The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-07-26


the best advice to the anxious inquirer. |
Oh, the Bible Is the very book you |
need, anxious and inquIring soul! A
dying soldier said to his mate, Com
rade, give me a drop" The comrade
shook up the canteen and said, ''There
isn't drop of water in the canteen.'
"Oh," said the dying soldier, that's not
what want; feel in my knapsack for
my Bible" And his cOmrade found the
Bible and read him a few of the gra-
cious promises, and the dying soldier
said: ''Ah, that's what want. There
isn't anything like the Bible for dying
soldier, Is there, my cumrsdeT Oh,
blessed book while we live Blessed
book when we die
remark, again, we must seek God
through church ordinances. what,
say YOU, cant man be saved without
going 30 charch?- / reply, there are
men, ! suppose, in glory, who have never
seen church; but the church Ii the or
dained means by which we are TO be
brought to God; and II truth affects Us
when we are alone, Ii affects Us more
nightly when we are In the assembly
the feelings of others emphasizing our
own feelings. The great law of sympa-
thy comes into play, and truth that
would take bold only with the grasp of
| a sex man beats nightly against the
soul with thousand heart throbs-
When you come into the religious cir
| che. come only with one notion and
only for one purpose-to find the way to
Christ. When see people critical about
sermons, and critical about tones OF
voice. and critical about serInonic de-
livery, they make me think of q man IN
urisdn. He Is condemned TO death, but
an officer of the government brings a
pardon and puts it through the wicket
of the prison, and says: Here Is your
pardon. Come and get it" What!
Do you expect me to take that pardon
offered with such voice as you have
with such an awkward manner as you
have? / would rather die than 50 com
promise my rhetorical Dotions!7 All
the man does not say that; he takes 1t
Il is his life. He does not care how il
, is handed TO him. And if this morning
that pardon from the throne OF God /:
offered to our souls, should we not seiz'
it, regardless of all criticism, feeling
that it is q matter of heaven or hell?
NOW Is THE TIME.
But come now to the last part Of m!
text. 1t tells Us when we are to seel
the Lord. while be may be found.
, When is that2 Old age? You may DO
see old age. Tomorrow? You may DO
: see tomorrow. Tonight You may No
see tonight. Now: Oh, if could On>
q write on every heart IN three capital lei
! tiers that word N-O-W-nOw!
, Sin is an awful disease. hear peopl
= saw. with the toss of the heal and with
+ trivial manner, "Oh, yes, I'm sinner.
r Sin is an awful disease. 1t is leprOsS
1t is dropsy. 1t IL consumption. 1t
n all moral disorders IN one Now 20
4 know there is O crisis In a disease. Pei
= haIes YOU have had some illustration {
y it in your family. Sometimes the phys
I clan has called and he has looked at ID
Il patient and said: That case was sl1np
v enough. but the crisis has passed II yo
! had called me yesterday or this mOrnlT
r, [ could have cured the patient It's &
lare now; the crisis has passed" IN
!, so If is IN tho spiritual treatment of I!
,e =,,ul. there Is q crisis. Before that, If
= After ,h.-. deatlL Omy dear brothe
S. as z-11 love vg-r srgl, 10 not let q
k crisis pass Ullttyltet to-
.F There are some here Who can rene-
,- her instances il lie when il they i.
rs bought O certain property they Won
r have become very rich. \ few acT
! that would have cost them almost NOT
y i-a vere offered them. They Tetus
n -hgr2. Af-c~wa-I g large VILLAGE
cie- ---a1..s ~ on those acres OF s-iaI'
he ana thav see what q mistake they rn.
j. IN not Du--il- the property. There -
-" an opportunity Of getting L. II 1aF
Is came back again. Al- 50 i IS in ]
- gard 10 @ mans spiritual and erol-
7 fortune. There ! chance, If yo1
o5 that go, perhags. it never comes Lac
lis Certainly that ono never comes back.
he There IS q time which mercy has
ne Tor leaving port. If yyu are % boa
M before that You will get passage
re. heaven. II you are not On board J
re miss your passage fer heaven. rs
on law courts q case is sometimes adjourn
ito from term to term, and from year
wear. till the bill of costs eats up the
he tire estate, so there are men who are
lev iOurning the matter Of religion fr'
ny time To time, and from year u ye
an until heavenly bliss IS the bill OF CO
yhe the man WQCllu nave " pay III 49,
the Why defer this matter, . my d'
d's bearer? Have you any idea that sin y
up wear out? that it will evapOrateI tina
.ris will relax its graspf that you may +
the religion as q man accidentally find
yer lost pocketbook? All. no! No man e
for became Christian by accident or
tie the relaxing of SIN. The emharrs
-er- ments are all the time increasing.
md hosts of darkness are recruiting, and
the longer you postpone this matter
INV sleeper the path will become
DIV those men who are before me this Inc
au- ing whether in the ten or fifteen we
at they have passed in the postPonem
) of of these matters they have come
,ers nearer God or heaven?
ali ..... FLY FOB REFUGE.
Iwould not be afraid to challenge
T. to whole audience, so far az they may
0 to have found the peace Of the Gospel
- 1 no matter Ynllr lP2