Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-01-15

Edridge has taken in hundreds Of thousands;
that Paul took in hundred millions How
many will you take In! Ii 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 heaven Better be busy. Better
put the pillow in deep. Better say what
you have to say quickly. Better cry the
alarm. Better fail on your knees. Better
lay hold with both hands. What you now
leave undone for Christ will forever b.
undone. This year thou shalt dier'
In view of the probabilities mentioned
advise all the men and women not ready for
eternity to get ready. II the text be rue,
you have no time TO talk about non-essen-
tials asking why God let sin come into the
world; or whether the book OF Jonah is in
spired: or who Melchisedec was: or what
about the eternal DEGREES. II you are as near
eternity as some Of you seem TO be, there IS
no time for anything but the question,
What must do to be saved?' The drown
ing man, when plank is thrown him, stops
not to ask what sawmin made it, or whether
it is oak or cedar, or who threw it. The
moment it is thrown. he clutches il. If this
year you are to die, there is no time for any
thing but Immediately laying hold to God.
sins. You say, 81 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 light that you
may hold it on the tip Of the finger without
feeling any weight; but the fakes gather;
they compact until some day a travellers
foot starts the slide. and it goes down III an
avalanche, crushing to death the villa gers.
So the sins of your youth, and the sins OF
your manhood, and the sins Of your woman
hood may have seemed only slight in
accuracies or trihing divergences from the
right-so slight that they are hardly worth
mentioning; but they have been piling up
and piling up packing together and packing
together, until they make 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, hungry wolf took after him. He
brought his gun to bis shoulder and took
aim, and the wolf howled with pain, and the
cry woke up a 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 terrible with the assault
of their bloody muzzles. Oh, the unpar
sins of thy lifetime!
A maniac was found pacing along the
road with torch In one hand and pail of
water in the other, and some one asked him
what he meant to do with them. He an
swered, with this torch [ mean to burn
down heaven, and with this water mean to
put out the fires of hell" He was a maniac.
He could do the one thing just as we'll as 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 His eye and two out
stretched, mangled hands Of love.
You come home some night and find the
mark of muddy feet on your front step.
You hasten in and find an excited group |
around your child. He fell into a pond, and
had it not been for brave lad, who plunged |
in and brought him out and carried him
been childlesS. You feel that you cannot do |
enough for the rescuer. You throw your |
arms around him. You offer him any COM
pensation. You say to him: 'Anything !:
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 it saved, will
save it myself"
I wish you might know what job Jesus |
when He carried your case to
Calvary. They crowded Him to the wall.
They struck Him. They spat on Him. They
kicked Him. They cuffeJ Him. They scoffed |!
at Him. They scourged Him. They muir
dered Him. Blood bloodI AS He stoors
down to lift you up the crimson drops upon |
you from His brow, from His side, from His
hands. Do you not feel the warm current
on your face? Oh, for thee the hunger, the
thirst, the thorn sting, the suffocation the
struggle, the DEATH
A great plague came in MarseiIles The
doctors held a consultation and decided that
a corpse must be dissected or they would
never know how to stop the plague. A DR..
Guyon said, Tomorrow morning I will
proceed to dissection" He made his will:
prepared for death; went into the hospital:
dissected body; wrote out the results of the
dissection and died in twelve hours. Beauti-
full self sacrifice you say. Our Lord Jesus
looked out from heaven and saw a plague
stricken race. Sin must be dissected. He
made His will, giving every thing to His PEG.
pie. He comes down into the reeking hos
pital of earth. He lays His hand to the
work. Under our plague He dies-the
healthy for the sick, the pure for the pol.
the love! Behold the sacrifice! Behold the
rescue!
Decide on this first Sabbath Of the year
will not stand forever begging for your love-
With some here His plea ends right speedily.
This year thou shalt die"
This GREAT ga V9fiOO Of tho povu