The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-07-21


Christ To his fellow mountaineers. The
last wods OH his dying lip, being Free
raceW Oh. it was tree grace!
MILLIONS CoMFoRTED BY THE GOSPEL
| There is mali who was or ten years
hard drinker. The dreadful appetite
had sent down its roots around the pal
ate and the tongue, and on down unit
they were interlinked with The vitals o
the body, mind and soul. but he has nol
taken any stimulanls for two years
What did that? Not temperance socie.
ties. NotDrohibition laws. Not moral
suasion. Conversion did it. why,
said one upon whom the great change
had come, "sir, feel just as though /
were somebody else." There is a sea
captain who swore all the way from New
York to Havana, and from Havana te
San Francisco, and when he was in port
he was worse than Z" hen he was ON sea
What power WAS 1t that washed his
tongue clean o. polanities and made
him psalm singer? Conversion by the
Holy Spirit. There are thousands O
people hele today who are no more wha
they once were than S water lily is O
nlohtshade, or a morning lark is a vul.
lure, or day is night.
Now, if should demand that all
those people here present who have fell
the converting power of religion should
rise, 80 lar from being ashamed they
would spring to their feet with far more
alacrity than they ever sprang to the
dance, the tears minsling with their ex.
hiaration as they cried, "We are witncs-
sesW And If they tried TO sing the old
Gospel hymn they would break down
with EN-, ton bV the time they got to the
second line:
Ashamed of Jesus. that dear friend
On whom my hopes Of heaven depend?
No! When 1 blush, be this my shame,
That l no more revere his name.
Again, remark that 'swe are witnes.
ses" CT the Gospels power to comfort.
When man has trouble the world
comes in and says: ''Now get your
mind oil this; go out and breathe the
fresh air; plunge deeper into business" ;"
What poor advice! Get your mind of
it! when everything is upturned with the
bereavement, and everything reminds
you of what you have lost. Get your
mind OIL IL! They might as we'll advise
you to stop thinking, and you cannot
stop thinking In thai direction. Take a
walk in the fresh air! Why. along that
very street, or that very road. she once
accompanied you. Out of that grass
plot she plucked flowers, or into that
show window she looked fascinated. say
ing, "Come see the pictures" Go deep.
erinto business! Why, she was asso-
clated with all Your business ambition,
and since she has gone you have no am
bition left. Oh, this is a clumsy world
when 1t tries to comfort broken heart!
can build Corllss engine, [ can
paint Raphael's Madonna" [ can
play a Beethoven's symphony as easily
as this world can comforJa broken heart.
And vet you have been conferred. How
was 1t done? Did Christ come to YOU
and say: "Get your mind off this. Go
out and breathe the fresh air. Plunge
deeper into business?" No. There
wasa minute when he came to yeu-.-per-
haps In the watches OF the niyhc, per-
haps in your place of business, perhaps
along the streeL-and he breathcd some
thing into your soul that gave peace,
rest, lntinite quiet, so that you could
take out tho photograph of the departed
one and look into the eyes and the face
OF the dear one ana say: lit is all right.
She is better off. l would not call her
back. Lord, thank thee that thou has
comiorted my poor heart"
DIVINE HEALING FORTHE SICK SOUL.
There are Christian parents here who
are willing to testify to the power of this
Gospel to comfort. Your SON had lust
graduated from school or college and was
going into business, and the Lord took
him. Or your daughter had just gradu-
ated from the Young ladies' seminary,
and you thought she was going to be a
useful woman and OF long life, but the
Lord took her, and you were tenn pied to
say, "All this culture OF twenty Years
for nothpg!" Or the little child came
home from school with the hot fever
chat stopped no. for the agoni2e,l pra yer
or Tor the skillftl ply sican, and the lit
tie child was taken. Or the bnbe was
llfted out OF your arms by some quick
epidemic, and you stood wondering why
God ever gave you that child at all # so
soon he was TO Jake it away. And vet
GU are not re eininy, you are not fret.
iul, you are not fighting against God.
What enabled YOU TO stand all the tra (?
ION, you say. II took the medicine
That God gave my sick soul. In my dis
trtss threw my self at the feet ola sym.
pathznat'od; ana when was too weak
TO pray or to iock UP he breath, d into
me u i'eacc that think musi b, the
forelaste of that heaven where there ls
neltltr tear nora farewell nDr II grave"
Come, all ye who have been out TO the
graVo To weep theIe-cOme, all We com.
iorted souls, get up off Your knees. Is
tiiere no power i'll this gospel to soothe
the heart? Is there no power in this re-
llglon to quiet the worst paroXysm of
grleiY There comes up an answer from
com'oried wido"ho and orphanage
and cliildlessness, saying, LAY, ay, we
are witnesaes!'
Agaiu, remark That we are witness
ses OF the fact u at religion has power to
give coinposure ia the last moment.
shall never forget tie first time i con-
tr0nted death. We went across the corn
helds Ill The country. / was led by my
fathers hand, and we came to the farm.
mouse where the bereavement had come
and we saw the crowd of wagons and
carriages; but there was one carriage
that especially attracted my boysh at
tention. aud it had black plumes.
said: WHATS that? what's thalp Why
those black tassels at the top?" Aud
alter IL was explained to me 1 was luted
up Nlook upon The bright lace OF an aged
Christian woman, who three days before
had departed In triumph. The whole
scene made an impression / never for.
got.
1T is NO HEARsAY EVIDENCE.
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