The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-05-31

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They went the whole round cf iniquity,
they disgraced themselves, they disgraced
their household. they despaired of return
because their reputation was gone. their
property was gone, everything was gone;
butiin some hour like this heard the voice
OF God, and threw themselves on the
divine compassion. and they rose up more
than conquerors- And tell you there
Is the same chance for you That is one
reason why like to preach this Gospel,
90 free Gospel, 80 tremendous Gospel.
It takes man all wrong, and makes him
all right
In a former settlement where I
preached, member Of my congregation
quit the house of God, quit respectable
circles, 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 CON-
rades who had destroyed him were over
heard along the street, on the way to the
burial, saying: "Come, let us go and
hear Talmage damn this old sinnerl"
Obi had nothing but tears for the
dead, and had nothing but invitations
for the living. You see / could
not do any otherwise. 'sChrist Jesus
came to seek and save that which
was lost" Christ in his dying praye,
said: 'sFather, forgive them," and that
was prayer for you and for me. OH
start on the road to heaven today Yon
are not happy. The thirst OF your soul
win never be slaked by the fountains of
Gan. You turn everywhere but to God
fof heap Right where yosi are. call on
him He knows you, he knows all about
you, he knows all the odds against which
you have been contending in life. Do
not go to him with a long rigmarole of a
prayer, but just look up and say: "Helpl
Help!''
But you say: .sMy hand trembles SO
from my dissipations can't even take
hold of hymn book to sing" Do not
worry about that, my brother; I will
give out hymn at the close so familiar
you can sing it without book. But you
say: 81 have such terrible habits on me
I 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 how. and I can't correct that
wrong" You can correct 1t. BY the
grace of God, go into the presence Of that
one, and the apologies you ought to have
made on earth make in heaven.
''OhP' says some man, "if I should
try to do right, if l should turn away
from my evil doing unto the Lord. I
would be jostled, l 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, / give you today the right
hand of Christian fellowship God sent
me here today to preach this, and he
sent you here to hear this: ''Let the
wicked forsake his way, and the
unrighteous man bis thought, and
let him return unto the Lord, who
will have mercy, and unto our
God, who will abundantly pardon. -
Though you may have been the worst
sinner, you may become the best saint,
and In the great day of Judgment it will
be found that '.where sin abounded,
grace does much more abound" and
while the spoils of an everlasting king
dom are being awarded for your pursuit.
| 1t will be- found that the lame took the
prey. Blessed be God that we are, this
Sabbath, one week nearer the oblitera-
ton of all the inequalities of this life and
all its disquietudes.
Years ago, on boat on the North
river, the pilot gave a very sharp ring tc
the bell for the boat to slow up. The
engineer attended to the machinery, ant
then he came up with some alarm or
deck to see what was the matter. HI
saw it was moonlight night and there
were no obstacles in the way. He wen
to the pilot and said: "Why did yor
ring the bell in that way2 Why d.
you want to stop? there's nothing
the matter" And the pilot said tt
him: "There is a mist gathering
on the river; don't you see that? ant
there is night gathering darker anc
darker, and I can't see the way" Ther
the engineer, looking around and seeing
it was a bright moonlight, looked into th'
face Of the pilot and saw that he wa
| dying, and then that he was dead.
God grant that when our last momen
comes we may be found at our pos
doing our whole duty; and when tn,
mists of the river of death gather on ou
eyelids, may the good Pilot take the whee
from our hands and guide us into tn
calm harbor Of eternal resti
Drop the anchor, furi the sail;
| am safe within the vale.