The Russellville Democrat., 1888-07-19
PRICE FIVE CENTS.

| when the Almighty Christ Is ready to If
 up all your burdens. When you have trouble of any kind, you rush this way,
 and that way; and you wonder what thi' man will say about it, and what that mai will say about it; and you try this pre- | scription, and that prescription. and the other prescription o, why do you noi ! go straight to the heart of Christ know | ing that for our own shining and suffer | ing race, He took the vinegari | There was Q vessel that had been tossed on the seas for a great many weeks ant been disabled, and the supply of water gave out, and the crew were dying O. thirst After many days they saw sai against the sky. They signaled it. Whet the vessel came nearer the people on thf suffering ship cried to the captain of tht other vessel;
 "Send us some water. We are dying foi lack of water"
 And the captain on the vessel that waS hailed responded:
 "Dip your buckets where you are. You gre in the mouth of the Amazon, ono there are scores of miles of fresh water all around about you, and hundreds of feet deep"
 And then they dropped their buckets over the side of the vessel and Drough up the clear, bright, fresh water. and put out the fire of their thirst. So hail you to-day, after a long and perilous voyage, thirsting as you are for pardon, and thirsting for comfort, and thirsting for eternal life, and 1 ask you what is the use Of your going in that death struck state, while all around you is the deep, clear, wide, sparkling flood of Gods sympa- thetic mercy. o, dip your buckets, and drink, and live forever. .......
 Whosoever will, let him come and take oi the water of life freely.
 Yet my utterance is almost choked at the thought that there are people here who will refuse this divine sympathy, and they will try to fight their own battles, and drink their own vinegar, and carry their own burdens; and their life, instead of being a triumphal march from victory to victory, will be hobbling-on from defeat to defeat until they make final surrender to retributiye disaster 0, wish 1 could to-day gather up in mine arms all the woes of men and women-au their heartaches-all their disappoint- ments-all their chagrins-and just take them right to the feet of sympathizing Jesus. He took the vinegar .-r...
 Mama Sahib, after he had lost his last battle in India, fell back into the jungles of Iheri--jungles so full of malaria that no mortal can live there. He carried with him also ruby of great luster and of great value. He died in those jungles; his body was never found and the ruby has never yet been recovered. And l fear that to-day there are some who will fall back from this subject into the sickening, killing jungles of their sin, carrying gem of infinite value--a priceless soul--to be lost forever O, that that ruby might flash in the eternal coronation. But no. There are some, I fear, in the audience, who turn away from this offer ed mercy and comfort and Divine sym pathy, notwithstanding that Christ, for all who would accept His grac @, trudgsd the long way and suffered the 1acerating' thongs and received in His face the ex- pectorations of the filthy mob, and for the guilty, and the discouraged, and the dis comforted of the race, took the vinegar. May God Almighty break the infatuation and lead you out into the strong hope, and the good cheer, and the glorious sun- shine of this triumphant Gospel.