Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-22

Saviour's righteousnessY believe the Tat
ter. Go home to your God today. He Is
waiting for you. Go homel
But / remark the characteristic of this
resolution was, it was Immediately put
into execution.
The context says che arose and came to
his father" The trouble in nine hundred
and ninety-nine times out of thousand is
that our resolutions amount to nothing be-
cause we make them for some distant time.
II | resolve to become a Christian next
year, that amounts to nothing at all. If
resolve to become a Christian tomorrow,
that amounts to nothing at all. If ! re-
solve at the service today to become a
Christian, that amounts to nothing at all.
II / resolve after | go home today to yield
my heart to God, that amounts to nothing
at all. The only kind of resolution that
amounts to anything is the resolution that
is Immediately put into execution.
Thara Ia man who had the tvphoid
fever He said, "Oh, il | could get over
this terrible distress, if this fever should
depart, If could be restored to health,
would all the rest Of my life serve God"
The fever departed. He got well enough
TO walk around the block. He got well
enough to attend to business. He is we'll
today-as well as he ever was. Where is
the broken vowP There is q man who said
long ago. IF could live to the year 1892
by that time will have my business mat
ters all arranged, and will have time to
attend to religion, and / will be a good,
thorough, consecrated Christian. 1.-THE
year 1892 has come. January, February
March, April, May, June, July-Afully half
of the year gone. Where is your broken
vows
ooh" says some man, an attend to
that when can get my character fixed up;
when can get over my evil habits. l am
now given to strong drink" or, says the
man. II am given touncleanness," or, says
the man, 81 am given to dishonesty. When
get over my present habits, then I'll be
thorough Christian" My brother, you
will get worse and worse until Christ takes
you in hand. Not the righteous, sinners
Jesus came to call"
"Oh,n but you say, II agree with you on
all that but must put it off little long
err" Do you know there were many who
came just as near as you are to the king
dom of God and never entered itY 1 was
at East Hampton, Long Island, and l went
into the cemetery to look around, and in
by side-the graves of sailors. This crew,
! some years ago. in ship, went into the
breakers at Amagansett, about three miles
away. My brother, then preaching at East
Hampton, had been at the burial. These
men of the crew came very ngar being
saved. The people from Amagansett saw
the vessel, and they shot rockets, and they
sent ropes from the shore, and these poor
! fellows got into the boat and they pulled
nightly for the shore, but just before they
got to the shore the rope snapped, and
the boat capsized. and they were lost and
their bodies afterward washed upon the
beach.
oh, what q solemn day it was--I have
been told Of It by my brother-when these
twelve men lay at the foot of the pulpit
and he read over them the funeral service.
They came very near shore-within shout
ing distance Of the shore, yet did not ar
rive on solid land. There are some men
who come almost to the shore Of Gods
mercy, but not quite, not quite. To be
only almost saved is TO be lost.
THE HOPELESS PRoDIGAL.
will tell you Of two prodigals, the one
that get back and the other that did not
get back. In Richmond there is very
( prosperous and beautiful home in many
respects. A young man wandered of from
that home lie wandered very far into
sin. They heard Of him often, but he was
always on the wrong track. He would not
20 home. At the door Of that beautiful
home oGe night there WAS q great outcry