The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-06-06

in the house. tell YOU the truth. You have
lived long enough in this world to know tEaG
it cannot satisfy an immortal nature. must
talk to Won more revercntialiy than do to
these ot1er people, while at the same time l
sneak with great piainneSs. Oh, father OF
the weary step, Oh. mother bent down
under the ailments of life, has thy God ever
forsaken thee: Through Ill these years VINO
has been your hest friend, Seventy yearSo
mercies! seventy years OF food anu ciotnins
Oh, how many bright mornings! How many
glorious evening hours you have seen! On,
father, mother, God has been very good To
Won. Do YOU feel its Soma OF you have
children and gran ichiidren; the former
cheered your young life, the latter Irvine
your gray LOCKS in their tiny fingers. Has
all the goodness that God has been making
pass before you produced no change Iii your
feelings, and must it be said of You, not
outstanding all this, Zone thing thou
lackest"
oh. if YOU could only feel the hand OF
Christ smoothing the cares out or wrinIiel
faces! Oh, if you could only feel the warm
arm of Christ steadying your totterlnS
steps lift my voice loud enough to break
through the deafness of the ear while cry
out. lone thing thou lackest." 1t was an
Unfortunate appeal a young man made IN a
PRAYER meeting when he rose up anu said:
DO pray for my old father. He is seventy
wears OF age. and he don't love Christ.
life, and thu he wentdow He never gave
any InJImaJIon tina. he had chosen Jesus. It
is very hard thing for an old man to be-
come a Christian. know il is. 1t is so hard
a thing that 1t cannot he done by any human
work; but God Almighty can do 1t by His
omnipotent grace; He can bring you at the
eleventh h0ur-at half-past eieven-at one
minute of twelve He can bring yoI to the
peace and the JOYS OF the glorious gospel.
Imust male application Of this subject al
so % those who are proSpereI. lave You,
my friends, found that dollars AMI c ,nts are
no permanent consolation to the soul, You
have large worldly resources, but have you
no treasur1- 10 heaven? Is an embroidered
pillow all that you want to nut poor dying
heal on9 You have heard people all last
week talk about earthly values. Hear a
plain man talk about the heavenly. Do you
mo- know it will be worse for you, q pros
perel man, if YOU reject Christ, aid reject
Hi fnally-thlt il will he worse for you
than those who had il hard IN this world, be-
cause the contrast will make the discom-
'ture 50 much more appalling: Asthe hart
bounds for the water brooks as the roe
speeds down The hillside. speed tlou to
Christ. "Esrl2e for thy life, look not be-
hind thee. neither stay thol ill all the plain;
escape TO the mountain lest thou DO con-
sumed!'
1 must make my application 10 another
Clst~S VI lJsTS ).iS-IDj pDOT. w ucI you Ctu-
no. pay your rent when it is due, heve you
moody 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 10 the
baker. and your children are Juggling at your
dress fox something to cot, have you nothing
ut the worlds charities to appeal to?
When winter comes ana there are no Goals
and the ash barrels have no more cinders
who ,akes care of your Have You nobody
but the oversser of the poor! But preach
to you a poor mans Christ. IL you do not
have in the wl.ter blankets enough to cover
you IN the night, 1 want to tell yo'. of Him
who hal not win re to lay His head. If you
lie on the bare floor, want to tell you OF
Him who had for pillowa bard cross, and
whose foot bath was the streaming blood Of
His own heart.
On, you poor man! On, your poor woman!
Jesus understands your case altogether.
Talk it right out to Hin tonight Get down
on your floor and say: Lord Jesus Christ,
Tnou vast poor and avn poor. Help me.
Thou art rich now, and bring me up to Thy
richesw Do you think God would cast you
OFF? VIII He? You might as well think that
a mother would take the child that feeds on
her breast and dash its life out, as to think
that God would put aside roughly those who
have fled to Him for pity and compassion.
Yea, the prophet saws, "A woman may for
get her sucking child, that she would not
| will not forget thee"
Ii 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 sec a single sail, but
when vessel does cone in sight the sea
glasses are liftel to the eye, the vessel IS
watched. and if it come very near then the
captain through the trumpet. cries loudly
across the water. "Whithcr bound" So
you and : meet on the sea of life We
come and we go. Some of us have never
met before. some or US will never meet
again. But l 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
bonndy'
know what service that craft was made
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
no gun of distress booming through the
storm? With priceless treaSureS-wlth treas
ureS aboard worth more than oil the Indies
wilt thou never come up out OF the trough
of the sea? D Isold God, lay hol1 of that
man! Son of Cod if thou vert ever needed
anywhere, thou art needed here. There are
30 many SIZES to be perdoned. There are so
any wounds to be healed. There are 50
nany souls to be saved. Help, Jesus! Help.
Holy Ghostl Help, ministering angels from
the throne! Help, all sweet memories of the
pastI Help. all prayers for our future de-
liverancel Oh. that now, in this the &C
copied time and the day of salvation, you
would hear the voice of mercy and hvel
Taste and see that tine Lord is gracious.
In this closing moment OF tho service.
when everything ir. the house is SO favorable,
when everything is SO still, when God is so
loving and heaven is SO near, drop your sins
and take Jesus Do not cheat yourself out
of heaven. Do not do that. God forbid that
at the last, wnen it is too late to correct the
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