The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-05-25

rou. nrst Of all, If you want to find the Lor'
Tou must pray and pray and pray.
l remark again. you must seek the Lore
though Bible study TIE Bible is the new
est book in the world. "Oh." you say, "it
w;ts mado hundreds Of years ago. aud the
learned men Of King James translated 1,
hundreds Of yeGrs ago. confrte that idea
by telling you it is not five minutes old whea
God by His blessed spirit retranslates it into
the heart. Ii you will. in the seeking of the
wav OF life through Scripture study, iuplore
Gods light to fall upon the page, you will
Ind that these promises are not enc second
I'D, and that they drop straight from tho
:hcOne Of God into your heart.
There arc many peop!ct to whom the Biblt
| does not amount 10 much. II they merely
look CT the outside beauty. why. it will nc
i moro lead them to Christ than Washington's
farewell address. or the Koran of fMohammed.
| Or the Shaster OF tho Hlndoos. It is the in:
| ward light OF Gods word you must get.
! went up to the Church of the Madeleine in
Paris and looked at the doors. which are the
most wonderfully constructed I ever saw,
and could have staid there for q whole
week. but / had only little time. So, hav-
! Ing glanced az the wonderful carving on the
| doors. passed in and looked at the radiant
a:tars and the scuipturcd dome. Alas, that
! 50 Lu1ltN StCp StL lHc OUtoltlC lOOI Ol NIOI >
holy word, looking at the rhetorical beauties
Instead OF going in and looking at tho altars
il sacrifice and the dome Of Gods mercy and
:a!vatioa that hovers over pcnitcnt and be-
| ievinS souls!
| When you come into the religious circle
,ome only with one notion and only for one
| ourpose-to find the way to Christ. When
lee people critical about sermons, and crit.
al about tones Of voice, and critical about
Iermonio delivery, they make mo think Of
| nan ip prison. He is condemned to death,
!; ous IN officer Of the government brings
{ pardon and puts it through the wicket OF
| he prison and says: Here is your pardon.
Come una get it, "What! Do you expect
nc to take that pardon offered with such q
voice as you have, with such an awkward
manner as you have? I would rather die
han 50 compromise my rhetorical notions"
| All, the man does not say that. He takes it.
! It is his life He does not care how it is
landed to him. And if to-day tnat pardon
from the throne OF God is offered to ouI
| souls should we not seize it regardless OF I
1onesScntiais?
But come now to the last part OF my
ext; 1t tells us whom we are to seek the
| Lord, "lrfd1e He may be found" When Is
:hat7 Old age? You may not soc old age
! Tomorrow? You may not see tomorrow.
! Tonight? You may not see tonight. Now
! Oh, if I could only write on every heart In
| three capital letters that word N-O-W-now
! Sin is an awful disease. hear people say
| with 4 toss Of the head and with a trivial
manner, "Oh, yes, I'm a sinner" Sin Is lu
| awful disease. It is leprosy. It is dropsy
It IS consumption. It is all moral disorders
In one. Now, you know there is a crisis in q
| disease. Perhaps you have had some Illus
sration of it In your family. Sometimes the
~, az laI nd ho hoe
the patient and said: "That case was sim.
pie enough, but the crisis has passed. If you
had called me yesterday or this morning,
could have cured the patient. It is too late
now. The crisis passed" Justs 80 It Is In thu
( ,piritual treatment of the soul-therc Is {
risis.
There are some here who can remember in
stances in life when, II they had bought ,
certain property, they would have become
very rcn- A few acres that would have cost
them almost nothing were offered them.
They refused them. Afterward a large vii.
lage or city sprung up on those acres o!
ground, and they see what mistake they
made in not buying the property. Their
was an opportunity Of getting it. It never
came back again. And so it Is in regard *
mans spiritual and eternal fortune. Their
is chance. II you let that go, perhaps 4
never comes back. Certainly that one neye
ZONES back.
A gentleman told me that at the battle
Gettysburg he stood upon q hoight looking
oif upon the conflicting armies. He said Il
WAS the most exciting moment Of his life
Now one army seeming 70 triumph and nov
the other. After awhile the host wheeled II
such a way that he knew In five minutes thu
whole question would be decided. BE saie
the emotion was almost unbearable. There
Is just such q time to-day with you-the
forces Of light on one side, the forces Of deatl
on the other side, and in few moments th,
matter will be settled for eternity.
There is time which mercy has set fel
leaving port. II you are on board before thai
you will get q passage for heaven. If you
are not on board, you miss your passage fol
heaven AS in law courts O casc Is some
times adjourned from term to term and from
year to year till the bill Of costs cats up the
entire estate, so there are men who arc ad.
ourning the matter of religion from
time to time and from year to year until
heavenly bliss is the bill OF costs tho map
will have to pay for it.
Why defer this matter, oh, my doar heareN
Have you any idea that Gin will woar out;
that it will evaporate; that It will relax its
grasp; that you mny find religion as q! man
accidentally finds a lost pocketbook? All,
mol No man ever became Christian by ac-
cident OF by the relaxing Of sin. The en-
barrassments are oil the time increasing. Tho
hosts of darkness nre recruiting, and the
longer you postpone this matter the sleeper
tho path will become. I ask those men who
are before me now whether in the ten or flf-
teen years they have passed in the postpone
rnent OF thcse matters they have come any
nearer God or heaven? I would not be
afraid to challenge this whole audience, so
far rs they may not have found the peace OF
tho gospel, in regard to the matter. Your
hearts, you are willing frankly to tell me,
ere becoming harder and harder, and that if
YOU como to Christ it will be moro OF m
Undertaking now than it over would have
been before. The throne OF judgment will
soon be get, and if you have anything to do
toward your eternal salvation you had better
do it now, for the redemption Of your SOULS
precious, and it ceaseth forever.
On, if men could only catch ono glimpse
OF Christ. know they would love Him!
Your heart leaps 1t the sight Of a glorious
sunrise or sunset. Can you be without emo
ton as the Sun Of Righteousness rises be-
hind Calvary and sets behind Joseph's sepnl-
cher2 ae is n blessed Saviour. Every Ma
ton has its type of beauty. There is Ger
man beauty, and Swiss beauty, and Italian
beauty, ard English beauty, but care not
In what land man first looks at Christ he
pronounces Him "Chief among 10000, and
the one altogether lovely"
The diamond districts of Brazil are care
fully guarded, and a man does not get in
there except By pass from the Government,
but the love OF Christ Is O diamond district
we may al enter and pick up treasures for
eternity. "To-day. Il ye will hear His voice,
harden not your hearts,
Take the hint of the text that I have nc
hme to dwell upon-the hint that there is a
time when He cannot be found. There was
G mau in this city eighty years OF age who
said to clergyman who. came in, "Do you
think TINT man eighty years OF age can get
part,0ned?" "Oh, yes" said the clergyman.
The old man said: "I can't. When I was
twenty ycars ofage-I am now eighty years
tho Spirit Of God came to my soul, and I
felt the Importance OF attending to these
things. but put it of, rejected God, and