Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-12

of God who plunged into all the depths of
iniqutty There were no sins they did not
commit; but they were washed Of body
and washed of mind and washed of soul,
and they are before the throne of God now
forever happy. | say that to encourage
any man who feels there is no chance for
him.
GOD ALONE CAN SAVE YOU
Good Templars will not save you al
though they are grand institution. Sons
of Temperance will not save you, although
there is no better society on earth Sign
ing the temperance pledge will not save
you, although it is a grand thing TODD. No
one but God can save you. Do not put your
confidence in bromide of potassium or any
thing that the apothecary can mix. Put
your trust in God! After the church has
cast you of, and the bank has cast you off
and social circles have cast you off, and all
good society has cast you Off, and father
has cast you off, and mother has cast you
Off, at your first cry for help God will bend
clean down to that ditch of your iniquity
to help you out. Oh what a God he isl
Long suffering and gracious!
There may be in this house some whose
hand trembles so with dissipation they
could hardly hold a hymn book. | say to
such if they are here: You will preach
rhe gospel yet. You win yet, some of you,
carry the holy communion through the
aisles, and you will be acceptable to every
body because everybody will know you
are saved and purified by the grace of God,
and % consecratcd man, wholly conse-
Grated. Your business has got to come up,
your physical health is to be rebuilt, your
family is to bo restored, the Church of God
on earth and in heaven is to rejoice over
your coming. "Other sheep have | which
are not of this fold" If this is not the
gospel ! do not know what the gospel is.
1t can scale any height, it can fathom any
depth, it can compass any intinity. 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 who have been
hearing the gospel for perhaps twenty,
thirty forty years. Their outward life is
moral, but they tell you frankly they do
not love the Lord Jesus Christ, have not
trusted him, have not been born again by
the spirit of God. They are gospel hard
ened. The gospel has no more effect upon
them than the shining Of the moon on the
city pavement The pubiicans and the
harlots go into the kingdom of God before
they. They went through, some Of them,
the revival OF 1851 when 800, 600 souls were
brought to God. Some of them went
through great reviyals in individual
churches. Still unpRrdoned, unblessed,
unsayed. 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 a
thrill of hope to those who are not gospel
hardened Some Of you have not heard,
perhaps, five sermons in five years This
whole subject has been n novelty to you
for some time You are not gospel hard
ened; you know you are not gospel hard
encd The whole subject comes freshly to
your mind. hear somcsoul saying: "Oh,
my wasted lifel Oh, the bitter past! Oh,
the graves | stumbled oyer Whittier
shall fly? The futureis SO dark, SO dark,
so very dark! God help met
GOD GUARDS HIS SHEEP.
Oh, | am so glad for that last utterancel
That was prayer, and as soon as you be
gin to pray that turns all heaven this way,
aud God steps in, and he beats back the
hounds Of temptation to their kennels, and
he throws all around the pursued soul the
covert Of his pardouing mercy | heard
fall. What was it? 1t was the
bars around the shecpfold, the bars of thn
fence around the shCepfold. The Heavenly
Shepherd let them fall, aud the hunted
sheep of the mouutan come bounding in,
some with ilaa3e D,rn Of the brambles, Gnd
theirs with feet lame from the dogs, but
bounding in Thank Godl "Other sheep
have which are not Of this fold"
Gcd forbid that any of you should have
the lamcntaHon OF the dying nobleman
who had had every opportunity Of saliva
ton, but rejected all, and who wrote or
dictated these words: Before you receive
this my final state will be determined.
am throwing my last stake for eternity,
and tremble and shudder for theimportant
issue Oh, my friend, with what horror
do | recall the hours of vanity we have
wasted together; but | have splendid
passage to the grave. | die in state, and
lauguish under a gilded canopy. am ex-
piriug on soft and downy pillows, and am
respectfully attended by my servants and
physicians. My dependents sigh, my sis
tiers weep, my father bends beneath n load
of years and grief But oh, which of these
will answer my summons at the high tri
buualg And which of these will bail nue.
from the arrest of death? While some
hattering pancgyric is pronounced at my
intormeut, | may be hearing my just con-