Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-08-28

soul sltl with sin. invalid in your trans
gressions, think this Gospel will agree
with you think if you cannot take any
thing else. you can take this. LOst-foundI
Sunken-raised! Condemned-pardoned
Cast out-invitcd in! That is the old corn
of tho Gospel.
notice, in regard to this article of food,
you take it three times day. 1t is on your
table morning, noon and night; and If it is
forgotten you say, "Where is the breads"
Just so certainly you need Jesus three times
day. Oh, do not start out without Him;
do not dare to go out of the front door; do
not dare to go off the front steps, without
having first communed with Him. Before
noon there may be perils that will destroy
body, mind and soul forever You can not
afford to do without him. You will, during
the day, be amidst sharp hoofs and swift
wheels and dangerous scaffoldngs threat
cning the body, and traps for the soul that
have taken some who are more willy than
you. When they launch a ship they break
against the side of it bottle of wine.
That is II sort of superstition among sailors.
But oh, on the launching of every day,
that we might strike against it at least one
earnest prayer for divine protectioni That
would not be superstition; that would DO
Christian
Then at the apex Of the day. at the tiptop
of the hours, equdistant from morning and
| night, look three ways Look backward to
| the forenoon; look ahead to the afternoon;
look up to that Savior who presdes over all.
! You want bread at noon. You may find no
place in which to kneel amidst the Gotten
bales and the ticrces of rice; but if Jonah
| could find room to pray in the whales belly,
most certainly you will never be in such q
crowded place that you cannot pray. Bread
at noon. When the evening hour comes,
and your head is buzzing with the days
engagements, and your whole nature Is sore
from the abrasion of rough life, and you SEQ
a great many duties you have neglected,
then commune with Christ asking His
pardon, thanking Him for His love. That
would be queer evening repast at which
| there was no bread.
This is the nutriment and life of the plain
Gospel that / recommend you l do not
know how some OF our ministers make it SO
intricate and elaborate and mystifying
thing. 1t seems Us if they had u sort OF
mongrelism, in religion-part humantari-
anisn, part spiritualism, part nothingari.
anism; and sometimes you think they are
building their temple out of the Crock Of
Ages" but you find there is no rock in it
at all. 1t is stucco. The Gospel is plain.
1t is bread. There are no fogs lowering
over this river of life. All the fogs hover
over the marsh of human speculation. II
you can not tell, when you hear e
man preach, whether or not he be-
, lievcs in the plenary inspiration. Of tho
, Scriptures, 1t is because he does not believe
, in it, If when you hear a man PREACH you
can not tell whether or not he believes that
sin is Unborn, it is because he does not think
it is congenital. II, when you hear man
talk in the pulpit or prayer-meeting, you
can not make up your mind whether or not
, he believes in regeneration, it is because he
does not believe in it, If, when you
hear a man speak on religious themes, you
, can not make up your mind whether or not
r he thinks the righteous and the wicked will
come out at the same place, then it is be-
= cause he really believes their destinies are
: contermnous "a
c Do not talk to me about a man being
o doubtful about the doctrines of grace He
II is not doubtful to me at all. Bread is
J. bread, and know it the moment see it.
). / had corn-feld which cultured with my
II own hand l did not ask once in all the
!; summer, SIS this corn!" / did not hunt
1t up The Agriculturist to get picture Of
l. corn. was born in sight Of a corn-held,
e and know all about it. When these Is
is raelites came to Canaan and looked of up
d on the fields the cry was Corn! corn r.
,r And if a man has once tasted of this heav
u emily bread, he knows it right away HI
T. can tell this corn of the Gospe
Canaan from "the chaff which thu
T. wind driveth away. bless God SO man.
ut have found this Gospel corn. It is TIN
l bread of which if man eat he shall neve
er hunger set the gladness of your soul Il
s. the tunes Of "Ariel" and antioch"
IN ring the wedding bells, for Christ and you
I'd soul are married, and there is no power Of
Q, earth or in hell to get out letters Of divorce
err ment.
G. But alas for the famine struck Enoug
is corn, yet it seems you have no sickle to Gu
all it, no mill to grind it, no fire to bake 1t, n
We appetite to eat it. Starving to death, whe
ms the plain is golden with magniacen
az harvest!
all l rode some thirteen miles to see tn
re Alexander, a large steamship that wa
nd beached near Southampton, Long Islant
nd 1t was SPLENDID vessel. As I walked u
er and down the decks and in the cabins,
nd said, ''What pity that this vessel shoul
We go to pieces, or be lying here idle!" TIL
EN- coast-wreckers had spent thirty thousan
lat dollars trying to get her off, and they SUI
GU ceeded once; but she came back again
mt the old place. While was walking ON dec
,at every part Of the vessel trembled with tt
Ter beating of the surf on one side. Since the
I heard that that vessel which was wort
is hundreds of thousands Of dollars was so
ing for three thousand five hundred, al
of knocked to pieces. They had given up u
l idea of getting her to sail again. How su
md gestive all that is to mel There are tho
here who are aground in religious thing
I'll Once you started for heaven, but you q
md now aground. Several times twas thong
has you had started again heavenward,
,al- you soon got back to the old place, al
me there is not much prospect you will ev
the reacn the narDors Oh Inc piesseu- uoe
and wreckers, ! 1ear, VIII Pronounoe you
". w then it will be written in heaven concei
IN ing some one Of your size, and complexit
lad and age, and name, that he was invited
ndl be saved but refused the offer, and starry
the to death within sight of the fields Q
all granaries full OF the Old Corn OF Canas
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