The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-02-22

II stopped going to church ten o.
twenty years ago" My brother, is i
not strange that you should be thu
first man should talk to to-day?
know all your case; 1 know it very
we'll You have not been accustomed
to come into religious assemblage, but
! have surprising announcement tt
make to you; you are going to become
one of the Lords sheep. "Ah," you
say, at is impossible You don't
know how far ! am from anything OF
that kind" l know all about it.
have wandered up and down the world
and understand your case. have
still more startling announcement to
make in regard to you: you are not
only going to become one of the Lords
sheep, but you will become one to-day.
You will stay after the service to be
talked with about your SOUL People
of God, pray for that man! That is
the only use for you here. shall not
break off SO much as a crumb for you,
Christians, in this sermon, for / am
| going to give it all to the outsiders.
'Other sheep have which are not of
this fold"
| l remark again, the Heavenly Shop
herd is going to find great many of
| his sheep among those who are posi-
tive rejecters of Christianity. l do not
know how you came to reject Chris
tianity. 1t may have been through
hearing Theodore Parker preach, or
through reading Remains Life of
Jesus" or through the infidel talk of
some young man in your store. 1t may
have been through the trickery of
some professed Christian man who dis
gusted you with religion. do not
ask you how you became SO; but you
frankly tell me that you do reject it.
You do not believe that Christ is a
Divine being, although you admit that
believe that the Bible was inspired of
God, although you think there are
some very fine things in it. You be-
lieve that the Scriptural description of
Eden was only an allegory. There
are fifty things that believe that you
do not believe. And yet you are an
accommodating man. Everybody that
knows you says that of you. If l
should ask you to do a kindness
for me, or if anyone else should ask
of you kindness, you would
do it. Now. have a kindness to ask
of you to-day. 1t is something that |
will cost you nothing and will give me
great delight. want you by expert
ment to try the power of Christ's re-
ligion. If should come to you, and |
you We're very sick, and doctors had
given you up, and should take out
a bottle, and say: "Here is a med
icine that will cure you; it has
cured fifty people, and it will
cure you" You would say:
II have no confidence in it." / would
say: Won't you take it to oblige
me?" "Well," you would say, ''if it's
any accommodation to you, I'll take
it," My friend, will you be just as ac-
,ommodating in matters of religion?
There are some of you who have found
,ut that this world cannot satisfy
your soul. You are like the man who
old me one Sabbath after the service
vas over: Il have tried this world
Ind found it an insufficient portion.
Tell me of something better" You
rave come to that. You are sick for
he need of divine medicament Now
ome and tell you of physician who
will cure you, who has cured hundreds
md hundreds who were sick as you
re. "Oh," you say, II have no conf
ence in him." But will you not try
lin? Accommodate me in this matter;
'blige me in this matter; just try him.
am very certain he will cure you.
you reply: 81 have no especial conf
ence in him, but if you ask me as a
natter of accommodation, introduce
he Physician, who has cured more
lind eyes, and healed more CHASTITY
Wounds, and bound up more broken
carts than all the doctors since the
ime of Esculapius. That Divine Ply
ician is here. Are you not ready to try
linn? Will you not, as pure matter
f experiment, try Him, and state I
our case before Him this hour? Hold
othing back from Him. If you can
OF pray, if you do not know how to
ray any other way, say: 80, Lord
esus Christ, this is strange thing for
he to do | know nothing about the
of religion. These christian
eople have been talking so long about {
that Thou canst do for me. l am ready
D do whatever Thou commanded me |
D do. ! am ready to take whatever
hou commanded me to take. If
here be any power in religion. as these
eople say, let me have the advantage
( it."
Will you try that experiment now?