Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-05-04

OF this sort are they which creep int.
houses, and lead captive silly women
laden with divers lusts. Ever learnin,
| and never able to come to the knowl
edge of the truth"
In that list there are twenty two vel
defined classes, and by drawing OF
other portions of Scripture, the lis
may be indefinitely extended. It il
not asserted that any one man is guilt,
of all those crimes. Some are guilty
of one, and others of something else
but their cry is peace, peace, and a
they measure themselves by themselve:
and compare themselves by themselves
and although they are not wise, il
serves their present purposes. That
is to say, the whoremonger who has
debauched his neighbours wife OF
daughter, cannot, with good face, re.
buke the thief that stole. his neigh.
boris horse. So the whore-monger pairs
off with the thief, the blasphemer
keeps the habitual liar in countenance,
while the drunkard backs up the
slanderer. So it goes. This is a
dangerous condition of things. It is
said to be..-in the last days. When
that condition of things exists, human
depravity can go but little farther and
Gods patience is about worn out.
It is dangerous to attack fortified sin.
If man attack any one of these vices,
he attacks the whole thing, and will
very soon smell He'll. There are
Heaven and He'll in three correspond
ing divisions, in this life, between the
death and the resurrection of the body,
and beyond the general judgment.
He'll, in this life, is called the sin
against the Holy Ghost, and is de-
scribed in the above quotation from
I'd Timothy, and corresponding pas
sages of Scripture, and from this sys-
tenn Of abounding iniquity the un-
bridled tongue takes its encouragement
and draws its supplies. But what are
we to do about itP When communi-
ty is in that condition, it is impossible
to renew them unto repentance, (He-
brews. VI, 4-8), and so preaching to
them Is useless. From such turn
away, is the order of God. This
turning away involves three things:
1st, a complete separation between our
lives and theirs, SO they cannot shelter
behind us in their wrong-doing. I'd,
letting them alone. s.Reprove not a
scorner, lest he hate thee.-Proverbs.
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But the most terrible idea remains
to be noticed yet.
In the first five chapters of Isaiah. a
horrible condition of things among the
Jews is set forth, and in the sixth
chapter, Isaiah is commissioned as the
Lords prophet, chapter VI, 8: "And
He said, go tell this people. hear ye,
indeed, but understand not, and see ye
indeed but perceive not. Make the
heart of this people fat and make their
ears heavy; and shut their eyes. lest
they see with their eyes, hear with
their ears. understand with their hearts
and convert and behold" That was
IsaiHh's commission to men that are
hardened in sin. But he had another
commission to another class of men.
Isaiah. LXI.. Is: 1.-The Spirit of the
Lord God is upon me, because the Lord
hath annointed me to preach good tid-
ings unto the meek. He hath sent me
to bind up the broken hearted, to pro-
claim liberty to the captive, and the
opening of the prison to them that are
bound. To proclaim the acceptable
year of our Lord. and the day of veng-
eance of our God; to comfort all that
mourn. To appoint unto them that
mourn in Zion to give them beauty for
ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the
garment of praise for the spirit of
heaviness, that they might be called
trees of righteousness. The planting
of the Lord that He might be glorifed. :"
ALI things are double; the commits
sion of the gospel, minister, and the duty
of the Christian. among the rest. He
must turn away from the self-righteous
hypocrite, and his sin will harden him
and bring on him swift destruction.
But even In the days when Isaiah re-
ceived his first commission, isaiah,
VI, 81. bad as the Jews were, they
were not all bad isaiah, VI, 49,
But yet in it shall be truth, and it
shall return and shall be eaten; as q
tell tree and an oak. whose substance
is in them when they cast their leaves,
SO the holy seed shall be the substance
thereof.
And in these days, when the un-
bridled tongue is running at large
through the land. what is the Christians
dutyp Ist. Let him bride his own
tongue. To aid him in this duty. let
him read the book Of Proverbs. The
power. the use and the abuse Of the
forr,,o ara an CLEARLY Sft forth. that