The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1891-02-07

terEy or Bulton Terry with you to New
York? Walk down the street where
You wereiin BUSINESS fifteen years ago
and sec how all the signs hayechanged.
Where are the people gone? How many
OF them are landed in eternity l can not
say, but many. many. 1 went to the
village Of my boyhood. The houses
were all changed. 1 passed one house
in WHICH once resided a man who had
lived an earnest useful life, and be is In
glory now. In the petit house / misef
lived. He devouredAwidpws' houses, and
spent his whole life in trying TO make
the world worse and worse. And
he Is gone-the good man and the miser
both gone to the same place. All, did
they go to the same place? 1t is
an infinite absurdity to suppose them in
the samef place. If! the miser had D
harp,iwhat tune did he play On IL? o,
my friends, l commend to you this re-
hgion as tire only personal safety. Wien
you die, Thefe are yogGoing t3Pj When
you leave all these scenes, upon what
scenes will you enter?
Suppose a nan is prepared for the
future world, what difference does it
make to him whether he goes to his
home to-day or goes into gloryP Only
this difference. If he dies he is better
off. Where he had one JOY on earth he
will have = million, in Heaven. When
he has q small sphere here he will. have
a grand sphere there.
My hope in Christ Is not 80 bright as
many Christians l know; but l would
not give it up for the whole universe,
in ops-tash paymeptI il itwere offered
me. It has been so much comfort to
me in time of trouble, it has been SO
much strength to me when 1 have been
assailed, 1t has been so much rest to me
when have been perplexed, and it Is
around my aeart such an encasement
of satisfaction and blessedness that I
can stand here before God and say:
Take away my health, take away my
life, take any thing rather than rob me
Of this hope, this plain simple hope
which ! have In Jesus Christ, my Lord.
I must have this robe when the last
chill strikes through me: I must have
this light. when all other lights 60 out
in the blast that comes up from the cold
Jordan. I must have this sword with
which to fght my way throughallthose
AoS 10y p1yL u
When I was In London I saw
there |tPe yc9derful srmor Of Henry
have to tell you that there Is nothing In
chain mail or brass plate or gauntlet or
haiberd that makes a man SO safe as
the armor in which, the Lord clothes his
dear children. o, there is a safety in
religion. You will ride down all your
foes. Look out for the man who has
the strength OF the Lord God with him.
n olden times the horsernen usedto ride
into battle with lifted lances, and the
enemy fed the field. ...EJ sy,.
The Lord on the white horse Of vic
tory, and with lifted lances of divine
strength, rides into the battle, and
down goes the spiritual foe; while the
victor shouts the triumph through the
Lord Jesus Christ AS q matter of per-
sonal safety, my dear friend, you must
lave this religion.
V l apply my subject to several classes
of people before me. First, to that
great multitude of young people in this
apdispce: Some of these young men
hqrem bcarai1g houses They have but
few Socisd 1fdvaptages. They think
that notone cares fcr tbeifseals. Many
Softhera are onesihall ~salasies, Ind they
sfe ceampsa and bethered psrpetually,
and sometimes thefr heart, tails them.
Young~fnenyto-nighb atfyonr bedroom
door On thethird fiosr ydn viii hear a
ikhoekipg. &1tSwin be the handof Jesus
Christ, the young Observation-Disclosures
20, young man, 1ab1nssEome in;;azssall
shalp thee, i viii comfort thee, I will de-
liver thee" Take the Bible out of the
trunk, If it has been hidden away. If
you have not the courage to lay 1t on
the shelf or table take that Bible that
vas given toeyou by bme fovedp
chair, then Knee daEn% besiaS it
anu read and pray and pray and read
until all your disturbance is gone, and
you feel that peace which neither earth
-aeF-hell-eaa rob you of. Thy fathers
God, thy mothers God waits for thee,
o young man. Escape for thy lifel"
Escape now! Zone thing thou lackest!"
But I apply this subject to the aged
not many here. Not many in any as
semblage. People do not live to get old.
That - the general rule. Here and
Ethefe al aged man in the house, tell
yauN the truth. YOU have lived long
enough In this world to know that it
can not antisfy m Immortal nature. 1
naust talk To- You more reverentially
than / do 70 these other people, while
ii the same time I speak with great
plainness. o, father Of the weary step,
o, motherd bent down under the all
meHtsb f LIFE, has thy GOD ever forSaken
thee?/ Through all these years, who
has been your best friend?
Seventy years of mercies9 Seventy
years iof'food and clothingl o, how
many bright morningsl How many
glorious evening hours have you scent
o, father, mother God has been very
good TO you. Do you feel it7 Some Of
you have children and grandchildren;
1.-The former cheered your young life, the
latter Irvine your gray locks in their
tiny fingers, Hasiall the goodness that
God has been making pass before you
produced no change In your feelings,
and must " be said Of you, notwith-
standing all this: "One thing thou
lackest?"
o, If you could only feel the hand OF
Christ smoothing the cares out Of
wrinkled faces. OF, If you could only
feel the warm of Christ steadying your
lettering steps. / lift my voice loud
enough toybFeak Through the deafness
Iof tie a while Frfy out: zone thing
tho&lackesk" ItLfs q very hard thing
for an old man to become q Christian.
I know 1t Is. It is SO hard a thing that
1t can not be done by any human work;
but God Almighty can do 1t by his om-
nipotent grace; He apriagrYe'54ftA 9
eleventh. lony{- 4alf9pn& eeafd8
one minStd afAa shSsd xri4 -
to the pesce sndths joy% d the glorious
mo- kleglsrp3fcation of this sub
~ a. 5sfbBse4 who IRE prospered.
Have you, my friends, found that dol
lars and cents are nc permanent conso-
fatfon to the soul? You have large
worldly resources, but you have no
treasures in Heaven? Is an embroid-
cred pillow all that you want to put
your dying headon2 You have heard
people all last week talk about earthly
values. Hear q plain mans tale about
the heavenly. Do you not know it will
be worse for you, %, p=ospered man, if
you reject Christ, and reject him finally
that 1t will be worse for you than
those who had il hard in this world, be-
.capse the contrast will make the dis.
comhture's SO much more appallingP
As the hart bounds for the water
brooks, as the roe speeds down h hill
side, speed then to Christ Escape for
thy HE, look not behind thee, neither