Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1891-01-31

four hundred and ninety times Because |
the Bible says seventy tunes seven. NO" ng-
ura that out. YOU who do not think q man
can fall four times. eight times, ten times,
twenty time. one hundred times, four hun
ored times. aud vet b- saved. Four hundred
and ninety times Why, there IS a great
multitude before the throne Of God who
plunged into ell the depths OF iniquity.
There were no sins they did not commit: but
thew were washed OF body and washed Of
mind and Washed Of soul, and they are be-
fore the throne u God now forever happy. /
say that TO encourage any man who feels
there is no chance .or hlul-
Good Ten1plars will not save you although
they are grand institutions. Sons OF lem
perance will not save you, although there Is
no better society ON EARTH signing sne tent
peraEce pledge viii not save You, although II
is a grand thing u do. No one but bod can
save you. Do not put your confidence III
bromide Of potassium or anything that the
apothecarv ta!4 mix. Put you trust III God
After the church has cast you on, and tue
bank has cast you of, and social circles have
cast YOU of. and all good society have cast
YOU off. and fetnes' has cast you OH, anu
mother has cast yon off. at your tirstcry Tor
help God will bend clean down to that often
Of your iniauity u help YOU out Oh, what
a God H. is Long suffering and gracious
There may be h this house some whose
hapd trenbles SO with dissipation they could
hardly hold a hynn book. say TO such II
tley are mere: / 0i VIII preach TIE trOSfet
yet You will Yet, some Of YOU. carry the
holy communion through the alsles, aud you
will be acceptable to everybody hecaus.
everybody viii know YOU are saved and
purified by the grace Of God, and II conse-
Grated man, wholly eonsecrateI. Your bjisI-
ness has got to CONS up. your physical
health is To be rebuilt, your family Is 10 be
restored, the Church of God on earth aud
in heaven is TO rejoice over your coming,
tftthpr sheer ave which ar. not fI this
fold. II this is not the Gospel | do not
| know what the Gospel Is. 1t can scale any
height, 1t can fathon any depth, it can COM
pass any infinity. | thlnA one reason why
there are not morn people saved Is We do
not swing the door wfie enough open.
Now there IS only one class Of persons in.
this house about whom | have any despond-
ency, and that is those who have been hear
Ing the Gospel for perhaps twenty, thirty,
forty Years. Their outward life is neral,
butzthey tell you frankly they dol not love the
Lord Jesus Christ, have not trusted Him, have
rot been born again by the spirit VI tod.
They are Gospel hardened. TIL Gospel has
no more effect upon them than the shining
of the moon on the city pavement. The
publfcaus and the harlots go into the KING
dom of God before they. They went through,
some Of them, the revival of 1867, when 800,
900 souls.were brought to God. Some Of them
went through great revlVals in individual
churches. Still unpardone1. unblessed, UNI
saved. They We're merely spectators. G0>pel
hardened. After awhile we viii hear that
they are sick, and then that they are dead,
and then that they died without any hope.
Gospel hardened
But | turn away from all such with ID thrill
of hope TO those who are not Gospel hard
ened. Some of you have not heard perhaps,
tive sermons III five years. This whole sub.
ject has been Il novelty to you for some time
You are not Gospel hardened; you know you
are not Gospel hardened. The whole sutjecl
comes freshly to your mind. | hear some SOU
saying: "Oh, my wasted life Oh, the bitter
past Oh, the graves | stumbled over
Whittier shall | fly. The future is SO dark, 5,
dark, SO very dark. God help me-
oh, | am SO glad for that last u%tterance
That was a prayer, and as soon as you be
gin to pray that turns all heaven this way
and God steps IN, and He beats back tn
hounds Of temptation to their kennels, ant
He throws all around the pursued soul TIA,
covert Of His pardonlnS mercy. l hear,
something fall. What was it? 1t was tn,
bars around the %sheepfold, the bars of tn,
fence around the sheepfold. The Heavenly
Shepherd let them fall, and the hunted sheer
Of the mountain come bounding i'll, som
with fleece torn Of the brambles, and other
with feet lame from the dogs, but bounding
III. Thank God! ''Other sheephave l which
are not of this fold"
God forbid that any of you should have tb
lamentation of the dying nobleman who hs'
every opportunity Of salvation, but rejecte
all, and who wrote or dictated these words
Before you receive this my final state wi
be determined. am throwing my last stak
for eternity, and tremble and shudder TO
the important issue. Oh, my friend, wit
what horror do krecall the hours of vanit
we have wasted together; but I have a spler
did passage to the grave. I die in state. an
languish under a gilded canopy. L am ez
piring on soft and downy pillows. and al
physicians. My dependents sigh, my sister
weep, my father bends. beneath a load {
years and grief. But oh, which Of thes
will answer my ummon at the high tr
bunal? And which of these will bail me fror
the arrest of death? While some fatterin
paifegyric is pronounced at my interment,
may be hearing my'just condemnation at
supreme tribunal. Adieuw