Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-06-22

place OF burial, even independents AA"'., -
Philadelphia, asked that his remains STOP
there ON their way TO Boston. The flags were
at half mast, and the minute guns on Boston
Common throbbed after his heart had ceased
to beat. Was it always 50? While he lived
how censured oflegislative resolutions now
carlcatured OF the pictorlals, how charged
with every motive mean and RIDICULOUS
how all the urns Of scorn and hatred ana
bilIingsgate' emptied upon his head; now,
when struck down in Senate chamber, there
were hundreds of thousands OF people VINO
said. GOOD for him; serves him right
how he had to put the ocean between MIN
and his maligners that he might nave Ut
fla neace. and how, when he went OIL SICK,
they said he was broken hearted because be
could not got to be President or Secretary Oh
State!
o, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, who
is thst man that sleeps in your public nan
covered with garlands and wrapped IN the
stars and stripes? Is that the man VINO, only
a few months before, you denounced rs tue
foe OF republican and democratic Institu-
tons? Is that the same man? Ye American
people, We could not by one week OF tunerai
culogium and newspaper leaders, winch inc
dead senator could neither read nor near,
atone for twenty-five years oil manreatmeht
AMI caricature.
When see man like that, pursued by
all the hounds OF the political kennel 80 long
M no lives and then buried under great
nile of garlands and amid the lamentations
OF whole nation, l say 10 myself What an
unutterably hypocritical thing Is all human
applause and all humpn favor Z. You TOOK
twenty-five years In trying to pull DOWN his
fame and then take twenty-five years in try
! inc 10 bniId his monument. My friends, was
| there ever a better commentary on the bo.-
Iovness of nil earthly favor? Ii there are
vonno mon who read this who are postpon-
| inc relieion in order that they may have the
| faVors of this world let me persuade them
! of their complete folly. If you are looking
forward to gubernatorlal, senatorial OF pres
idential chair, let me show you your great
mistake.
Can it be that there is now any young
man saving "Let me have political office.
let me have some Of the high positions OF
frust and power, and then l will attend to
religion. but not now. Go thy way Ior TINS
time. When 1 have a convenient season,
will call for thee"
And now my subject takes deeper tone,
and 1t shows what dangerous thing Is THIS
deferring OF religion. When Pauls chan
ratified down the marble stairs OF Felix, that
was Felix's last chance for heaven. JunglnS
from his character alterward, DO was TO
probate AMI abar doned. And 80 was Dru-
silla.
One day in the southern Italy there was n
trembling Of the EARTH and the air got olacK
with smoke intershot with liquid rocks, ana
Vesuvius rained upon Drusilla and upon her
son horrible tempest OF ashes and IRE.
| They did not reject religion. TheY only put
it of. They did not understand that thar
dav. that that hour when Paul stood before
Them was tie pivotal hour upon which every
thing was poised. and that 1t tipped the
wrong wav' Their convenient season came
when Paul and his guardsman entered tne
palace. 1t went away when Paul anu MS
| guardsmanleft. Have you never seen men
| waiting for convenient season. There IS
such great fascination about ii that, though
YOU may have great respect to the truth OF
Christ, yet somehow there ls IN your SOU
the thought ''Not quito yet. 1t IS
NOT time for me to become Christian.
say 10 boy. Seek Christ lie says, mo.
Wait until get to be young man" say
TO the Young man, "Seek Christ" He says,
ssWait until como to midlfe." l meet the
same person in mldlife, and say, seek
Christ " He saws, ''Wait until [ get old.
meet the same person in old age and sayto
him. "Seek Christ" He says, "Wait until
am on my dying bed" am called TO MS
diving couch. His last moments have come.
bond over the couch and listen for his last
words. have partially 10 guess what they
are by the motion OF his lips he is so feeble,
: hut ralIying himself he whispers until can
hear him say, "I-am-waiting-for-
: oro-conyenient-seas and he is gone
can tell YOU when your convenient season
will come. l can tell you the year. 1t will
J be 1891. 1 can tell you what kind OF day
, it will he. 1t will be the Sabbath day;
lean tell YOU what hour it will be. 1t will
be between and 10 clock. In other WORDS
if isnow. Do you ask me how know TIM
, is your convenient season? 1 know it be-
} cause YOU are here and because tho elect
} CONS and daughters OF God are praying tol
7 vour REDEMPTION. Alb, know it is your
convenient season because some OF you, ike
} FELIX. tremble as all your past life comes
! upon YOU with its sin, and all the future liz
| comes upon you with its terror. Ihis nlgn
3 air is aglare with torches to show you up Of
3 10 show you down. 1t is rustllng with wing
Q 10 lift YOU into light or smte you into de
= snair. and there is Il rushing to and fro, an
: n heating against the door OF your sous will
n great thunder OF emphasis, telling you
= Snow. now is the best time, as 1t may be int
a only time
t NAV God Almighty forbid that any OF you
t nv brethren or sisters, act the part OF Fell
t and Druslla and put away this great sub
r ipct, II you are going TO be saved ever
a why not begin tonight? Throw down you
It sins and take the Lords pardon. Christ ma
l. been tramping after you many day. A
n Indian and a white man became CHRISTIANS
o The Indian. almost as soon rs he heard IN
u gospel. believed AMI was saved, but tn
l white man struggled on in darkness Tor
II long while before he found light.
After their peace in Christ the whit
Q man said to the Indian, "Wny was 1t that
IS was kept 50 long in the darkness AMI 20
% Immediately found peace" The Indian re
IT piled: 81 will toll you. prince cone
% along. and he offers you coat. You loo
T., at your coat, and you say, My coat
G good enough, and you refuse b
t, offer, but the prince comes alon
% and he offers me the coat, and
81 look at my old blanket, and throw TN
d away and take his offer. You, sir, contll
0 uod the indian, "are clinging to your ON
o righteousness you think you are GOO
- enough, and you keep your own rignteou
ness but l have nothing, nothing, and
- when Jesus offers me pardon and peace
. simply take II.
o My reader, why not now throw, away Il
h WORKOUT blanket Of your sin and take Il
= robe of u Saviour's righteousness robe
II white. so fair so lustrous, that no fuller
h earth can whiten it? o Shepherd, to-nig
n bring home the lost sheepl Father, t
>. night give welcoming kiss to the WI
i prodigal 0 friend of Lazarus, tong
|. freak down the door of the sepucher ~
= say to all these dead souls as BY irresistit