The Forrest City times., 1891-10-09
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ssTo this end was born" 1t may be helpful to some if l relate my own ex- perience In this regard. started for the law without asking any divine direc- tions sI consulted my own tastes. liked lawyers and court rooms and judges and juries, and reveled in hearing the Frelinghuysens and the Bradley-s of the New Jersey bar, and as assistant of the county clerk, at sixteen years of age, searched titles, naturalized for eigners. recorded deeds, received the confession of judgments, swore wit nesses and juries But after while
 felt call to the Gospel ministry and entered it, and 1 felt some satis- faction in the work. But one summer, when I was resting at sharon Springs, and while seated in the park of that village, said to myself, If have an especial work to
 do in the world ought to find it out now" and with that determination l
 prayed as 1 had never before prayed, and got the divine direction, and wrote it down in my memorandum book and saw my life work then as plainly as
 see it now c, do not be satis- fled with general direction Get
 
 at random. Take aim and fire Concentrate. Nnpoleon's success in battle came from his theory of break
 ing through the cnemys ranks at one point, not trying to meet the whole line of the enemy's force by similar force. One reason why he lost Water loo was because he did not work his usual theory, and spread his force out over wide range.
 In the seventeenth ce ntury, all Europe was threatened with wave of Asiatic barbarism, and Vienna was es- pecially besieged. The King and his court had fled, and nothing could save the city from being overwhelmed un- less the King of Poland, John Sobleski, to whom they had sent for help, should with his army come down for the relief, and from every roof and tower the inhabit- ants of Vienna watched and waited and hoped until on the morning of September II, the rising sun threw an unusual and unparalleled brilliancy
 It was the reflection on the swords md shields and helmets of John Sobieski and his army coming down over the hills to the rescue, and that day, not only Vienna but Europe, was saved. And see you not, Oh ye souls. besieged with sin and sorrow, that light breaks in the swords and the shields. and the helmets of divine rescue bathed in the rising sun of heavenly deliverance? Let everything else go rather than let heaven go.
 What & strange thing it must be to feel ones self born to an earthly crown. but you have been born for a throne on which you may reign after the last monarch of all the earth shall have gone to dust I invite you to start now for your own coronation, to come in and take the title deeds to your everlasting inherit- ance. Through an impassion- ed prayer take Heaven and all of its raptures. What a poor farthing is all that this world can offer you co npared with pardon here and life immortal be- yond the stars, unless this side of them, there be place large enough and beautiful enough and grand enough for all the ransomed Wher. ever it be. in what world, whether near by or far away, in this or some other constellation, hail home of light and love and blessedness, Through the atonlng mercy of Christ, may we all get there