Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-07-30

canteen. Uh, said the dying soldier
that's not what want. feel in my KNAPP
sack for my Bible" And his comrade found
the Bible and read him few of the gracious
promises, an tbs dying soldier said: .Ah.
that's what want. There isn't anything
like the Bible for dying soldier. is there,
my comrade@' Oh, blessed book while We
live Blessed book when we die
Iremark, again, we mus seek God through
church ordinances. What" say vol
can't man be saved without going to
church, frsply. there are msa suppose.
in glory, who have never seen church;
but the church is thu ordained means by
which we are to be brought to God: AMI if
truth affects US when we ara alone, it affects
US more nightly when we are in the
assembly-the feelings of others empha.
sizing our own feelings Ths great law of
sympathy comes into play. and truth that
would take hold only with the grasp of
SICK man beats nightly against ths soul
with thousand heart throbs.
When you come into the religious circle,
come only with one notion and only for one
purpose-to find the way to Christ. Wnen
[ see people critical about sermons, and
critical about tones o. voices, and critical
about sermonic delivery. they make me
think of man i'll PRISON. He is condemned
to death. but the officer of the Government
brings pardon and puts it through the
wicket of the prison and says: HHere is your
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you expect me to take that pardon offered
with such voice as you have, and with such
an awkw manner as you have? | would
rather die than so compro Mise my rhetorical
notionsn Alb. the man does not say that;
he takes it! 1t is his life. He does not care
how it is handed to him. And if this morn
ing that pardon from the throne of God is
ofere to our souls should we not seizs it,
regardless of all criticism, feeling that it is
matter of heaven or help
But / come now to thu last part OF my
text. 1t tells US when we are to seek the
| Lord "While He may be found" When is
| thatg Old age? You may not see old aye.
| Tomorrow? You may not see tomorrow
Tonight? You may not see tonight. Now!
! Oh. if could only write on every heart in
three capital letters that word No W
now!
Sin is an awful disease. hear people say.
with the toss Of the head and with trivial
manner, ''Oh, yes, Pm sinner" Sin is an
awful disease. 1t is leprosy. 1t is dropsy.
1t is consumption. 1t is all moral disorders
in one. Now you know there is crisis in a
disease. Perhaps you have had some illus
tration OF it in your family. Sometimes the
physician has called and he has looked OF
the patient and said: THAT case was simple
enough, but the crisis has passed. If you
had called me yesterday OF this morning
! could have cured the patient 1t is too late
now; the crisis has passed" Just so it is in
the spiritual treatment of the SOUL there is
crisis. Before that, lifei After that,
DEATH o my dear brother as you love your
soul, do not let the crisis pass unattended
tot
There are some here wao can remember
instances in life when if they had bought
certain property they would have become
very rich. A few acres that would hava
cost them almost nothing were offered than
They refused them. After ward large vii
lage or city sprang up on these acres o;
ground and they sea what q mistake they
made in not buying the property. There
was an opportunity of getting it. IT never
came back again. And SO it is in regard to
mans spiritual and eternal fortuna Taere
is chance; if you let that CO. perhaps it
never comes back. Certainly that ons
never comes back
There is a time which mercy has set for
leaving port. If you are on board before
that you win get passage for heaven. If
you are not on board you miss your pas
sage for heaven. As in law courts case is
sometimes adjourned from term to term,
AMI from year TO year, till the bill of costs
eats up the entire estate, SO there ara men
who ara a iiourning the matter of religion
from Tina to time. and from year to year,
until heavenly bliss IS the bill of costs the
man would have to pay for it
Why defer this matter, o my dear hear
Ell? Have you any idea that sin will wear
out? that it will evaporats? that it will relax
It's grasp? that you may find religion as a
man accidentally finds a lost pocketbooks
Ah, mol No man ever became Christian
by accident or by the relaxing OF sin. The
embarrassments ara all the time increasing
The hosts CT DARKNESS arc recruiting, and
the longer you postpone this matter the
sleeper the path viii become. | ask those
men who are before ms TINS morning wneth-
er in the ten or fifteen years they have
passed in the postponenent of these matters
they have come any nearer Col OR heaven
| would not be afraid to challenge this
whole audience, Sc far as they may not have
found the peace OF the Gospel, in regard to
that matter. Your hearts, you are willing
frankly to tel me, are becoming harder and
harder, and that if YOU come to Christ it will
be more of an undertaking now than it ever
would have been before. Ga, fly for refuga
The avenger Of blood is on the track The
throne of Judgment will sool bs set and if
you have anything to do toward your eternal
salvation you had better do it now, tor the
redemption of the soul is precious and it
ceaseth foreyerl
Oh. if m.u could only catch just one
glimpse nf Christ l know they would love
Him. Your heart leaps at the sight of
glorious sunrise or sunset Can you be with
out emotion as the Sun Of Righteousness
rises behind Calvary and sets behind
Joseph's sepulcher? He is a blessed Saviour!
Every nation has its type.of beauty. Thera
is German beauty and Swiss beauty and
Italian beauty and English beauty. but I
care not in what land a man first lools at
Christ, he pronouncas Him "chief among
ten thousand. and the one altogether lovely"
o my blessed Jesusl Light in darkness!
The rock on whicI l huilti The Captain Of
saivationl My joyl My strength, How
strange it is that men cannot love Thee.
The diamond districts of Brazil ara care
fully guarded, and a man does not get in
there except by a pass from the Govern
meut. but the love of Christ is a diamond
district we may all enter and nick up treas
ure for eternity. On, cry for mercy 80
day, if We will hear this voice, harden not
your hearts" There is a wav of opposing
the mercy of God too long, and then there
remaineth no more sacrifice for sin. but
fearful looking for Judgment and fiery in
dignation which shall devour the adversary.
My friends, my neighbors, wat can say
to induce you to atteni TO this matter-to
attend to it now? Time is flying, fying-tha
city CLOCK joining my voice this moment;
seeming to say to you: Now is the time!
Now is the time" o. put it not Off
Why should stand here and plead and
you sit there? 1t is your immortal soul 1t
is a soul that shall never die. 1t is soul
that must soon appear before God for re-
viewal. Why throw away your chance for
heaven? Why plunge off into darkness
when all the gates of glory are open? Why
become casr1way from God when you can
sit upon this throne? Why will ye die mis-
erably when eternal life is offered you, aud
it will cost you nothing but just willingness
to accept it, "Come, for all things are
now ready" Come. Christ is ready, par
don is reaiv. The church is ready. Heaven
is ready. You will never find more con-
venient season if you should live fifty years
more than this very one. Reject thiS and
you may die in your sins.
Why do say this? Is it to frighten your
soul? Oh, no. 1t is to persuade you 1
show you the peril. l show you the escape.
Would | not be a coward beyond all excuse
if, believing that this great audience must
soon be launched into the eternal world, and
that ali who believe in Christ shall be saved,
and that all who reject Christ will be lost
would not be the yerieSt coward on earth
to hide that TRUTH or to stani before you
with a cold or even a placid manner? NY
dear brethren, now is the day of your re-
dempton.
1t is very certain that you aud | must
soon appear before God in iu lgment We
cannot escape it. The Bible says: every
eye shall see Hin, ami they also which
pierced Him. and all thu kiudrsds of the
earth shall wall because of Him On that
day all our advantages will come up for our
glory or for our discomfiture-every prayer,
every sermon, every exhortatoyy remark,
every reproof, every call OF grace: and
while the heavens are rolling away like
scroll, and the world is being destroyed,
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