Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-08-21

eighty per cent. nor twenty per cent, nor
two per cent, nor one; that it gives no solace
when dead babe lies on your lap; that it
gives no peace when conscience rings its
alarm; that it gives no explanation in the
lay of dire trouble; and at the time of your
1ecease it taxes hold of the pillow case and
shakes out the feathers, and then jolts down
N the place thereof signs and groans and
excavations, and then makes you put your
head on it.
Oh, We who have tried this world, is it a
satisfactory portion? Would you advise
your friends to make the investment? No.
I'VE have sold yourselves for naught." Your
conscience went. Your hope went Your
Bible went. Your heaven went. Your God
went When sheriff under q writ from
the courts sells man out the officer gener-
ally leaves few chairs and bed. and a few
cups and knives; bat in this awful vendue in
which you have been engaged the auction
GERS mallet has come down upon body mind
and soul-going! gone! I'VE have sold
yourselves for naught."
How could you do so? Did you think that
your soul was mere trinket which for few
pennies you could buy in q toy shop? Did
you think that your soul, II once lost,
might be md again II you went o.0 with
torches and lanterns? 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 foreingers on its
1t, nal pulses. Have you not felt the culver
Of its peerless wing? 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 or GODS uni
verse, and that it will not die until the day
when the everlasting Jehovah expires? Oh,
my brother, what possessed you that you
should part with your soul so cheap: Y
rc selves for naugnG."
Blu have some good news to tell you. l
want to engage in a litigation for the recov-
cry OF that soul Of yours. L want to show
that you have been cheated out of it. l want
to prove as l will, that you were crazy on
that subject, and that the world, under such
circu instances, 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 reinstating you in the possession
OF your soul. ''Oh," you say, 81 am stralu
of lawsuits; they are so expensive, and can
not pay the cost" linen nave you 1orgoUten
the last half of my text? ''Ye have sold
yourselves for naught; and ye shall be re-
deemed without money"
Money is good for a great many things,
but it cannot do anything in the 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 specula-
ton an extension of Wall street. Bad men
would go up and buy out the place, ami
leave us to shift for ourselves. But as money
is not a lawful tender, what is? L Will
answer, Blood! Whoses Are we 80 go
through the slaughter? Oh, no; it wants
richer blood than ours. 1t wants kings
blood. 1t must be poured from royal arteries.
1t must be a sinless torrent. But where Il
the king?
-ee a great many thrones and a great
many occupants, yet none seem to he COM
ing down to the rescue. But after awhile the
clock Of nil ht in Bethlehem strikes IL AMI
the silver pendulum Of a star swings across
the sky, and see the King OF Heaven risinS
up, and He descends and steps down from
star to star, and from cloud to cloud, lower
and lower, until He touches the sheep COW
cred hills and then on to another hill, this
last skull shaped, and there, at the sharp
stroke of persecution, a rill lncarnadin9
trlckles down, and we who could not be
redeemed by money are redeemed by precious
and imperial blood.
We have in this day professel Christians
who are so rarefed AMI etherealiz91 that
they do not want religion of blood. What
do you want? You seem to want religion
of brains. The Bible says, ''In the blood is
the life" No atonenent without blOo1.
Ought not the apostle to know? What did
he say? I'VE are redeemed not with cor
ruptible things, such as silver and gold, but
by the precious blood of Christ" You put
your lanceet into the arm Of our holy relig-
ion and withdraw the blood, and you leave
1T mere corpse, fi5 only for the grave. Why
did God command the priests of old to strike
the knife into the kid, AMI the goat, and the
pigeon, and the bullock, and the lamb? It
was 50 that when the blood rushed out from
these animals on the floor of the ancient
ia 5ernacle the people should be compelled to
think OF the coming carnage OF the Son Of
Tod. No blood, no atOnement.
[ think that God INTENDED to impress us
with vividness of that color The green OF
tho grass, the blue of the sky would not
have startled AMI aroused US like this deep
crimson. 1t is as if God had sail: ''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. It is the blood of God" Without the
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 if
it it be found that we have recrucified the
Lord OF Glory and have never repentad of
it? You must believe in the blood or &c.
No escape. Unless 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 ''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 Cal
varian massacre. You had Your sins were
the implements Of torture. Those i'm
elements 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 to-day
Ten thousand voices of heaven bring in the
verdict against you Of guilty, guilty, Pre-
pare to die or believe in that blood Stretch
yourself out for the sacrifice or accept the
Saviours sacrifice. Do not fling away your
one chance.
1t seems to me as if all heaven were try
ing to bid in your soul. The first bid it makes
is the tears of Christ at the tomb of Laza-