Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-16
THE SCHOOLFIELD MEETINGS.

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tees of the meetings and said he be-
lieved that they were furnishing con-
siderable aid to the work in this way.
He said he had never met the report
ers but they were here somewhere and
he would be pleased to meet them. He
requested that special mention be made
of the mems meeting for Sunday after
noon at o'clock. In opening his re-
marks he said: son last Sunday night 1
called attention to what you all know,
that religion has two sides; tonight l
wish to show that there are two sides
to salvation, the human and divine. On
Monday night told you of the divine
side from the text, Without Holiness
None Shall see God,' and tonight I
propose to tell you of the human side.
/ will take no specific text; what say
will be based mainly upon scripture to
be found in the last two verses OF the10th
chapter and first 10 verses of the 18th
chapter of Hebrews. How did Enoch
please God 4? If you will turn to Genesis
you will find that he pleased God by
walking with Him, and if we would
please God to.night we must walk with
him. I do not believe there is solitary
individual in the house tonight who
has not as much faith as that mention.
ed in the 9th verse of the 18th chapter
of our lesson. We read in the 18th verse
that Noah, moved with fear, prepared
an ark &c, and l believe that more PEG.
pie are moved to come into the ark OF
safety, primarily from fear, this being
the very lowest plane; afterwards duty,
then privilege. Now turn to the "a
chapter of st. James, 18th verse, ana
read to the end of the chapter. You
see that by works man isjustified and
not by faith only. Now my friends If
you will follow me and are truly IN
earnest and desire this salvation you can
and will by aid ofthe HolySpiritl lay hold
and grasp it to the saving of your soul,
All human creatures are born in sin.
Did you ever think of what our Lord
said, that all our righteousness is as
filthy rags have never met but two
men who were professedly good enough
and they were relying upon low grade
of morality to save them. Who can
look into Gods book and say, / have
not violated one of Gods laws? One
sin sets soul adrift upon the river of
death. My unconverted brother you
are already dead in sin, however un-
pleasant that may seem to you, and you
will not have to do one single thing to
bring this out. There is nothing be-
tween you and perdition tonight, ex-
cept the slender thread of life. There
is line, we know not when, we know
not where, which divides mans destiny
for good or for bad. Every soul in this
house tonight will do one of two things,
accept or reject Christ. Felix, al
though almost persuaded so far as we
know never accepted salvation. L do
not believe that anyone can come ex-
cept the Father draw him. but, sim
ner, the father is drawing you tonight.
1t is fearful thing to triile with God.
Man, by nature, is SINFUL depraved,
uuregenerate, but he can obtain saliva
ton. Pardon cleansing or regenera-
ton here tonight by the grace of God,
and grace is the unmerited favor be-
slowed upon us not for our own sake,
but for Christs sake. Salvation fits
the soul for heaven and heaven begios
in this life for you, my brother, If ecer.
Salvation carries with it both pardon
for external sins and cleansing of our
inner nature. 1t is impossible to be
christian until born Of the Spirit. |
knew poor fellow under the power of
drink who tried as hard as he knew to
stop, but without avail, until he came
to Gods altar, was pardoned and re-
generated and through the power OF
God has kept sober ever since, more
than 10 years now. If you deny God
down here He will deny you up there,
confess Him down here and He will
confess you up there. The divine plan
makes man a co-worker with God in
the matter of his personal salvation,
God doing His part we doing ours.
What is mans part? Repentance,
which means, as told you before, am
sorry l have sinned against so just
being as God. I am held deserving,
but by the grace of God. am done
with SHINING forever. You say you
can't stop SHINING. You can, but
don't want to. God cannot stop sim
ming for you, but he will give you His
grace to help you to stop; God sends
His Holy Spirit TO work upon your
heart, or to follow it, the preacher to
SOW the seed. You are convicted, then
comes your part renouncing all sin, ex-
ercising faith, etc. When you do that
you are regenerated, you cannot do it
yocrsele, but if you only have common
sense to do what He tells you and if
when the Holy Spirit has implanted
the seed in your heart, you improve it
by the means of grace, then the old
Adam will be rooted out and Christ
take his place. There are two kinds Of
faith-saving faith and intellectual
faith. / appeal to every uncopverted
soul in the house to help me by hold
ing up the right hand if they assent to
the proposition. AL who believe
there is God; all who believe the Bi.
BILE is the word of God; all who believe
Jesus Christ is the Son of God; all who
believe in His power to save; all who
believe in his willingness" Many
held up their hands in answer to each
proposition. Nov this is intellectual
faith you have, and it lacks one ele-
ment to make it saying faith-the ele
ment of submission and trust. Some
years ago 1 was servant of Satan. but
I walked up and took the oath of al
legiance to the Saviour. Will you,
sinner, in this quiet meeting, calmly,
quietly and deliberately renounca
your allegiance to Satan and take the
oath of allegiance to the Lord Jesus
Christ? If $50 come up here and give