The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-02-08

! hN9nAo-tf Nc VIII 1--WE YOU n Splendid funeral.
ard YOU Shall have twenty-five carriages fol-
lowing you, with somebody in the most
OF thtH, and your coffin shall have
} silver handles on the sides and we
VIII MOURN for you in splendid pocket
handke rchiets bound with Grape and bonn
os1zine twenty full yards long, trailing half
across The parlor. so that all the company
may stand upon it. and we will write our
letters Tor the next six months on paper edged
with b aek- But my friends. your worldly
fortunes viii not last l will buy out now
an that you will be worth in worldly estate
I seNelif -IlFe years from now / have the
money in my pocket with which to do it.
here Il! Isl Two centsl 1t is large sum to
oiIer Tor all you Will possess at the
close OF seventY-fve years Choose the
world, il you want 10; but, if not, then
choose heaven. That estate lies partly on
tiis side OF the river, but mostly on tho
olher IL Is ever accommodating. The pros
pect OF it makes one independent
OF earthly misfortunes, so that Rogers,
the martyr, slept so soundly the night before
| ms burning, they violently shook him in
/ order to get him awake in time for
the execution: and Paul exults at the
thought Of the "ioy unspeakable and
I full OF glory.n Oh, choose earth or Heaveni
Make up your mind whether you wiz walk
/ IN earthly Joys, or fly with heavenly ex-
pectations. Be not bat. fit neither to walk
[ nor ny having Just enough of heaven to
Z spoil the world, and SO much of the
! world as to spoil heaven. Christ says
that your present condition nauseates him to
positive sickness: Because thou art
neither cold nor hot, VIII
sDew thee out Of my mouthln In the
ruins OF Pompeii there was found petriied
woman, who, instead of trying to fly from
the destroyed city, had spent her time in
gathering up her jewels. She saved neither |
her life nor her jewels. There are
multitudes making the same mistake
70 IA lnrr ff,nrr I
lose both. we cannot serve God and
Manmon." Be one thing or the other.
Tread the earth like a lion, or mount the air
like the eagle; for my text says: I'VE shall
have IN abomination among the fowls, the
bat"
Again: taking the suggestion of the text,
drive out the chamsleon from your soul
There is some difference among good men as
to the name Of this creeping thing
which God pronounced unclean, but shall |
take the opinion which seems best suited |
to my purpose. The chameleon is reptile,
chiefly known by its changeableness of color, |
taxing the color OF the thing next to it. some
times brown, sometimes red, and 1
sometimes gray, but always the color /
OF its surroundings a typs of that class /
OF Christians who are now one thing in re-
tigious faith, and now another. Just to suit
circumstances, always taking their color of
religious belief from the man they are talk
ing 70; They go TO ons place, aud are first
rate Unitarlans Jesus was a good man, /
but nothing more.n They go TO Princeton,
and they are Irinitarians, almost willing to
de for the divinity of Jesus. Among the
OniFersalists they refuse the idea of future
punishment; and going among those Of
opposite belief, announce that there IS
a hell with a gustO that makes you
think they are glad Of it Drive out that
unclean chameleon faom your soul. Do not
be ever changing the color OF your faith. Ny
friends, liberal Christianity, falsely so-called,
believes in nothing. God is anything
you want to make Him. The
Bible TO De believed in 50 far as you
like It Heaven a grand mixing up of Neros
and Pauls. The man who dies by suicide in
his right mind in 1858, beating into glory by
ten years the Christian man who dies a
Christian death In 1885; the suicide proving
himself wiser than the Christian. Oh. my
friends let Us try to believe in something.
An infiieI was called to the bedside of his
daughter. The daughter said: "Father,
which shall believe, you Ormotheri Mother
took the religion Of Christ and died in its
embrace You say that religion is a humbug.
