Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-07

VJour Soul tno ten commandments whic
J. reveal the holiness OF God, and that shar
and glittering coulter win turn up you
soul to tho deepest depths. IL q ma
I breaches to you that you aro only littl
Oh out OF order by reason Of sin and that yo
need only q little fixing up, he tlecoiyesl 70
have suffered an appalling injury by reaso
OF sin. There are quick poisops and sloy
lpoisons, but tho druggist could give YOU on
Idrop that would kin tho body. And Sin /
IKE that drug; so virulent, SO poisonous, S,
iaf nd TINT one drop Is enough to kill tho soul
, for a soul. Broken heart or no RELIGION
Il Drokon soul or no harvest. Why was
that David and the jailer and tho publican
and Paul mado such ado about their sins
iad. they lost their senssss No. The ploy.
snare struck them. Conviction turned I'D q
great many things that were FORGOTTEN "a
farmer blowing sometimes turns nm tho
skeieton OF man or the anatomy of a mon.
ster long ago buried, so the pfowshare of
cohyictlon turns up tho CHASTITY skeletons of
Sun long ago intombe1. Biologists never
brought up from the depths OF the mountain
inightier ichthyosaurus or megatherium.
Dut what means oil this crooked plowino
these crooked burrows, tho repontanco that
amounts TO nothing, tho repentance that ends
IN nothing9 Men groan over their sins, but
get no better. They weep but their tears
aro not counted. They got convicted Inf
not converted. What Is the reasonf I re-.
member that on tho farm wo set standard
WITH M roll nag ut tho other end OF the field.
We kept our eye on that We aimed at TINT
We plowed up to that. Losing sight of TINT
VIC made q crooked furrow. Keeping our
! eyes on that We made straight furrow.
Now In this matter of conviction we must
have some standard to guide us. 1t is a red
standard that God has set at tho other end
OF the field. 1t is the cross. Keeping your
| eye on that you will make straight furrow.
Losing sight Of it you will mako crooked
furrow. Plow up to the cross. Aim not at
either end of tho horizontal piece of the cross
but at the upright piece, at the centre of it,
the heart OF the Son of God, who bore your
sins and made satisfaction. Crying and
weeping will not bring you through. Him
hath God exalted to DO q Prince and a Saviour
to give repentance" Oh, plow up to tho
croSsi
Again remark, in grace as in tho field
there must Do sowing. In the autumn
weather you find the farmer going across
tho Held ut stride OF about twenty-threc
inches, aud at every stride he puts his hand
into tho sack OF grain and he sprinkles tho
s 1o1 corn over tho field. 1t looks silly to q
1 IIa !, VINO does not know what he is doing.
ao Is doing very important work. Ho Is
scattering the winter grain, and thouoh iho
sno" may come, the next year there Will ha
a great crop Now, TINT is what wa are
u xva L. waen we are preaching the Gospel
ness OF preaching but it is the winter "rain.
anu though tho snow of worldliness NAV
come upon it, it will yield after n ,y x
glorious harvest. Let us be suro we sow tho
r,gnt KIND OF seed. Sow mullen stalk and
mullen stalk will como ND. Sow Cnnoda
ehlstles and Canada thistles will come nm
3ow wheat and wheat will come up. Lot iIs
distinguish between truth and error. Lei ne
know tho difference between wheat and hel.
ieDore, oats and henbane
The largest denomination in tbis cor,t-,-
~ 1he denomination of Nothingarinns Their
Ienglon is system of negations You sov
10 To-, one CT them: "What do you belieyei''
.r, WysiI, l don't believe in infant baptism
,iova nut 90 you believe" "Well, 1 don't be-
m .% In the perseverance of tho saints.n
,,W Ell, now tell me what you do believer |
Ell, don't believe in the eternal punish |
ment OF the wicked" So their religion is n |
row row o. eyphers. Believe something and
scatter abroad the right kind OF seed.
A minister in New York preached ser
mon calculated to set tho denominations of |
christians quarreling. Ho was sowing net |
Ties minister in Boston advertised that |
ne would preach sermon on the superiority |
OF transcendental and organized forces to un- |
Irtanscendental and unorganized forces.
What was he sowingS.> Tho Lord Jesus Christ
nineteen centuries ago', planted tho divine
seed OF doctrine. 1t spfang up. On one side
t aD% fres On Ga the tSass stalk are all
tho top tiiore shall besa lfowsting millen-
nlllp.A ilboI u c3OSDcl Scol
off doctrine Every word thaesa parent, or
"Snbbath-school teacher. or city missionary,
or other Christian worker speaks for Christ
comes up. Yea, it comes up with compound
interest-you saving one SOUL that ono saw
ing ten, the ten hundred, tho hundred n
thousand, tho thousand ten thousand. the fen
thousand ono hundred thousand-on, ON for
ever
Again 1 remark, in grace as in the farm
there must be narrowing. L refer now not
to a harrow that goes over the field in order
to prepare tho ground for the ssel, but har-
row which goes over after the seod is sown,
lest tho birds pick up the seed, sinking it down
into tho earth SO that it can tako root. There
are new kinds of harrow, but the harrow rs
l remember it was made of bars OF wood
nailed across each 9th Or, and tho under side
of each bar was furnished with sharp tooth,
and when tho horses wore hitchel to Tit went
tearing and leaping across the field, driving
the seed down into tho earth until it sprung
up IN the harvest Bereavement, sorrow,
persecution are the Lords harrows to sink
tho Gospel truth into your heart. There wero
treths that you heard thirty years ago that
hove not affected you until recently. Some
great trouble came over you, and the truth
was narrowed in, an it has como up What
did God mean in this country in 1857? For
century there was tho Gospel preached, but
great deal of it produced no result Then
God haruessed wild panic to q harrow of
commercial disaster, al. that harrow went
uown w III StreeI ana up W all street, down
Third street and up Third street, down State
street and up State street, until the whole
land was torn to pieces as it never had been
before. What followed tho harrow? a
great awakening in which there were 501O0o
souls brought into the kingdom OF our Lord
No harrow, no crop.
Again remark, in grace MS in the farm
there must be a reaping, Many Christians
speak. of religion as though it were
matter Of economics or insurance. They
expect to reap in the next world. Oh, mol
Now is the time to reap. Gather up the
joy of the Christian religion this morning,
this afternoon, this night. If you have not
as much grace as you would like to have,
thank God for what You have, and pray
for more. YOU arc no worse enslavel than
Joseph, no worse troubled than was David,
no worse scourged than was Paul. Yet,
amid the rafting of letters, and amid
! the gloom of dungeons, and amid the
horror OF shipwreck, they triumphed in
tho grace OF God. The weakest man
here has SOD acres of spiritual joy all ripe
Why do you not go and reapitg You have
been groaning over your inflrmites for
thirty years. Now give ono round shout over
your emancipation. You say you have it 50