The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-11-16

4 your Time huntlng IN The wardrobe 10
{ the old, worn out shoes of Christian
: profession. Come this morning and
, take the glittering robe of Christ's
righteousness from the Saviour's hand
You say you were plunged in the foun
) tain of the Savior's mercy quarter OF
r century ago. That is nothing to me
tell you to wash now in this lave1
of looking-glasses and have your soul
made clean.
notice, also, in regard to this laver
} of looking-glasses spoken of in the
text, that the priests always washed
both hands and feet. The water came
down in spouts, SO that, without leav-
ing any filth in the basin, the priests
washed both hands and feet. So the
Gospel of Jesus Christ must touch the
very extremities of our moral nature.
A man can not rinse off small part
of his soul and say: SNOW, this
is to be a garden in which
will have all the fruits and flowers of
Christian character, while outside it
shall be the DEVILS commons. No,
no; it will be all garden or none. /
sometimes hear people say: "He is a
very good man, except in politics. I"
Then he is not good man. A religion
that will not take a man through an
autumn election will not be worth any
thing to him in June, July and August
They say he is useful sort of man.
but he overreaches in a bargain. 1
deny the statement. If he is a. Chris
tian anywhere, he will be in his bust
| IT, &c 10 ho road in tho
prayer meeting, with surroundings
kindly and blessed, but not SO
easy to be a Christian behind the
counter, when by one skillful twitch
of the goods you can hide flaw in the
silk so that the customer can not see
it. 1t Is very easy to be a Christian
with psalm book in your hand and a
Bible in your lap, but not so easy when
you can go into shop and falsely tell
the merchant you can get those goods
at 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-per-
vasive. If you rent house, you expect
full possession of it. You say: "Where
are the keys Of those rooms? If l pay
for this whole house. I want posses
sion of those rooms" And the grace
of God when it comes to soul takes
full possession of man, or goes away
and takes no possession. II will ran
room in the life, from cellar to attic,
touching the very extremities of his
nature. The priests washed hands and
feet.
I remark, further, that this laver of
looking-glasses spoken of in the text
was very large laver. / always
thought, from the fact that so many
washed there, and also from the fact
that Solomon afterward, when he cop
led that laver in the temple, built it on
very large scale, that it was large;
and SO suggestive of the Gospel
of Jesus Christ and salvation by Him -
vast in it's provisions. The whole world
may come and wash in this laver and
be clean.
An artist in his dreams saw such
splendid dream of the TRANSPORTATION
of Christ that he awoke, and seized
his pencil, and said: "Let me paint
this and die" Oh, I have seen the
glories of Christ! have be held some
thing of the beauty of that
great sacrifice on Calvary, and have
sometimes felt 1 would be willing to
give anything if 1 might just sketch
before you the wonders of that
sacrifice. I would like to do it
while live, and l would like to do it
when l die. Let me paint this and
die!" He comes along weary and worn,
his face wet with tears, his brow Grim
son with blood, and he lies down on
Calvary for you. No, 1 mistake. Moth.
ing was as comfortable as that. A
stone on Calvary would have made {
a soft pillow for the dying
head of Christ. Nothing so ,
comfortable as that. He does
not lie down to die; He stands up to
die; His spiked hands outstretched as
# to embrace world. Oh, what hard '
end for these feet that had travelled
Ill over Judea on ministries of mercy.
What hard end for those hands that j
aad wiped away tears and bound up
broken hearts! Very hard. Oh dying a
Lamb of God! and yet there are those
who know it and do not love Thee. They
say: What is all that to me? What t
+ He does weep, and groan, and die? 1 S
lon't want Him" Lord Jesus Christ,
hey will not help Thee down from the
ross! The soldiers will come, and
hey will tear Thee down from the
ross, and put their arms around Thee g
Ind lower Thee into the tomb; but
hey will rot help. They see nothing
20 move them. Oh, dying Christ. turn e
IN them Thine eyes of affection now. il
md see if they will not change their Il
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