The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-27


hymn that one beginning
salvation thy joyful sound,
Ills pleasure 10 our ears,
A sovereign balm for every wouhd'
4 cordial TO our Tears
The text was III wash myself with
snow water, and should | cleanse my
hands in alkali, yet shalt thou plunge me
in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall
abhor me."-Jobix., 80 81. The eloquent
preacher said;
Albert Barncs-honored be his name on
earth and in heaven-went straight back
to the original writing OF my text, and
translated it rs have now quoted II, CIV
ing substantial reasons for so doing. AL
though we know better, the ancients had
nm idea that in snow water there was
special power to cleanse, and that a gar
ment washed and rinscd in it would be MS
clean as clean could be; but II the plain
snow water failed to do its work, then
they would take lye OF alkali and mix II
with oil, and under that preparation they
felt that the last impurity would certainly
be gone. Job, in my text, in most force
iul figure sets forth the idea that all
his attempts TO make himself pure before
God were dead failure, and that unless
We are abluted by something better than
earthly liquids and chemical preparations
we are loathsome and in the ditch. III
wash myself with snow water, and should
cleanse my hands in alkali, yet shalt
thou plunge me in the ditch, and mino
own clothes shall abhor me"
You are now sitting for your picture. |
turn the camera obscura OF Gods word
full upon YOU, and lprny that the sunshine
falling through the skylight may enable
me to take you just rs You are. Shall 1t
b. nattering picture, or shall It be true
one2 You say: "Let IL be a true one
The flrst profile that was ever taken was
taken three hundred and thirty years be-
fore Christ, OF Anigonus. lie had n
blind eye and no compelled the artist to
take his profile 80 as TO hide the defect in
his vision. hut since that invention, three
hundred and thirty years before Christ,
there have been great many proiilcs.
Shall today give You ono-sdcd view OF
yourselves, profile, or shall II DO full
length portrait, showing YOU just what
YOU are? II God will help me 10y His
almighty grace, ! shall give you the last
kind OF n picture.
When first entered the ministry | used
TO write my sermons all out aud read
them. and run my hand along the line
lest should lose my place. have hun
dreds OF those manuscripts. shall ever
preach them? Never; for in those DAYS !
was somehow oyermasicrnd with the idea
j heard talked all around about, OF the
dignity OF human nature, aud | adopted
a.. 4 4 l fstIl
1t, and argued Il; but coming on in life,
and having seen moro Of the world, and
studied better my Bible, lind that that
early teaching was faulty, and that there
Is no dignity In human nature until II u
reconstructed 10y the grace Of God. Tall
about vessels going 30 pieces ON the Skier
rics. oil Ireland There never was such
shipwreck a. in the Gihon and the Hid
dekcl, riycr OF Ellen, where our iirs
parents f0undcrcd. Talk OF steamer
going down with five hundred passenger
ON board! What Is that 10 the shipwrccl
Of fourteen hundred million souls? W,
arc by nature mass OF unclcanncss an,
putrciaciion, from which IL takes all Tia
omnipotence and inhnitude OF God
grace to exiricato Ms III wash mysel
with snow water, aud should cleanse m
hands ~ alkali, vet shalt thou plunge M
in the ditch, and my own clothes shall ~
hor me-
remark, In the iirsi place, that son
people Try 90 cleanse their soul OF sin
the snow water OF fine apologies Here
one man who says 81 am sinner col
Tess that: but | inherited this My faith
wasa sinner, my grandfather, my gfcT
Rreat-arandather, aud all the way ba,
10 Adam, and ! couldn't help myself
NY brother, have you not, every day
your life, added something 10 the origin
estate OF ain that Was hcqueaihcdto your A
YOU not brave enough 10 confess that y,
have sometimes surrendered 20 sin. viii
YOU ought TO have conquered ! ask "
whether Il is fair PLAY 10 put upon our a
ccstry things for which We ourselves Q
personally rcsponhblc2 II your nalt
was mkcw when YOU got Il, have you I
sometimes given Il an additional twi
VIII all the iomhsionos oi those who hH
preceded us make blrucadc high cnou
Tor eternal dcicnsc3 | know a dcyoul M
who had blasphcmous percentage. In
an honest man whose father was q thI
know q pure man whose mother wa
waii OF the street. The hereditary 1
NAV be- very strong, but thcru is sucl
thing ~ siomming H. The fact tina
have n corrupt nature ~ no rcison VIII
should yield 10 a. The deep stains OF
soul can never be- washed ont by the M
water Of such insufficient apology.
still further, says some ono. 81
have gone into sim Il has been throl
my companions, my comrades and as
aics, they ruinod me. They taught mu
drink. They took me 10 the gimbl
hell. Ihby plunged me into the hous
Ain. They ruined my soul" donol
lluye o. God gave 10 no one the pc
o. destroy YOU or me. II man h
siruycd be- 10 fclf destroyed, and tha
always M. Why did you not break q,
from thcm7 II they had tried 10 \
your purse, you would have knocked q
down, u they had tried % puroin ;
gold watch, YOU would have fddlcd n
with shot. but when they tried 20 B
your immortal toul, YOU plar.dly
miited 10 H. Those bad fellows has
cup Of Ere TO drink, DO not pour YOUR
into II. In this ma tcr OF thp soul cl
man ior himself That those person.
not fully responsible lur your sin, ! D
by the fact that yuI still cons1u
tlom. You cannot get or by hlar
them. Though you gather MP all {
apologies, though there were great
OF them; though they should come j
with the force Of the melting SHOWS
Lebanon, they could not wash out
stain Of your immortal soul.
Still further, some pcrsons apologize
their sins by saying eve are great
better than some people. You see p.
all around about Us that are great
worse than We" You stand up culuN
in your integrity, and look down