Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-11

,.Jles ala pro. oijl..a...5, E..r. UuGl. caa.-,'
with cant, not realizing that there Is no
such intolerable cant in all the world us
this perpetual talk we are hearing about
positive philosophy" and "thc absolute
and 1.-The great to be, " and 'the everlasting
no." and 1.-THE higher unity" and "the
latent potentialities," and 1.-THE cathedral
of the immensities" | have been trans
lating what these men have been writing,
and | have been TRANSMITTING what they
have been doing, and will tell you what
it all means-it means that they want to
kill God! And my only wonder is that
God has not killed them. have in other
days tasted of their confcctions, and
come back and tell you today that there is
no nutrimcnt or life or health III anything
but the bread made out of the old corn Of
the gospel What do mean by that? l
mean that Christ is the bread of life, and
taking him, you live and live forever.
ARE YOU READY FOR HIM?
But, you say. corn is of but little practi-
cal use unless it is threshed and ground
and baked. | answer: This gospel corn
has gone through that process. When on
Calvary all the hoofs of human scOrn
came down on the heart of Christ, and all
the fails of satanic fury beat him long and
fast, was not the corn threshed? When
the mills of Gods indignation against sin
caught Christ between the upper and
neither rollers was not the corn ground?
When Jesus descended into hell and the
flames of the lost world wrapped him all
about, was not the corn baked? Oh, yes
Christ is ready; his pardon all ready; his
peace all ready; everything readyin Christ.
Are you ready for himY
You say THAT is such Il simple gospcln'
know it is. You say you thought religion
was n strange mixture of elaborate com
pounds No; it is so plain that any abece-
daran may understand it. In its simplici
ty is it's power. If you could this morning
realize that Christ died to save from sin
and death and hell not only your minister,
and your neighbor, and your father, and
your child, but you, it would make this
hour like the Judgment day for agtations,
and, no longer able to keep your seat, you
would leap mp crying. For met for mev
God grant that you, my brother, may see
this gospel with your own eyes, and hear
it with your own ears and feel with your
own heart that you are lost soul, but
that Christ comes for your cxtrication.
Can you not take that truth and digest it,
and make it II part of your immortal lifeS
It is only bread,
GOOD WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS.
You have noticed that invalids cannot
take all kinds of food The food that will
do for one will not do for another. There
are kinds of food which will produce, in
cases of invalidism, very speedy death.
! But You have noticed that all persons, how
ever weak they may he, can take bread.
! Oh, soul sick with sin, invalid in your
! Jransgressions, | think this gospel will
agree with you ! think if you cannot take
anything else you can take this Lost
| found! Sunken-raisedl Condemned
pardonedl Cast out-invited I'M That is
the old corn of the gospel
| You have often seen a wheel with spokes
of different colors, and when the wheel was
rapidly turned all the Colors blended into a
rainbow OF eXqulsItc Ueauty l wIsl /
| could, today, take the peace, aud the life,
and the joy and glory of Christ, and turn
them before your soul with such speed and
such strength that you would be enchanted
with the revolving splendors of that name
which is above every name-the name writ
| ten once with tears of exile and in blood of
martyrdom, but written now in FURNISHED
crown, and lifted scepter, and transangclic
| throne.
There is another characteristic about
| bread, and that is you never get tired Of
| it, There are people here seventy years Of
age who find it just as appropriate for their
/ appetite rs they did when, in boyhool, their
mother cut a 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' II
SO, let us take his name out of our Bible,
| and let us with pen and ink erase that
| name wherever we see II. Let us cast it
out Of our hymnology, and let There is a
/ Fountain and Rock of Ages" 20 into
forgetfulness. Let us tear down the com
munion table where we celebrate his love.
/ let us dash down the bantismnl bowl
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