Milford chronicle., 1889-05-31
Salvation, o the Joyful sound.
IT'S pleasure to our ears;
A sovereign balm for every wound,
A cordfol IN oifr fears

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A cordial to our fears.
The text was; "If wash myself with snow
water. and should cleanse my hands IN al
kali. vet shalt thou plunge me in the dltch'
and mine own clothes shall abhor me- '-Jop
TX. 80, 81. The eloquent preacher SAID;
Albert Barnes-honored be his name on
Garth and in heaven-went straight back 10
the original writing Of my text and transiaV
cd if as | have now quoted it, giving SUB
stantial reasons for so doing. Although we
know better. the ancients had an idea that III
snow water there was a special power 10
cleanse, and that a garment washed ana
rinsed in it would be as clean as clean could
he. but if the plain snow water failed to 10
its work, then they would take I've or aikah
and mix it with oil, and under that prepare
tion they felt that the last impurlty WouId
certainly be gone Job, in my text IN most
forceful figure sets forth the idea that all his
attemnts to make himself pure before God
we're a dead failure, and that, unless we are
abluted by something better than earlhly
/ LIQUIDS and chemical preparations we are
] loatbsome and in the ditch. - II WASH my
| self with snow water, and should J cleanse
my hands in alkali, yet shalt thou plunge me
in the ditch, and my clothes shall aohor me-
You are now sitting for your picture,
I
mon Won. and pray that the sunshine fall
ing through the skylight may enable me t'
take Won lust as you are. Shall it be hat
tar.inG Dict11re. or shall it be true one! Yo1
sav. II ct it be a true one" The first PRONE
that was ever taken was taken three hundred
and thirty years before Christ, of AntiSonus
He had a blind eye and he compelled the ar
fist TO take his profile so as to hide the deiec
in his vision. But since that invention, tire
hundred and thirty years before Christ, ther
have been a great many protiles Shall l to
dav give YOU a one sided view Of yourselves
a proiile7 or shall it be full length portrait
showing you just what you aref II God WI
help me by his almighty grace shall CIV
you that last kind of picture.
FAULTY EARLY TEACHING.
When | first entered the ministry, used
write my sermons all out and read them an
RIM nv hand along the line lest should los
NV place | have hundreds of those mani
scripts Shall | ever preach thems Nevel
for in those daysI was somehow overinastere
with the idea heard talked allaround aoou
Of the dignity of human nature, and adoptt
the idea. and evolved it, and illustrated
and argued it; but coming on in life an
having seen more Of the world, and stun,
i, better my Bible, find that that early teac
inc was faulty, and that there Is no dlgnli
l. in human nature, until it is reconstructed
II the grace of God Talk about vessels goli
y IN nieces ON the Skerries, Off Irelandl The
~ never was such u shipwrecs rs IN the Glh'
. and the Hiddekel, rivers of Eden, where o.
Il first parents foundered Talk of a steam
l. going down with five hundred passengers
T. boardl What is that to the shipwreck OF lou
A. teen hundred million soulsl We are by L
:; ture n mass of uncleauness and putrefacuo
from which it takes all the omnipotence a
u, infinitude of Gods grace to eXtrlcaoe US
8; l wash myself with snow water, and shoul,
# cleanse nv hands in alliali, yet shalt u
"a plunpe me in the dicth, and mine own clotf
shall abhor me"
THE SNOW WATER OF FINE APOLOGIES
remark, in the first place, that some p
- nile try to cleanse their soul of sin III the sh
water of fine apologies Here IS one IN
who says: Il am a sinner; confess III
but inherited this My father was sinn
> my grandfather, my great-great-grandls tn
3g and all the way back to Adam, ana eouiu
= beln mvselfn NV brother, have you II
every day in your life, added something e
n the original estate of sin that was boqueat.
~ to voul Are you not brave enough to c
fess that YOU have sometimes SURRENDERED
ask Won whether it is fair play to put a.
our ancestry things for which we oursei
n are personally responsiblel If your nat
, was askew when you got it, have you
sometimes given it an additional twisti '
sit ali the tombstones of those who h
he'd preceded us make q barricade high eno'
\, for eternal defensesl | know dcvOut q
bar who had blasphemOus parentase know
nts honest man whose father was thief
'om know a pure man whose mother was
Of the street The hereditary tide may
. very strong, but there is such a thing
stemining it. The fact that have corr
nature is no reason why should ylcld tC
- The deem stains OF our soul can never
washed out by the snow wataJ OF such ms
cient apology.
,. Still further, says some one: "lf /
nan. zone into sin. it has been through my c
fur nanions. my comrades and associates'
ruinsd me They taught me to drink.
y M took me to the gambling hell They plui
me into the Louise of sin They ruined
- soul y | do not believe it God gave &c
n one the power to destroy you or me-
man is destroyed he is self destroyed, ana
q is ALWAYS so Why did you not break d
frs,n themt Is they hal tried to steal
w ~ nurse. YOU would have knocked them do
east If they had tried to purloiA your
Fen watch, you would have rlddled them
shot but when they tried To steal
immortal soul, you placidly slhln
to it. Those bad fellows have a
Pr. Of fire to drink, do not pour your cup
/" It. In this matter Of the soul, every ma
" himself That those persons are not run
hi sponsible for your sim prove by the
error. .s;tl ro,so,t y-ith them You
sniir - - .,fp Nv Manning them TAnlgh