The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-10-17

va Soi ~ 'uioI NO gave out tne iolloWtnB hymn: |
Amazing graceI how sweet the sound
That saved wretch like me;
once was lost, but now ain found:
Was blind. but nov I see
The subject Of his sermon was THE |
Saving Look, and the text Hebrews |
xii, 2: Looking unto Jesus" DIR. |
Talmage said
In the Christian life we must not go
slpshod. This world was not made |
for us to rest in. In time of war YOU
will find around the streets of some
city, far from the scene of conflict, |
men in soldiers uniform, who have a
right TO DO away. They obtained
furlough and they are honestly and |
righteouslY off duty; but l have to
tell you that in this Christian con-
hict, between the first moment when
we enlist under the banner of Christ
and the last moment in which we |
shout the victory there never will be |
single instant in which we will have |
right to be off duty. Paul throws
all around this Christian life the ex.
elements OF the old Roman and Gre |
clan galnes-those games that sent a
man On a race, with such a stretch of
nerve and muscle, that sometimes
when he came up TO the goal, he drop
ped down exhausted. Indeed, history
tells us that there were cases where |
men came up and only had
strength just to grasp the goal and
then fall dead. Now, says this
apostle, making allusion to those
very games, we are all 10 run tho
race, not TO crawl it, not TO walk it
but run the race set before us,
looking unto Jesus, and just as in the
oIden times, a man would stand at the |
end of the road with beautiful gar
land that was to be put around the |
head or brow of the successful racer, |
50 the Lord Jesus Christ stands at the |
end of the Christian race with the |
garland of eternal life, and may God |
grant that by bis holy spirit we may
so run as to obtain.
The distinguished aWelliston, the
chemist, was asked where his labora-
tory was and the inquirers expected !
TO be shown some large apartment |
filled with very expensive apparatus;
but Welliston ordered his servant to |
bring on tray few glasses and re-
tort, and he said TO the inquirers:
That IL all my laboratory. / make
all my experiments with those. Now, / |
know that there are great many who |
take "a whole library to express their |
theology. They have 80 many theories |
on ten thousand things; but have to |
say that all my theology is compassed |
in these three words: Looking unto |
Jesus" and when we can understand |
the height and the depth and the |
length and the breadth and the infnity |
and the immensity of that passage we |
can understand all
CHRIST OUR PERSONAL SAVIOUR
4 remark In the first place, we must |
look 70 Christ as our personal Saviour,
Now, you know as well as ], that man |
il only blasted ruin of what he once |
was There is not 80 much difference be- |
tween a vessel coming out of Liverpool
hArbor, with pennants flying and the |
deck crowded with good cheer, and |
and the guns booming, and that same |
vessel driving against Long Island
coast, the drowning passengers ground
TO pieces amid the timbers of the brolS-
en- up steamer, as there is between
man as he came from the hands of
God. equipped for a grand and glor-
ious voyage, but afterward, through
the pilotage of the devil, tossed and
driven and crushed, the coast of the
near future strewn with the fragments
OF an awful and eternal shipwreck.
Our body is wrong. How easily it is
ransacked of disease. Our mind is
wrong. How hard il is to remember,
and how easy to forget. The whole |
nature disordered from the crown OF
the head to the sole of the foot
wounds, bruises, putrefying sores.
"All have sinned and come short of
the glory of GOD" " "By one man sin
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sin, and so death has passed upon all
men for that oil have sinned." There
az In Brazil a plant they call the
"rnurderer," for the simple reason that
iitfis.so poisonous 1t kills almost every
thing i touches 1t begins to wind
around the root of the tree and COM
ing up TO the branches reaches out to
the ends of the branches, killing the
tree as il goes along. When it has
come TO the tip end OF the branch the
tree is dead Its seeds fall to the
ground and start other plants just as
murderous,
And so II is with sin. II is pois-
onous plant that was planted in our
soul a long while ago, and it comes
winding about the body and the mind
and the soul, poisoning, poisoning,
poisoning-killing, killing, killing as
II goes. Now, there would be no need
of my discoursing upon this If there
were no way of plucking out that
plant 1t Is a most inconsiderate
thing for me to come to a man who
is In financial trouble and enlarge
upon his trouble if have no allevia
tion TO offer. Il is an unfair thing for
me TO come to a man who Is sick and
enlarge upon his disease if have no
remedy to offer. But / have right
80 come to a man in financial distress
or physical distress il / have financial
reinforcement TO offer or sure cure
70 propose Blessed be God that
among the mountains of our sin there
rolls and reverberates q song OF sal
yaNon Louder than all the voices Of
bondage is the trumpet of Gods deliv-
erance, sounding: "Oh, Israel, thou
hast destroyed thyself, but in me il thy
help AT the barred gates of our dun
geon, the conqueror knocks and the
hinges creak and grind ut the swing
ing open. The famine struck pick up
the mama that falls in the wilderness
and the floods clap their hands, saying:
"Drink, oh thirsty soul, and live for
ever" and the feet that were torn and
deep cut on the rocky bride path OF
sin now come INTO smOOln piacct
and the dry alders crackle as the pant
ing hart breaks through to the water
brooks, and the dark night of the soul
begins 10 grow gray with the morn
ing, yea to purple, yea to flame, from
horizon TO horizon. The batteries of
temptation silenced Troubles that
fought against us captured and made
10 fight on our side Not as result OF
any toll or trouble on our part, but
only as result Of Looking unto
Jesus" but what do you mean by
Looking unto Jesusf" some one in
quires- l mean faith. What do you
mean by faithi" | mean believing.
What do you mean by believingp
mean this: II you promise TO do a
certain thing for me, and have con-
hdence in your veracity-n you say
you will give me such IA thing and
need it very much, come in conf
dence that you are an honest man and
will do what you say. Now, the Lord
Jesus Christ says: You are III need of
pardon and life and heaven, you can
have them if you come and get them"
You say: II can't come and ask first.
] am afraid you won't give it 10 me"
Then you are unbelieving. But you
say: ~ will come and ask. i know,
Lord Jesus, thou art in earnest about
this matter. i come asking for par
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