Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-04

helped none mp to the same place 1t viii
be found that many a Sabbath school
teacher has taken into heaven her whole
class. that Daniel Baker, the evangelist,
took thousands into heaven; that bod
bridge has taken in hundreds of thousands;
that Paul took in hundred millions How
many will yon take IMP If you get into
heaven and find none there that you sent
and that there are none to come through
your instrumentality. | beg of you to crawl
under some seat in the back corner and
never come out lest the redeemed get their
eyes on you and some one cry out, THAT is
the man who never lifted hand or voice for
the redemption of his fellows Look at
him, all heavenp Better be busy. Better
put the pillow in deep. Better say what
you have to say quickly. Better cry the
alarm. Better fall on your knees. Better
lay hold with both hands What you now
leave undone for Christ will forever be
undone. This year thou shalt der
GET READY.
In view of the probabilities mentioned, |
advise all the men and women not ready
for eternity to get ready If the text he
true, you have no time to talk about non.
essentials, asking why God let sin come
into the world, or whether the book of
Jonah is inspired or who Melchisedec was.
or what about the eternal DEGREES If Won
are as near eternity rs some of you seem to
be, there is no time for anything but the
question, "What must do to be saved2'
The drowning man, when plank is thrown
him, stops not to ask what sawmll made
it, or whether it is oak or cedar, or who
threw it. The moment it is thrown he
clutches it, If this year you are to die.
there is no time for anything but immedi
ately laying hold on God. 1t is high tme
to get out of your sins. You say, Il have
committed no great transgressions, But
are You not aware that your life has been
sinful? The snow comes down on the Alps
fake by fake, and it is so light that you
may hold it on the tip of your finger with
out feeling any weight; but the flakes
gather, they compact, until some day
travellers foot starts the slide, and it goes
down in an avalanche, crushing to death
the villagers. So the sins of your youth
and the sins of your manhood, and the sins
of your womanhood may have seemed only
slight inaccuracies or trifling divergences
from the right-so slight that they are
hardly worth mentioning, but they have
been piling up and piling up, packing to
gether and packing together, until they
make II mountain of sin, and one more step
of your foot in the wrong direction may
slide down upon you an avalanche of ruin
and condemnation.
A man crossing a desolate and lonely
plateau, n hungry wolf took after him. He
brought his gun to his shoulder and took
aim, and the wolf howled with pain, and
the cry woke up pack of wolves, and they
came ravening out of the forest from all
sides and horribly devoured him. Thou
art the man. Some one sin of your life
summoning on all the rest, they surround
thy soul and make the night of thy sin ter
ribe with the assault of their bloody muz
zles, Oh, the unpardoned, clamoring, raw
ening, all devouring sins of thy lifetimel
a maniac was found pacing along the
road with a torch in one hand and pail of
water in the other, and some Que asked
him what he meant to do with them. He
answered, with this torch mean to burn
down heaven and with this water mean
to put out the fires of hell" He was Il
maniac. He could do the one thing just as
we'll rs he could do the other. No time to
lose if you want to escape your sins for
This year thou shalt die"
Let me announce that Christ, the Lord,
stands ready to save any man who wants
to be saved He waited for you all last
year, and all the year before, and all your
life He has waited for you with blood on
his brow and tears in hiseye, and two out
stretched mangled hands of love.
You come home some night and find the
mark of muddy feet on your front steps.
You hasten in and find an excited group
around your child He fell into pond
and had it not been for brave lad, who
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ried him home to be resuscitatad you
would have been childless You feel that
you cannot do enough for the rescuer
You throw your arms around him. You
offer him any compensation You say to
him: "Anything that you want shall be
yours. will never cease TO be grateful"
But my Lord Jesus 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 |
want 1t 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 4
kicked him They cuffed him. They scofe,l
dered him Blood bloodl As he stoops
you from his brow. from his side from his
hands Do you not feel the warm current
on your facey Oh, for thee the hunger, the
thirst, the thorn sting, the sufocaton, the
darkness, the groan, the sweat, the
struggle, the death
\ great plague came in Marseiles The
doctors held Il consultation and decided
that corpse must be dissected or they
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a DR. Guyon said, Tomorrow morning |
will proceed to dissection" Temade his
will: prepared for death went into the hos
pital, dissected II body; wrote out the re
suits of the dissection and died in twelve
hours Beautiful self sacrifice, you say
Our Lord Jesus looked out from heaven
and saw II plague stricken race. Sin must
be dissected He made his will, giving
everything to his people. He comes down
into the rcekug hosptalo of earth, He lays
his hand to the work. Under our plague
he dies--the healthy for the sick the pure
for the polluted, the innocent for the guilty
Behold the Lowell Behold the sacrificed Be
hold the rescued
WILL YOU HAVE JEsUsf
Decide on this first Sabbath of the year
whether or not you will have 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
offer to every man, woman and child. You
cannot buy it, You cannot earn it. A
Scotch writer says that Il poor woman one
cold winters day looked through the win
dow of "A kings conservatory and saw
bunch OF grapes hanging against the glass
She said, "Oh, If only had that bunch OF
grapes for my sick child at home" At her