West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06


soul. 0' 'oi
but hear some one say: 81 will try Soma
tning better than that. / win try the force
or good resolution. That win be more
pungent more caustic, moro extirpatine.
more cleansing: The snow water has failed
and now ! win try the alkali of the good
strong resolution" My dear brother have
you any idea that resolution ahor,
the future will hquidate the pasti Sun
pose 1 owed you five thousand dollars
and 1 should come 20 you Tomorrow and
say; "Sir, will never run in debt 10 yor
again; IL should live thirty years. / viii
never run in debt TO you again;n will YOU
turn to me and say: "If you win not
run In debt I'm the future. / will forgive
you tho 1--WE thousand dollars win yos, do
that Mol Nor will God. We have been
running up long score of indebtedness with
Tod. III Tor the future we should abstain
from sin, that would be no defrayment of past
indebtedness. Though you should live from
this time forth pure as am archangel before
the throne, that would not redeem tina
past. God, in the Bible. Distinctly
declares that he ''will require that which
- past past opportunities, past neg
lects, past wicked words past impure Inn.
aginations, past everything. The past Is a
great cemetery, and every day Is buried in
IL. And here is n long row Of three hundred
ana and snxty-five % graves. They are the
lead days OF 1888. Here is a long row of
three hundred and sixty-nvo more graves
ana they are the dead days of 1887 And
nere Is long row of three hundred and six.
y.nve more graves, and they arc the dead
past. But God will rouse them nil nm with
resurrectionary blast, and as the prisoner
stands face to face with juror and Judge, so
you and viii have to come up and look
upon those departed days face to face, exult
ing IN their smile or covering In their frown
Murder win out" Is proyerb that
stops too short. Every sin, however small.
as well as great, viii out In hard times
IN England, years ago, it Is automatically
stated that manufacturer was on the way,
with bag OF money, to pay Off his hands, A
man infur1ated with hunger met him on the
road, and took a rail with a nail in it from
paiing fence and struck him down, and the
nail entering the skull instantly slew him
Thirty years after that the murders,
went back TO that place. He passed into the
grave yard, where the sexton was digging
grave, and while he stood there the spade OF
tho sexton turned up a skull, and 10 the
murderer saw n nail protruding from the
back part of the skull; and as the sex.
Ton turned the skull it seemed with hoL
low eyes to glare on tho murderer
and he, first petrifed with horror, stood
In silence, but soon cried out Guilty
guilty. o Godp' The mystery of the
crime was over. The man was tried
and executed. My friends. all the un
pardoned sins of our lives, though we
may think they are buried out of sight
and gone into n mere skeleton OF
memory, viii turn up in the cemetery
Of the past and glover upon us with
their misdoings. / say all our unpardoned
sins. oh, have you done the preposterous
thing OF supPosing that good resolutions foi
the future will wipe out the past? Good re-
solutions, though they may be pungent anc
caustic as alkali, have no power t.
neutralize n sin, have no power Il
wash away transgression. 1t wants some
thing more than earthly chemistry to dc
this. Yea, yea. though IT wash myself will
snow water, and should cleanse my hand,
In elkah, yet shalt thou plunge me in tn,
ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me-
You see from the last part of this text that
Jobs idea OF sin was very different from that
OF Eugene Sue, or George Sand, or M. j
Michelet, or of any of the hundreds of writer
VINO have done up iniquity In mezzotint
and garlanded the wine cup with eg
lantlne and rosemary, and made th'
ease instead of ON the hot tagging of eterna
torture. You see that Job thinks that sin II
not howeTy parterre; that it is not table
land OF fine prospects; that it is no
music dnlclmer, violoncello castane
ana fandean pipes, all making musi'
together. No. He says il is ditch, long
deep, loathsoms, stenchful and we are nj
plunged into it, and there we wallow and sinl
and struggle, not able to get out. Our robe
of propriety and robes of worldly profession
are saturated in the slime and abomination
and our soul, covered over with transgression
hates its covering, and the covering hates til,
soul until we are plunged into the ditch, an,
our own clothes abhor us
know that some modern religionists carl
cature sorrow for sin, and they make out an
easier path than the 'pilgrim's progress
that John Bunyan dreamed Of The roai
they travel does not stop where Johns did. a
the city OF Destruction, but at the gate
the university; and i am very certai,
that it viii not come ont where Johns did
under the shining ramparts Of the celestia
city. No repentance, no pardon IL Won d,
not, my brother, feel that you are down il
the ditch, what do you want of Christ to lie
you out? III you have no appreciation o
the fact that you are astray. what do yoa
want OF him who came to seek and save tina
which was lost Yonder Is the CITY q
Paris, the swiftest of the Inmans. comm,
across the Atlantic. The wind is abaft
so that she has not only her eDpine
at work, but all sails up. I am o.
bosrd tho Umbria Of the Cunar,
line. The boat davits are swung around
The boat Is lowered. / get into IL with
req REQ nag ana cross over TO where the City Of
farls IS coming and / wave the fac. The
captain looks of from the bridge and savs
What do you want ~ / reply: CT CONS
70 take some OF your passengers across
70 the other vessel; think they will be safer
ana happier there" The captain would look
o e11l Win Indignation and say; Get ont 81
d.
would back oars, amidst the ieering cyi
two or three hundred people lookine
over the taffrail. But the Umbris
and the City Of Paris meet under different
circumstances after a while. The City Of
faris is coming ont Of cyclone: the life
boats are smashed; the bulwarl,s gone; TIA,
vessel rapidly going down. The boatswaiu
gives his last whistle of despairing com
Inand- Inc passengers run up and down the
deck, and some pray, and all make a great
outcry. The captain says: "You have
about fifteen minutes now 10 prepars
Tor tho next world" "No hopew sound,
from stem TO stern and from
the ratltnes down 20 the cabin.
see the distress. / am let down bJ
the side Of the Umbria pusk
on as fast as ] can toward the sink
ing City Of Paris. Before j come up people
are ieaping into the water in their anxiety Il
get 70 the boat, and when i have swung M
under the side Of the City Of Paris. thu
treBzied passengers rush through the gapo,
way until the officers. with ~ and ciuf,
ana pistols, try 70 keep back the crowd
each waiting his turn to come next
lncre Is but one life boat and they al
want 70 get into It, and the cry is. tsafs
next me nextw You see the Application.
'etore ! make It. As long a. "A man going
'n nm MS sin feels that oil Is wen. that he Il
INNS ont NJ q beautiful port. ond he's al
tah SET. he wants no Christ. he wants no bsfp.
ne wants no rescue; but II under the fash N
1o4s converting spirit he shall see that bv
le1-on o. SIN he IS dismasted and water
ggged, and going down into tho trough IL
the sea whore he cannot live. how er6n he
puts the sen glass 20 bis eye and g,geeue fhe
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