Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-07-07

.o.. uIm TO stand ASIDE. II
an inofensive person comes ana per
sists in standing close up to you, and
you have in various ways given hlm to
understand that you do not want his
presence or his society, then you ask the
reason of his impertinence and bid him
away. Well, that is what we can do
with Jesus.
He has stood close by us a great while
ten, twenty, thirty, forty years. he
has stood close by you three times
day breaking bread for your household,
all night watching by your pillow. He
has been in the nursery among your
childresShe has been in the store among
vo;3F Foods, ne has been II 5he factory
amid the flying wheels, and now If you
do not like his society you can bid him
away; aye, if he will not go You can
take him by the throat and tell him you
do not want his interference, that you
do not want his breath on your
cheek, that you do not want his eye on
your behavior. You can bid him away;
or if he will not go in that way, then
you can stamp your foot as You would
at dog and cry p gone
Yet know you Will not treat Jesus
that way. When Plate could not do
that, you could not. Desperadoes and out
laws might do so, but know that that
is not the way you will treat him. that
that is not what you will do with Jesus
There is another thing you can do with
him-you can look on him merely as an
optician to cure blind eyes, or an aurist
to tune deaf ears, friend, a good
friend, helpful companion, cheerful
passenger on shipboard; but that vii!
amount to nothing.
FEAR NOT SUFFICIENT.
You can look upon him as a God and
be abashed while he rouses the storm.
or blasts fig tree, or heaves a rock
down the mountain side. That will not
do you any goo1-no more save your
soul than the admiration you have Tor
John Milton or William Shakespeare.
| can think of only one more thing you
can DO with Jesus, and that Is 10 take
him into Your hearts. That Is the best
thing you can Go with him, that is the
only safe ting you car do with him.
and may the Lord omnipotent by his
spirit help me TO persuade You 10 do
that. A minister Of Christ was speak
ing TO some children and said, 81 will
point you to Christ" A little child rose
in the audience and came up and put
her hand in the hand Of the pastor and
said: please, sir, take ne to Jesus now.
want to go now" Oh, that it might
be now with such simplicity of expert
ence that you and l join hands and seek
after Christ and get an expression OF ms
benefaction and his mercy!
You may take Christ into your conn
dence. If you cannot trust him, whom
can you trust: do not offer You dry
theological technicality. I simply ask
YOU to cone and put both feet on the
Rock Of Ages" Take hold of Christ's
hands and draw him to your soul with
perfect abandonment and hurl yourse,f
into the deep sea of his mercy. he
COMES ana SdSS, N4i1 saw
You do not think he is hypocrise and
a liar when he says that, believe him
and say: Lord Jesus, believe; here Is
my heart. Wash it. Save it. Do II
now. Aye, it is done; for obey thy
promise and come. can do no more.
That is all thou hast asked. | come.
Christ is mine Pardon is mine. heav-
en is mine"
Why, my friends, you put more trust
in everybody than you do in Christ, and
in everything; more trust in the bridge
crossing the stream, in the ladder up TO
the loft; more trust in the stove that
confines the fire; more trust in the cook
that prepares your food; more trust in
the clerk that writes your books, IN the
druggist that makes the medicine, IN
the bargain maker with whom you
trade-more trust in ali these things
than in Christ. although he stands this
moment offering without limit and