The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-08-22

about bread, and that is, Won never
get tired of it. There are people here
seventy years old who fini il inst MS
appropriate for their appetite as they
did when, iii boyhood, their mother
cut slice of it clear around the )af.
You have not got tired of bread, and
that ls II characteristic of the gospel.
Old Christian man, IRE you tired of
Jesus III 80, let US take His name
cut OF our Bible, and let us with pen
and ink erase that name wherever we
see 1T. Let us cast it out of our
hymnology, and let "There is q Foun-
tain and "Rock of Ages go into
forgetfulnoss. Let us tear down the
communion table where we celebrate
His love. Let us dash down the
baptismal bowl where we were conse-
Grated to Him. Let us hurl Jesus
from our heart. and ask some other
hero to come i'll. Let us say, "Go
away, Jesus; want another friend,
another companion than thou art"
Could you do it? The years of your
past life, aged man, would utter u
protest against it, and the graves of
your Christian dead would charge
YOU with being IN migrate, and your
little grandchildren would say.
"Grandfather don't do that. Jesus is
the one to whom we say our prayers
ut night, and who is to open heaven
when we die Grandfather don't do
that Tired of Jesus? The Bur
gundy rose you pluck from the gar
den is not so fresh and fair and beau
tlful. Tired of Jesus? As well get
weary of tho spring morning, and the
voices OF the mountain ruunel, and
the quiet of your own home, and the
gladness of your own chldacn. Je-
sus is bread, and the appetite for
that is never Oblitcrated.
notice, in regard to this article of
food, you take it three times Il day
1t III on your table morning. noon
and night; and if it il forgotten, you
say, "Where is the bread :" Just so:
certainly you need Jesus three times
Il day. Oh, do not start out without
dim; do not dare go out the front
door do not dare go off the front
the front steps, without having first
communed with Him! Before noon
there may be perils that will destroy
body, mind and soul forever You
cannot afford to do without Him.
You will, during the day, be amidst
sharp hoofs and swift wheels and
dangerous scaff,oldings threatening
the bod ~, and traps for the soul that
have taken some who are more wlly.
than you. When they launch ship
they break against it Il bottle OF wine.
Ihot IS Il sort of superstition among
sailors. But oil, on tie launching of
every day, that we might strike
| against it at least one earnest PRAYER
for divine protcction That would
not be superstition; that would be
Christian.
Then Mt the apex of the day. Mt the
| uptop OF the!hours, equidistant from
| morning and night, look three WAYS.
Look backwald Il to the forenoon: look
| ahead to the afternoons; look up to
that Savior who prcsidcs over NIL
1Ou want bread mt noon. You may
find no place i'll which to knecl amidst
| the cotton bales and the ticrccs of
nee; but if Jonah could find room to
pray III the whales belly, most Ger
tainly YOU will never Le ia @
crowded plao.Ssnat you cannot 5f
Bread Mt noon. When the evening
| hour comes, and your head is buZzino
with the day 3 engagements, and YOU.
| whole nature is sore from the abra
sion of rough life, and YOU see u great
many duties you have neglected, then
commune with Christ. asking His
pardon, thanking HIM for His love
That would be queer evening re
past 1T which there was no bread.
| This Is the nutriment and life O,
the plain gospel that | recommend
you. l do not know how some OF
our ministers make it so intricat.
and elaborate and mystifying a thing
1t seems as if they had sort ofmon
Srcllsm IN rellSlon-part humanitari
anlsn, part spiritualism, part moth
lngarlahism: 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 cannot tell when you hear n
man preach, whether or not he be.
lleVes III the plenary inspiration OF
the scrlptures, 1t is because he does
not believe in it. If. when Won hear
man preach, you can not tell wheth
cr or not he believes that sin is inborn.
1t is because he does not think it con
genital. If, when YOU hear man
talk III pulpit OF prayer ermceting. YOU
cannot make up your mind whether
or not he believes i'll regeneration. it
| Is because he does not believe i'm II
| Ii, when you hear IL man speak on
religious themes, YOU cannot make uu
your mind whether or not he thinks
| the righteous and the wicked will
come out at the same place, then it is
| because he really believes their DIES
| times are conterminous.
DO not talk to me about n man be
ing doubtful about the doctrines of
grace. He il not doubtful to me nt
| all Bread liz bread, and | know if
the moment | see it | had n corn
field which | cultured with nv own
hand. [ did not ask once in all the
summer, "ls thus corn!' | did not