Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-06-24


My next word OF council Is that you be
actively employed. | sec great many
Christians with doubts AMI gerpleXitieS, AMI
they Leem 10 be prOu of til ,m Their entire
Christian life Is ma Il up OF gloom AMI th.y
seem to cultivate that spiritual despollency,
when | will unl.rtake 10 say that in nip
cases out OF ten spirltull despon leacy is n
judgment OF Col upon illeness. Who are
the happy people in the church to. lay? Tho
busy people. S low me the man who processes
the religion Of Jesus Christ and is idle. and
will show you an unhappy man. The very
first prescription that give IN a man when
find HIM full OF doubts and fears about his
eternal interest is t. 60 to work for Col.
Ten thousIn voices are lifted up asking for
your help. Go and help.
have another word o. counsel TO give
those who have just entered Christian life.
and that is be faithful in prayer You
might rs well, business men, start out In the
morning without fool and expect TO be strong
all that day-you might as we'll abstain
from food all the week AMI expect 10 be
suonS pnySiclli aS 10 10 strong without
prayer. The only way f. ret any strength
into tbs soul Is hv prayer and the only
difference between that Christian that Is
worth anything anl that who is forth
nothing Is tho fact that the last does not
pray and the other does.
And the only difference bet wcen this
Christian, who is gettn along very fast in
the holy life, and this, who is only getting
along tOleraUly, IS tlNt the iirSt prays more
than the last. You can graduate a mans
progress III religion b. the amount OF
prayer; not by the number OF hours per-
haps, but by the earnest supp,ication that
he puts up 10 Got. There is no exception to
the rule Show me Christian man who
neglects this kini Of duty, aud | will show
you one who is Inconsistent. Show me
man who prays. and his strength and his
power cannot be exaggerated. Why, just
give TO a man this power of prayer and you
give him almost omnipotenc,.
This afternoon you will see two Sabbath
school teachers. That one does not gain the
attention Of her class. This one does. What
is the difference between them, their intel.
lects being about equal. The first thought
only Of her own apparel. The other came
from great prostration before God in earnest
supplication, asking that Gods mercy might
come upon the school and that in the after
noon She might gain tho attention Of thoss
| five or six immort9ls that would be around
her The one teacher has no control over
Ger class. The other sits as with the strength
of the Lord Goi Almighty
Another word OF counsel | have to give
BE careful IN Bibe research. A great many
Gool tOOis are now coming out. We cam
not read half of them. Al every revolution
of the printing pres, they are coming. They
cover our parlor table, and are in our sit
/ ting rooms AM libraries. Glorious books
, they are. We thank God every day for the
work of the Christian printing press But
have thou: hit that perhaps tho followers of
Christ sometimes allow this religious ltera.
! turc 10 take their attention from Gods
! Word, and that there NAV hot be as much
! Blula reading as there ought II be-
/ How IS that witt your own experience?
| Just calculate in your mIn1S how much re-
: liElouS literature you have real during the
year aud then how llrso a portion OF the
! ord or tod you have rea |, AMI then con-
/ trAst the two and answer within your own
soul whether you are giving more attention
to sn q, h9okS 1 thSt wSre written bY the han
Now, you so u tn dru; store and you get
/ tn, mineral waters but YOU have noticed
that the waters are not so fresh or spark
ling or healthlul as when you get thes, very
waters at Saratoga and Sharon--ettinI :
them right whtro they bubble from the
rock.
And have noticed the slms thing in re-
gard 70 the truth OF the Gospel; while thers
is n good deal OF rttreshmelt and health OF
the Gospel OF God aS II comes throu sh goo
books. lin it is better when come TO the
eternal roc; OF Gol's Word an drink forth
pure 10 the lie and the rc!reshment AMI the
health Of the soul.
Read the Bible and it brings You into the
association OF the b st people that ever live /.
You stand beside Moses all learn MS meek.
ness beside JoL an learn his paticnc,, he.
side Paul and catch somethin; OF his enthus
iasm, beside CHRIST and yo1 teal His love.
AMI yet how Stran % IL is that II great many
men have givel their whole lives to the as
| uaplttu,r ,,F Ian hy | nm Ift gfo,,
it. Tom Paine worked against that book n,
though he received large wages and was in
spirei by the vrry power of darkness con
Tossing that all the time lie was writing h,
did not have thi Bible anywhere near him
How many powerful ntellectS have eniea'
orei to destroy it. Hume, Bolingbro.
VoltaTe have besn after II. Fen thousand
men now are warning against tho truth oI
Gods Word. What do you think OF them
think it is mean AMI will provo it. | vii
prove it Is th5 meauest thing that has eve
been done in all the centuries.
There is a ship al sea an in trouble. Th'
captain AMI the crew are at their wits end
You are on board. You are an old seaman
, You come up aud give some good counsel
. which is kindly taken. That is all right
But suppose, insteal OF doing that, in tn
midst OF all the trouble, you pci up the oni,
compass that is on boar and pitch 1t owe
: the talfraiiy Oh, you say, that is dastardly
= But is it as mean rs this? Here Is the veSse
! OF the world gong on with sixteen hunlre,
|, millions Of passengers, tossed AMI driven it
u tie tempest, AMI at tha time We want hell
:. the intidel comes and he takes hold of tn
y only compass aud he tries to pitch it ovel
d board IL is contemplate beyond evervthini
e that is coatemptiblr Have you any bette
! light1 Bring it on if you have. Have yo
any better comfort to give us? Bring it o
n il you have. Have you any better hope
!. Bring it on II you have and then you ma
a have this Bible and | shall never want
10 again.
y But can think of meaner thing thai
d that and that is an old man going along OF
7. the mountains with n staff in ons hand aul
4 lantern in the other. Darkness has com
Q ON suddenly, He is very old, just able t
/. pick his way out amid the rocks and prec
Is oices, leaning on his staff with ono hand an
n guiding himself with ths light in the other
You come up and say Father, you seem
10 be lost. You are long way from home.
8, "Yes" he replies And then you take hi
d by the hand and lead him home. That
l. very kind OF you. But suppose instead {
1t that YOU should snatch the staff from h
r. hands and hurl it over the rocks, and snatc
lp the lantern and blow it outP That would
ii lastardly, contemplate until there Is !
to depth of contempt beneath It, II you hay
81 better stall, give IL 10 niin. IL you haNo
IN better light, give it to him.
4 When God has put the staff OF the Gosp
* in our hands and the lamp of Gods Word
IL light our feet, are you going to take from
lg our only support and our only illumination
s. | love the sting of the wasp and the rattl
le snake better than do tho man who wan
10 to clutch the Word Of God from my gras
es Cling to your Bibel II this Bible shou
b be destroyed. IL all the Bibles that have ev
nd (beon printed should be destroyed, we cou
en make up a Bible right out of this audienc
IN From that Christian mans experience tn
one cluster of promises, and from that
-, Christian mans experience another, l
u. them all together, and think l would ha
nr q Bible.
III You see my friends. have not tried
1t, hide the fact that have large expectatt
us ,f YOU who have entered the Christian Ii
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