The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1894-09-01
MISS, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER l. 1884,

! this worldliness and like things, that
keeps many in doubt who would other
wise walk walk In the light Of life. So
long as they hold on to their sins they
cannot enjoy that sensitive soul re-
sponse to God, that brings assurance.
shudder almost to thinkof the monstrouS
things which have been said to uphold
a bastard assurance such as 81 know
will be saved even though l should be-
| come a thief, drunkard. or murder.
err The light Of God dwellt with no
such darkness, nor can any one by
shere spiritual impudence st;.vc
through his sins into the light of Il
good hope. BLESSED are the pure in
heart for they shall see God" was spo-
ken by the Great Teacher, and the con
| verse ofoit is that the defiled in hear:
cannot see Him, nor do they. It is in
the very nature of things that sin
should cast shadows and spread veil
over the soul, and every real Saint
knows this by experience, as well as by
the word of God.
May | affectionately urge upon my
readers the Importance to each one of
them, OF the point just made. Sin OF
whatever sort whether in the gross
form OF drunkenness, or In the thinly
spread and respectable form of world
illness is IA destroyer of all spiritual Joys,
assurance included. II you have doubts,
look to the heart and see that it is set to
better things. In vain ale tears and
prayers unless we come to the real
trouble, Il corrupted heart.
3. Lamentable as it is, that so many
live under the clouds, needless as it is,
nevertheless we must recognize the
facts and deal with them ina scriptural
way. To maintain that doubts prove u
lack OF grace is as wide of the mark It's
to offer in that they prove grace. They
prove sin, not yet wholly. il at all, con-
quered by grace. The doubter may or
may not be a child of God. The wise
teacher will deal cautiously with one
in the pains of doubt He will seek to
know the true state OF the person. He
will in all cases seek to bring the soul
away from sin to iod. Often the best
prescription for Il doubter is to put him
on strictly spiritual regimen. Let him
60 to church, read the Bible. pray,
join in worship and in spiritual conver-
satlons, and also, break away from ull
forms of worldiuess. In time the true
condition uf affairs will be made
plain.
recall Il young lady, a teacher, who
attended Il meeting held many years
ago. She was u member of p church
which she rarely attended. When ten
years old she joined the church on
what she thought was good hope,
Later she went away to school and
there she taught. Ten years she had
been away from her church home. She
had grown worldly, and for long time
given up her religious duties. In the
meeting she became deeply convicted
and found peace. Great joy filed her
soul, and she wished tosbe baptized.
said We will wait and see how it is. A
month passed and when we met, she
said, 1T is all plain now. When the
joys OF salvation came, back to me, it
was so bright that did not feel the
kinship Of my old experiences. But
when the flash was over the old
experience began to come back like
echoes at first, but more and more dis
tinct till the old and the new blended
into one." And then she could see how
all the years of her darkness, the light
was shut out by the surfeiting OF her
heart.
This seems to me to illustrate it:
Years ago an English gentleman was
visiting Rome. Walking around one
Of the ruined palaces Of the city, be no.
ticed an italian peasant pick up small
stone and begin to examinine it. The
Englishman drew near, saw the stone
had some shape to it, and at a venture
offered $5 90 for it, which was joyfully
accepted. He took it to his room and
washed it, but it was thoroughly crus-
TED over with dirt and he could not
discern what it was. He took it to a lap
idary and told him to cleanse it. When
he called, he found the lapidary in an
estacy of delight. The stone was dis
played and he held it was the famous
Emperial Topas which glittered in the
crown of Caesar Augustus, worth $780,
600. There was the Emperor's image and
superscription delicately carved in the
| stone. 1t was all there when the peas
ant picked it up, but it was surfeited
with dirt.
When soul is converted. the image
and law of Jesus is written in the heart.
God said II will put my law in their
hearts But many time the dirt Of
this world entirely hides the image and
blots out the superscription tom sight.
Still they are there, and there is need
of much rubbing to bring them
out.
This is one of the great goods of pro-
tracted meetings. They are II prolon-
ged rubbing, under the softening intlu-
ences OF grace, displacing worldliness
and bringing out the good placed in us
by the Holy Spirit. And now we are
in the protracted time. AS I write I
can see the congregations assembled in
q hundred places in Mississippi and see
the preachers. My soul yearns, not
only for the salvation of sinners, but,
also, for the consolation and joy of the
saints. Poor souls, many of them are
limpfng up to the house Of God, many
are dumb because of their doubts. God
have compassion on them all and let
there be such Il rubbing as will make
the image of Christ to shine once
more.'
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