Now am going to die. and am very much
perplsxei; shall l believe you, or take the
belief of my motheri7 The father said:
Choose yourself She said. No; am too
weak 20 choose for myself; 1 want You to
choose for me.n ''Well," said the father,
MARY, think you had better take the
religion OF your mother Tha time Will CONS
when 9 snail have to believe something. We
can not afford 10 be on the fence in religion
Truth and error are set opposite TO each
other. The one IS infinitely right and the /
other infinitely wrong. On the judgment
day must give an account OF what We
believed as vel as Tor what we acted. ,
The difference between believing truth
and believing error is the difference between
paradise and pardItion beg you, in she
light OF the Bible. and on your knees be-
lore God, to form your religious opin- !
ion ant then stick to it though business COM
panionS scof, and wits caricature and the
air crackies With the fires of martyrdom
Surely trushs in behalf of which Christ
died, and angels Of God trooped forth, and '
the whole universe is marsbaled are worth
living for and worth dying for. Amidst the
most Iinclean things is this everchanging
chanlel con of religious theory. Away with
the reTtiisi God abhOrs it with an all-con- {
suminig adherence. I
Once more: take the suggestion of the
text and drive out the snail from your soul. ;
God has declared it uncean. II is an animal
to be found everywhere between the coolest
north and the hottest south There are l
fifteen hundred species Of the snail. They ;
have no backbone, and they are so slow that ,
their movement is almost imperceptible. You /
~ asnail in one place today; go tomorrow
and you viii find it has advanced only few
inches 1t becomes an emblem of that large
class Of Christian people who go to work
with siowness and sluggishness that IS won i.
ierful They are stopped by every little OBJ !,
itacle because like the snail, they have no
Dackbtne. Others mount up on eagles wings a
out they go at snaif's pace. q
o. child of God, arousei We have +
ipotheosized Prudence and Caution long
snouglL Prudence IS beautiful grace, but
II all the family Of Christian graees 1 o
ike Tier the least, for she has been y
married so often to Laziness, I
md sHoth, and Stupidity. We have a !
Million idlers in the Lords vineyard who !
,ride themselves on their prudence. ''Be .
Irudert,n said the disciples to Christ, land a
itay away from Jerusalem;n but He went.
BE prudent said fauls friends, land look
1ut for what you say to Felix" but he
hundred away until the rulers knees A
Knocked together In the ewes of the world. L
he most imprudent men that ever lived :,
we're Martin Luther, and John Oldcastle, and il
Wesley, and Knox. My opinion is that the
most Imprudent and reckless thing is to stand =
till IT is vel! TO hear our Commanders voice q.
when He says "Halti' but quite as important c
o hear IL when he says Forward This
gospel ship made TO pillow the sea as fifteen
nots an hour is not making three. y
sometimes it is most prudent to a.
ide your horse slowly and pick out the :,
lay for his feet, and not strike him with the II
5urs. but when a band Of Shoshonee In :
, a ,, are ,,, 9ater you in full TIT 81
our horse % a full run, shouting; ''Go
my uilt-i tbs heQchl Myuutdius tCuy ~.
be foes Of God are pursuing US The world, ~
ie iesh, and the devil are after us; and our OF
isess course is to 60 ahead at swiftest III
,eed. :,
When the Church Of God gets TO advanc- p
z too fast, it will be time enough TO use Ut
iution- No need Of putting on the brakes m
lille going 10 hill Do not let US sit down ell
aiting for something ito turn up" but sp
} ahead in the name Of God, and turn it
?. The great danger 70 the church now is
1t sensation but stagnation. Oh that the re
ord God would send host Of aroused and Pl
'nsecrated men 70 set the Church on bc
re, and TO turn the world upside down. :,
ct US go 10 work and catch the last ~
lail IN our souls. With Divine vehemence lel
{ Us stamp its life OUT for my text declares: w
! nsse also shall be unclean to you among re-
le creeping things that creep upon the NJ
am the chameleon and the snail have -,
l9s tried to prejudice these Christian men 81
40 women against gloominess, and SANDER,
al nan and-half experiences, and change n
oiehess, and Sioth. Our opportunities for ~
ettlnS better are being rapidly swallowed VI
p IN the remorseless past This golden 10
aDoath IS about to drop out Of the calendar eg
ms moment We may drive out all the sn
mclean things from our souls-the yultHre "a
ii the bat, and tho owl and tba cborna, ca