Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-06-14

make of them.
God he's royal family in the world.
Now, if | should ask: "Who are tho
say; 'House of Hapsburg, house of
Stuarts, house of Bourbons." They lived In
palaces and had great equipage. But who
are 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 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
are hurled back into discontinue, there are
The lame that will take the prey.
One step further: There are great many
people discouraged about getting to heaven.
You are brought up in good families, you
had Christian parentage; but they frankly
tell me that you are Thousand miles away
from the right track.
My brother, you ere the one l want TO
preach to this morning. ] have been
looking for you. | will tell you how you
got astray. 1t was not righteousness on
your part 1t was perhaps through the
geniality and sociality of your nature
that you fell into sin. You wandered
away from your duty, you unconscotssiy
left the house of God; you admit the Gospel
to be true, and yet you have so grievously
and so prolongedly wandered, you say rescue
is impossible.
1t would take 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 inquiry they disgraced themselves,
they disgraced their household, they desoaired
Of return because their reputation was gone,
their property was gone every thing was gone:
but in some hour like this theyIheard the voice
OF God, and threw themselves on the divine
compassion, and rose up more than con-
querors. And tell you there is the same
chance for you, That is one reason why
like to preach this Gospel so free GOSPEL,
so tremendous Gospel 1t takes a 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 iniouity. The
day for his burial came, and his body was
brought to the house of God. Some of his COM
rades who had destroyed him were overheard
along the street. on the way to the burial,
saying: Come, let us go and hear Talmage
damn this old sinnerm Obi | had nothing
but tears for the dead, and | had nothing
but invitations for the living You see ]
could not do otherwise. 1'Christ Jesus
came to seek and save that which was lost'
Christ IN his dying prayer said: Father,
forgive them, and that was prayer for YOU
and for me- Oh! start on the road to heaven
today. You are not happy The thirst of your
soul Will never be slaked by the fountains Of
! SIN. 4ou turn everywhere but to God for
help' Right where you are, cali on Him. He
knows you, He knows ali about you, He
knows all the odds against which YOU have
been contending in life. Do not go to Him
with long rigmarole of prayer, but lust
look up and say; "Helpi Helpn
But you say: My hand trembles so from
my dlssipatlons can't even take hold of
hymn book to sing" Do not worry about
that, my brother; | will give ont a
hymn at the close so familiar YOU
can sing it without a book But YOU
say: 81 have 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: 1.-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 into the presence
OIL tha1 one, and the apologies you ought to
have made on earth make in heaven.
! on" says some man. 'if | should
Try to do right, if l should turn away
from my evil doing unto the Lord. I
would be lostled, | would be driven
nae PACK; NOBODY would have any sympathy
Tor me-" You are mistaken. Here, in
the presence of the church on earth and
IN heaven, L give you to-day the right hand
OF Christian fellowship God sent me here
to-day to preach this, and he sent you here
10 near ihis; Let the wicked forsake his
way, and the unrighteous man his Thought.
ana leb nm return unto the Lord, who
VIII nave mercy, and unto our God.
who will .abundantly pardon" Though
you may nave been the worst sinner
you may become the best saint, and in
the great day of judgement it will
De found that "where sin abounded-
grace does much more abound, and while
the spolls OF an everlasting kingdom arc
neing awarded for your pursuit, it will be-
found that the lame took the prev Blessad
De TOD that we are this Sabbath. one veal
nearer the obliteration of all the ineoual;t;as
OF this life and all its disquietudes.
ears ago, on boat on the North
river; tne pilot gave a very sharp ring tn
the DEL Tor the boat to slow up. The
engineer attended to the machinery. and
men men ne came up with some alarm an
ueck 10 see what was the matter Ha
saw IL was moonlight night, and there
were no obstacles in the way. He want
90 the pilot and said: "Why did Won
ring the bell in that wayl WHY do
| you you want to stop. there's nothing
S Ins matter ate, and the pilot said to
MN There is mist patbarns
on tne river don't you see that? and thara e
nlgnt gathering darker and darker. and r
can't see the wayn Then the enoinaer ino,
,nS around and seeing it was a BRIGHT moon.
lgno, looked INTO the face of the pijot ana
dead. si 'iia' ne was
Iod grant that when onr Last ,,,o,,o.
comes we may be found at our most dn;,,os
our whole duty; and when the miss of NY
river OF death gather on our evelids mo-, t the
! good Pilot take the wheal fron, a., 10y oiio
and guide us into the calm barhor Of atnnus
| rest VI eOernai
Drop the anchor. fnr the sail.
4 am safe within the vote