The Forrest City times., 1891-01-16
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people talk as though they thoug' .ttho crocc 'f God were chain of forty :. 0s,v ,;nL. md when they had run ,n, then ,hor, vas nothing to touch the ,en,h og n ,nor,. niquity. If a mauwe s ont bnrt;nc "a, leer, and got of the t. eel, nf ,ha aeor h. would hunt amid f hnshss and the brakes longer for .e ,os, camo ,har he will look for los s.,nl
 Aney pay u" can has had the delirium reinsns .wice he cannot be cured They . Ss !. mo" SR has fallen from integrity uo o"'iho' h~, redeemed All of which is .an .n ,n, ." islander on the Gospel of the 'o" o~ G0 |. Men who say that know
 .thing bout practical religion in their 'wn ne" it's How many times will God axe os ok man who has fallen? We'll, caw lot give you the exact figures, but can tell you at what point he certainly VI j take him back. Four hundred and inety times. Why do l say four hundred and ninety times? Because the Bible says seventy times seven. Now, figure that out, you who do not think a man can fall four times, eight times. ten times. twenty times, one hundred times, four hundred times, and yet be saved. Four hundred and nine ty times Why, there is @ great multitude before the throne of God who plunged into all the depths of iniquity. There were no sins they did not commit; but they were washed of body, and washed of mind, and washed of soul, and they are before the throne of God now forever happy. I say that to encourage any Man who feels there Is no chance for him.
 Good Templars will not save you, al- though they are grand institution. Sons of Temperance will not save you. although there is no better society on earth. Sign ing the temperance pledge will not save you, although it is grand thing to do. No ono but God can save you. Do not put your confidence in bromide of potassium, or anything that the apothecary can nix Put your trust in Godi After the Church has cast you of, and social circles have cast you of, ana the bank has cast you of, and all good society has cast you of. and father has cast you of, and mother has cast you of, at your first cry for help God wirl bend clean down to that ditch of your in iquity to help you out. Oh, what God he isi Long suffering and gracious!
 There may be in this house some whose hand tremties so with dissipation that they
 
 such, If they are here, ''You will preach the Gospel yet; you will yet, some of you, carry the Holy Communion through the aisles, and you will be acceptable to every body, because every body will know you are saved and purified by tho grace of God, and consecrated man. wholly consecrated. Your business has got to come up your physical health is to bc rebuilt, your family tA t~,~ zf %-1 earth and in heaven is to rejoice over your coming. ''Othcr sheep have l which are not of this fold" If this is not the Gospel do not know what the Gospel is. It can scale any height it can fathom any depth, it can compass any intinity. l think one reason why there are not more people saved is we do not swing the door wide enough open. Now there Is only one class of per- sons in this house about whom I have any despondency and that is those who have been hearing the Gospe. for perhaps twen- ty. thirty, forty years. Their outward life moral. but they tell you frankly they do not love the Lord Jesus Christ, have not trusted him. have not been. born again by the Spirit of God. They are Gospel hardened. The Gospel has no more effect upon them than the shining of the moon on the pavement. The publicaus and the har- lots so into the kingdom of God before they. They went through, some of them. the re- vival of 1857, when 800, GOO souls were brought to God. Some Of them went through big revivals in individual churches. Still unpardoned, unblcssed, unsaycd. They were merely spectators, Gospel hardened. !. After awhile we will hear that they arc sick. and then that they are dead, and then that they died without any hope. Gospel hardened. But turn away from all such with a thrill of hope to those who are not Gospel el-hardened. Some of you have not heard. perhaps. five sermons in five years. This whole subject has been a novelty to you for some time. You are not Gospel hardened; you know you are not Gospel hardened. The whole subject comes frcsh- ly to your mind. hear some soV saying, 70 my wasted life . O the bitter past! o tho graves I stumbled over! Whither shall I fly? The future is so dark, SO dark, so very dark. God help mel'
 Oh, am so glad for that last utterance! That was prayer, as soon as you begin to pray, that turns all Heaven this way. and God steps in, and he beats back the hounds of temptation to their kennels, and he throws all around the pursued soul the covert of his pardouing mercy. l heard fall. What was il? It was the bars around the sheepfold, the bars of the fence around the sheepfold. The Heavenly Shepherd let them fall, and the hunted sheep of the mountain come bounding in, some with fleece torn of the brambles. and others with feet lame from the dogs, but bounding in. Thank God! "Other sheep have l which arc not of this fold"
 God forbid that any of you should have the lamentation of the dying nobleman who had had every opportunity of salva- ton but rejected all, and who wrote or these words: Before you re- ceive this, my final state will be deter mined. l am throwing my last stake for eternity, and tremble and shudder for the i'm mportant issue. Oh. my friend, with what horror do recall the hours of vanity we have wasted together; but 1 have . splendid passage to the grave. l die in state, and languish under a gilded canopy. am expiring on soft and downy pillows, and am respectfully attended by my ser wants and physicians My dependents sigh. my sisters weep, my father bends beneath load of years and grief; but O, which of these will answer my summons at the high tribunal? And which of these will bail me from the arrest of deathf While some fattering panegyric is pro- at my interlnent. l may be hear Ing my just ccndeinnatHn at . supreme tribunal Adieul"