The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-07-18


it is destruction for eternity.
WANTED; TRUE RELIGION.
Give me five hundred men and wo-
men fully consecrated to Christ, and
we will take any city for God in three
years. Give me ten thousand men
and women fully up to the Christian
standard; in ten years ten thousand of
them would take the whole earth for
God. But when are we going to begin2
Ledyard the great traveller, was
brought before the Geographical So
ciety of Great Britain, and they wanted
him to make some explorations in
Africa, and they showed him all the
perils, and all the hard work, and all
the exposure, and after they had told
him what they wanted him to do in
Africa, they said to him: Now, Led
yard, when are you ready to start9'
He said: Tomorrow morning." The
learned men were astonished; they
thought he would take weeks or
months to get ready. Well, now, you
tell me you want to be earnest for
Christ you want to be useful in
Christian service. When are you go-
ing to begin2 Oh, that you have the
decision to say, To-day, now" Go
now into the mount and gather the
palm branches. But the palm
branch also meant victory. In
all ages, in all lands, the palm
branch means victory. We are
by nature the servants of Satan. He
stole US, he has his eye on u.s. he wants
to keep US. The word comes from our
Father that if we will try to break
loose from this doing of wrong, our
Father will help US; and some day we
rouse up, and we look the black tyrant
In the face, and we fly at him, and we
wrestle him down, and we put our
heel on his neck, and we grind him in
through our Lord Jesus Christi Oh
TEat grand thing it is TO have sin
'+hder foot and q wasted life behind
our backs. blessed is he whose trans
gression Is forgiven, and whose sin is
covered" But" says the man, IT
feel SO sick and worn out with the all
ments of life" You are going to be
more than conqueror. But, says the
man, Il am so tempted, | am 80 pur-
sued in life" You are going to be
more than conqueror. Il, who have
SO many ailments and heartaches, go
ing to be more than conqueror2" Yes,
unless you are SO self cOnoeited that
you want to manage all the affairs of
your life yourself, instead of letting
God manage them. Do you want to
drive and have God take back seat2
Oh, no, you say; / want God to be
my leader. Well, then, you will be
more than conqueror. Your last sick
ness will come, and the physicians in
the next room will be talking about
what they will do for you. What
difference will it make what they do
for you2 You are going to be well,
everlastin9ly well. And when the
spirit has fled the body your friends
will be talking as to where they shall
bury you. What difference does it
make to you where they bury you2
The angel of the resurrection can pick
you out of the dust anywhere, and
all the cemeteries of the earth
are i'll Gods care. Oh you are going
to be more than conqueror Don't you
think we had better begin now to cele-
brate the coming victory2 In the old
meeting house at Summerville, my
father used TO lead the singing, and he
had the old fashioned tuning fork, and
he would strike it upon his knee, and
then put the tuning fork to his ear to
catch the right pitch and start the
hymn. But, friend, don't you think
we had better be catching the pitch of
the everlasting song, the song of vic
tory when We shall be more than con-
querors2 Had we not better begin the
rehearsal on earth9 "They shall hun
ger no more, neither thirst any more; ;
neither shall the sun light on them,
in the midst of the throne shall feed
fountains of water; and God shall
wipe away all tears from their eyes"
City of Eternity, to thy bridal halls
| From this prison would flee;
| Ah gloryl that's for you and me.
WE HAVE A BRAwNY CHRISTIANITY,
My text brings up one step further.
1t says, go forth into the mount
and fetch olive branches, and pine
branches, and myrtle branches, and
palm branches, and branches of
thick trees Now, you know very
we'll that booth or arbor made of
slight branches would not stand. The
first blast of the tempest would pros
trate 1t. So then the booth or arbor
must have four stout poles to hold up
the arbor or booth and hence for the
building Of the arbor for this world
we must have stout branches of
thick trees. And so 1t is in
the gospel arbor. Blessed be God that
we have a brawny Christianity, not
one easily upset. The storms Of life
will come upon us, and we want
strong doctrine not only love, but
justice; not only invitation by warn
ing. 1t is q mighty gospel; it is an
omnipotent gospel. There are the
stout branches Of thick trees I re-
member what Mr. Finney said in a
school house IN this state. The village
was so bad it was called Sodom, and
it was said to have only one good man
in all the village, and he was called
Lot; and Mr.. Finney, preaching, de-
scribed the destruction of Sodom, and
the preacher declared that God would
ers unless they, too, repented.
And the people in the school house
sat and ground their teeth in anger,
and clinched their fists in indigna
ton; but before he was through with
his sermon they got down on theil
knees and cried for mercy while
mercy could be found. Oh, it Is 6
mighty Gospel; not only an invita-
ton, but a warning; an omnipoten
truth, stout branches of thick trees
Well, my friends, have shown yoy
here is the olive branch Of peace, here
is the pine branch of evergreen gos
pei consolation, here the palm tree
branch of usefulness and victory, anC
here are the stout branches of thicl
trees. The gospel arbor is done. The
air is aromatic of heaven. The leave
rustic with the gladness of God
Come into the arbor. / wen
out at different times with
fowler to the mountains to catcl
pigeons; and we made our booth, ant
, we sat in that booth, and watched 70
the pigeons to come. And we foun'
, flocks in the sky, and after q Will
, they dropped into the net and we wer
| successful. So | come now to the doc
of this gospel booth and l look out,
see flocks OF souls flying hither ant
[ flying thither. Oh, that they Nigh
/ come like clouds and as doves TO tn
: window. Come into the booth. Com
D into the booth.
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