Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-22

crown, and lifted sceptre, and transangelic
throne
bread, and that is you never get tired tf it.
There are people here seventy years of age
who find it just as appropriate for their APP
petite as they did when, in boyhood, their
mother cut slice OF it clear around the loaf.
You have not got tired of bread, and that il
o characteristic of the Gospel Old Christian
man, are you tired Of Jesus? IL so, let Us
take His name out of our Bible, and let US
with pen and ink erase that name wherever
we see it. Let us cast it out Of our hymno-
logy, and let There Is a Fountain" and
Rock OF Ages" go into forgetfulness. Let
US tear down the communion table where We
celebrate His love. Let US dash down the
bapasmal bowl where we were consecrated TO
Him. Let us hurl Jesus from our heart, and
ask some other hero to come in. Let 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 a protest against it, 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" Tired of Jesus! The Burgundy rose
you pluck from the garden is not so fresh and
fair and beautiful. Tired of Jesus? AS well
get weary of the spring morning aud the
voices of the mountain runnel, and the quiet
of your own home and the gladness of your
own children. Jesus is bread, and the APP
petite for that is never obliterated.
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 l see it. l had
cornfield which cultured with my own
hand. did not ask once in all the summer:
SIS this corn?' did not hunt up the Agrt-
cutturist to get a picture Of corn. was born
in sight of cornfield and know all about
it. When these Israelites came to Canaan
and looked off upon the fields the cry was;
Corn! cornm And il a man has once tasted
Of this heavenly bread he knows 1t right
away. He can tell this corn Of the gospel
Canaan from 1.-The chaf which the wind
driveth away" I bless God SO many have
found this Gospel corn. 1t is the bread of
which, if man eat, he shall never hunger.
I set the gladness of your soul to the tunes of
"Ariel" and Antioch" 1 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 enforcement.
But alas for the famine struck! Enough
corn, yet it seems you have no sickle to cut
It, no MIN to grind It, no IRE to bake it, no
appetite to eat it Starving to death when
the plain is golden with a magnificent har-
vest!
Irode some thirteen miles to see the Alex
ander. a large steamship that was beached
vessel. walked up and down the decks
and in the cabins said: "What pity that
this vessel should go to pieces, or be lying
here idle" The coast wreckers had spent
$40, 900 trying to get her off. and they sue
ceeded onca; but she came back again
to the old place. While L was WALL
ng on deck every part of the vessel
trembled with the beating of the surf on
one side. Since then Iheard that that YES
sci, which was worth hundreds of thousands
Of dollars, was sold for $500, and knocked
10 pieces. They had given up the idea of
getting her to sell again. How suggestive
Ill 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 it was thought you had started
again heavenward, but you soon got back to
the old place. and there is not much prospect
you will ever reach the harbor of the blessed
Gods wreckers Ifear, will pronounce you a
hopeless case. Beached for eternity! And
then it will be written in heaven concerning
some ono of your size, and complexion, 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 the old corn of Canaan.