Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-08-15

with you'll / think il you cannot take any
thing else, you can take this. Lost-foundl
| Sunken-raisedl Condemned-pardoned
Cast out-invited inl That is the old corn
of the Gospel.
notice. in regard to this article of food,
| you take it three times day. 1t is on your
table morning noon and night; and If it is
forgotten you say, "Where is the breadl"
Just so certainly you need Jesus three times
a day. Oh, 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 Hint Before
noon there may be perils that will destroy
body, mind and soul forever You can not
afford to do without him. You will, during
the day, be amidst sharp hoofs and swift
wheels and dangerous scaffoldings threat
ening the body, and traps for the soul that
have taken some who are more willy than
you. When they launch ship they break
against the side of it bottle of wine
That is a sort of superstition among sailors.
But oh, on the launching of every day,
that we might strike against it at least one
earnest prayer for divine protection! That
would not be superstition; that would be
| Christian.
Then at the apex Of the day, at the tiptop
| Of the hours, equidistant from morning and
night, look three ways. Look backward to
the forenoon; look ahead to the afternoon;
look up to that Savior who presides over ALL
You want bread at noon You may find no
place in which to lkneel amidst the Gotten
bales and the tierces of rice; but if Jonah
could find room TO pray in the whales belly
most certainly you will never be in such a
crowded place that you cannot pray. Bread
at noon! When the evening hour comes,
and your head is buzzing with the days
engagements, and your whole nature is sore
from the abrasion of rough life, and you see
a great many duties you have neglected,
then commune with Christ, asking His
pardon, thanking Him for His love. That
would be queer evening repast at which
there was no bread.
This is the nutriment and life of the plain
Gospel that L recommend you. / do not
know how some of our ministers make it so
intricate and elaborate and mystifying a
thing. 1t seems as if they had a sort Of
mongrelism, in religion-part humanitari-
anism, part spiritualism, part nothingari-
anism; and sometimes you think they are
building their temple out Of the "Rock Of
Ages" but you find there is no rock in it
at all. 1t is stucco The Gospel is plain.
1t is bread. There are no fogs lowering
|
over the marsh of human speculation. If
you can not tell when you hear a
man preach, whether or not he be-
licves in the plcnary 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 because he does not think
it is congenital If, when you hear man
talk in the pulpit or prayer-meeting, you
can not make up your mind whether or not
he believes in regeneration, it is because he
does not believe in H. If, when you
hear 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 be-
cause he really believes their destinies are
conterminous.
Do not talk to me about a man being
doubtful about tho doctrines of grace. He
is not doubtful to me at all Bread is
bread, and know it the moment / see it.
| had corn-field which / cultured with my
own hand. / did not ask once in all the
summer, "Is this cornl" l did not hunt
up The Agriculturist to get picture of
corn. / was born in sight of a corn-held,
and 1 know all about it. When these Is
raelites came 10 Canaan and looked off up
on the fields, the cry was Corn corn ~
And If a man has once tasted of this heav-
emily bread, he knows it right away He
can tell this corn of the GOSPEL
Canaan from "the chat which the
wind driveth away. bless God so many
have found this Gospel corn. 1t is the
t-S-2 ef which IL man eat he shall never
her. / set the gladness Of your soul TO
the tunes Of "Ariel" and Antioch"
ring the wedding bells, for Christ and your
soul are married, and there is no power on
earth or in hell to get out letters of divorce
ment.
But alas for the famine-struck Enough
corn, yet it seems you have no sickle to cut
it, no mill to grind it, no fire to bake it, nc
appetite to eat it. Starving to death, when
the plain is golden with magnificent
harvestl
rode some thirteen miles TO see the
Alexander, n large steamship that was
beached near Southampton, Long Island
1t was a SPLENDID vessel. AS / walked W
and down the decks and in the cabins,
said, "What a pity that this vessel should
go to pieces, or be lying here idlew The
coast-wreckers had spent thirty thousand
dollars trying to get her off, and they sue
ceeded once but she came back again t.
! |
every part of the vessel trembled with the
beating of the surf on one side. Since ther
heard that that vessel, which was worth
hundreds of thousands of dollars was SOLD
for three thousand five hundred, ant
! knocked to pieces. They had given up the
/ idea of getting her to sail again. How sug
gestive oil that is to me! There are those
here who arc aground in religious things
Once you started for heaven, but you ar
now aground. Several times it was though
you had started again heaveHward, bu
you soon got back to the old place, and
there is not much prospect you will ever
, reach the harbors Of the blessed. God,
wrcckers, / fear, will pronounce you
hopeless case. Beached for eternity! An(
then it will be written in heaven concern
ing some one OF your size, and complexion
and age, and name, that he was invited Il
be saved, but refused tho offer, and starvet
TO death within sight of the fields anC
granarics full Of tho Old Corn Of Canaan
The Ever-Itcady Policeman
II Is not only in the funny columns
of the daily papers or in the Journals
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