The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-01-21

sees your soul sinking, and attempts to bring
it ashore, and you not only refuse Him
thanks, but stand on the beach and say.
Drop that SOUL If l want it saved, / will
save it myself"
wish YOU might know what Job Jesus
undertook when He carried your case to
Calvary. They crowded Him to the wall
They struck Him. They spat on Him. They
kicked Him. They cuffej Him. They scoffed
at Him. They scourged Him. They muir
dered Him. Blood blood! As He stoops
down to 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
struggle, the death.
A great plague came in Marseiles. The
doctors held consultation and decided that
a corpse must be dissected or they would
never know how to stop the plague. A Dr.
Guyon said, 'To-morrow morning | will
proceed to a dissection" He made his will;
prepared for DEATH went into the hospital;
dissected body; wrote out the results OF the
dissection and died in twelve hours. Beaut-
full self sacrifice you say. Our Lord Jesus
looked out from heaven and saw u plague
stricken race. Sin must be dissectei. He
made His will, giving everything TO His peo-
pie. He comes down into the reekinr nos
ptal OF earth. He lays His hand to the
work. Under our plague He dies-the
healthy for the sick, the pure for the pol
luted, the innocent for the guilty. Behold
the Lowell Behold the sacrificed Behold the
rescued
Decide on this first Sabbath of the year
whether or not you will nave Jesus. He
will not stand forever begging for your love.
With some here His plea ends right speedily.
This year thou shalt die"
This great salvation of the Gospel | now
off y TO every man, woman and child. You
cannot buy it. You cannot earn it. A
Scotch writer says that a poor woman one
cold winters day looked through the Win
dow of kings conservatory and saw
bunca OF grapes hanging against the glass.
She said, 'Oh, if only had chat bunch OF
grapes for my sick child at homer At her
spinning wheel she earned a few shillings
and went 10 buy the grapes The kings
gardner thrust her out very roughly and
said he had no grapes to sell. She went OIL
and sold blanket and got some more shil-
lings, and came back and tried to buy the
grapes. But the gardener roughly assaulted
her and told her to be off. The
kings daughter was walking in the garden
at the time, and she heard the excitement,
and seeing the poor woman, said to her,
''My father is not a merchant to sell, but he
is a king and gives" Then she reached up
and plucked the grapes and dropped them in
the poor woman's apron. So Christ is Il
king and all the fruits of His pardon He
freely gives. They may not be bought
Without money and without price, take this
sweet cluster from the vineyards of God.
am coming to the close of nay sermon. |
sought for text appropriate for the occa-
sion. l thought of taking one in Job: MY
days fly as a weaver's shuttie;n of Il text in
Psalms: $50 teach us TO number our days
that we may apply our hearts unto WIS.,
DOM" of the prayer of the vine dresser:
Lord, let it alone this year also;" but pressed
upon my attention first of all, and lastof all,
aud above ALL were the words: This year
thou shalt die
Perhaps it may mean me, Though i'll per-
feet health now, it does not take God one
week to bring down the strongest physical
constitution. | do not want to die this year.
We have plans and projects on loot that
want to see completed; but God knows best,
and He has a thousand better men than l to
do the work yet undone. have hope
that, Notwithstanding all my sins ant
wanderings, l shall, through the in
finite mercy of my Saviour, come out at thu
right place. | have nothing to Drag Of
by way of Christian experiences; but 1--WE
things have learned--my utter helplessnesi
before God and the all Astounding grace o
the Lord Jesus. Ii the text means some o
YOU, my hearers, / do not want you to b.
caught unprepared. | would like to havl
you, either through money You had laid III
| or "a life Insurance." be able to leave tn
/ world feeling that your family need not bs
come paupeI's. But if you have done you
oesu and you leave not one dollars worth o
estate, you may confidently trust the Lor
who hath promised to care for the wido
and fatherless. | would like to have you
soul fitted out for eternity, SO that il an
morning or noon or evening or night {
these three hundred and sixty-fve day