Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-07-29
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| IN them ye have eternal life"
When people are anxious about their sous
and there are sore here to.day-there are
those who recommend good books. That Is
all right But l want to tell you that tho
Bible is the best book under such crcnn-
stances Baxter wrote "a Cad to tae Un-
converted" but the Bible is the best call to
the uuconvertel. Philip Doddriige wrote
''The Rise and Progress o. Religion in tho
Soul" but the Bible is the best rise and pro-
gress. John Angel James wrote "Advics
to the Anxious Inquirer" but the Bible IS
the best advice to the anxious inquirer.
Oh, the Bible is the very book you nee1,
anxious and induring SOUL A dying soldier
said TO his mate, ''Conrade, give me a
dropn The comrads shook up the canteen
and said. "Thers isn't a drop of water in ths
cauteen.n oh" said the dying soldier,
that's not what want feel in my KNAPP
sack for my Bible" AMI his comrade found
the Bible and read him few OF the gracious
promises ami the dying soldier said: "Ah,
that's what want. There isn't anything
like the Bible for dying soldier, is there
my comrade" Oh, blessed book while we
live Blessed book when we die.
Iremark, again, we muss seek Col through
cdurch ordinances. what" say You,
cant man be saved without going 10
churchw rreply, there are me1, L suppose,
in glory. who have never seen a church;
but the church is the ordained means by
which we are to be brought to God: and il
truth affects us when we are alone, it affects
us more nightly when we are in the
assembly-the feelings of others empha.
sizing our Own feelings. The great law OF
sympathy comes into play and truth that
would take hold only with the grasp OF a
sex man beats nightly against thu soul
with THOUSAND heart throbs.
When you come into the religious circle,
come only with one notion and oaly for one
rurpose-to find the way to Christ. Wnen
I see people critical about sermons. and
critical about tones o. voicss, AMI critical
about sermonic delivery. they make ma
think of man in prison. He IS condemnet
10 death, but the officer of tae Government
brings a pardon and puts it through the
wicket of the prison and saws: "hers Is your
pardon. Come and get it." What Do
YOU expecs me 10 take that pardon offered
with such a voice as YOU have and with such
an awkward manner as you have2 l would
rather die than 50 compro Mise my rhetorical
notionsr Ab. the man does not say that;
he takes it, 1t is his life. He does not care
how it is handed to him. And ii this morn
ing that pardon from the throne OF Col Is
ofere to our souls, should we not seize 1t.
regardless OF ali Cllilllolis AC7A4bc WV - -
q matter of heaven or he'll.
But | come now to thu last part OF my
text. It tells us when we are TO seek the
Lord. "While He may be found" When is
that? Old age? You may not see old a e.
Tomorrow You may not see tomorrow,
Tc-ni2hts You may not see to night. NOW
o.. if could only writs on every heart IN
three capital lettars that worl NJ w
now!
Sin is an awful disease. hear people sly.
with ths toss Of the head AMI with trivial
manner, ''Oh yes, I'm a sinner. Sin IS an
awful disease. 1t is leprosy. 1t IS droPsy.
It is consumption. 1t all moral disorders
In one. Now you know there is a crisis in
disease. Perhaps you have had some Illus
tratioa OF it in your family. sometimes the
physician has celled AMI he has looSe1 az
the patient and said: That case was simple
enough. but the crisis has passed. Ii you
had called me yesterday or this morning |
conld have cured the patient. II IS too lat9
now. the crisis has passed" JUS so it is in
the spiritual treatment of the s)ul, there is
a crisis Before that lifel After thai
DEATH 0 my dear brother, as You love your
soul do not let tis crisis pass unattended
to-
There are some here WHO can remember
instances in life when il they had bought a
certain property they would have becone
very rich. A few acres That would have
cost them almost nothing were offered then.
They refused them. After garl large vii
la-e or city sprang up on these acres o.
ground and theg seq what a mistake they
made in not buying the property. There
was an opportunity OF getting It, 1t never
came back again AMI 50 it IS in regard to
a mans spiritual and eternal fortune. lere
IS a chance; il you let that 60, perhaps 1t
never comes back. Certainly that one
never comes back.
There is a time which mercy has set Tor
leaving port. Ii You are on board oetore
that YOU will get a passage for heaven. II
YOU are not on boarI YOU miss your pas
SAGE FOR heaven. AS in law courts case IS
sometimes adjourned from term to term,
an from year 10 wear, till the bill OF costs
eats 10 the entire estate 50 there are men
who are a iiourning the matter Oh rellS'on
from Tina to time, and fro II year to year,
until heavenly bliss is the bill oil costs us
man would have to pay for it.
Why defer this matter, q my dear near
err Have YOU any idea that sin will wear
out, that it will evaDorate? that it will relax
its GRASP? That you may find religion as a
man accidentally finds a lost pocketoookf
All. no. No man ever became a Christian
by accident or by the relaxing OF sin. Inc
embarrassments are all the time increasing.
The hosts CT darkness are recruiting, ana
the longer you postpone this matter the
steeper the path will become. | ask those
men who are before me this morning wheth-
er in the ten or fifteen years they nave
passed in the postoonenent OF these matters
they have come any nearer Col or heaVen'
would not be afraid to challenge thls
g.. re hon moi not haVa
found the peace OF the Gospel, in regard 10
that matter. Your hearts, you are willing
frankly TO tell me, are becoming harder AMI
harder. and that if you come to Christ IL VIII
he more of an undertaking now than 1t ever
would have been before. On, fly for refug !.
The avenger of blood Is on the track! Inc
throne of Judgment will sool be- set, anc II
YOU have anything to do toward your eterna
Salvation you had better do 1t now Tor tne
redemption of the soul is precious ana IL
ceaseth forever
Oh. IL men could only catch just one
glimpse Of Christ. I know tley would love
Him. YoIr heart leaps at the sight OF
glorious sunrise o. sunset. Can you be with
out emotion as ths Sun OF Righteousness
rises behind Calvary aud sets behind
Joseph's sepuchery He is blessed Saviour
Every nation has its tvpe Of beauty There
Is Ntl0lln pedubN AMI pNioS b~Nhef
Italian beauty and English beauty. but
care not in what land a man first LOOKS at
Christ, he nronounces Hin "chief among
fen thousand, and the ons altogether lovely"
my Diesel Jesus! Light in darkness
The rock on wnicl ] bull The C1Dtain OK
salvationl Ny joy My strength. How
strange it is that men cannot love Thee.
The diamond districts OF Brazil are care
fully guarded, and a man does not ges in
there except by a pass from the Govern
meut. but the love OF Christ is a diamond
district we may all enter and nick 10 treas
ure for eternity Oh. cry for mercy. 10.
dav, if We will hear this voice, harden NOT
YOUR hearts" There is a wav OF opposing
the mercy OF God too long, and then there
remaineth no more sacrifice for sin. but
fearful looking for judgment and fiery in.
dignation which shall devour the adversary.
My friends, my neighbors, wnk can l say
to induce you to attenl to this matter-So
attend to it nowy Time is flying, hyins-ths
city clock Inning my voice this moment