Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-10

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want to persuade my audience that
! this world Is . poor investment; that II
does not pay ninety per cent Of satisfac
ton. nor eighty per cent, nor twenty pei
cent, nor two per cent, nor one; that Il
| gives no solace when dead babe lies on
| your lap, that it gives no peace when con
science rings its alarm; that IL gives no ex
PLANTATION in the day Of dire trouble; and
at the time of your decease 1t takes hold Of
the pillow case and shakes out the feathers
and then iolts down in the place thereof
signs and groans and eXecrations and then
makes you put your head on IL.
Oh, ye who have tried this world, is 1t d
satisfactory portion2 Would You advise
your friends TO make the investmenti No.
"Ye have sold yourselves for naught.
Your conscience went. Your hope went.
Your Bible went. Your heaven went.
Your God went. When n sheriff under a
writ from the courts sells man out the
officer generally leaves q few chairs and a
bed, and few cups and knives; but in
this awful vendue In which you have been
engaged the auctioneer's mallet has come
down upon body. mind and soul-goingl
gonel "Ye have sold yourselves for
naught."
ONCE LOST 1T is GONE FOREVER
How could you do soS Did you think
that your soul was a mere trinket which
for few pennies yon could buy in a toy
shopf Did you think that your soul, if
once lost, might be found again II you
went out with torches and lanternsp Did
you think that your soul was short lived,
and that, painting, you would soon lie
down for extinction Or had you no idea
what your soul was WORTH Did you
ever put your forefngers on its eternal
pulsesr Have you not felt the culver Of it's
peerless wingP Have you not known that
after leaving the body, the first step Of
your soul reaches to the stars, and the next
step to the farthest outposts of Gods uni
verse, and that 1t will not die until the day
when the everlasting Jehovah expiresS
Oh, my brother, what possessed you that
you should part with your soul SO cheap
"Ye have sold yourselves for naught."
But have some good news to tell you.
want to engage in litigation for the recov
cry of that soul of yours. want to show
that you have been cheated out of it,
want TO prove, as | will, that you were
crazy on that subject, and that the world,
under such circumstances, had no right to
take the title deed from you; and If you
will join me shall get decree from the
High Chancery Court of Heaven reinstat-
ing you in the possession Of your soul
"Oh," you say, Il am afraid of lawsuits;
they are so expensive, and | cannot pay
the cost" Then have you forgotten the
last half Of my textP "Ye have sold your
selves for naught; and ye shall be redeemed
without money"
Money is good for Il great many things
but 1t cannot do anything in this matter
of the soul. You cannot buy your way
through. Dollars and pounds sterling
mean nothing at the gate of mercy. If
you could buy your salvation, heaven
would be great speculation, an eXten
sion of Wall street. Bad men would go
up and buy out the place, and leave us to
shift for ourselves But as money is not a
lawful tender, what is? will answer,
Blood WhoseS Are we to go through
the slaughter Oh, no; 1t wants richer
blood than ours. 1t wants kings blood
1t must be poured from royal arteries 1t
must be a sinless torrent But where Is
the king2
see great many thrones and a great
many occupants, yet none seem to DO com
ing down to the rescue. But after awhile
the clock of night in Bethlehem strikes
~, and the silver pendulum of a star
swings across the sky, and see the King
of Heaven rising up, and he descends and
steps down from star to star, and from
cloud to cloud, lower and lower, until he
touches the sheep covered hills, and then
on to another hill, this last skull shaped,
and there, at the sharp stroke of persecu
ton, rill incarnadine trickles down, and
we who could not be redeemed by money
are redeemed by precious and imperial
blood.
NO RELIGION OF BRAINS.
We have in this day professed Christians
who are so rarehed and etherealized that
they do not want religion of blood What
do you wantS You seem to want reli
gion of brains. The Bible says, "ln the
blood Is the life" No atonement without
blood. Ought not the apostle to knowf
What did he say2 "Ye are redeemed not
with corruptible things, such as silver and
gold, but by the precious blood of Christ"
You put your lancet into the arm of our
holy religion and withdraw the blood and
you leave 1t n mere corpse, fit only for the
grave. Why did God command the priests
of old to strike the knife into the kid, and |
the goat, and the pigeon, and the bullock, |
and the lambf 1t was so that when the |
blood rushed out from these animals on |
the floor Of the ancient tabernacle the PEG
Pile should be compelled to think Of the |
coming carnage of the Son Of God No |
blood, no atonement.
think that God intended to impresss us |
with n vivdness of that color. The green |
of the grass, the blue of the sky, would not |
have startled and aroused us like this deep |
1t is as II God had said; Now, |
sinner, wake up and see what the Saviour !
endured for you This is not water This
is not wine. This is blood. 1t Is the blood !
Of my Son. 1t is the blood of the immacu-
late. 1t is the blood of God" Without |
the shedding Of blood is no remission
There has been many man who, in courts
of law, has pleaded mot guilty." who
nevertheless has been condemned because
there was blood found on his hands or
blood found in his room, and what shall
we do in the last day II it be found that we
have recrucified the Lord of Glory and
have never repented CT itP You must be
lieve in the blood or die. No escape I'm
less you let the sacrifice of Jesus go in your
stead you yourself must suffer 1t is either
Christ's blood or your blood.
"Oh," says some one, 1.-The thought OF
blood sickens me-" Good. God intended
it TO sicken you with your sin. Do not act
as though you had nothing to do with that
Calvarian massacre You had. Your sins
were the implements OF torture. Those
implements were not made Of steel and
iron and wood so much as out OF your
sins, Guilty of this homicide, and this
regicide, and this decide, confess your
guilt today Ten thousand voices OF heaven
bring in the verdict against you Of guilty,
guilty. Prepare to die or believe In that
blood. Stretch yourself out for the sacri-