Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-08-05

sometimes adjourned from term 70 term,
and from year TO year, till the bill or costs
eats up the entire estate, so there are men
who are aijourning the matter OF religion
from time to time and from year to year.
until heavenly bliss is the bill Of costs the
man would have to pay for it.
Why defer this matter, y my dear hear
er? Have you any idea that sin will wear
out? that it will evaporate? that 1t will relax
its grasp: that you may ind religion as
man accidentally finds lost pocketoook?
All no! No man ever became a Christian
by accident or by the relaxing of sin. The
embarrassments are all the time increasing.
The hosts CT darkness are recruiting, and
the longer you postpone this matter the
sleeper the path will become. L ask those
men who are before me this morning wheth-
er in the ten or fifteen years they nave
passed in the postponemenU OF these matters
they have come any nearer GOD or heaven!
I would not be afraid to challenge this
whole audience, so far as they may not have
found the peace of the Gospel, in regard to
that matter Your hearts, you are willing
frankly to tell me, are becoming harder and
harder, and that if you come to Christ 1t VIII
be more of an undertaking now than 1t ever
would have been before. Oh, fly for refug9i
The avenger of blood is on the trsckl Inc
throne Of Judgment will soon be set, and II
you have anything to do toward your eternal
salvation you had better do 1t now, Tor the
redemption of the soul is precious and it
ceaseth forever!
oh, il men could only catch Just me
glimpse of Christ I know they woulG love
Him. Your heart leaps at the sight Of a
glorious sunrise or sunset. Can you be with
out emotion as the Sun of Righteousness
rises behind Calvary and sets behind
Joseph's sepulcher? He is blessed Saviour!
Every nation has its type of beauty. There
is German beauty and Swiss beauty and
Italian beauty and English beauty butt
care not in what land first looks at
Christ, he pronounces Him ''chief amOnc
ten thousand, and the one altogether lovely
0 my blessed jesus Light in darkness!
The rock on which build! The CAPTAIN of
salvation My joy! My strength: How
strange it is that men cannot love Thee
The diamond districts of Brazil are care
fully guarded, and man does not get in
there except by a pass from the Govern
ment. but the love of Christ is a diamond
district we may all enter and pick up treas
ure for eternity. Oh, cry for mercy! To
day, if ye will hear this voice. harden not
your hearts" There is way of opposing
the mercy of God too long, and then there
remaineth no more sacrifice for sim but a
Fearful looking for Judgment and fiery in
dignation which shall devour the adversary.
Ny friends my neighbors, what can I say
TO induce you to attend to this matter-to
attend to it now? Time is flying, fying-tha
city clock joining my voice this moment.
seeming to say to you: Now is the timel
Now is the timer Oh, put it not off,
Why should stand here and plead and
you sit there? 1t is your immortal soul. It
that must soon appear before God for re-
viewal. Why throw away your chance for
heaven? Why plunge off into darkness
when all the gates of glory are open? Why
become a castaway from God when you can
sit upon the throne? Why will We die mis-
erably when eternal life is offered you, and
it will cost you nothing but just Willingness
to accept it? Come, for all things are
don is ready! The church is ready. Heaven
is ready. You will never find more con-
venient season if you should live fifty years
more than this very one. Reject this and
you may die in your sins.
Why do say this? Is it to brighten your
soul? Oh, no. 1t Is to persuade you. 1
show you the peril. [ show you the escape.
Would not be coward beyond all excuse
if believing that this great audience must
soon be launched into the eternal world, and
that ali who believe in Christ shall be saved,
and that all who reject Christ will be lost
would l lot be the veriest coward on earth
to hide that truth or to stand before you
with cold or even placid manner? My
dear brethren, now is the day Of your
demption.
It is very certain that you and I must
soon appear before God in Judgment We
cannot escape it. The Bible says: Every
eye shall see Him, and they also which
pierced Him, and all the kindreds of the
earth shall wall because of Him." On that
day all our advantages win come up for our
glory or for our discomfiture-everyp prayer,
every reproof, every call of grace: and
while the heavens are rolling away like
scroll, and the world is being destroyed,
your destiny and my destiny will be
nounced. Alasl alas! if on that day it is
found that we haye neglected these mat
ters We may throw them off now. We
cannot then. We will all be in earnest then.
But no pardon then. No offer of salvation
then. No rescue then. Driven away in our
wickedness-banished, exiled forever!
Have you ever imagined what will be the
soliloquy of the soul on that day unpar-
ooh" says the soul, II had glorious Sab
baths! There was one Sabbath in autumn
when I was invited to Christ. There was a
Sabbath morning when Jesus stood and
spread out His arms and invited me to His
holy heart. 1 refused Him. have destroyed
myself. have no one else to blame. Ruin
complete. Darkness Implying. deep, eter- |
nall 1 am lost Notwithstanding all the
opportunities have had of being saved, I !
am losti Oh, Thou long suffering Lord God |
Almighty, am lost! Oh, day of judgment,
l am lostl Oh, father, mother, brother,
sister. child in glory, | am lostw And then
the tide goes out your soul goes out with |
ness, and hear your voice fainter and faint |
er, lost! Lost! Lost! Lost! Lostp' o ye
dying, yet immortal men! seek the Lord |
while He may be- found"
But I want you to take the hint of the |
text that | have no time to dwell on-the |
hint that there is time when He cannot be |
found. There was man in this city, eighty /
years of age, VINO said to clergyman who |
came in, ''Do you think that a man at |
eighty years of age can get parionedg ''Oh,
yes" said the clergyman. The old man |
said: II can't; when was twenty years Of |
age-1 am now eighty years-the spirit of
God came to my soul, and l felt the i'm
portance of attending to these things, but I |