
nature that you fell into sin. You wandered
away from your duty, YOU uncOnsciously left
0FI yn2. IT0f4 +I,a g. r..
true and yet you have so grievously and sc
prOlOngedly wandered you say rescue Is Inn
possible.
1t would take a week to count up thu
names of those in heaven who were on earth
worse that you tell me you are They went
the whole round of iniquity, they dIsgraced
themselves, they disgraced their household,
they despaired of return because their repu-
tation was gone, their property was gone,
everything 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 conquerorS.
CHRIsT'S GLORIOUS GOSPEL
And tell you there Is the same chance for
you. That is one reason why like to preach
this gospel, SO free gospel, 50 tremendous Q
gospel. 1t takes man all wrong and makes
MIN all right. In former settlement where
I preached a member of my congregation
quit the house of God, quit respectable cir
cles, went into all styles of sin and was slain
of his iniquity. The day for his burial came
and his body was brought to the house Of
God. Some of his comrades who had destroy.
ed him were overheard along the street on
the way to the burial, saying: Come, let US
go and hear Talmage damn this old sinner ~
O! had nothing but tears for the dead, and
| had nothing but invitations for the living
You see | could not do any otherwise
"Christ Jesus came to seek and save that
which was lost" Christ In His dying prayer
said: Father, forgive them" and that waG
prayer for you and for me. o! start on the
road to heaven to-day. You are not happy.
The thirst of your soul will never be
slaked by the fountains of sim You turn
everywhere but to God 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 cOntendlng In
life. Do not go to him with long rIgama.
role of PRAYER, but just look up and say:
"Helpl Helpn'
But you say: "My hand trembles so from
my dissipation l can't even take hold of a
hymn book to sing. "DO not worry about
that, my brother: will give out hymn al
the close so familiar you can sing 1t without
book. But YOU say II lave such terrible
habits on me / can't get rid of them" My
answer is, Almighty Grace can break up that
habit, and will break it up. But YOU say:
"The wrong | did was to one dead and In
heaven now, and can't correct that wrong"
You can correct it. By the grace of God, go
giles you ought to have made on earth make
in heaven.
REDEMPTION FOR THE WORST.
"Ohp saws some man, 'if | should try to
do right, If | should turn away from nv evil
doing unto the Lord, | would be tostled,
any sympathy for me-" You're mistaken.
Here, In the presence of the church on earth
and in heaven, | give You to-day the right
hand OF Christian fellowship. God sent me
here to hear this: Let the wicked forsake his
way. and the unrighteOus man his thought,
and let him return unto the Lord, who will
have mercy, and unto our God. who will
abundanty pardon" Though you may have
been the worst sinner, you may become the
best saint, and in the great dav Of Judgment
1t will be found that ''wherc sin abounded,
grace does much more abound" and while
the spoils of an everlasting kingdom are be-
ing awarded for your pursuit, II will be found
that the lame took the prey. Blessed be God
that we are, this Sabbath one week nearer
the Obliteration of al the inequalities OF this
life and all It's dsquietudes.
Years ago, on boat on the North river, the
pilot gave very sharp ring to the bell for the
boat TO slow up. The engineer attended to the
machinery and then he came up with some
alarm on deck to see what was the matter. He
saw 1T was moonlight night and there were
no obstacles in the way. He went To the pilot
and said: "Why did YOU ring the bell in that
way' Why do you want TO stop. There Is
nothing the matter" And the pilot said to
him: There is a mist gathering on the river
don't YOU see that! And there Is night gath
ering darker and darker, and | can't see the
wav." Then the engineer looking around and
seen it was a bright moonlight, looked into
the face of the pilot and saw that he wal
dying, and then that he was dead God grant
when our last moment comes we may be
found at our post doing our whole duty; and
when the mists of the river of death gather
on our eyelids, may the good Pilot take the
wheel from our hands and guide Us into the
calm harhOr Of eternal rest
Drop the anchor, furl the SAIL
am safe within the vale