Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-02-20

But apoly this subject to the aged-.loc
MANY here-not many in any asSemblage.
People do not live to get old That Is the
general rule. Here and there an aged man
in the house. tell you the trutn- on pave
lived long enough In this world TO know InaI
il cannot satisfy an immortalnature. must
talk to YOU more reverentiaiIy than 90 20
these otner people, while at the same time
speak with great plaInness. On, Ia0heF Oh
the weary step. Oh, mother bent down
under the ailments of life, has thy God ever
forsaken thee2 Through all these years who
has been your best friend? Seventy years or
merciesl Seventy years OF food and clothing:
Oh how many bright mornings! how many
glorious evening hours you have seen! On,
father, mother, God has been very good TO
YOU Do you feel it, Some OF you have
children and grandchildren; the former
cheered your young life, the latter tW7ne
your gray locks in their tiny fingers. Has
all the goodness that God has been making
pass before you produced no change In your
feelings and must it be said OF you, not
withstanding all this, "One thing thou
lackest?
On, if you could only feel the hand OF
Christ smoothing the cares out of wrinkled
faces Oh. if you could only feel the warm
arm of Christ steadylng your lettering
steps! lift my voice loud enough TO break
through the deafness of the ear while cry
out, lone thing thou lackest." 1t was an
importunate appeal a young man made In
PRAYER meeting when he rose up and said:
DO pray for my old father. He is seventy
wears of age and he don't love Christ"
That father passed a few more steps on In
life, and then he wentdown. He never gave
any intimation that he had chosen Jesus. It
is very hard thing for an old man to be-
come Christian. know it is. 1t is so hard
a thing that it cannot be done by any human
work; but God Almighty can do it by His
omnipotent grace He can bring you at the
eleventh hour-at half-past eleven-at one
minute of twelve He can bring you to the
peace and the joys OF the glorious GOSPEL.
must make application of this subject al
so to those who are prOspered. Have you,
my friends, found that dollars and cents are
no permanent consolation to the soul? You
have large worldly resources, but have you
no treasures, no heaven? Is an embroidered
pillow all that you want to put poor dying
! head on? You have heard people all last
week talk about earthly values. Hear a
plain man talk about the heavenly. Do you
! not know it will be worse for you, o pros
pered man, If you reject Christ, and reject
Him fnally-that it will be worse for you
than those who had it hard in this world, be-
cause the contrast will make the discOm-
future so mucn more appalling? Asthe hart
bounds for the water brooks, as the roe
speeds down the hillside, speed thou to
Christ. Escape for thy life, look not be-
hind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain;
escape to the mountain lest thou be con-
sumed!"
L must make my application to another
y
not pay your rent when it is due, have you
nobody but the landlord to talk to? When
the flour has gone out of the barrel, and you
have not ten cents with which to go the
! baker, and your children are Juggling at your
dress for something to eat have you nothing
but the worlds charities to appeal to?
, When winter comes, and there are no Goals,
and the ash barrels have no more cinders,
who takes care Of you? Have you nobody
but the overseer of the poor2 But preach
to you a poor mans Christ IT you do not
have in the winter blankets enough to cover
you in the night, l want to tell you of Him
who had not where to lay His head. If you
lie on the bare floor, want to tell you of
Him who had for pillowa hard cross, and
whose foot bath was the streaming blood OF
His own heart.
Oh, you poor man! Oh, your poor woman!
Jesus understands your case altogether.
Talk it right out to Him tonight. Get down
On your floor and say: Lord Jesus Christ,
Thou vast poor and am poor. Help me.
Thou art rich now, and bring me up TO Thy
richesm Do you think God would cast you
off? Will He? You might as we'll think that
mother would take the child that feeds on
her breast and dash it's life out as to think
that God would put aside roughly those who
have fed to Him for pity and compassion.
Y ca, the prophet says, "a woman may for
get her sucking child, that she would not
have compassion on the son of her womb but
[ will not forget thee"
If you have ever been on the sea you have
been surprised in the first voyage to find
there are so few sails in sight. Sometimes
you go along two, three, four, five, six and
seven days, and do not see a single sail, but
when a vessel does come in sight the sea
glasses are lifted to the eye, the vessel is
watched and if it come very near then the
captain, through the trumpet, CT les loudly
| across the water 'Whither boundw So
you and | meet on the sea of life. We
come and we go. Some of us have never
met before. Some OF US will never meet
again But [ hail you across the sea, and
/ with reference to the last great day, and with
| reference to the two great worlds, L cry
across the water: ''Whither bound? whittier
JonndY
for, but hast thou thrown overheard the COM
pass? Is there no helm to guide it? Is the
ship at the mercy of the tempest? Is there
40 gun of distress booming through the
storm? With priceless treasures-wlth treas
ures aboard worth more than all the Indies
wilt thou never come up out of the trough
Of the sea? 0 Lord God, lay hold of that
man! Son of God, if thou vert ever needed
anywhere, thou art needed here. There are
many wounds to be healed There are so
many souls to be saved. Help, jesus Help.
Holy Ghost! Help, ministering angels from
the throne! Help, all sweet memories Of the
past! Help, all prayers for our future de-
iverance! Oh. that now. in this the &C.
cepted time and the day of salvation, you
would hear the voice of mercy and live!
Taste and see that the Lord is gracious
In this closing moment OF the service
when everything in the house is so favorable,
when everything is so still, when God is so
and take Jesus. Do not cheat yourself out
of heaven Do not do that God forbid that