The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-07-25

but / will never fail YOU" And then,
as the soul thinks the news Is too good
10 be true, and cannot believe it, and
looks up in Gods face, God lifts his
right hand and takes an oath, an ath-
davit, saying, "As I live, saith the
Lord Col l have no pleasure in the
death of him that dieth."
THANK GOD FOR THE GozPEL.
Blessed be God for such a Gospel as
thisl Cut the slices thin, ;" said the |
wife to the husband, or there Will not |
be enough to go all around for the |
children; cut the slices thin" Blessed |
be God, there is full loaf for every
one that wants it; bread enough and
to spare. No thin slices at the Lords
table I remember when the Master
Street hospital, in Philadelphia, was
opened during the war, a telegram
came saying, 'There will be three
hundred wounded men tonight; be
ready to take care of Them" and from
my church there went in some twenty
or thirty men and women to look af
ter these poor wounded fellows. As
they came, some from one part of the
land, some from another, no one
asked whether this man was from Ore
gon, or from Massachusetts,, or from
Minnesota, or from New York. There
was wounded soldier, and the only
question was how to take off the rags
most gently, and put on the bandage,
and administer the cordial. And when
soul comes to God he does not ask
| where you came from or what your
ancestry was Healing fer all your
wounds. Pardon for all your guilt.
Comfort for all your troubles.
Then. also, l counsel you, If you
want to get back, to quit all your bad
associations One unholy intimacy
will fill your soul with moral distem-
per. In all tho ages OF The church
there has not been an instance where
O man kept one evil associate and was
reformed Among the fourteen hun
dred million of the race not one In
stance Go home today, open your
desk, take ont Letter paper, stamp and
envelope, and then write u letter some
thing IKE this
MY old companions: / start this
day for heaven. Until I am persuaded
J you will Join II in this, farewell"
YOU MUST RENoUNCE ONE OR THE OTHER.
Then sign your name, and send the
letter with the first post Give UP
; your bad companions, or give UP
heaven It is not ten bad companions
that destroy man, nor five bad com
panions, nor three bad companions
r but one What chance is there fol
that young man saw along the street
l four or five young men with him
halting In front of grog shop, urg
r ing him to 90 in, he resisting, vlo
lently resisting, until after while
/ they forced him to go in2 It was ;
= summer night, and the door was lef
open, and I saw the process. They
q held him fast, and they put the cup t.
/ his lips, and they forced down tn
|. strong drink. What chance Is ther
n for such young man2
l counsel you also seek Christian ad
: vice. Every Christian man is boun'
j to help you. First OF all, seek GOD
: then seek Christian counsel. Gathe
It up all tho energies of body, mind an
G soul, and, appealing to God for sue
Y cess, declare this day everlasting wa
It against all drinking habits, all gan
n bling practices, all houses of sin. Hal
D. and half work will amount to nothing
II 1t must be Waterloo. Shrink bac
1t now and you are lost. Push on an
II you are saved. A Spartan general fe
IF at the very moment of victory, but b
Is dipped his finger in his own blood an
Ie wrote on a rock near which he We
a, dying, Sparta has conquered
re Thoagh your struggle to get rid OF 81
7e NAV seem 10 be almost death strus
4. gle YOU can dip your finger in you
~ own blood and write on the Rock
CT Ares. "Victory through our Lor
y, Jesus Christ.
u Oh, what glorious news it would
IL for some of these young men to ser
es home to their parents. They go
KS the postof1ice every day or two to 81
w whether there are any letters fro
as you. How anxious they are to hear
w SEND THE GOOD NEWS HOME.
III Some one said to Grecian genert
to ''What was the proudest moment
ve your life2" He thought momer
eel and said, The proudest moment
TO nv life was when / sent word home
he my parents that had gained the v
II. tory" And the proudest and mo
OF brilliant moment in your life will
y, the moment when you can send wo
ne to your parents that you have &C
TO- auered your evil habits by the gre
We Oh, despise not parental anxiety 1
or time will come when you Will ha
nj neither father nor mother, and you W
at go around the place where they Us
ne to watch you and find them gone tr'
no the house, and gone from the liz.
an and gone from the neighborhood. I
pa as loud foc forgiveness rs you N
nc over the mound in the ehurchya
they will not answer. Dead De-
red And then you will take out the WI
ses lock of hair that was cut from y
err mothers brow just before they bur
de- her, and you will take the cane W
en which your father used to walk,
his you will think and think and "
ow that you had done just as they wan
by you to, and would give the worlC
bat you had never thrust pang thror
in. their dear old hearts. God pity
to poor young man who has brou
ms, disgrace on his fathers namel
list pity the young man who has bro
ian his mothers hearth Better If ne
of never been born-better If, in the
the hour of his life, instead of being
against the warm bosom of mater
ife- tenderness, he had been cotfined
1an sepulchered There is no balm poY
the full enough to heal the heart OF
are who has brought parents to sorI
etf full grave, and who wanders at
.allk through the dismal cemetery, reno
ion. the haiS and wringing the hands,
S, if crying, "Motheri motherp Oh,
for today by all the memories of the
my and by all the hopes of tho fut
L a you would yield your heart to
IS 70 May your fathers God and your
lold ther's God be your God foreverl
ugh
re ODDS AND ENDS.
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