The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-04-17

81 never Will 90 on Cne wafer again unleSS
.can run one OF the White Star line" snail
the engineer of lightning express, who at
the station msread the telegram of the train
'dispatcher and went into collision, and for
that has been put down to the work Of
engineering on a freight train, say: u
never will again mount an engine un-
less can run vestibule express" Take
what you have of opportunity left. Do your
best with what remains Your shortest VIM
ter day is worth more to You than can be the
longest day Of a previous summer. Your
opportunity now, as compared with previous
oppor tunitieS may be small as rat terrier
compared with the lion which at Matabosa,
fatally wounded by the gun of David LiV-
ingstone, in its death agony leaped upon the
missionary explorer and with its jaws crushed
the bone of his arm to splinters, and then
rolled over and expired, but, Better is
living dog than dead lion." 49,.
Nv rext also means that the condition or
the most wretched man alive is better than
that of The most favored sinners departed.
The chance Of these last is gone. Where they
are they cannot make any earthly assets
available. After Charlemagne was dead he
was set in an ornamented sepulcher on a
golden throne, and crown was put on nus
cold brow, and scepter in his stiff hand,
but that gave him no dominion in the next
world One of the most intensely interest
ing things I saw last winter in Egypt was
Pharaoh Of olden times, the very Pharaoh
who oppressed the Israelites. The inscrip-
ttions on his sarcophagus and the writing on
his mummy bandages prove beyond contro-
versy that be was the Pharaoh of Eible times.
All the Psychologists and the explorations
agree that It is the old scouudrel himself.
Visible are the very teeth with which ne
gnashed against the Israelitish brick makers.
There are the sockets of the merciless eyes
with which he looked upon the oyerburdened
people of God. There is the hair that hoated
in the breeze off the Red Sea. There are the
very lips with which lie commanded them to
make bricks without straw. Thousands OF
years afterward, when the wrappings of the
mummy were unrolled, old Pharoah lifted up
his arm as if in imploration, but his skinny
bones cannot again clutch his shattered
:sceptre He is dead lion. And is not any
man now living, in the fact that he has op-
portunSty of repentance and salvation, better
off than any of those departed ones who, by
authority or possessions Of influence, were
positively leonlne and yet wicked?
; What thing to congratulate you on Is
your life! Why, it is worth more than all
the gems of the universe kindled into one
precious stone. am alive! What does that
imean? Why, it means that still have ali
opportunity Of being saved myself and help
Ing others to be saved. TO be alive. Why,
it means that have yet another chance to
correct my past mistakes and make sure
work for heaven. Alive, are we? Come, let
us celebrate it by new resolutions, new self
examination new conservation and new
career The smallest and most Insignificant
to-day is worth to us more than five hundred
Yesterdays. Taking advantage OF the pres
ent, let us get parIon for all ths past. and
security for all the future. Where are our
forgiven sins? l don't know. God don't
know either. He says: "Your sins and In
EQUITIES will / remember no more"
What encouragement i'll the text for all
Christian workers! Despair of no ones SAL
vation. While there is life there is hope.
class in n Sunday school, the superintendent
said, "l3etter 60 out on the street and get
your own class" Shc brought in ragged
and filthy boy. The superintendent gave
him good apparel. In few Sundays he
absented himself. Inquiry discovered that
in a street fight he had his decent apparel
torn off Ee was brought in and second
time respectfully clad After few Sundays
he again disappeared. and it was found that
he was again ragged and wretched. Then"
said the teacher, I'VE can do nothing with
him." But the superintendent fitted him up
again and started him again.
After awhile the gospel took hold of him
and his heart changed. He started for tho
ministry and became foreign missionary
and on heather grounds lived and translated
the Scriptures, and preached, until among
the most illuStrious names Of the chnrch on
Garth and in heaven is the name Of glorious
Robert Morrison. Go forth and save the lost
and remember however depravei, however
ragged and however filthy and undone
child is, or man is, or woman is, they are
worth an effort would rather have their
opportunity than any that will ever be given
to those who lived in magnificent sin and
splendid unrighteousness and then wrap their
gorgeous tapestry around them and without
prayer expired. Better is living dog than
q dead lion.
In the great day it will be found that the
last shall be first There ara in the grog
shops and in the haunts of iniquity to-day
those who will yet be models Of holiness and
preach Christ to the people. In yonder group
Of young men who came here with no useful
purpose, there is one who will yet live for
Christ and perhaps die for him. In pulpit
stood stranger preaching, and he said:
1.-The last time l was in this church was fit.
teen years ago, aud the circumstances were
peculiar. Three young men had come ex-
pecting to disturb the service, and they had
stones in their pockets which they expected
to hurl at the preacher. One of the young
men referred to refused to take part in the
assault, and the Others, in disgust at his cow
ardice, left the building. One Of the three
was hanged for forgery. Another is in prison,
condemned to death for murder. l was the
third, but the grace OF Cod saved me-"
Ny hearers give no one up. The case may
seem desperate, but the grace of God likes to
undertake q deadlift. Iproclaim it this day
10 oil the people--Free Grace! Living and
dying, be that my theme Free Grace!
Sound it across the continent, sound it across
the seas--Free Grace! Spell out those words
IN flowers, lift them in arches, build them in
thrones, roll them in oratorios--Free Grace!
That will yet Edenize the earth and people
heaven with nations redeemed. Free & race
Salvation Oh, the joyful sound,
IT'S pleasant TO our cars,
A sovereign balm for every wound,
A cordial for our fears.
Buried in sorrow ard in stu
At deaths dark doo: We lay,
But we arise by .,:lc: divine