The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-06-06

about the pt.cc until III music ceases. Oh,
religions ways are ways % pleas an ness,
and al hcr paths are pace and II you
have no. the salts. &c. ion that Is 10 be found
in jesus Christ. l must tell you, with all tho
concentrated emphasis of my soul: ''One
thing thou lac.est.'
~ ark, again. tiat you lie. til elc-
n'"nts Oh usefulness. " EoIc l. yoGr buoiieSa:
You SIS i. is NJ. - su'i 4 street. -: No, 80
such STREET o. No BOO 81 n SorcS;. My
friend Immortal, Your business l. Wherever
there is tear to he wiped away or n soul to
be saved. You may, before coming to Christ,
DO great many noble things. Nou take
loaf of bread II that starving man i'll the
alley, but he wants immortal bread. You
take pound of candles to that dark shanty
They want the light that springs from the
throne of God, and you cannot take it be-
cause you have it not in your own heart.
You know that the flight of IN arrow de-
ponds very much upon the strength Of tho
bow, and have to tell you that tho best bow
that was ever made was made out of the
cross of Crit: aad when religion takes a
soul and puts it on that and pulls it back and
lets it flv, every time it brings down Saul
or Goliath.
There are people here of high social posi-
ton, and large means and cultured minds.
VINO. il they would como into the kingdom
of God, would set the city on fire with relig-
than million voices OF those in these two
cities who are unconverted. Voices of those
who in these two cities are dying in Their
sinss They want light. They want bread.
They want Christ. They want heaven. Oh,
that the Lord would make you hau,ing
evangel, As for myself. have sworn before
high heaven that 1 will preach this gospel rs
well as / can, in all its fullness until every
fiber of my body, and every faculty OF my
hausted But we al have work to d.. |
cannot do your work, nor can YOU 90 my
work. God points us out the places where
we are TO serve, and yec are there no people
in this house who are thirty, Iorty, fifty AMI
sixty years of age, and Vet have not be,un
the great work for which they were created?
With every worldly equipment, "Oac thing
thou lacieSt."
Again, you LACE the element of personal
81 ETY.. Where are those people who asSo-
ciatel with you twenty years ago? Where
are these people that fifteen years aga used
To cross South ferry or Fulton ferry with
you to New York? Walk down the street
where you were in business fifteen years ago
and see how all the signs have changed.
Where are the people gone? How many OF
them are landed in eft ,rnity cannot say, but
many, many. | went to tho village OF nv
boyhood. The houses vera all changed.
passed one house in which once resided a man
who had lived an earnest. useful life and he
is in glory now. In the next house @ miser
lived. He devoured willows 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 10th in the same place. Ii the miser
had harp. what tune did he play on it?
Oh, my friends, co-,renl you to this re.
hglon as the only personal safety When
you die. where are you going to: When we
leave al these scenes, upon what scenes will
We enter. When we were Oh saip5oarj. AMI
we all felt that we must all go to the bottom.
was right in saying TO one next me: II
wonder if we will reach heaven if We do GO
Gown tonight" Was | wise or unwise IN
ASKING that question? tell you that man is
fool who never THINKS of the great future.
Ii you pay your money yoI take a receipt.
II you buy land you record the deed. Why?
Because everything is so uncertain, you
want it down in black and white, you say.
For house and lot twenty-five feet front by
ona hundred feet d 'ep all security; but for n
soul vast as eternity nothing. nothingl If
some man or woman standing in some of
these aisles s1oul1 drop down, where would
you go TO! Which Is yo2r destiny? Suppose q
man Is prepared for the future world, what
goes TO his home today or go,s into glorvs
Only this GiTGrence--If he Gies he is better
on Where he had one JOY on earth he will
have million in heaven. When he has a
small sphere here he will have a grand
sphere there. Perhaps it would cost YOU
sixty, or one hun lred, or one hundred and
fifty dollars t. have your physical life in
sured and yet free of charge offer YOU in
surance on your immortal lie, payable not
at your decease, but now and to-,Jrrow and
every day and always.
My hope in Christ is not SO brght as many
Christians, | know, but / would not Civ. 10
up for the whole universe, i'll one cash pay
ment, II It were offered me. 1t has been SO
much comfort to me in time OF trouble it
has been SO much strength to me when have
been aSsaied. it has been so mt IN rest to me
when have been perplexad. and it is around
my heart such an inc nsement of satisfaction
AMI biessedness tdat | can stani hera before
God and say: Take away my heath, take
away my life, take everything rather than
rob me OF this hope. this plain, simple hope
which have in Jesus Christ my Lord. /
must have this robe when the last chill
strikes through me. must have this light
when all other ligats go out in the blast that
comes up from the cold Jordan. j must
have this sword with which 70 fight my way
through all those foes on my way heaven
ward"
When was in London I saw there the
wonderful arnor o. Henry VIII. and Ed
ward iii. AMI vet have to tell you that
there is nothing in chain mail or brass plate
or gauntlet or halberd that makes a man SO
safe as the armor in which the Lord God
clothes his dear children. On. there Is a
safety in religion! You will ride down all
your foes. Look out for that man who has
the strength Of the Lord Col with him. In
o,den times the horsemen used to ride into
battle with lifted lances, and the enemy fled
the field. The Lord on the white horse Of
victory and with lifted lances Of divine
strength rides into the battle, an down goes
the spiritual foe, while the victor shouts the
triumph through the Lord Jesus Christ Az