The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-25


let that go, perhaps IL never comes back.
| Certainly, that one never comes back.
There is q time which mercy has set for
leaving port II you are on board before
that, you will get a passage for heaven. IL
you are not on board You miss your pas
sage for heaven. As In law courts case Is
sometimes adjourned from term to term,
and from year to year, till the bill Of costs
eats up the entire estate, so there are men
| who are ad journing the matter Of religion
from time 70 time. and from year to year
un il heavenly bliss is the bill Of costs the
man would have to pay for it
Why defer this matter. o, my dear
| hearerl Have you any idea that sin will
wear outl that 1t will evaporatei that it will
relax its grasp, that you may find religion
as a man accidentally finds d lost pocket
| bOokl All, mol No man ever became
! Christian by accident, or by the relaxing OF
sin. The embarrassments are all the time
increasing. The hosts OF darkness are re-
| cruitinR, and the longer you POSTPONE this
matter the sleeper the path will become. l
ask those men who are before me this morn
ing, whether, 10 the ten or fifteen years
they have passed in the pOstponement OF
these matters, they have come any nearer
God or heavenl
/ would not be afraid TO challenge this
| whole audience, so far as they may not have
| found the peace of the gospel, IN regard TO
I
frankly TO tell me, are becoming harder
and harder. aud that if you come 20 Christ
IL will be more Of an undertaking now than
1t ever would have had before. o. fly for
refuge! The avenger OF blood is on the
track The throne OF judgment will soon
be set; and, If you have anything 20 do to-
ward your eternal salvation, you had better
do it now, for the redemption of the soul Is
precious, and it ceaseth forever
o IL men could only catch just one
glimpse Of Christ, know they would love
him. Your heart leaps at the sight Of
glorious sunrise or sunset. Can you De
without emotion as the Sun of Righteous
ness rises behind Calvary, and sets behind
Joseph's sepulchrel He is a blessed Saviorl
Every nation has its type of beauty. There
is German beauty, and Swiss beauty and
Italian beauty. and English beauty; but
care not in what land a man first looks at
Christ, he pronounces him ''ohief among ten
thousand, and the one altogether lovely
my blessed Jesusl Light in darkness!
The Rock on which l build The Captain
Of Salvationl My joyl My strength
How strange 1t is that men cannot love
thee
The diamond districts OF Brazil are care
fully guarded, and d man does not get in
there except by pass from the govern
ment; but the love of Christ Is a diamond
district we may all enter, and pick up
To-day, IL ye will hear his voice, harden
not your heartsn There is way of op-
posing the mercy Of God too long, and
then there remaineth no more sacrifice for
sin, but a fearful looking for Judgment and
fiery Indignation, which shall devour the
adversary. My friends, my neighbors.
what can l say to induce you to attend to
this matter-to attend to it nowl Time is
flying, hying-the city clock joining my
voice this moment, seeming to say to you.
Now Is the timel Now is the time" o
put it not of
Why should stand here and plead, and
you sit therel 1t Ia your immortal soul. 1t
IS a soul that snall never die. 1t is soul
that must soon appear before God for res
viewaL Why throw away your chance for
heavenl Why plunge of into darkness
when all the gates Of glory are openi Why
become a castaway from God when ye can
sit upon the thronel Why will you die
miserably when eternal life Is offered you,
and it will cost you nothing but just will
ingnesS to accept itl Come, for all things
are now ready" Come, Christ is ready,
pardon is ready! The church is ready.
Heaven is ready, You will never find a
more convenient season II you should live
fftY years more, than this very one. Reject
this and you may die In your sins.
Why do / say thisl Is it to frighten your
soull q, no. 10 is to persuade you. | show
you the peril. l show you the escape.
Would l not be coward beyond all excuse
II, believing that this great audience must
soon be launched into the eternal world,
and that all who believe In Christ shall be
saved, and that all who reject Christ will
be lost-wouId not be the veriest coward
on earth TO hide that truth or TO stand be-
fore you with a cold, or even placid man
neri Ny dear brethren, now is the day Of
your redemption.
1t is very certain that you and must
soon appear before God in Judgment. We
cannot escape it. The Bible says: Every
eye shall see him, and they also which
pierced him, aud 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 discomfiturs-evsry
prayer, every sermon, every exhortatory
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 will be
announced. Alas alas IL ON that day It is
found that we have neglected these matters
We may throw them of now. We cannoe
then. We will be all in earnest then. But
no pardon then. No offer of salvation then.
No rescue then. Driven away in our wick
ness-benished, exiled forever!
Have you ever imagined what will be
the soliloquy of the soul on that day IN
pnrdoned, as It looks back upon its past
iifei 80" says the soul, 81 had glorious
SabbathS There was one Sabbath in
autumn when l was invited to Christ.
There was q Sabbath morning when Jesus
stood and spread out his arms and invited
me to his holy heart. refused him.
have destroyed myself. have no one else
TO blame. Ruin complete. Darkness I'M
plying, deep, eternal! l am Iostl Not
withstanding all opportunities I have had
Of being saved, am LOST o, thou long
suffering Lord God Almighty, l am lost
o day of judgment, l am lost o father,
mother, brother, sister, child of glory, am
lost" And then as the tide goes out, your
soul goes with it-farther from God, farther
from happiness, and / hear your voice
fainter and fainter, and fainter: LOST
Lost Lost! Lostl Lost" o We dying, yet
immortal men, Seek the Lord while he
may be found"
But l want you to take the hint Of the
text that have no time to dwell on-the
hint that there is time when he cannot be
found. There is a man in this city, so years
of age, who said to a clergyman who came
in, do you think that a man at so years Of
age can get pardoned" 20, yes" said the
clergyman. The old man said: 81 can't;
when was 20 years of age-I am now so
years-the spirit OF God came to my soul,
and l felt the Importance Of attending
20 these things, but put it off. rejected
God, aud since then l have had no
feeling" "Wen," said the minister
"wouldn't you like to have me pray with
your Yes" replied the old man "but