Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-05-25

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and pull for life. Then the girl will go !
down, looking for all the world like a
wasp and will sting like one, too. If
her. her. l would say it, l would ask |
the children, Girls where is that
thing A girl like that is no more like
God made her than if a Chinaman had
whitfield her out of soft pine.
what do you mean by salvation?
Getting happy or feeling good? l can
tell YOU it is getting God to set the ten
commandments to music in your soul,
keeping time in perfect harmony with
what God tells you to do.
ut is loving what God loves and hat
ing what God hates. l once loved
whiskey and loved the saloon Now l
hate them. Many fellow is convert
ed, but just half way converted. They
say that Il have quit doing wrong
That doesn't matter. You couldn't go
to Salem on the dummy on that ticket,
much less go to heaven. There can be
no man saved who loves to do wrong.
The only attitude a fellow ought to
take about sin is absolute hatred.
Little Willie goes into his mothers
work basket and gets sharp penknife.
After awhile the nurse comes and asks
little fellow has stumped his toe and
fallen down on the sharp blade. which
severed the jugular vein. The mother
takes her dead child to the graveyard
and buries him and comes home
broken hearted. The servant girl finds
the knife covered with the life blood of
the child and brings it to the mother,
who shrinks back, horror-stricken at
the sight Tits covered with the blood
of my darling boy take it away
"A man ought to see every that sin in
this world is covered with the blood of
Jesus Christ. Believe in the Lord
Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
II believe everything in the Bible. 1
believe that the whale swallowed
Jonah, and l would have believed
Jonah swallowed the whale if the Bible
had said so.
Il don't believe anything now more
than did when l drank whiskey and
cussed before l was converted. l be-
lieved it all but didn't do it. l believe
Jesus is my savior, and act according
ly. Some of you act on the principle
that he who believes not shall be
damned, and you believe everything
in the world you hear.
You say Jesus paid it all. He didn't
paid it all, what are you dunning us
for?' When you come up and plank
down all you've got, then Jesus Christ
will compute it and pay the rest. But
if you don't plank up all you've got
you will go to hell just as if Christ
never died. If you don't come down
with it all you are a goner, and if you
do you will be saved. Don't pray fol-
faith. God amt going to give it to
you. He will give you salvation. Faith
is the exercise of the human mind
The trouble with you, brother, is you
have not got sense enough to under
stand what you read. Heap of folks
think that faith is kind of basket fol
the Lord to drop something in, and
then they want the Lord to furnish the
basket. wish you would stop thai
foolishness and go long and fall in line
with God and do right.
"a fellow took Rev. Mr.. Culpepel
!, down in the woods at a meeting an(
said, 4 wish, Bro. Culpeper, yor
would tell me who was this Melchise
dech; I've been wanting to ask you {
, long time
II would have beat him. l dom
monkey with such people, l DOM
trouble about the mysterious; the thins
, that keeps me humping is to do what
do understand. When the Lord called
them over to his clerks and came righ
along and followed the Lord. If some
of the Methodists had been there they
; would have pulled Matthew up to tn,
, altar and have wrestled with him il
the straw for two or three days. 1t il
your fault if you are not saved, and no
, the fault of the Lord Jesus Christ