The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1890-07-04


q bca look upon those who pretend TO
bs sokeB OF the cross while they are
ne a7ssd enemies II any OF you find
you - q deficient in tho great tests
on ShrtHn character, do not, | bog Of
yon. leS3npon your confession OF re-
iig,Pns <ny thing consolatory. II you
have hen your present position from
2 vitw1at you have OF Christ and your
mood Oi'iP. rejoice with JOY unspeaka-
bic anduN of glory and clap your hands
foz<t ace4, butifyou find yourself with
notplnfM the name OF life, while dead
= and sins. arouse before the
doe< y vi That gilded profession
tocfxoi BY not be able to see through
hl4xlye day Of divine reckoning IL
nof IN Ind thar YOU have no cloak for
~ 80. y .l.a..i zas's'.'r's =
Furtherubp: Outward morality will
be no cp,erix for the hidden iniquity
Of theI spirk The Gospel of Christ
makes mo atault upon good works.
They are rs autiful in Gods eye as in
ours. PunctAlity, truthfulness, aims
giving, affect on and many other excel
lences Of lie that might be mentioned
will always V admired OF God and man,
but we take disposition that good works
can not be ID ground of our salvation.
What we doight can not pay for what
We do ~ronel Admit that you have all
these trait of character which give
merely worldly respectability and influ-
ence, you nast at the same time ac-
knowledge nat during the course Of
your life y,n have done many things
you ought iot to have done. How are
these diiicdt matters TO be settled?
All, my frienis, we must have an atone
ment. No 1hrist no salvation. The
great Redeener comes and says, ~ will
pay your indebtedness" To that which
was dark nough before, is bright
enough now.
The stripe we deserve are fallen upon
Christ. On His scourged and bleeding
shoulders Heearries up over the mount
ain of o,S sins and the hills
Of our iiiquities. Christ's good
works accep,sd are sufficient for us but
they who reject them, depending upon
their own, nist perish. Traits of char
acter that nay make us influential on
earth will not necessarily open to us the
gate Of Heaven. The plank that will be
strong enou-h for a house floor would
not do for hips hulk. More morality
might be ensegh here but can not take
yoa through Deaths storm into Heavens
harbor. Christ has announced for all
ages: 81 am the way, the truth and the
life him that icometh unto me will in
no wise east out" But pitiable in the
day Of accouns will be the condition Of
that though ie may have given all his
estate to BENEVOLENT purposes and passed
life in the visiting OF the distressed and
done much to excite the admiration of the
good and the great, If he have no init
mat, relation to Jesus Christ. There is
a pile and depravity in his soul that
he f''aas -neycr discovered A brilliant
% 1<e.<-:tfs he no apoky-r-5 100 y a~Pr~~
Hl---'c 1t is no theory OF mine, but
ounce ,,,sat OF God. who can not
7,e, ey the deeds Of the law shall no
livih thing be justified" Open the
door tf Heaven and Look in. Howard is
there. but he did not secure his en-
tranct by the dungeons he illumined
and The lazarettoes into which he car
riedi the medicines. Paul is there, but
he did not earn his way in by the ship
wrecks. and imprisonments, and scourg-
ings On a throne ovcrtopping perhaps
all Others except Christs, the old mis-
sionary exclaims: by the grace OF God
l am what ! am"
Again: Exalted social position will
be no cloak for sin, Men look through
the wicket door Of prisons, and seeing
the incarcerated wretches, exclsim: 'Oh,
how much vice there is in the world"
And they pass through the degraded
streets OF city, and looking into the
doors OF novels and the dens of corrup-
tion they call them godforsaken abodes.
But you might walk along tho
avenues through which the opu-
lieut. roll an loir foGg!sh!Eg
pomp and into mansions elegantly
adorned, and find that even in tho ad-
mired walks of life, Satan works mis-
chief and death. The first temptation
Satan wrought in garden, and he un-
derstands vet more thoroughly how 10
insinuate himself into any door of ease
and splondor. Men frequently judge of
sin by The places in which it is commit
ted; but iuiQuity in satin is as loathsome
to God as iniquity in rags, and in the
Dsy of Judgment the sins OF Madison
ayenue and Elm street will be driven
into one herd Men can not
escape at last for being respect
ally sinful You know Dives was
clothed in urpe and fine linen and
Jared sumpnonsly every day; but his
flne cloth, sad good dinners did not
save him. ~ might on earth have
drank somehi ag as rich as champagne
and co-aac. huta last he asked for one
drop OF wssr, You can not trade of
your attractye abodes here for house
OF many maRions on high and your ele-
CANT shade goyos here will not warrant
You a sea is.=y'r the tree OF lie. When
God drove Adam and eve outof Eden He
showed that merely living in garden
OF delights and comforts will never save
man or = woman. By giving you so
much earthly luxury and refinement He
intimatcd that he would have you enjoy
Yourselves, but lie would not have you
wrap yourselves up in them as cloak
To hide your sins. God now walks IN
your garden as lie did in Eden, even II
The cool Of the day, and lie stands by
your we'll as he did by a we'll in Samaria
and he would make your comfort OF
earth type of your rapture in Heaven
Furthermore. mere soundness of re
ligious helief will not hide our iniqut
ties. lhere are men whose heads are
as sound rs Jonathan Edwards or Johr
Wesley whose hearts are as rotten a.
Ton Pane's or Charles Giteau's. Ii Is
important that We DO theoretical Chris
tian~
II is utter folly in this day for MAI
20 have no preference for any one form
Of faith when 1t is so easy to bccom'
conycrsant with the faith of the diner
cnt ,ects. An intoxicated man stag
rorcd into my house one night Begging
for lolg ng. He made great prctcnslon
To religion. asked whore he went t
church. lie said: nowhere; ! bclonl
TO liberia, Christianity. but there arr
those who never become Christians be
cause heir obstinacy prevents then
from ever taking fair view OF what re-
ugion Is, They are like brute beas
in the fact that thoir greatest strengt