The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-08-16

not take all kinds of food. The food
that Will do for one will not do for an
other. Their are kinds Of food which
will produce, in cases of invalidism,
very speedy death. But you have no.
tioed that all persons, however weak
they may DO, can take bread. O, soul
sick with sin, invalid in your transgres-
Bions, l think the Gospel will agree
with you! | think If you can not take
any thing else, you can take this. Lost
found! Sunken-raised! Condemned
-pardoned! Cast out-invited in! That
Is the old corn of the Gospel.
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 appro-
pirate for their appetite as they did
when, in boyhood, their mother cut n
slice of it clear around the loaf. You
have not got tired of bread and that is
characteristic of the Gospel.
Old Christian man, are you tired of
Jesus2 If SO, let us take His name out
of our Bible, and let us with pen and
ink erase that name wherever we see 1t.
Let us cast 1t out of IL hymnology and
let There Is a Fountain" and Crock
of Ages" go into forgotfulness. Let US
tear down the communion table where
we celebrate His love. Let us dash
down tho baptismal bowl whore We
were consocrated to Him. Let us hurl
Jesus from our heart and ask some
other hero to come in. Lot us say: go
away, Jesus; l want another companion,
another friend, than Thou art" Could
you do it? The years of your past life,
aged man, would utter n protest against
1t, 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 is to open
Heaven when We die. Grandfather,
don't do that"
1 notice, in regard to the article of
food. you take it three times a day. 1t
is on your table morning, noon and
night; and if it is forgotten you ask:
"Where is the bread?" Just so certain
ly you need Jesus three times q day. o,
do not start out without Him; do not
dare to go out of the front door; do not
dare to go off the front steps without
having first communed with Him. Be-
fore noon there may be perils hat will
destroy body, mind and sou forever.
You can not afford to do without Him.
Then, at the apex of the day, at the
tiptop of tho 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 amidst the cot
| ton bales and the tierces of rice, but IL
Jonah could find room to pray in the
whales belly most certainly you will
never be in such a crowded place hat
| you can not pray. Bread at noon. When
the evening hour m and your head
is buzzing with the days engagements,
and your whole nature is sore from the
abrasion of rough life, and you see q
great many duties you have neglected,
Their commune with Christ, asking His
pardon, thanking Him for His love.
That would be a queer evening repast
at which there was no bread.
This Is the nutriment and life of the
plain Gospel that | recommend you. l
do not know how some of our ministers
make it SO intricate and elaborate and
| mystifying a thing. 1t seems as IL they
| had a sort of mongrelism in religion
| part humanitarianism, part spiritual
ism, part nothingarianism-and some
times you think they are building their
| temple out of the Rock of Ages" but
| you find there is no rock in it all. 1t Is
stucco: The Gospel is plain. 1t is
| hraaH Thnra 90 M fnno hnuarinn nuar
| this river OF life. All the fogs hover
over the marsh of human speculation.
II you can not 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 a man
| preach, you can not tell whether or not
| he believes that sin is Unborn, it is be-
cause he does not think 1t is congenital.
II, when you hear n man talk in pulpit
or prayer meeting, you can not MAKE up
| your mind whether or not no believes
in regeneration, it is because he docs
not believe in it. If, when you near a
man speak on religious themes, you can
not 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 their destinies arc confer
minous.
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 moment / see
it.
But alas for the famine struck!
Enough corn. yet it seems you a no
| sickle to cut it, no mill to grind it, no
fire to bake 1t, no appetite to eat it.
Starving to death, when the plain is
golden with a magnificent harvest!
rode some thirteen miles to see the
Alexander, a large steamship that was
beached a Southampton, Long Island.
1t was a splendid vessel. AS l walked
up and down the decks and in the
cabins, l said: what a pity that this
| vessel should go to pieces, or DO lying
here idle!' The coast wrockers had
spent $50, 900 trying to get her off, and
they succeeded once; but she came back
to the old place. While | was walk
ing on deck every part of the
vessel trembled with the beating
| Of the surf on one side. Since then
/ heard that hat vessel, which was
| worth hundreds of thousands of dol
lars, was sold for So, 800 and knocked to
pieces. They had given up the idea OF
getting her to sail again. How suggest
i've all that is to me! There are those
here who are aground in religious
things. Once you started for Heaven,
but you are now aground. Several
times 1t was thought hat you had start
ed again heavenward, but you loon got
back to the old place, and there is not
much prospect that you will ever reach
the harbors of the blessed. Gods rec
ords, 1 fear, will pronounce you a hope
less case. Beached for eternity! And
then it will be written in Heaven con-
corning some one of your size, and COM
plexion, and age, and name, that he
was invited to be saved. but refused the
offer, and starved to death within sight
Of the fields and %granaries full Of .he
old CORE of Canaan.
All Girls Should Row.