Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-08-16

saw their names favoraby mentioned. They
cannot analyzs or define their feelings; but
will tell them what is the matter they arc
hungry for the old corn of the Gospel That
you must have, or be pinched and wan and
wasted AMI hollow-oyed and shriyeled ~
with an eternity of famine
The inf1del scientists of this day are offer
Ing us different kind of soul fool; but they
are, of all men, the most miserable / hnye
known many of them; but never knew one
OF them who came within thousand miles
Of being happy. The great John Stewart
Mill provided for himself new kind of por-
ridge; but yet, when he comes to die, he ac-
knowledges that his philosophy never gave
him any comfort in days Of bereavement, and
In roundabout way he admits that his life
was failure. So it is with all infilel scien-
fists They are trying to live on telescopes
and crucbles and protopiasns AMI they
charge us with cant, not realizing that there
is no such intolerable cant in all the world as
this perpetual talk we are hearing about
positive philosophy anil "ths absoluts,n
.n1 ''the great TO b. and ''the everlasting
no." and 'tho higher unity" aud ssthe
latent potentialitics, an | ''ths cathedral Of
the imInensities." 1 have been translating
what these men have been writing, and l
have been translating what they have bean
doing and | will tell you what it all m cans
! 1t means that they want to kill God! AMI
my only won Ter is that Col has not killed
them. Ihave in other days tasted of their con-
/ tections an | come back aud tell you today
that there is no nutriment or life or health in
anything but the bread ma lie out of the old
cora of the Gospel. What do l menu by
that? | mean that Christ is the brea of
| life, and taking Him, you live and live for
! ever.
But you say, corn is of but little practical
use unless it is threshed and ground and
baked. l 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 AMI fast, was not the
corn threshold When the mills of Gods in-
diguation against sin caught Christ between
the upper and neither rollers was not the
corn ground2 When Jesus descended into
hell, and the flames of the lost world wrappe
Him all about. was not the corn bake !? Ga.
yesI Christ is rea ly; His pardon all reaty;
His peace all rel iy; everything really in
! Christ Are you ready for HIM
You say: That is such simple G)spel.h
l know it is. You say you thought rail- gion
was a Strange nixture of clab1rate CHI
pounds. No; it Is 50 plain that any apecs-
| darian may understand it. In its simplicity
is its power. II you coul1 this morning re-
alizs that Christ died TO save fro sin AMI
death aud hell not only your minister, and
your neighbor, aud your father, AMI your
child, but you, it would make this hour like
thu Judgment day for agtations, anil no
lon Ier able to keep your seat you would
leap up crying: "For mel for msF' Col
grant that you, my brother, may see this
Gospel with your own eyes, an | hear it with
your own ears, and feel with your own heart
that you area lost soul, but that Christ
comes for your extrication. Can you not
take that truth and digest it, and make it a
part of your immortal life? 1t is only bread.
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 pro luce, in
| cases of iuvali1isn, very speedy deatl.
But you have noticed that all persons, how.
ever weak they may be, can take bread.
Oh, soul sick with sin, invalid in your
transgreSsioas, l think this Gospel will
agree VITA you! l think if you cannot take
anything else you can take this Lost
foundl Sunken - raised? Condemned =
pardonedl Cast out-invitel in That i:
the old corn of the Gospel
You have often seen wheel with spoke
Of different colors, and when the wheel wa
rapidly turned all the colors blended into ;
rainbow of exquisite beauty. wish
could to-day, take the peace, AMI the life
and the joy and glory of Christ, and turl
them before your soul with such speed an
4 such strength that you would be enchante
with the revolving splendors OF that nam
ten .,nce with tears OF exile AMI IN bloot o
martyrdom, but written now in burnishe
crown, and lifted sceptre, and transangelic
thrlne
There is another characteristic about
nrea l, and that is you never get tired of it.
Inere are people here seventy years of age
VINO md 1T just as appropriate for their an
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
characteristic of the Gospel Old Christian
man, are you tired OF Jesus? If so, let IL:
take His name out of our Bible, and let IL.
with pen Gn1 ink erase that name whereye,
we see 1t. Let us cast it out of our hymno
loSy, and let There is Fountain" anC
| Rock OF Ages go into forgetfulness. LIE
US tear down the communion table where W,
| celebrate His love. Let us dash down tn,
bapvi5mal bowl where we were consecrated t.
Him. Let us hurl Jesus from our heart. ant
ask soule other hero TO come in. Let US say
Goaway, Jesus | want another companion
another FRIEND than Thou art" Could yor
do ltY The years of your past life aged man
would utter protest against it, and tn,
graves of your Christian dead would charge
you with being an migrate, ant your little
gran1chifiren would say; Grandfather
don't do that. Jesus is the ono TO whom We
say our prayers at night, and who is TO oper
heaven when we die. Grandfather, don't Dc
that" Tired of Jesusi The ursundy ros,
you pluck from the garden is not so fresh an
fair and beautiful. Tire of Jesus? As wei
get weary of the spring morning and th(
voices of the mountain runnel, and the quie.
of your own homo, and the gladuess of your
own children. Jesus is brea1 aud the an
petite for that is never ohliterated.
DO not talk to me about a man beins
doubtful about the doctrines of grace He i
not doubtful to me at ALL Bread is bread
and know it the monent | see it, had q
corntield which l cultured with my own
hand. did not ask once in all the summer
rs this corn| l dill not hunt up the Agri-
cntturist to get picture Of corn was born
In sight of cornield and [ know all about
it. When these Israeltes came to Canaan
AM looked off upon the fields the cry was:
Corn! cornN Audif man has once tasted
OF this heavenly breal he knows 1t right
away. He can tell this corn of the gospel
Canaan from "the chaf which the wind
driveth away" | bless God so many have
| found this Gospel corn 1t is the bread OF
which, it a man eat he shall never hunger.
| SGT the gla1ness of your soul to the tunes of
"Arieln AMI Antioch" / ring the wedding
bells for Christ aui your soul ara married.
AMI there is no power on earth or in hell to
get out letters of divorce mt.
But alas for tho famine struck r lough
corn, yet 1t seems you have no sickle to cut
it, no mill to grin it, no fire to bake it, no
appetite to eat it STRIVING to death when
tho plain is golden with a magnificent har
vestl
Iro1e soma thirteen miles to 500 the Alex
AMER largo steamship that was beachei
near Sou6h1n )iol, L.. 5. 1t was a splendid
vessel. walked up aui down the decks
aud in the cabins l said: "What pity that
this vessel should go to pieces, or bs lying
here idle" The coast wreckers hal spent
500 trying to%get her off, AMI they sue
ceete1 once; buA> sne cana back again
to thu old place White l was walk
ing on dec'l every part of the vessel
tremblel with tue beating OF the surf on
Ona side. Sinco then heard that that YES
sal, which was worth hundreds OF thousands
of dollars, was sold for $500, and knocked
to pieces. They had given up the idea OF
getting her to sell again, How suggestive
all that is to mel There are those here who
are agrouni in religious things Once you
started for heaven, but you are now aground
Several times it was thought you had started
again heavenwari, but you soon got back tc
the old place, and there is not much prospec
you will ever reach the harbor of the blessed
Gods wreckers, fear, will pronounce you
hopeless case. Beached for eternity Ant
then it will be written in heaven concerning
some one of your size, and complexion, AM
age, and name, that he was invited to b
saved, but refused the offer, and starved Il
death within sight of the fields and granarie
full of the old corn of Canaan.
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