News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-14

slice of it clear around the loaf. You
have not got tired of bread, and that is
a characteristic of the gospel. Old
Christian man, are you tired of Jesus!
If so, let us take his name out of our
Bible, and let us with pen and ink erase
that name wherever we SEQ it. Let us
cast it out of our hymnology, and let
'There is a Fountain" and Rock OF
Ages go into forgetfulness. Let us
tear down the communion table where
we celebrate his love. Let us dash
down the baptisnal bowl where we were
consecrated to him. Let us hurl Jesus
from our heart, and ask some
other hero to come in. Let US |
say, $50 away, Jesus; l want an
other companion, another friend, than
thou art" Could you do it2 The years
of YOUR past life, aged man, would utter
a protest against it, and the graves of |
your Christian dead would charge you
with being an migrate, and your little |
grandchildren would say, Grandfather,
don't do that Jesus is the one to whom
we say our prayers at night, and WHO'S to
open heaven when we die. Grandfather,
don't do that" Tired of Jesus? The
Burgundy rose you pluck from the gar
den is not so fresh and fair and beauti
full. Tired of Jesus2 As well get weary
of the spring morning, and the voices
of the mountain runnel, and the quiet
of your own home, and the gladness OF
YOUR own children. Jesus is bread, and
the appetite for that is never obhterated.
ASK HIS ADVICE.
Inotice in regard to this article of food
you take it three times n day. 1t is on your
table morning, noon and night; and If
it is forgotten you say, ''Where is the
breadr Just so certainly you need
Jesus three times day. Oh, do not
start out without him; do not dare to
90 out of the front door; do not dare
to go off the front steps without hav-
ing first communed with him! Before
noon there may be perils that will de-
stroy body, mind and soul forever.
You cannot afford to do without him.
You will, during the day, be amid
sharp hoofs and swift Wheels and dan
gerous scaffoldings threatening the
body, and traps for the soul that have
taken some who are more willy than
YOU. When they launch ship they
! break against the side of it a bottle OF
wine That is a sort of superstition
among sailors. But oh, on the launch
ing of every day, that we might strike
against it at least one earnest prayer
for divine protection! That would not
be superstition; that would be Chris
tan.
Then at the apex of the day, at the
tip top of the hours, equidistant from
morning and night, look three ways.
Look backward to the forenoon; look
ahead to the afternoon; look up to
that Saviour who presides over all. You
want bread at noon. You may find no
place in which to kneel amid the cot
ton bales and the tierces of rice; but if
Jonah could find room to pray in the
whales belly, most certainly you will
never be in such n crowded place that
you cannot pray. Bread at noon!
| When the evening hour comes, and your
head is buzzing with the days engage
ments, and your whole nature is sore
from the abrasion of rough life, and
you see a great many duties you have
neglected, then commune with Christ,
asking his pardon, thanking him for
his love. That would be aqueer even
ing repast at which there was no bread.
THE GOSPEL Is PLAIN.
This is the nutriment and life of the
plain gospel that l recommend you. l
do not know how some of our ministers
make it so intricate and elaborate and
mystifying a thing. 1t seems as if they
had a sort of mongrelism in religion
part humanitarianism part spiritualisln,
part nothingarianism; and sometimes
you think they are building their tenn
pie out of the "Rock 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 specu-
lation. If you cannot tell, when you
hear a man preach, whether or not he
believes in the plenary inspiration of
the Scriptures, it is because he does not
believe in it. If, when you hear man
preach, you cannot tell whether or not
he believes that sin is Unborn, it is be
cause he does not think it is congenital.
If, when you hear man talk in pulpit
or prayer meeting, you cannot make
up your mind whether or not he be-
lieves in regeneration, it is because he
does not believe in it. If, when you
hear Il man speak on religious themes,
you cannot make up your mind
whether or not he thinks the righteous
and the wicked will come out at the
same place, then it Is because he really
believes their destinies are contermi-
nous.
Do not talk to me about a man
being doubtful about the doctrines of
+ grace He is not doubtful to me at all
Bread is bread, and | know it the mo-
ment | see it, | had cornfield which
, | cultured with my own hand. did
: dot ask once in all the summer, SIS
this corng' 1 did not hunt up The
Agriculturist to get picture of corn.
I | was born in sight of a cOrnfleld, and
9 l know all about it. When these Is
o raelites came to Canaan and looked off
upon the fields the cry was Corn !
corn" And if a man has once tasted
of this heavenly bread he knows it
right away. He can tell this corn of
9 the gospel Canaan from 1.-THE chaff
, which the wind driveth away l bless
God SO many have found this gospel
corn. 1t is the bread of which if a
( man eat he shall never hunger. | set
! the gladness of your soul to the tunes
of "ArieT" and Antioch" | ring the
r wedding bells, for Christ and your soul
: are married, and there is no power on
earth or in hell to get out letters of di-
vorcement.
r AGROUND AND FAR FROM HEAVEN.
But alas for the famine struck
} Enough corn, yet it seems you have 10
sickle to cut it, no mill to grind it, no
t fire to bake it, no appetite to eat il.
I Starving to death when the plain Ia