The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-01-30
own blood, to Him be glory, world without

white enough on which ii write IL, ana no
pen good enough with which to inScrlbe 1t.
Give me the fairest leaf from the heavenly
records-give me the pencil with which the
angel records his .victory-and then, with
my hand strung to supernatural ecstasy.
and my pen dipped in the light OF the morn
ing win write it out in inc eaPtal5i of l for
to whom you are invited. Christ is waiting
for you; waiting as a banqueter waits for
beakers trimming, the minstrels with fin
gers on the stiff string, waiting for the
clash of the hoofs at. the gateway. Wait
ing for you, as a mother waits; for her son
who went off ten years ago, dragging her
bleeding heart along with him Waiting!
O! give a comparison intense enough,
hot enough, importunate enough to express
my Notwithstanding high as heaven,
and deep as hell, and long as eternity. Not
hoping that you can help me. with such
comparison, will say: He is waiting as
only The all -sympathetic Christ can, wait
for the coming back of lost soul.
"Bow the knee and kiss the Son,
Come and welcome sinner, come"
Again the Holy Spirit is ready. Why is
it that many sermons drop dead-ihat
Christian songs do not get their wing under
the pGople-tnat so often prayer goes no
higher that a hunters ''halloa?' 1t is be-
the Holy Spirit Unless that spirit give
graphing hooks to sermon and llft the
dead failure That spirit is willing, to come
at our call and lead you to eternal lie; or
ready to come with the same power with
which he Endorsed Saul on the Damascus
turnpike and broke down Lydia IN hef me
store, and lifted 5000 from midnight into
m,dnoon at the Pentecost. With that pow
er the spirit of God now beats at the gate
OF your soul Have you not noticed what
homeiy and insignificant instrulnen'a any
version? There a man on Hudson
river boat to whom a tract was offered.
With ind'1nation he tore 1T up ana threw
1T overheard. But one fragment lodged on
his coatsle,eve, and he saw in it the word word
'eternity:' and he found no peace until
he was prepared for that great future. Do
you know what passage it was that caused
shall live by faith DO you know there is
one-just one-passage that brought Angus
tine from life Of dissipation? PUT ye on
the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provi--
sion for the flesh to fulfill the lust thereof
1t was just one passage that CONCERTED
Hedley Wears the great soldier, to Christ:
1.-THE blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from
all sin" DO you know that the Holy Spir-
it used one pasSage of scripture tn 70 save save
eternal. immortal invisible, the only wise
God, our Savior, be glory one year ago
on Thanksgiving day, [ read for my text:
| 30 give thanks unto the Lord, for he is
| good; for his mercy endureth forever. Ana
| there is a young man in the house to whose
| heart the Holy Spirit took that text for
| his eternal redemption. | might speak of
| to til peace of the gospel through the
| Even the dogs eat of the crumbs that fall
from the masters table
Do you know that the Holy Spirit almost
always uses insignificant means? Eloquent
sermons never save anybody; metaphysical
sermons rever save anybody; philosophical
| sermons never save anybody. But the min
| ister comes some Sabbath TO mis- pulpit,
worn out with engagement and the jang-
! ling of a frenzed door bell; he has only
| text and two or three ideas, but he says:
80 Lord, help me. Here are a good many
people I may never meet again. / have not
much to say. Speak thou throHgh my poor
! lips" and befo'e the service is done there
are fearful eyes and a solemnty like the
| Judgment The great French orator, when
the dead king lay before him, looked up
and cried: God only is great; and the
triumph of his soquence has been told by
the historians. But 1 have not heard that
one soul was sa,ed by the oratOrical flour
sh Worldly critics NAV think that the
early preaching of Thomas Chalmers was
a masterpiece But Thomas Chalmers says
he never began preaeh unth ta came am out
told men the SIM le story of Je In the
great day of eteEity, it will be that
not ' by the ''l 3 and SI0 Mast and
s ne s5Fe sait! and 6elIevy in the
| "elt " gre We're excellent Cint-
! hi;,tt9'h ~ the time of Christ, for
| Sic MI. ~, Hescs. But Jesus turned
49,. - ~; a en-, and put the tip of his
uilstt - l'in 1kmle, and then, with the spit
ne tie that ad Oh the finger, he Amounted
the eyes Oh thH blind man. and daylight
| poured into his inded soul. So it is
that the spirit ~ Cod takes that humble
prayer meeting talk, which seems to be the
very saliva of Christian influence, and
anoints the eyes of the blind, and pours the
sunlight of pardon and peace upon the soul
| Oh, my friend, / wish could feel it more
| and more, that if any good is done it is
! by the power Of Gods omnipotent spirit.
| do not know what hymn may bring you to
Jesus. | dc not know what words of the
! Scripture lesson l read may save your soul.
| Perhaps the spirit Of God may hurl the very
| text into Your heart: Come, for all things
| are now ready"
Again the church is ready. oh, man, if
! / could take the curtain off these Christian
| hearts, | Couli show you a great many ami
| cites for your redemption. You think that
! old man is asleep, because his head is down
| and his eyes are shut. No. he is praying
| for your redemption, and hoping that the
| words spoken may strike your heart. DO
| you know that the air is full of prayer! DO
| you know that prayer is going up from Full
| ton street prayer meeting, ana going up
every hour of the day for the redemption of
the people? And if you should just start
| toward the door of the Christian church,
| how quickly it would fly open. Hundreds of
! people would say: "Give that man room
| at tie sacrament. Bring the silver bowl for
| his baptism. Give nm the right hand of
| Christian fellowship. Bring him into all
| Christian assoca tons" Oh you wander
| err OH the cold moxntains, come into the
warm sheepfold. | let down the bars and
| bid you come in. With the shepherds crook
| | point You the way. Hundreds of Christian
| hands beckOn you into the church of GOD.
| great many people do not like the church,
| and say it is great mass Of hypocrites,
but it is a glorious church with all its inn
perfections Christ bought it, and hoisted the
pillars, and swung it's gates, and lifted its
arches, and curtained it with upholstery
crimson with crucitiXon carnage Come into
1t.
we are a garden walled around
chosen and made peculiar ground;
A little spot enclosed by grace,
out of the worlds wild wilderness.
Again, the angels of God are ready. A
great many Christians think that the talk
about angels is fanciful. You say it is a
very good subject for theological students
who have just begun to sermoniZe; but for
Older men it is improper. There is no more
proof in that Bible that there is a God than
that there are angels. Why do not they
swarm about Jacobs ladder? Are we not
told that they conducted Lazarus upward?
That they stand before the throne, their
faces covered up with their wing, while
they cry; Holy, holy is the Lord God Al
mightyr'
Did not David see thousands and thou
sands! Did not one angel Stay 1S5G0O men IN
Sennacherib's army? And shall they not be
the chief harvesters al the judgment?
There is a line of loving, holy, mighty
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