The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-02-03

went off ten wears ago DRAGGING her
bleeding heart along with him Wait
incl, OF give me n comn,rison intense
enouob hot anougb ;mnortunata
enouph tn exnress nv meaninp-some-
THING HIGH as Ueaven and deem ,s hell
and long as eternity. Not b,pinr that
you can help me with such n compari-
son. I will saw: .sHe il WAITING as only
the all-svmpatbetic Christ can wait for
the coming back of n lost soul"
pow ~. rnoo nm, ,,ss che Z,
Come. and welcome. sinner. come
Again the Holy Shirt 10 ro,dv whv
is n that 81 MANI sermons dron dead
that Christian SONGS do not get their
wing under the neonle-,b,t so often
.. v.r roos no hirhar tb.n . hrn,au,.
..ballo,"p II Is bec,use there is = iink
wantinp-the work of the Uolv Shirt.
Unless That shirt give ~prannlinu hooks
to a sermon. and lift the PRAYER. and
watt the son0 evervtbinp il a dead
failure. That shirt ;s WILLING to come
.t orr coll .nd Ia.d ro, 20 60, ne.
or ready 70 come With the SANE nnms,.
with which he endorsed saul on the
Damascus turnpike. and broke down
Jvd;a In be, fne store md lifted ,ho
2 0o0 from midn;ebt into midnoo, ~
the pcntecost. With hat mower the
spirit of God now beats at the gate of
your soul. Have Won not noticed what
homelv and insignificant Instrumental
ity the spirit of God EMPLOYS for mans
conversion? There was n man on n
hudson river boat to whom n tract was
offered. With Indignation he tore II
up and threw it overheard. But one
fragment lodged on his coatsleeve; and
he saw on It the word eternity" and
he found no peace until he was pre-
pared for the great future. Do you
know what passage it was that caused
Martin Luther to see the truth? 1.-THE
just shall live by faith" Do you know
there is %one-just one-passage that
brought Augustine from a life of dissi-
patton? .'Put We on the Lord
Jesus Christ, and make no provision
for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof"
1t was just one passage that converted
Hedley Wears, the great soldier, to
Christ: 1.-THE blood Of Jesus Christ
cleanseth from all sim" Do you know
that the Holy Spirit used one passage
of Scripture to save Jonathan Ed
wards? Now, unto the King, eternal,
immortal, invisible, the only wise God,
our Saviour, be glory" One year @
on Thanksgiving day, | read for nv
text: 20 give thanks unto the Lord,
for He is good; for His mercy endureth
forever" And there is a young man in
the house to whose heart the Holy
Spirit took that text for his eternal re-
demption.
Do Won know that the HOLY Shirt al
most always uses insignificant meansp
Eloouent Sermon never save anvbodv:
metaphysical sermons never save any
body: PHILOSOPHICAL sermons never save
ANYBODY. But the minister comes some
Sabbath to his pulpit, worn ont with
engagements and the janpling of n
frenzied door bell; he has only a text
and two or three ideas, but he SAYS:
20 Lord, help me. Here are a good
many people l may never meet again.
l have not much to say. Speak thou
through my poor lips" And before
the service is done there are fearful
eyes and a solemnity like the judy
ment. The great French orator,
when the dead king lay before
him, looked up and cried: God
only is great" and the triumph of
his eloquence has been told by the
historians. But l have not heard that
one soul was saved by the oratorical
flourish. Worldly critics may think
that the early preaching of Thomas
Chalmers vas a masterpiece. But
Thomas Chalmers says he never began
to preach until he came out of the sick
room, white and emaciated, and told
men the simple story OF Jesus. In the
great day of eternity, IL will be found
that the most souls have been brought
to Christ, not by the Bossuets and Mas
sillons and Bourdaloues. but by humble
e who' IN the strength OF N
oeiieving IN the eternai SPIRIT invited
men 10 Jesus l 90 not know what
hymn may oring you 10 Jesus do
not know what words OF the scripture
lesson read may save your soul. Fer
maps the spirit OF ooo may hurl the
very text into your heart: Come, Tor
all things are now ready"
Apian. the church Is ready. Oh man.
70 could taLe the curta;p of tbas.
e
no ooua snow you u
e." A-eS~" :. 1ou' s"nn
$3.50 ~ ~ 49,, a.. $500
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500 W - T-.sSS p'"y
uee'ins' An o ri"ay evening
Pi"yef "ss, a.u soN.s up every
ou' a. y.
.ne peop'e. you 'n ". Jus'
nsats .o~ale - w as
Ih 'n, nov qulcs'y wouiu ny oPen'
Vi peopio "ouiu say oI.e
In' in sne q ala
DING .no y Uap'.
. Cnris..an
eis.ip =.
" many peop'e
not 1 k III church, and say it is n
great mass OF hypocrites; but 1t is a
glorious church with all its imperfec-
lions Christ bought 1t. and hoisted
the pillars and swung its gates, and
lifted its arches, and curtaihed 1t with
upholstery crimson with crucifixiop
carnage. Come into 1t.
We are . garden walled around
.n1sun anu maTs psoaaAr GROUND
Out Of The worlds wild Wilderness
Again. the angels of God are ready.
A 1reat MANY Cbristians tb;nk that
the taIk about .ngals Ia ,.nc;fnI Yor
saw II is a verv GOOD subject for tbeo-
logical students who have lust begun
to sermonize: but for older men il I,