The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1892-11-26

the sunlight and casts the line: put nc
fish. He goes up by the mi!i-dam and
stands behind the bank, where the fish
can not see him, ,and he hardly dropped
the hook before the cork goes under.
The fish come to him as fast as he
can throw them ashore. In other
words. in our Christian work, why do
we not go where the fish are? 1t il
not so easy to catch souls in church,
for they know that we are trying to
take them. If you can throw your line
out into the world, where they are not
expecting you, they will be captured.
Is it fair to take men by such strata
gem? Yes. / would like to cheat five |
thousand souls into the Kingdom.
The whole policy of the Church OF
God is to be changed. Instead OF chief |
ly looking after the few who have be-
come Christians, our chief efforts will
be for those outside. If after rnsn Is
converted he can not take care of him.
self, I am not going to take care OF
him. If he thinks that / am going to
stand and pat on the back, and feed
him out of an elegant spoon, and eatch
that he does not get into dranght
of worldliness, he is much mistaken.
We have in our churches great mass OF
helpless, inane professors, who are do
ing nothing for themselves or for 9TH
ers, who want MS to stop and nurse
them! They are so troubled with doubt
as to whether they are Christians or not.
The doubt is settled. They are not
Christians. The best we can do With
these fish is to throw them back Into
the stream, and go after them again
| with the Gospel net.
600 into all the world and preach
| the Gospel" says Christ; into the fac
tory, the engine house, the club-room,
into the houses of the sick, into the
dark lane, into the damp cellar, into
the cold garnet, into the dismal prison.
Let every man. woman and child know
that Jesus died, and that the gate OF
Heaven is wide open. With the Bible
| in one pocket and the hymn-book in an
other pocket, and loaf of bread under
your arm, launch out into the great
deep of this worlds wretchedness.
/ The Bibles promises join hands, and
the circle they make will compass all
your sins, and all your temptations,
and all your sorrows. The round table
of King Arthur and his knights had
room for only thirteen banqueters; but
the round table of Gods supply is large
enough for all the present inhabitants
of earth and Heaven to sit at. and for
the still mightier populations that are
yet to be.
Do not sail coastwise along your old
habits and old sins. Keep clear of the
shore. Go out where the water is deep
. est. Oh, for the mid-sea of Gods
mercy! "Be it known unto you, men
! and brethren, that through this man
! is preached unto yon forgiveness O.
sins" preach it with as much conf
, dence to the eighty-year-old transgres
/ sor as to the maiden. Though you
sins were blood red, they shall be snow
white. The more ragged the prodigal
, the more compassionate the father
Do you say that you are too bad? TIL
high-water mark of Gods pardon i
higher than all your transgressions
"The blood of Jesus Christ cleanestl
: from all SIM" Do you say that you
!. | heart is hard? Did you say that you
!. iniquity is long continued? Suppose
O were ten ten times longer? Do you sa,
n that your crimes are black? Suppos
, that they were ten times blacker.
q there any lion that this Samson can nc
slav? Is there any fortress that this Cor
:. oueror can not take? Is there any 81
8 this Redeemer can not pardon?
I'll 1t is said that when Charlemagne
n host was overpowered by the thre
n armies of the Saracens in the pass {
d Roncesvallcs, his warrior, Roland, j
,t terrible earnestness, seized trumps
a and blew it with such terrific strengt
d that the opposing army reeled bac
y with terror; but at the third blast I
i. the trumpet it broke in two. l 81
$ your soul fercely assailed by all IL
n powers of earth and hell.
e put the nightier trumpet OF tn
;, Gospel to my lips, and bio
d. it three times. Blast the first
10 .Whosoever will, let him come" Bla
10 the second-"Seek ye the Lord viii
t? He may be found Blast the third
I, Now is the accepted time; now is Il
TO day of salvation" Does not the no
of your sins fall back? But Il
20 trumpet does not, like that of Rolan
IN break IN two. AS it was handed dow
ne to us from the lips of our father
" we hand it down to the lips OF o
no children, and them to sound 1t when
a are dead, that all the generations
a. men may know that our God is
a pardoning Coda sympathetic God
We a loving God; and that more to Iii
pv than the anthems of Heaven, more
r. Him than the throne on which He 81
,r- more to Him than are the temples
mr. celestial worship. is the joy of seei
IN the wanderer putting his hand on t
no door-latch of His Fathers house. He
he it, all We nations! Bread for the wol
Of hunger. Medicine for the worst sic
he ness. Light for the thickest darkne
~ Harbor for the worst storm.
inn DIR. Prime, in his book OF wonderi
of interest entitled Around the Worl'
20 describes a tomb in India of marvele
d architecture. Twenty thousand m
ev were twenty-five years in erecting Il
nd and the buildings around it Stal
,gs ing in that tomb, if you speak or sil
ut. after you have ceased you hear the &c
to coming from height of one hundl
re- and fifty feet. 1t is not like oil
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