The southern argus. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, Kan.) 1891-1???, 1892-01-07

| 10y oWO lHOO nalVeS, and calculate only
on twenty-six Sabbaths
Come, Christian men, Christian wo-
men, what can You do in twenty-six
Sabbaths? Divide the 365 DAYS into
two parts. What can you do in 1872 days?
What, BY the way Of saving your fam
lily, the church and the world? You
will not through all the ages of eter-
nifty in Heaven, get over the dishonor
and the outrage Of going into glory and
having helped none up to the same
place. 1t will 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 Doddri5ge has taken
in hundreds Of thousands; that Paul
took in a hundred million. How
many will you take in? 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 re-
deemed get their eyes on you and some
one cry out: '.That is the man who
never lifted hand or voice for the re-
| demption Of his fellows! Look at him,
all Heaven!''
| In view Of the probabilities men
toned | advise all the men and women
not ready for eternity to get ready. If
the text be true you have no time to
talk about nonessentials, asking why
God let sin come into the world, or
whether the book of Jonah is inspired,
4 II L.
the eternal DEGREES If you are as near
eternity as some of you seem to be
there is no time for anything but the
questions: "What must 1 do to be
saved?' The drowning man, when a
plank is thrown him, stops not to ask
what sawmill made it, or whether
it is of 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 any
thing but immediate laying hold on
God. It is high time to get out of
your sins. You say, 81 have committed
no great transgressions." But are you
not aware that your life has been sin
full? The snow comes down on the
Alps, flake by flake, and it is so light
that you may hold it on the tip of your
finger without feeling any weight; but
the flakes gather; they compact, until
some day a 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 see med
only slight inaccuracies or trif1ing di-
vergences from the right-so slight
that they are hardly worth mentioning,
but they are piling up and piling up,
packing together and packing together,
until they make a 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.
Let me announce that Christ the
Lord stands rea iy to save any man that
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 outstretched,
manglc1 hands Of love.
wish you might know what a job
Jesus undertook when He carried your
case to Calvary. They crowded Him
to the wall. They struck Him. They
spat on Him. They kicked Him. They
cuffed Him. They scoffed at Him.
They scourged Him. They murdered
Him. Blood! blood! AS He stoops
down to lift you up, the crimson drops
upon you from His brow, from His side,
from Ills hands Do you not feel the
warm current on your face? 0, for
thee the hunger, the thirst, the thorn
sting, the suffocation, the darkness,
the groan, the sweat, the struggle, the
| death!
A great plague came in Marseilles.
| The doctors held consultation and de-
cided that a corpse must be dissected,
or they would never know how to stop
the plague. A DR.. Guyon said: "To-
morrow morning l will proceed to a
dissection" He made his will, pre-
pared for death, went into the hospital,
dissected body, wrote out the results
| of the dissection, and died in twelve
hours. Beautiful self-sacriice, you
say. Our Lord Jesus looked out from
Heaven and saw plague-stricken race.
Sin must be dissected. He made His
will, giving everything to His people.
He comes down into the reeking hos
pital Of earth. He lays His hand to
work. Under our plague. He dies-the
healthy for the sick. the pure for the
polluted the innocent for the guilty.
Behold the love! Behold the sacrifice!
Behold the rescue!
Decide, on this first Sabbath OF the
year, whether or not you will have
Jesus. He will not stand forever beg
ging for Your love. With some here
his plea ends quite speedily. This
year thou shalt die" This great saliva
ton Of the gospel now offer to every
man, woman aud child. You cannot
buy it. You cannot earn it
A Scotch Writer says that poor wom-
an. one cold winters day, looked
through the window of kings con-
servatory, and saw bunch of grapes
hanging against the glass She said:
10 if only had that bunch OF
grapes for my sick child at
homer AT her spinning wheel she
earned few shillings, and went to buy
the grapes. The kings gardener thrust
her out very roughly, and said
he had no grapes to sell. She
want off and sold blanket and
. ~ ,-,,,,.o rhiIliuoS and came back