Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-02-08

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sinful amusement lie viii come disSi-
2ated. shabby IN apparel. indisposed %
look anyone in the eyes, moral ehsrae-
I ter eighty-five per cent of You viii
come with principle settled, eounte-
nance frank. habits good, soul saved.
and all the inhabitants OF Heaven, from
the lowest angel up TO the Arch-angel
and clear past him TO the Lord God Al
mighty, your coadjutorS
This Is not the advice OF a nissan
thrope- There IS no man in the house
TO whom the world is brighter than il
is TO me. IL is not the advice Of dys-
peptic-my digestion is perfect; IL is
not the advice Of \ man who can not
understand a joke, or who prefers 4
funeral; IL IS not the advice of q worn
out man, but the advice OF q man who
can see the world in all Its bright
ness; and considering myself competent
IN judging what is good cheer. ! tell the
mulitudes of young men in this house
this morning that there Is nothing in
worldly association so grand and 80
beautiful and 50 exhilarating as in
Christian society.
/ know there is a great deal OF talk
about the self-denials OF the Christian.
1 have 70 tell you where the Christian
has one self-denial the man Of the world
has a thousand self-denials The Chris
tian is not commanded TO surrender
anything that Is worth keeping. But
what does man deny himself who de-
mics himself the religion of Christ? He
denies himself pardon for sin; he denies
himself peace OF conscience: he denies
himself the JOY of the Holy Ghost; he
denies himself comfortable death pill
low; he denies himself the Clories OF
Heaven. Do not talk TO me about the
sef-denials OF the Christian life. Where
there is one in the Christian life there
are thousand in the life OF the world
Her ways are ways Of pleasantness."
Again. find great deal of religious
sunshine in Christian and divine eNpla-
nation. To great many people this
life Is an ineNpicable tanglc. Things
turn ont differently from what was
supposed There IS n useless woman in
perfect health. There is an industrious
and consccrated woman . complete IN
valid. There is bad man with SO. GOO
income. There is good man with
$500 income. Why is that? There is a
Zoe OF society who lives on, doing all
the damage he can, to seventy-fve
years of age, and here is n Christian
father, faithful in every department of
life, at thirty-fve years Of age taken
away by death, his family left helpless.
Explain that Oh, there is no sentence
that oftener drops from your lips than
this: 81 can not understand il, can not
understand il.
Well, now religion comes in Just at
that point with its illumination and it's
explanation. There is business man
who has lost his entire fortune. The
week before he lost his fortune there
were twenty carriages that stopped at
the door of his mansion, The week az
ter he lost his fortune all the carriages
you could count on one finger. The
week before financial trouble began
people all took off their hats 10 him as
he passed down the street The week
his financial prospects were under dis
cussion, people just touched their hats
without anywise bending the rim. The
week that he was pronounced insolvent,
people just jolted their heads as they
passed, not tipping their hats at all;
and the week the sheriff sold him out
all his friends were looking in the store
windows as they went down past him.
Now, while the world goes away from
a man when he is in financial distress,
the religion of Christ comes TO him and
says: You are sick, and your sickness
is to be moral publication; you are be-
reaved; God wanted in some way to
take your family to Heaven. and he
must begin somewhere. and so he took
the one that was most beautiful and
was most ready 10 GO" ! do not say
that religion explains everything in this
life, but do say it lays down certain
principles which are grandly consola-
tory. You know business men often
telegraph in ciphers. The merch mt in
San Francisco telegraphs 70 the
merchant in New York certain in
formation in cipher which no 9th
or man in that line OF business
can understand; bat the merchant
in San Francisco has the key 70
the cipher. and the merchant in New
York has the key TO the cipher. and on
that Information transmitted there are
enterprises involving hundreds Of
thousands OF dollars Now the provi-
dcnce of life sometimes seem to be a
scnsclcss rigmaroie. a mysterious
cipher, and the Christian a key 70 that
cipher, and though he may hardly be
able TO spell out the meaning. nc gets
enough OF the meaning to understand
that IL is for the best; Now is there not
sunshine in that? Is there not pleasure
in that? Far beyond laughter it is
nearer the fountain of tears than bois-
ferrous demonstration. Have you never
cried for JOY? There are tears which
are eternal rapture in distiilation.
There are hundreds OF people in this
house who are walking day by day in
the sublime satisfaction that all is for
the best all things working together
for good for their soul How man
can get along through this life without
the explanation is to me a mystery.
What! is that child gone forever? Are
you never to get IL back? Is your prop
erty gone forever? Is your soul 20 be
bruised and to be tried forever Have
you no explanation. no Christian ex-
PLANTATION, and yet not maniacf
But when you have the religion oil
Jesus Christ in your soul IL explains
everything so far as it is best Tor YOU
20 understand. You look of in life.
and your soul is full OF Thanksgiving "a
God that you arc so much better of
than you might be. A man passed
dow n tho street without any shoes. and
said: ~ have no shoes; isn't 70 n hard
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