The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1894-11-07

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out il am z:meut and alarm. gheVery
first thing this gospel dces Is 10 cat
down cur pride and self SufllcienCy. #
| a man does net feel his lost and ruined
| condition b2turS Goo, he DOES not want
ecy gospel. I thi0k the reason that
there are so f7R conversions il this day
/ is because the tendency OF the preaching
IS to make men belleys that thcg are
! pretty GOOD auyhow-quite clcver, only
wanting little fixing up-a faw touches
| Of divire grace, and then you vii be all
| rieht, IL stead Of proclaIming the broad
| deep truth P&yjOn and Wh!tefald thun'
dered TO a race trembling on the verge
OF in6nite and eternal disaster. Now"
says some ore. "cen this really be tru:R
Have we al! gone astral? Is there no
! go0d in u.?n 10 Hampton Court I saw
q room whera tie four walls were COW
cred with looking glasses, aQd it made
no difel e1ce which wsy you looked you
saw yourself. Aud go ii IS 10 this gos-
pei Of Christ. Il you oDce step within
its full rrecIncts, YOU will fad your
whole character rsEscted-e7erV fea-
turs Of moral dcfornity, every spot OF
moral tajnt. If understand the word
Of God, lis first announcement is that
We are lost. I care not, my brother,
how magnifcently you may have bsen
bora, Or what may have kesu your heri-
| tsge or ancestry, you are lost by reason
| of sin. "Bu+," you say, "wba5 IS tbs
use Of all this, Of showing mans fsults
When ne can't get rid Of tkem?' Mont!
''What WAS the use Of that FURNISHED
surface to this laver OF locking glasses
spoken Of in the text if il only showed
| tbe spots on the counteuaucs and tho
need OF washing and there was nothing
to wash with?n Glory be to Cos! l
| find that this laver of looking glasses
was Hued with fresh water every morn
ing, and the priest 10 sooner looked on
its Furnished side ard say bis need OF
cleansing thau be washed and was clean
glorious type of the gospel Of my Lord
Jesus. that first shows q man his SIN
and then washes it all aWal!
want you to notice that this laVer
in which the priest washed, the laVer OF
looking glasses, was filed with fresh
water every morning. The servants OF
the tabernacle brought the water IN
| buckets aud poured into this laVer. So
it ls with the gospel Of Jesus Christ l.
has fresh salvation every day. It Is not
a stagnaut pool filed with accomplished
corruptions. 1t ls living water,
which is brought from the eter-
nai rock to wash away the sins OF yes
terday, OF one moment ago. "Ob,"
says some one was Christian 20 years
ago." That does not mean anything to
ne. Whet are you now? We are not
talking, my brother, about pardon ten
years ago, but about pardon now, fresh
salvation. Suppose time Of var should
come, and I could show the government
that l had been loyal to it II years ago,
would that excuse ms from taking an
oath Of allegiance nov? Suppose you
ask me about my physical health, aud
should say I was we'll Is years ago,
that does not say how an now. The
gospel Of Jesus Christ comes and des
mands present allegisnce, present fealtY,
present moral health, and yet how
many Christians there are seeking 70
i've entirely in past experience, who
seem to have 10 experlsnc9 OF present
mercy and pardoD!
When was on tbo s8a, aud there
came Up a great storm, and ofticar3 and
crew aud passengers all thcu2ht We must
90 down, I began to think Of my life ln-
surance and whether if were taken
away my family would be cared Tor, and
then thought. Is the premium PAID up:
and SAID, Yes" Than l felt COM
tcrtabIs. Yet there sre men who il re-
liglous matters are looking back to past
Insurance.. They have let Itrun out.
and they have Dothing for the present,
no hope nor pacdop, falling back on thc
DID insurance policy Of 10, 20, 80 years
ago. If l want to fed cut how friend
feels toward me, do 60 20 the drawer
find some Old yellow letters written to
me 10 or II years age?
Nc; I goto tha letter that was stamped
the day before yesterday in the p0stot-
fee, 81 d I fud how be ieel3 toward me.
tits not Ii regard to old communications
We had with Jesus Christ. It ls com.
munications We have now. Are We not
II sympathy with him this morning, and
is he not in symeathy with Qs? Do not
spend so much Of your time in hunting
in the wardrobe for the old, Wornout
shoes of Christian profession. Come this
morning and take the glittering robe OF
| Chriet's righteousness from the SaYiour's
hand. You say you we're plunged IL the
| fountain Of the Sa7iour's mercy quar-
ter Of century ago. That is nothing
to ne. 7 tell you to wash now IN this
laVer oflooking glasses aud have your
soul made clean.
A religion that will not take man
through au autumn election will not be
worth ANYTHING to him II Jnne, July and
| August. They say he is usefu! sort OF q
man, but he overreaChes il bargain. l
deny the statement. II he is Christian
anywhere, he will be in his business. It
Is ysrY easy to be good IN the prayer
meeting, with surroundings kindly and
blessed, but not 90 easy to lie Chris
tian behind the counter, when by one
skllltul twitch Of the goods sou can hide
flaw in tie silk so that the customer
cannot see it. Il is very easy to be 2
Christian with O psalmbook in your
hand and Bible in your lap, but not 50
easy when you can go into a shop and
falsely tell the merchant you can get
those gooGs 81 a cheaper rate IN another
store, so that he will sell them to you
cheaper than he can afford to sell them.
The fact is The religion Of Christ IS all
pervasiVe. If you rent house, you
expect full possession Of 1t. You say:
"Where are the keys Of those rooms? If
I pay 5or this whole house, l want pos
session of those rooms" And the
grace of God when 1t comes to soul
takes full possession of a man or goes
away and takes no possession. It will
ransack every room in the heart, every
room in the life, from cellar to attic,
touching the very extremities Of his na-
ture. The priests washed hands and
feet.
Iremark, further, that this laVer of
locking glasses spoken Of in the text
was very lalge layer. ! always