Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-02-13

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| We saw the same thing on larger scale
illustrated ct the last war in this country
Cur whole nation had been sitting at a ma
tlonal banQuet-Dorth, south east and west
What grain was there but we grew it on our
bills. What invention was there but our
rivers must turn the new wheel and rattle
j the strange shuttle. What warm furs but
our traders must bring them from the Arc
TIC What fish but our nets must sweep
them for the markets What music but it
! must sing in our halls What elouuence but
1t must speak in our senates. Hol TO the ma
| tlonal banquet. reaching from mountain to
| mountain, and from sea to sea- To prepare
! that banquet the sheepfolds and the aviaries
| OF the country sent their best treasures. The
| orchards piled up on the table their sweetest
fruits. The presses burst out with new wines.
| To sit at that table came the yeomanry OF
| New Hampshire, and the lumberman Of
| Maine and the Carolinian from the rio.
! fields and the western emigrant from the
! pines Of Oregon. and we were all brothers.
| brothers at banquet. Suddenly the feast
ended.
Ch1ckamauga, Shiloh, Atlanta GETTYSBURG
South Mountain? What meant those golden
grain fields turned into a pasturing ground
for cavalry horses? What meant the corn
neldS gullled with the wheels of the heavy
supply train9 Why those rivers Of tears
those lakes of blood? God was angryi JUS
tice must come. A handwriting on the WALL
The nation had been weighed and found
wanting. Darkness! Darkness! Woe TO
the north! Woe TO the south! Woe to the
east! Woe to the west! Death at the ban
quet!
[ have also to learn from the subject that
the destruction Of the vicious, and of those
who despise God. will be very sudden. The
wave of mirth had dashed to the highest
point when that AsSyrian army broke
through. 1t was unexpected. Suddenly,
almost always, comes the doom of those
who desplse God and defy the laws of men.
OVU TvoS to+% Co1T,C H.
1T came through long northeast storm, so
That people for days before were sure it was
coming? No; suppose the morning was
bright, that calnness brOOded on the waters;
that beauty sat enthroned on the hills when
suddenly the heavens burst, and the mount I
ans sank like anchors into the sea that |
dashed clear over the Andes and the |
Himalayas.
The Red Sea was divided. The Egyptians
led to cross it. There could be no tng2r
ne lsraelites had just gone through. Where
they had gone, why not the Egyptians? Oh! |
1t was such a beautiful walking place! A
pavement of tinged shells and pearls: and on
either side two great walls of wateI-solid.
1here can be no danger. Forward great
hosts Of the Egyptians? Clap the cymbaIs.
and blow the trumpets of victory! After
them! We will catch them yet, and they
shall be destroyed. But the walls begin to
tremble. They rock! They fall! The rush
ing waters The shrek of drowning men!
The swimming of the war horses in vain for
the shore! The streWing of the great host
on the bottom Of the sea, or pitched by the
angry wave On the beach--a battered, bruised
and loathsome wreck! Suddenly destruction
came One-half hour before they could no6
have believed it. Destroyed, and without
remedy.
[ am just setting forth fact which yc
have noticed as well as l. Ananias comes to
the apostle. The apostle says, ''Did you
sell the land for so nuch2" He says, eyes"
1t was lie. Deadl as quick as that Sap
phlra, his wife, comes in. Did you sell the
and for SO much?" YES" It was lie;
ments are upon those who despise Him and
defy Him. They come suddenly.
The destroying angel went through Egypt.
DO you suppose that any of the people knew
IF his great wing? No! no! Suddenly, IN
he came.
Skilled sportsmen do not like to shoot a
bird standing on sprig near by. If they
ire skilled they pride themselves on taking
on the wing, and they wait till it starts.
Death Is an old sportsman, and he loves to
axe men flying under the very sun. He
owes to take them on the wing.
Are there any here who are unprepared for
he eternal world? Are there any here who
ave been living without God and without
ope? Let me say to you that you had better I
ccept of the Lord Jesus Christ, lest sud-
emily your last chance be gone. The lungs
viii cease to breathe the heart will stop.
1ore to the office, or to the store, or to the {
hop. Nothing will be left but Death and !
and Eternity. Obi fee to God
MS hour! II there be one in this presence |
Tho has wandered far away from Christ S
1oueh he may not have heard the call of ,
ne Gospel for many year, Invite him now 6
, come and be saved. Flee from thy sin! 9
lee to the stronghold of the Gospel! Now is t
ne accepted time, now is the day of sal S
alton.
Good night, my young friends! May you
ave rosy sleep guarded by Him who never
umbersl May you awake in the morning q
rong and well! But oh art thou a desplser T
God? Is this thy last night on earth?
houldst thou be awakened in the night by =
mething, thou knowest not what, and the-a {
: shadows floating in the ROOM and hanu- v
riting on the wall and you feel that your f
st hour is come, and there be fainting at =
e heart, and tremOr in the limb, and q :
itching of the breath-then thy doom would q
but an echo of the words of the text ''In
at night was Belshazzar, the king of the
slain"
Hear the invitation of the Gospel! There
ay be some one in this house to whom [ ,,
all never speak again. and therefore let it +
in the words Of the Gospel, and not IN my Z
w, with which | close: 'HO every one n
at thirsteth! Come We to the waters. And n
him that hath no money come, buy wine I
ID milk without money: and without
ice" Come unto me, all ye who are u
cary and heavy laden, and | will give you
ST." Oh! that my Lord Jesus would now !
axe Himself SO attractive to your souls y
at you cannot resist Him; and that, if you c
We never prayed before. or have not a
aged since those days when you knelt g.
wn at your mothers knee then that to- -
5ht you might pray, saying: d"
Just as 1 am, without one plea