The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-04-11

four hundred and ninety times, Becaus,
! the Bible says seventy times seven. Now fig
! ure that out, YOU VINO do not thiul. man
can fall four times eight times, ten times
twenty times one hundred times, four hun,
dred times, and yet be saved. Four hundred
and ninety times! Why, there is a great
/ multitude before the throne of Col who
plunged into all the depths of iniquity
! There were no sins they did not commit; but
| they were washed of body and washed Of
! mind and washed OF soul, AMI they are be-
fore the throne OF God now forever happy. I
say that to encourage any man who feels
there is no chance for him.
Good Tenlpiars will not save YOU, although
they are grand institutions Sons OF Tenn.
porance will not save you, although there is
no better society on earth. Signing the ten.
perance pledge will not save you. ALTHOUGH il
is a grand thing to do. No one but Go: can
save You. Do not put your confidence in
bromide Of potassium or anything that the
apothecary can mix. Pit you trust in Cod
After the church has cast you off, aud the
bank has cast you Oft, ami social circles hays
cast you off, and all good society have cast
you off, and father has cast you off, and
mother has cast you of, at your first cry for
help God will bend clean down to that ditch
of your iniquity to help you out. On, what
God He is! Long suffering and gracious!
There may be IN this house some whose
hand tre:ables so with dissipation they could
hardly hold hymn BOOK. | saw to sucb IL
they are here: You will preach the GospeI
yet. You viii yet, some of you, carry the
holy communion through the aisles. and Won
VIII he acceptable to everybody because
everybody will know you are saved and
purified by the grace of God AMI a consa-
Grated man, wholly consecrated. Your bust.
ness has got 10 come up vo,ir physical
health Is TO be rebuilt, Your family is to Ia
restored, tho Church of God on earth and
III heaven Is to rejoice over voG- coming
Other sheep have | which are not of this
iold." II TINS Is not the Gospel / do not
know what the Gospel is 1t can scale any
height, 1t can tataom any depth, it can COM
pass any in:inity. | think one reason why
there are not more people saved is We do
not swing the door wide enough open
Now there is only one class OF persons in
this house about whom | have any despond-
ency and that Is those vino have been hear
ing the Gospel for perhaps twenty, thirty.
forty years. Their outward life is neral,
but they tell you frankly thew do not love the
LORD Jesus Christ, have not trusted Him, have
not been born again by the spirit of God.
They are Gospel hardened. The Gospel has
no more effect upon them than the shining
OF the moon on the city pavement. The
publicanS and the harlots go into the king
dom of God before they. They wen. through.
some OF them, the revival of 1857, when 500
OoO souls were brought to God. Some of them
went through great revivals in individual
Churches. Still unpardole1. unblessed, I'M
saved. They were merely spectators. Gospel
hardened! After awhile we will hear that
they are SICK, and then that they are dead,
and then that they died without any hope
Gospel hardened,
but turn away from all such with thrill
OF hope to those who are not Gospel hard
sned. Some of you have not heard, perhapS
nve sermons in five years. This whole sub
lect mas been novelty to you for sometime
on are not Gospel hardened: you knowyo
Are not Gospel hardened The whole subject
saying oh my wasted fe oh t tS@ S; seSr
past! Oh. the graves I stumbled overI
Whittier shall Hy? The future is SO dark. so
dark, so very dark! God help mer
Oh, am 50 glad for that last utterancei
That was prayer, and as soon as you be-
gin to pray that turns all heaven this way,
hounds OF temptation to their kennels, and
He throws all around the pursued soul the
covert of His pardoning mercy. I heard
fall. What was it? It was the
bars around the sheepfold, the bars of the
fence around the sheepfold. The Heavenly
Shepherd let them fall, and the hunted sheep
If the mountain come bounding in, some
With fleece torn Of the brambles, and others
With feet lame from the dogs, but bounding
n. Thank God! "Other sheephave I which
ire not of this foid.1
God forbid that any Of you should havethe
annexation OF the dying nobleman who had
very opportunity Of salvation, but rejected
III, and who wrote or dictated these words:
Before you receive this my final state will
'e determined. l am throwing my last stake
or eternity, and tremble and shudder for
he important issue. Oh, my friend, with
what horror do l recall the hours Of vanity
We have wasted together; but have a SPLEEN
id passage to the grave die in state and
anguish under a gilded canopy. lam ex-
firing on soft and downy pillows and am
espectfully attended by my servants and
hysicians My dependents sigh, my sisters
'eep, my father bends beneath q load of
ears AMI grief. But oh, which Of these
MI answer my summons at the high tri-
unalf And which Of these will bail me from
be arrest Of deathf