The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-02-12
CHURCH LOCALS
AND RELIGIOUS NOTES OF GENER.
AL INTEREST.

| They took up the headless body
Of John, and buried it and then
went and told Jesus" 1t was all
that was lett them. 1t was the cul-
mination of effort. He would. set.
tie the matter in some ways if any
thing could be done. The master
made no reply. Silence is the only
answer that can be made sometimes.
But Ego and tell Jesus you may
then rest content.
The world wants proof Of things,
There is no controversy in the pres
ence of demonstration. All cavil-
ing ceases here. Paul calls upon
the children of God for "proot of
their love-" 1t is in the proper,
righteous use of money. 10 be close
and stingy and grudging in giving
to Gods poor and helpless ones and
in the furtherance of his cause is
the proof, not of love. but the lack
of it. More noble stately ships go
down upon this rock, the love of
money, than all others. "The love
OF money is root of many evils"
''But they cried out the more let
him be crucifed." It is the mad
cry of unreason and malice. The
proof OF His innocence was clear and
strong. But the stonger the proof
the stronger the cry for His death.
Hatred of the just deepens the NAL
ice of the unjust. The cry is heard
until now, Cruelty Him. He is
innocent. The truth is truth. His
presence and his innocence con-
demned. Men vainly imagine that
to "Crucify Him" is to destroy Him.
Foolish men! Living Christ! &
'The night Of my pleasures hath
he turned into fear.'' My heart
painted, feartulness hath afrighted
me-" ''Take heed, and beware Of
covetousness for mans life con.
sisteth not in the abundance Of
things he possesseth." The law Of
recompense is unchangable. Man
reaps as he sows. The seed of cot,
ton cannot produce corn. eAs ]
have done SO God hath requited
me-" The utterance of a heather
king. Things will level up in the
end. The power of memory is a
strange thing. But it is stubborn
fact. In the sunshine, men forget.
In the darkness, they remember.
The Nemesis of conscience The
horrors OF despair! Three score
and ten kings, having their thumbs
and their great toes cut off, gathered
their meat under my table. AS
have done so God hath requited
me-"
Words cannot die. Acts are liv-
ing things. Nor does a man cease
to live when he dies. she being
dead yet speaketh," The words and
acts of the day, of this hour, are
living things. A mans influence
for good or evil, is a part of the
man. 1t don't die. 1t has active life,
in the formation of character, long,
long after the man is in his grave
just SO long as there is a human
character to be formed, or homan
being on earth to be influenced.
In all justice and righteousness,
a man is Judged as his deeds have
BEEN" All good men rejoice in this.
All bad men fear this. A mans
deeds by which he will be judged
are not simply the words and acts OF
this short life. When his own gen.
erations have forgotten that he ever
lived, his deeds still have active life.
He being dead, yet speaketh, either
TOR good or evil. The Judgment
takes place only after the last day
of this world, "when the Son of
Man cometh." No wonder the right
Gus are surprised that they had done
so much. No wonder che wicked
are surprised that they had done SO
little.
Consider this ye careless ones.
The judgment takes place only after
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