Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-08-13

OBJ, il men could only catch just one
glimpse Of Christ l know they would love
Him. Your heart leaps at the sight OF a
glorious sunrise or sunset. Can you be with
GU. emotion as the Sun OF Righteousness
rises behind Calvary and sets behind
Jos-ph's sepulchert He is a blessed Saviour.
Every nation has its type Of beauty There
is German beauty and Swiss beauty and
care not in what land a man first looks a.
Christ, he pronounces Him '.chief amoag
ten thousand, and the one altogether lovely
O my blessed Jesus! Light in darkness,
The rock on which ! build, The Captain OF
salvation. Ny joy, My strength. How
strange it is that men cannot love Thee.
The diamond districts OF Brazil are care
fully guarded, and q 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 pick up treas
ure for eternity. On, cry for mercy, TO
day. if We will hear this voice, harden not
your hearts" There Is a way OF opposing
the mercy q too long. and then there
remaineth no more sacrifice for sin. but a
fearful looking for judgment and fiery in
dignation which shall devour the adversary.
Ny friends, my n~eighbors, what can | say
to induce you to attend to this matter-to
attend to it now Time is flying, hying-the
city clock joining my voice this moment
s yem n tho to say to yV On. pa n0 it no ns Of eae ""s'
NOW ID Ii Itl ods pot - hoI
Why should / stand here and plead and
YOU sit there, 1t is your immortal soul. 1t
Is a soul that shall never die. 1t Isl soul
that must soon appear before Goa FOR re
viewal. Why throw away your chance for
heaven, Why plunge of into darkness
when all the gates OF glory are opens Why
become a castaway from God when you can
sit upon the throne? Why will we die mis-
erabiy when eternal life is offered you, and
- u;l oaet nothiry INIT lust WILLINGNESS
to accept it, Come, for all things are
now ready" Come, Christ is ready. par
don is ready, The church is ready. Heaven
is ready. You will never fnd a more con-
venient season il 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 brighten your
soul. Oh, no. 1t is to persuade you. l
show YOU the peril. | show Xal the escape
Would | not be a coward beCNhd all excuse
if. believing that this great audience must
soon be launched into the eternal world, and
mat all who believe in Christ shall be saved,
ana that all who reject Christ Will be lost
would | not be the verlest coward on earth
to hide that truth or to stand before you
18th a cold or even a placid manner? My
dear brethren, now is the day OF your re-
deulptiOu.
1t is very certain that you and | must
soon appear before God in lu lgtnent. We
cannot escape it. The Bible says: Every
eye shall seq Him, and they also which
pierce Him, and all the kindreds OF the
earth snall 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 EXPLORATORY remark.
every reproof, every call OF grace: and
while the heavens are rolling away like a
scroll, and the world Is being destroyed,
your destiny and my destiny VIII be au-
nounced. Alas! alas If on that day it Is
found that We have neglected these mat
tiers. We may throw them off now. We
cannot then. We will all be III earnest then.
But no pardon then. No offer OF salvation
then. No rescue then. Driven away in our
Observation-Disclosures, exiled forever.
lave you ever imagined wat will be the
soliloquy Of the soul on that day unpar-
doned, as it looks back upon its past life?
.'Oh," says the soul, II had glorious Sab
baths! There was one Sabbath in autumn
when | was invited to Christ. There wasa
Sabbath morning when Jesus stool and
spread out His arms and invited ms to His
holy Heart. l refused Him. l have destroyed
myself. nave no one else to blame. Ruin
complete. Darkness Implying. deep, eter~
nal! l am lost! Notwithstanding all tbs
opportunities 1 have had OF being saved. |
am lost Oh, Thou long suffering Lord God
Almighty, am lost! Oh, dayof Judgment,
/ am lost, Oh. father, mother. brother,
sister. child in glory, am lost" Aud then
as the tide goes out your soul goes out with
it-farther from God, farther from happi-
ness, and 1 hear your voice fainter and faint
er, Lost. Lost! Lost! Lost! Lost" o ye
dying, vet immortal men! Seek the LORD
while He NAV be found
But [ want you to take the hint of the
text that | have no time to dwell on-the
hint that there Is a time when He cannot be
found. There was a man IN this city, eighty
years OF age, who said to a clergyman who
came in, DO you think that a man at
eighty years of age can gel pardoned| 'Oh,
yes" said the clergyman. the old man
said: II can't; when | was twenty years of
age-I am now eighty years-the spirit of
God came to my soul, and | felt the im-
portance OF attending TO these things, but |
put it OFF. rejected God, and since then |
have had no feeling We'll" said the
minister. wouldn't you like to have me
pray with you," Yes" replied the old
man, but it will do no good. YOU can
pray with me if you like TO-"
The minister knelt down aud prayed. and
commended the mans soul to God. 1t
seemed to have no effect upon him. After
awhile the last hour of the mans life came,
and through his delirium a spark of intelli-
gence seemed to flash, and with his last
breath he said. II shall never be forgiven! -
20 seek the Lord while He may be found