The Wilmington daily Republican., 1891-05-12
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The Lord keeps great clothing house.
There are some obvious contrasts between
majority of people desire ciothiug such
that they can 20 anywhere and every
where they please and do what they please,
and 1t will not show dirt. But the Lord
who makes white an emblem of purity,
clothes his people, as 1t were. with bright
and shining robes OF white because lie
don't want them TO go in dirty places
among dirty people and get their gar
nfents soiled; and IL they do SO, He being
truthful. wants y to show until they are
purified. He clothes them all with the
same s-repentRnce. resenera-
tiOn faith, Justification, hope love- chari-
ty Eanctificatfon and Joy.
when men go to one of our clothing
houses down town, the ciothier fits the
suit TO tho man. but the Lord in his cloth
Ing businees fits the man to the suit. This
the Lord Is always able TO do while some.
times tho clothier cannot find suit in his
stock that Will Mt. For instance, very tall
and slim man wants suit and the
merchant tailor has to measure him and
make one to order.
He is SO very tall. 30 very high-minded,
self-important sclf-oJnccited and self
righteous that It is marvel to behold
what vast difference there 10 between
what he thinks he is and what he &C
tuaily amounts TO.
1t is remarkable to observe how little
there is I'm him. But the Lord don't take
tell him to come and pay for II and get II
on Saturday. without money and with
out price, He forthwith takes the pride
and self-righteousness out OF the man,
and shortens him up 60 ho just fills one OF
the Lords suits.
Again, a man who is very large round
thavinE extraordinary Dimensions of
girthl goes into a Market street clothing
draw largely on his materials but the
Lord takes the pomposity and seif-reliance
out of the man and Etraigbtway he be.
comes little enough Just TO fill modest
Christian suit.
The above are specimen illustrations Of
the pnngent and peculiar preaching OF
Itov. George n. ToIhkins. in the tent on
Walnut street. above Eleventh. Sunday
forenoon, as they occurred in hisdovelop-
mcut OF his text from FAC. III, &. arid
he anewered and spoke unto those tina;
stood before him saying, Take away the
hlthy garments from him. And unto him
he said. Behold have caused thine ini.
guilty 70 pass from thee, aud will clothe
thee with change of rRiment."
| Joshua was not only tile leader OF the
Jews but the High Priest and representa-.
tive OF the church. His condition was
typical Of, and the same as, that of the
jewish church at that time. God won't to
work to purify Joshua and the church.
When ever man sets about TO reform,
the devil ts always at his right hand TO re-
sist him. SO he was with Joshua before
thb Ankei Oh lDe LORI. But TOD rebuhed
Satan and he departed. The reason the
devil is SO much present with some people
| Ia because they entertain him and trust
him so well. II you throw meat to dog
and feed him, be viii always hang around.
The right way to DO is TO say get the be-
hind me eaten" and have nothing to do
with him.
The filthy garments of Joshua figura-
| lively meant his self-righteousness Not
drunkenness not licentlousness but simp-
al people just as II may be often seen now
| a-Gays. self-riglteousness Is all that
| righteousness which Il man he's in him
that is not the Righteousness of Jesus
Christ.
Against no clan of people did our Saviour
| huri more terrible iIvectiye than the self
| righteous Pharis5es and hypocritcB He
/ told them that pubiicans and hariots en-
| tered the Kingdom of Heaven before
thom. There Is no one good but God. All
II mans righteousness, that ia not OF
| Jesus Christ is rs filthy rags. Religion
must be experimental and these filthy
gaiments must be torn Off before clean
robes cn.i be put on. :. The reason why
some people lnd 1t so hard to practice re-
| iRion is because they have not ex.
perieneed it.. Whosoever is born OF God
overcomes the world. Not Just little
part of it. but the whole OF II.
The world is full OF the rank weeds OF
| sin. There are some people who have moi
religious power onpuEh to overcome one
| weed. Some slpoke. rome chewtt. Qthert
snuti 1t. Still.others there are who rub II
| on their teeth. But it is sadly discordant
| nnd filthy beside the clean garments that
God makes for His people.
When man goes to his clothier he can
not put a properi Etting overcoat on over
his old dusty or greasy oyercoat. He has
20 take on the hlthy garment fret. Thut
God said Of Joshua, Take away his filthy
garment from him. After that He said
to him, II will clothe thee because have
| caused thine iniqnity to pass fr m thee -
God cuts all his suits out of the same cloth
and by the snIne pattern and clothes all
| His people aliko,
The preacher wants all the poor sinners
and miserable hypocrites In WilmfnGton
to go to the 'Iiord,s Clothing House and
get the be new garments they ever had
In theirlife.
His taking every day modern street eS.
perieuce to illustrate Gospel truth sounds
very much like the Ssviour's preaching
when on earth as recorded.
lie drew his contrasts quite alniabiy and
mildly. He might have added that the
Lord. like many of oui clothing merchants
does not tell any lies nor sell it for all
wool when 1t Ia part cotton