Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-01-13

six Sabbaths Come. Christian men.
Christian women. what can you do in
twenty-six SabbathS Divide the SOS
days into two parts; what can you do in
1s2 days? What, by the way of saviny
your family. the church, and the worlde
You will not through all the aaes of
eternity in Heaven. get over the dis
honor and the <-strage of going into
glory and having hel;,ed none up to the
same place. 1t will, be found that MANY
a Sabbath-school teacher has taken
into Heaven her whole class: that Dam
lei Baker. the evangelist, took thous-
ands into Heaven; that Doddridge has
taken in hundreds of thousands; that
Paul took in hundred million. How
many will you take in? II you get into
Heaven. and find none there that Won
sent, and that there are none TO come
through your fundamentally, / beg of
You TO crawl under some seat in the
back corner and never come out. lest
the redeemed get their eyes on Won
and some cry out: ''That is the man
who never lifted hand or voice for
the redemption of his fellows,
Look at him. all Heaven Better be
busy. Better put the pillow in deem.
Better say what you have ID saw ouicl<-
iy. Better cry the alarm Better fall
on your knees Better lay hold with
both hands What you now leave un-
done Tor Christ will forever be undone.
This year thou shalt die" In view of
the probabilities mentioned advise all
the men and women not ready for
eternity to get ready. III the text be
true you have no time to talk about
non-essentials, asking why God let sin
come into the world. or whether the
BOOK OF Jonah Is inspired. or who
Meichisedec was. or what about
the eternal DEGREES. II you are rs
near eternity as some of YOU seem
to be, there is no time for any thing
bnt the question: What must / do
to be- saved?" The drowning man.
when plank is thrown him, stops not
TO ask what saw mill made it, or
whether IL is oak or cedar. or who
threw IT, The moment il is thrown he
clutches it II this year you are to die.
there is no time for any thing but i'm
mediately laying hold on God 1t is
high time TO get out of your sins You
say: II have committed no great trans
gressions" But are you not aware
that your life has been sinful? The
snow comes down on the Alps fake by
flake, and it is so light that you may
hold 1T on the top of your finger with
out feeling any weight; but the flakes
gather; they compact, until some day a
travellers foot starts the slide, and 1T
goes down in the avalanche, crushing
to death the villagers So the sins of
your youth, and the sins of your man
hood, and the sins of your woman hood
may have seemed only slight inaccura-
cies or trifiing divergences from toe
right--so slight that they are hardly
worth mentioning, but they have been
piling up and piling up. packing 20
gether, until they make mountain of
sin, and one more step of your foot in
the wrong direction may slide down
upon you an avalanche of ruin and con-
domination. A man crossing n desolate
and lonely plateau, n hungry wolf took
after him. He brought his gun to his
shoulder and took aim, and the wolf
howled with pain, and the cry woke up
n pack of wolves and they came raven
ing out of the forest from all sides, and
horribly devour him. Thou art the
man Some one sin of your life sum
moning on all the rest they surround
thy soul, and make the night Of thy sin
terrible with the assault of their bloody
muzzlcs. Oh. the uppardoned, clamor-
ing, ravening, all-devouring sins OF thy
life -timel
A maniac was found pacing along the
road with torch in one hand aud a
pail of water in the other. and some
one asked him what he meant 20 do
with them He answered: with this
torch 1 mean to burn down Heaven and
with this water / mean to put out
the fires OF hell" He was a ma
MAC. He could do the one thing lust
as well as he could do the other No
time to lose IL you want 10 escape your
sins, ''for this year thou shalt die"
Let me announce that Christ. the
Lord, stands ready to save any man
who wants TO be saved. He waited for
you all last year. all tho year before,
and all your life. He has waited for
you with blood on his brow and tears
in his eyes and two outstretched, man.
gled han Is OF love.
You como home some night and find
the mark OF muddy feet on your front
steps You hasten in, and find an ex-
cited group around your child. lie fell
into a pond. and had il not been for a
brave lad. who plunged in and brought
him out. and carried him home to be
resuscitatcd. you would have been
childless- You feel that you can not
do enough for the rescuer You throw
your arms around him. You offer him
any compensation. You say TO him:
ANY thing that you want shall be
yours ! will never cease TO be CRATE
full" But my Lord Je=us sees your
soul sinking. and attempts 70 bring il
ashore, and you not only refuse Him
thanks. but stand on the beach and say:
Drop that SOUL II / want IL saved /
will save IL myself"
j wish you might know what Job
Jesus undertook when lie carried your
case 20 Calvary. They crowded Him 90
the wall They struck Him. They
spat on Him. They kicked Him. They
cufted Him. They scoffed NJ Him
They scourgcd Him. They murdered
Him Blood Blood As lie stoops
down 20 lift you up the crimson drops
upon you from His brow. from His
side, from His hands Do you not feel
the warm current on your face? On
for thee the hunger, the thirst. the
thorn-sting, the suffocation. the dark.
ness. the groan. the sweat, the struggle.
the DEATH