The Penn's Grove record., 1892-07-29

-s~~~. Al. Sow. a,use As "a tus. uyns-vus
city clock joining my voice this moment,
s Nem TO Say to You: Nov Is tie time
WIS should I stand here and plead and
you sit theref 1t is your immortal soul. 1t
rs a soul that shall never die. 1t is a soul
that must soon appear before God for re.
viewal. Why throw away your chance for
heavent Why plunge OF int darkness
when all the gates OF glory are opeuf Why
become a castawav from God when you can
sit upon the throne, Why will ye die mis-
erably when eternal life Is offered you, and
it will cost you nothing but just willingness
to accept itf Some, for all things are
now ready" Come. Christ is really, par
don is rea 1yl The church Is ready. Heaven
Is ready. You will never find a more con-
venient season IL you should live fifty year,
moro than this very one. Reject this and
you may die ia your sins.
I Why do I say thisf L. it to brighten your
souif Oh, no. Il ID to persuade you. !
show you the peril. I show you the escape.
Would I not be a coward beyond all excuse
II, believing that this great audience must
soon be lauuched into the eternal world, and
that all who believe In Christ shall be saved,
and that all who reject Christ will be lost
would | not be the veriest coward on earth
to hide that truth or to stand before you
with a cold or sven q placid manner, Ny
dear brethren, o Is b day Of your re-
demption,
Its very certain that you and I must
soon appear before God In judgment. We
canno escape it. The Bible says: Every
BYE shall sse Him, and they also which
piercei Him, and all the kindreds Of the
earth shall wall because Of Him." On that
day all our advantages will come up for our
glory or for our disco mfture-every prayer,
every sermon, every exhortatory remark,
svery reproof, every call of grace: and
while the heavens are rolling away like q
sornll owA tho onrlI ID hofn0 doctrNua1
your destiny and my destiny will be am
nouuc ID. AIasi alasi IL on that day it Is
found that We have neglected these mat
ters. We may throw them of now. We
.annot Chen. We will all be In earnest then.
But no pardon then. No offer Of salvation
Observation-Disclosures, exiled foreveri
| Have you ever imagined what will be the
soliloquy of the soul on that day unpar-
Toned, as 1t looks back upon its past hfef
'tOh," says the soul, II had glorious Sab
bathsl There was one Sabbath in autumn
when l was invited to Christ. There wa
Sabbath morning when Jesus stood and
pread out His arms and invited me 10 His
holy heart. 1 refused Him. l have destroyed
myself. / AVE no one else to blame. Ruin
complete. Darkness Implying. deep, eter-
nall I am losti Notwithstanding all the
opportunities l have had Of being saved, !
Almighty III a4sst II I am MOS iosti 66, day q judgment,
{ am losti Oh, father. mother, brother,
lister. child in glory, 1 am ioetf' And then
IS the tide goes out your soul goes out with
lt--farther from God, farther from happi-
aess, and I hear your voice fainter and faint
Or, Lost Losti Lostl Losti Lostr o ye
lying, yet immortal meni Seek the Lord
while BE may be founi."
But I want you to take the hint OF the
ext that / nave no time to dwell on-ths
hint that there is a time when He cannot be
found. There was . man in this city, eighty
years Of age, who said to Q clergyman who
nme in, '.Do you think that q man at
Eighty years OF age can get p~ardonedY' 'Oh,
yes" said the clergyman. The old man
aid: II can't; when I was twenty years Of
lge-I I'm now eighty years-the spirit Of
Bod came to my soul, and I felt the i'm
; s~ortsnce of attending to shess things but I
put It OF. Irejected God, and since then I
savs LAD &c s%..e::s" "W.!l" lid the
minister, "wouldn't you like to have mo
pray with your "Yesn replied the old
man, shut IL will do no good. You can
pray with me il you like to-"
The minister knelt dow q prayed. n
commended the mans soul to God. It
seemed to have no effect upon him. After
awhile the last hour OF the mans life cane,
and through his delirium . spark of intelli-
yence seemed to fash, and with his last
breath he said, 81 shall never be forgiven %
70 seek the Lord while He may be foun5.