Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-11-30

| ish to talk about Jesus coming into
our homes and hearts, but it is foolish
ness on our part to be dumb before the
world about such guest and friend
as the Lord Jesus. If we appreciate
| his abiding, (for he has come to stay)
then our friends will hear it from us,
whether they like it or not. True
christians cannot possibly be silent
about their Savior. Did ever any one
here you talking for Jesus? No /!
And yet. you are known as one of his
followers, holding membership in the
visible church, and you have not
thought enough of Him to talk to
your associates about him. What do
you think that Jesus Himself can
think ofyou?
recently heard talk just as fol.
lows, When Jesus began to preach
He said repent and believe the Cos
pel,' and his apostles followed His
example and teaching said, repent
and be converted so with heauthor-
ity of the Lord Of Heaven. The peo-
pie are commanded to repent, to be-
lieve and to be converted. To repent
is to do as David,-'I thought on my
ways, his sins were ever before him {.
He thought much. He was great
sinner. So we can think much, and
that in short time for our sins are
many. and Gods love to us is also
great, so we can think ofthat. David
turned his feet, so must we, from sin
and evil companions. Then he turn.
ed his feet unto Gods testimonies, SO
must veto the Word, the Holy
Spirit, to God true people for help.
Ours is to ask God for mercy for Jesus
sake. Can you think, can you quit
the evil way? Can you ask for
mercy? You have Gods help to do
it all, and all the help you can have.
When you have availed yourself of
the above help, then you will have
Cody sorrow for SIM which is a
genuine part of repentance, and the
longer you live in the light of the
word the more you will know about
it, and that is yourjoy. To believe is
to receive Jesus, the gift of God as my
savior who saves me, and | am not
prepared to so believe in Jesus until
/ repent and be converted. What is
that? 1t is more than turning from
sin. 1t has the idea of being turned
in it. Samuel said to Saul, 'Thespirit
of God shall come upon thee and thou
shall be turned into another man,
and it was so. God gave him anoth-
err head Jesus said except we be
converted and become as a little
child, He said you must be born
again. To be converted is to be born
into the kingdom of heaven on earth,
a babe in Christ. And all this is COM
manded with the authority of God.
So if you or / are not converted ac-
cording to the scriptures, it must be
our own fault. That we may be the
Lord has given us all the help that
we need, in the Word, the Holy Spirit
and the faith and truth of the church
of Jesus Christ" and when / heard
the above talk | said it is true every
word of it, and began to ask myself
ifmy experience agreed with it; my
friend what do you think of your
present state, and your future? Do
you hear the truth and obey it? Let
us each begin to live with wise refer
ence to the future.
In time past, The Creator of all
things, has spoken to men and ma
items, by drouth and by floods, by fire
and earthquake, by scarcity and plen-
ty, by famine and pestilence. May
not His corrective voice be heard in
these times by his own familiar agen-
cies? Had not His providence in the
floods of June and the wreck of Johns
town and elsewhere voices of correc-
tion and warning for this nation and
the individuals of it 1t is written,
that "whom the Lord loveth he
chasteneth," 1t certainly does appear,
and we are glad to claim that this ma
tion is favored and thus is a much
loved nation, and that by the God of
NATIONS, and that this nation is chosen
of God and commissioned by Him
with great missions and destinies for
the veal of the human race through
out the world we are glad to believe,
and one of them perhaps, through
the potency of her benign and exem-
plary but unexampled progress to
change arbitrary, oppressive and DIES.
potic monarchies into better govern
ments as that of Brazil at present, but
let us Think of our national sins, for
WI ich we need correction. This ma
tion though nominally christian, Is a
drunken nation, and many Of her
leading citizens of cities and towns
are such as delight in drunken revel-
riers; this nation is guilty as Sabbath
violating nation, for which God, as
with Judah of old, has controversy
with her and will have settlement.
This is an adulterous nation divorce
is too readily obtained. Practical
polygamy as moral evil outside of
Utah, to the disgrace of this republic.
Think of the Ubiquitous, cancerous,
corruption in license. Houses of ill
fame; and the revenue of christian
cities for the purpose of government /;
the lessening OF other taxable prop
erty in intelligentIy and legally per.
petuating institutions of death and
ruin, in open violation of the 18th
Commandment. Has God nothing to
correct here? Obedience must come
some, time or we may expect his hand
tobe much heavier on US. Somebody
must "cry aloud and spare not"
Most of the leading papers throughout
the country,-and / have examined
extracts from about twenty papers,
attribute the defeat of the Republicans
in Iowa, in the election of Mr.. Boies,
the Democratic nominee, to the desire
of the people for a repeal of the pro-
hibitory laws, and in so doing, they
advertise most clearly, that the Dem
ocratic party is the advocate of the
liquor traffic, and that the money of
that traffic, runs as free as water for
the perpetuation of the life of the two,
the Democratic party and the liquor
| traffic. The gist, too, of those leading
papers is prophetic of the following,
that, if the drinking element of the
republican party in Iowa shall with
the democratic party, favor the repeal
of the prohibitory laws, then the Sd
party for the future, will be so strong
in Iowa, that the republicans must be
showed under for the future. So il
is prohibition by the republicans in
Iowa, or nonexistence in power. Yea
that is the trend of the forceful move
ments of this country, and he thai
runs may read.
! A very popular, instructive, reli
Igious and wise feature of almost al
Che religious press, and of some of tn,
secular papers, is the publication o.
uofoq IN tho Sunday School lpca0n FL