The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-01-28

they win be destroyed. But the walls
begin to trcmble. They rock! They
fall The rushing waters! The shrek
Of drowning men! The swimming Of
the warehouses in vain for the shorel
The strewing Of the great host on the
bottom Of the sea, or pitched by the an
cry wave on the beach--a battered.
bruised and lonesome wreckl Suddenly
destruction came. One half-hour be-
fore they could not have believed It.
Destroyed, and without remedy.
am Just setting forth fact, which
you have noticed as well as l. Ananias
comes to the apostle. The apostle says:
t'Did You sell the land for SO much?"
He says: yes" 1t was lie. Deadl
as quick as that! Sapphira, his wife,
comes in. "Did you sell the land for
SO much?" "Yes." 1t was lie; and
as Quick as that she was dead! Gods
judgments are upon those who despise
Him and defy Him. They come sud-
denly.
The destroying angel went through
Egypt. Do you suppose that any
of the people knew that he was
coming? Did they hear the flap of his
great wing? No! MOI Suddenly, un-
expectedly; he came
Skilled sportsmen do not like to shoot
bird standing on sprig near by. II
they are skilled, they pride themselves
on taking it on the wing; and they walt
till ii starts. Death is au old sportsman,
and he loves to take men flying under
the very sun. lie loves TO take them on
the wing.
Are there any here who are unpre-
pared for the eternal world? Are there
any here who have been living without
God, and without hope? Let me say TO
you that you had better accept Of the
Lord Jesus Christ, lest suddenly your
last chance be gone. The lungs will
cease to breathe; the heart will stop.
The time will come when You shall go
no more to the office, or to the store or
the shop. Nothing will be left but
Death, and Judgment, and Eternity.
o, flee to God this hour! II there be
one in this presence who has wandered
far away from Christ, though he may
not have heard the call of the Gospel
for many a year, invite him now to
come and be saved. Flee from thy sini
Flee TO the stronghold of the Gospel
| Now is the accepted time; now Is the
day of salvation.
Good night, my young friends! May
| you have rosy sleep, guarded by Him
who never slumbers! May you awake
in the morning strong and WE'LL But,
0l art thou despiser Of God? Is this
thy last night on earth? Shouldst thou
be awakened in the night by something,
thou knowest not what, and there be
shadows floating in the room, and a
handwriting on the wall, and you feel
that your last hour is come, and there be
fainting at the heart, and tremor in
the limb, and catching Of the breath
then thy doom is ut an echo of the
words OF the text "In that night was
Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans,
slain"
! Hear the invitation of the Gospel!
There may be some one in this house to
whom ! shall never speak again, and
therefore let Il be in the words of the
Gospel, and not in my own, which |
close: "Ilo, every one that thirsteth!
Come ye to the waters. And let him
that hath no money come, buy wine and
milk without money and without price. -
"Come unto Me all ye who are weary
and heavy laden, and | will give you
rest" OH that my Lord Jesus would
now make Himself so attr ctive 30 your
souls that you can not resist Him, and
that IL You have never prayed before, or
have not prayed since hose days when
you lxnelt down at your mothers knee,
then that tonight you might pray say
ing:
Just as an, without one plea
But that Thy blood was shed for me-
/ A1d that Thou bid'st me come 20 Thee,
o, Lamb OF God, | come
But IL you can not think of so long a
prayer as that, will give you shorter
prayer that you can say: God be mer-
ciful 10 me, sinner!" Or, II you can
not think Of so long prayer AS that,
will give You q till shorter one than
that yon may utter: Lord, save me, or
| perishl" Or, II that be too long a
prayer, you need not utter one word.
Just look and live
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