Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-02-02

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all my property, and you sec am getting
old, and It Is rather hard upon me; but
am sure God will not let me suffer He
has not taken care Of mo for bcyenty-hve
years now 10 let me drop out Of his hands"
went into the room Of an aged man
| his eyesight nearly gone, his hearing near
| " Rone-aud what do you suppose be was
talking about The goodness Of God and
the Joys OF religion. lie said: II would
| like to go over and join my wife on the,
other side Of the food, and All waiting
until the Lord calls me. am happy now.
shall be happy there" What Is 1t that
| gave that aged man so much satisfaction
and peacei Physical exuberauce' No, II
| has all gone. Sunshinei He cannot zee IT..
The voices Of friends1 He cannot hear
them. IL " the grace Of God, that is
brighter than sunshine and that is sweeter
than music. II a harpist takes harp and
finds that all the strings are BROKEN but
one string he does not try TO play upon IL.
Yet here will show you an aged man the
strings Of whose Joy are ali broken save
one, and yet he thrums IL with such salts
faction. such melody that the angels Of
God stop the swift stroke Of their wings
and hover about the place until tine music
ceases. oh, religions ways are ways Of
pleasantness, and all her paths are peace"
And IL you have not the satisfaction that
Is 10 be found in Jesus Christ, must tell
you, with all the concentrated emphasis Of
/ my soul, Zone thing thou lnckeSt."
remark, again. that you lack the ele
| ments of usefulness. Where ia your bust
nessi You say it IL No. 45 such a street,
or No. 2G0 such a street, or No. 800 such n
street. My friend immortal, your business
IN wherever there Is n tear TO be wiped
away OF n soul 10 be saved. You may, be
fore coming 10 Christ, do a great many
noble things. You take u loaf of bread TO
that starving man In the alley, but he
wnnts Immortal bread. You take pound
OF candles to that dark shanty, They want
the light that springs from the throne OF
| God, aud you cannot take IL because you
have II not In your own heart. You know
that the flight Of an arrow depends very
much upon the strength of the bow, and
have TO tell you that the best bow that was
ever made was made out OF the cross Of
Christ; and YhSn religion takes n soul and
puts II on that, and pulls IL back and lets
II fly, every time II brings down Sndl or
Goliath.
There are people here OF high social posi-
tion. and large means, and cultured minds,
who II they would come into the kingdom
OF God. would set the city on fire with re
ligious awakening. Oh, hear you not the
moro than million voices Of those in these
two cities who are unconyortsdg Voices Of
those who In these two cities are dying ia
their sinsY They want light. They want
| bread. They want Christ. They want
| heaven. Oh, that the Lord would make
you flaming evnngcl Az for myself !
have sworn before high heaven that | will
preach this gospel ~ well ~ | can, In
all its fullness, until every fiber Of my
body and every faculty Of my mind,
aud every passion Of my soul Is exhausted.
Bat We all have work TO do. | cannot do
| your work. nor eau you do my work. God
points us out th0 place whore we are 10
serve, and yet are there not people in this
house who are thirty, forty nifty and sixty
! years OF age, and yet have not begun the
! gront work for which they were crcatedi
With every worldly equipment, "Ono thing
thou laokost."
FOLLY OF THE MERE wOnLDLiNG.
| Again, you lack the element Of personal
safety. Where are those people who assu
ciated with You twenty years agoy Where
are thoss people that hfteen years ago used
| 10 cross South fotry Or Fulton ferry with
you TO New York; Walk down the street
where you weN In business fifteen years
| ago and see how all the signs have
changed. Where are tina people gonel
How many Of them are landed In eternity
cannot SAY, but many, many. | went ~
the village OF my boyhoud, The houses
We're all changed, i passed ono house IN
| which once resided a man who had livol
an earnest, useful lie, and lac Is in glory
now, In the next house miser lived. lie
deyoured widuws' houses, and spout hi,
whole life In trying 10 mako tho world
worse and worse. Aud he ~ Roue tho
| good man aud the niiser both gone to the
same place, All, did they 20 TO thu saine
| plaeof lt Ia an infinite ahsurdlty to sup,
pose them both ia the satue place II tho
mlaer had a harp, what tune did ho play
on ~
Oh, my friends, / oommond you to this
| religion AS the ouly personal safety When
you die. where are you going toi Whom
We leave all thesa sccnes upon what scenes
will We enteFl When wo wero CA ship,
board, ami Wo all fult thai We must go IL
the bottom, WAS | right In saying 10 on0
neXt me. II wonder II wo will reach heaven
II We do go down to-nightF Was wiso
or unwiso ia asking that question: tell
you thag man Is a fool who never thinks OF
the great futuc,
II you pay money You take receipt, "a
you buy land you rccord the deed Why's
because everything Is so uncertain. yor.
want 10 dowa la BLACK aud white, you SAY I,
fug house and lot twpnty avo feet frpnt
by one hundNd icut deep, all security, but.
Tor asoul vast as cternity nothing, uothlns
II some man or woman standing ia some
OF these aisles should drop down, Whercl
would YOU 20 tor Which L. your dcstinyi|
Suppose man 4 prepared Tor the futuroI
world. HAT difference doos ID make to him
whether ho goes to his home today or gOsa
into gloryl ouly this dlnownco IL he
dies hs Is letter "a Mherv he had onV i0y
GA rallh De viii have a million IA hoaNop,
When he has d email sphere herv hr win
have grand sphvrv thew lTrhR.S "a
would c1st YOU sixty, or one hundred or
Que hundred and flity dollars 90 have your
physical life ihsurr,i, aud Yet frs ~ charge
l Otfcr you INSURANCE on YOUR Immortal
life. pas a1lc noe 90 ypur duoeasc, but nov
snd lo-luogrow and every dSV and always.
~ kpln NJ DhF,t u pos sp bright as
many Chlstisps, kpaW, bpt wQuld nol
give Il up for thg whole universe, iu opu
cash paNmcAt, u D. weW oderei ma u
bas beru ~ much comfort 10 mg ia time of
tFoable, u has trVn ~ much strength 20
mu " han have hsen asstilol. lg has teen
~ nach rpsi ~ nV When I have boea per
plsgss, a1d "a s aF0aad my heart such An
ilesArfnynt ~ sali-fi.glion anA hcssodncss
thai esA ai..nl hsne bsiore Goi AMI sAy
"fake away uly hvslth, kakc away aly hte,
take every shlns rather Ibsa rob ns "a this
hogs. ths plain. slmglc hlpe watch have
N lcsas Christ, n,y l.agl | ,aUst have
thls r'llss ehpa thu lasi Chiii sWAr, Through
nie. I nasl lave tha AsAt v hen all oJhsr
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