The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-12
AND MRS. BRENT Acn1n

that you are n lost soul, but that Chris
comes for Your eXtrication Can yor
not take that truth and digest it, ant
make it u part of your immortal life
Ii is only bread.
You have noticed that inyalids can
not take all kinds of food The foo6
that will do for one will not do fol
another. There are kinds of food
which Will produce, in case of invalid
ism, very speedy death. But you have
noticed that all persons, however weak
they may be, can take bread. Oh,
soul sick with sin, invalid in your trans
grcssions, think this gospel will agree
with YOU, think If you cannot take
anything else YOU can take this! Lost
found. Sunken-r raised Condemned
- pardonel, Cast out invited in
That is the old corn Of the Gospel
ARE YOU TIRED OF JESUS?
You have often seen n wheel with
spolios Of different colors, and when
the wheel was rapidly turned all the
colors blended into rainbow of OK
quisito beauty. wish l could today
take The peace, and the life, and the joy
and glory Of Christ, and turn them be-
fore your soul with such speed and
such strength that you would be en-
chanted with the revolving splendors
of that name which is above every
name llc name written once with
tears OF exile and in blood of martyr
dom, but written now in FURNISHED
crown and lifted stepter and transan-
gelic throne.
There is another characteristic about
bread, and That is you never get tired
of it. There are people here seventy
years of age vino find it just as Hppro-
pirate for thar appetite us they did
when, in boyhood their mother cut
slice of it clear around the loaf. You
have not 70, tired Of bread, and that is
n characteristic of the gospel. Old
Christian MN. are You tired of jesus
If so. let ustalle his name out of our
Bible, andict us with pen and ink erase
that namfwhorcver we SEQ it. Let us
cast it put Of our hymnology, and let
"Ther j, q Fountain and Rock OF
Aees'ipo INTO forgetfulneS>. Let us
tear OWN the communion table where
we cslcb.ate his love. Let us dash
do7vl tile baptismaI bowl where we were
conecraiel To him. let us hurl Jesus
iron our heart, and ask some
otJr hero To come in. Let us
50. Go away, Jesus; | want an
dAcr companion, another friend, than
Louurt.' Could you doit. The years
If your past life, aged man, would utter
4 protest against it, and the g4aves 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 onrprayers at night, and who is to
open heaven when we die Grandfather,
don't 90 that Tired Of jesus The
rose you pluck from the gar
den is rot so fresh and fair and beauti-
ful. Tired of Jesus? As we'll get weary
Of the spring morning, and the voices
Of The mountain runnel, and the quiet
Of your own homo, and the gladncss of
your own children. Jesus is bread, and
the appetite for that is never obliterated.
ASK HIS ADVICE.
Inotice in regard 70 this article of food |
you take it three times day It's on your
table morning, noon and night; and if
it is forgotten you say, Where is the
bread" Just SO certainly you need
Jesus three times day. Oh, DO not |
start out without him; DO not dare to
20 out of the front door; do not dare
to go of the front steps without hav-
ing first commued with him. Before
noon there may be pcrils that will de
5troy 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
ycrous scaffoldings threatening the
body, and traps for the soul that have
aiken some who are more willy than
rou. When they launch a ship they
oreak against the side of it bottle of
vine. That is a sort of superstition
lmong sailors. But oh, on the launch
ng of every day, that we might strike
against it at least one earnest prayer
or divine protection That would not
oe superstition; that would be Chris
ian.
Then at the apex of the day, at the
ip top of the hours, equidistant from
and night, look three ways
.ook backward to the forenoon; look
head to the afternoon; look up to
hat Saviour who presides over all. You
want bread at noon. You may find no
,lace in which to kneel amid the cot
on bales and the tierces of rice; but if
-onah could find room to pray in the
whales belly, most certainly you Will
lever be in such crowded place that
-ou cannot pray. Bread at noon!
When the evening hour comes, and your
lead is buzzing with the days engage
nents, and your whole nature is sore
rom the abrasion Of rough life, and
on see a great many duties you have
c .!c..e-'. t,lc4 commune with Christ,
skiing his pardon, thanking him for
is love. That would be aqueer even
lg repast at which there was no bread.
THE GOSPEL Is PLAIN.
This is the nutriment and life Of the
lain gospel that 1 recommend you.
o not know how some of our ministers
lake it so intricate and elaborate and
lystifying thing. 1t seems as if they
ad sort OF mongrelism in religion
art humanitarianism, part spiritualisln,
art nothingarianism; and sometimes
GU think they are building their tenn
lie out Of the "Rock Of Ages" but you
nd there is no rock in it at all. 1t is
.ucco. The gospel is plain. It is