The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1894-06-16

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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 II always so? Whilo he lived
how censured oflegislative resolutions how
caricatureu OF the pictorials, how charged
with every motive mean and ridiculous
| how all the urns of scorn and hatred and
billingsgate emptied uponshis head how,
when s,r"Sk down WI in Senate there
| baid, Good for him serSnd. n right -
| how he had to put the oceanI A >, zen him
and his maligners that he might nave a lit
| tie peace, and how, when he went off sick,
. they said he was broken hearted because he
could not get to be PRESIDENT or Secretary of
| State
o, Commonwealth Of Massachusetts,, who
| is that man that sleeps in your public hall
covered with garlands ami wrapped In the
stars and stripes2 Is that the man who, only
| few months before, you denounced as tn"
| foe OF republican and democratic institu-
| tions2 Is that the same man? Ye American
| people, We could not by one week OF funeral
eulogium and newspaper leaders, which the
dead senator could neither read nor hear,
ntone for twenty-five years OF maltreatment
AMI carcature.
When SEQ q man like that, pursued by
oil the hounds of the political kennel so long
ms ho lives and then buried under n great
pile Of garlands and amid tho lamentations
| OF whole nation, | say to myself: What an
unutterably hypocrittcal thing Is all human
applause and all human favor You tool
twenty five years in trying to pull down hil
fame aud then take twenty five years in try.
ing to build his monument. My friends wa,
| there ever a better commentary on the hoI
| lowncss Of all earthly favor? If there ara
| young men who read this who are postpon.
| ing religion in order Neld tkpy may have tho
favors OF this world: l&,,na persuade them
| of their complete folly. %SSxou are looking
forward to gubernatorial, senatorial or pres,
idential chair, let me show you your great
| mistake.
Can it be that there is now any young
| man saying: Let me have political office
! let me have some OF the high positions OF
| trust and power, and then j will attend to
| religion, but not now. Go thy way for this
| lime When have convenient season I
| will call for thee D."
| And now my subject takes deeper tone.
and it shows what a dangerous thing is this
| deierrinG OF religion. When Paurs chain
| rattlai down the marble stairs OF Felix. that
was Felix : last chance for heaven Judging
| from his character alterwari, he was re-
| probate and abar donel. And so was Dru-
| silla.
| One day in the southern Italy there WAS n
| trembling OF tho earth, and the air got blacl
| with smoke intershot with liquid rocks AMI
| Nesuvus rainod upon Drusila and upon her
| son horrible tempest of nshes and fire
| They did not reject religion They only nut
| 1t of. They did not understand that tha'
| day, that that hour when Paul stood before
| them, was tho pivotal hour upon which every
thing was poised, and that it tipped thu
| wrong way. Their convenient season cam
| when Paul and his Guardsman entered tn
| palace. II went away when Paul and h,
| guardsman left. Haveyou never seen men
waiting for a convenient season. There L,
| such great fascination about IL that though
| you may have great respect to the truth y,
Christ, yet somehow there is in your soul
the thought Not quite yet 1t Is
not time for me to become a Christian |
QnxT Ia hx,, IL ..I
Wait until get TO be young man. say
TO the young man, Seek Christ" Hes saws.
wait until come to midife." ! meet the
same person in midlIfe, and say Seek
Christ. He says, Wait until get old. ~
] meet the same person in old age and saw 10
him, Seek Christ" He says, "Wait until
am on my dying bed" l am called 10 his
dying couch. His last moments have come.
bend over the couch and listen for his last
words. L have partially to guess what they
are by the motion OF his lips, he is so feeble
but rallying himself he whispers until Gao
hear him say, "I-am waiting -for-a- .
more--convenient- season." and he is gono
eau tell you when your convenient seasor.
will come. l can tell you the year IL will
bo 1894. / can tell you what kind OF a da,
1t will be. 1t will be tho Sabbath day
can tell you what hour II will be- q 1t viii,
be between and 10 o'clock. In othst wor..
II is now. Do you ask me how know this
is your convenient season. 1 know il be
cause you are here, and because the elec
sons and daughters Of God are praying for
your redemption. All, 1 know IL IL your
convenient season because some OF you. Iik.
Felix, tremble rs I'll your past life comes
upon you with its sin, and all the future life
comes upon you with its terror. This night
air Is aglare with torches to show Won mn or
to show you down. 1t is rustling with wing,
to lift you into light or smite yo1 into de.
spair, and there is "a rushing to and fro, and
beating against the door of your souls with
great thunder of emphasis, telling you,
nnl Ia hn has tit,,a st Il.
only time" "
May God Almighty forbid that any OF YOU.
my brethren or sisters, act the part of Felix
and Drusilla and put away this great sub
why not begin to-night2 Throw down your
sins and take the Lords pardon. Christ has
been tramping after you many day. An
Indian and a white man became Christians
| The Indian, almost as soon as he heard the
gospel, believed AMI was saved, but the
white man struggled on in darkness for
long while before he found light.
After their peace In Christ the white
man said to the Indian, why was it that
was kept so long in the darkness and you
Immediately found peace2" The Indian re-
piled ~ will tell you. A prince comes
along. and he offers you n coat. You look
at your coat and you say, My coat is
ofer, but the prince comes along
and he offers me the coat. and /
| look at my old blanket, and / throw that
| away and take his offer. You sir" contin-
uei the Indi-n, "are ciinging TO your own
righteousness you think you are good
enough, and you keep your own righteous.
ness but ! have nothing, nothing, and so
when Jesus offers me pardon and peace
simply take ii"
My reader, why not now throw away the
wornout blanket OF your sin and take the
| robe OF Saviour's righteousness robe so
white, 50 fair. so lustrous, that no fuller on
| earth can whiten IL? o Shepherd, tonight
bring home the lost sheep o Father, TO.
night give a welcoming kiss TO the wan
| prodigal o friend OF Lazarus, tonight
| break down the door of the sepulcher and
say to all these dead souls as by irresistible
Hat "Live, Live :"