The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-05-23
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about that future world untwisted our
thought of transfer from here to there |
would be as pleasant to us as it was
to little child that was dying. She
said: Papa, when will / 90 homel"
And he said: To-day, Florence.
Today SO soon2 am SO gladr'
THE DAY OF DELIvERANcE IS COMING.
| wish | could stimulate you with
these thoughts, oh Christian man, to
the highest possible exhilaration. The
day of your deliverance is coming, is
coming. 1t is rolling on with the
shining wheels of the day. and the jet
wheels of the night Every thump Of
the heart is only a hammer stroke
Better scour the deck and coil therope,
the harbor is only six miles away.
Jesus will come down in the Mar
rows" to meet you. Now is your sal
vation nearer than when you believed.
Unforgiven man, nnpardoned man,
will you not today make choice be-
tween these two portions, between the
''south land" of this world, which
slopes to the desert, and this glorious
land which thy Father offers thee,
running with eternal water courses?
Why let your tongue be consumed
with thirst when there are the neither
springs and the upper springs, comfort
here, and glory hercafter2
Let me tell you, my dear brother,
that the silliest and wickedest thing a
man ever does is to reject Jesus Christ.
The loss of the soul is mistake that
cannot be corrected 1t is a downfall
that knows no alienation; it is a ruin
that is remediless; it is sickness that
has no medicament; it is a grave into
which q man goes but never comes
out Therefore, putting my hand on
your shoulder as one brother puts his
hand ON the shoulder of brother, |
say this day, be manly, and surrender
your heart to Christ You have been
long enough serving the world; now
begin to serve the Lord who bought
you. You have tried long enough to
carry these burdens; let Jesus Christ
put his shoulder under your burden.
Do hear any one in the audience say:
II mean to attend to that after awhile;
it is not just the time2" 1t is the time,
for the simple reason that you are sure
of no other; and God sends you
here this morning, and he sent me
here to confront you with this mes
sage; and you must hear now that
Christ died to save your soul, and
that ii you want to be saved you may
be saved "Whosoever will, let him
come" You will never find any more
convenient season than this. Some of
you have been waiting ten, twenty,
thirty, forty, fifty and sixty years.
On some Of you the snow has fallen.
I see it on your brow, and yet you
have not attended 10 those duties
| which belong to the very springtime
of life. 1t is September with you
now, it is October with you, it is De
cember with you. ! am no alarmist.
| simply know this: if man does
not repent in this world he never re-
pents at all, and that now is the ac-
cepted time, and now is the day OF
salvation. Oh, put off this matter nc
longer. Do not turn your back on
Jesus Christ who comes to save you,
lest you should lose your soul.
On Monday morning a friend OF
mine started from New York to cele,
brate her birthday with her daughter
in Virginia. On Saturday of the same
week, Just after sunrise, | stood at the
gate of Greenwood waiting for her 81
lent form to come in. 1t Is long
| journey to take III one week-fron
New York to Philadelphia, from Phil
adelphia to'Baltimore, from Baltimore
to Washington, from Washington t(
Virginia, from Virginia into the grea
eternity. "What thy hand ffndeth tC
do, do it"
A Spider Web Telephone.
A gentleman was watching som
spiders, when it occurred to him t
try what effect the sound of tuning
fork would have upon them. lie suS
pected that they would take it for tn
buzzing of fly.
He selected large, ugly spider
that had been feasting on flies for tw
months. The spider was at one edg
of his web Sounding the fork, th
man touched a thread at the othe
side, and watched the result. Nj
Spider had the buzzing sound conve,
ed to him over his telephone wire
but how was he to know on whic
particular wire it was travelling?
He ran to the center Of the web yer
quickly, and felt all around until /
touched tho thread against the oth'
end of which the fork was sounding
then, taking another thread alonj
, lust as man would take an ext
piece of rope, he ran out to the foi
and sprang upon 1t.
, Then he retreated a little way, al
r looked at the fork. He was puzzle
: He had expected to find buzzing IL,
He got on the fork again. and dance
+ with delight Evidently the sour
4 was music to him. Youths Compa
] ion.