The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-06-22

care how 1t IS handed to MIN. anu IL
| to-day, that pardon from the throne
of God is offered to our souls, should
we not seize it regardless OF all
non-essentials?
But come now to the last part OF my
| text. 1t tells us when we are to seek
the Lord, while He may be found"
| When is that? Old age? You may not
see old age. Tomorrow? You may
not see tomorrow. Tonight? You
may not see tonight Now! 0, ii
could only write on every heart, in
three capital letters, the word NOW
Now!
/ Sin is an awful disease. l hear peo-
pie say with a toss of the head and
with a trivial manner: "Oh, yes, I'm
a sinner" Sin is an awful disease. 1t
is leprosy. 1t is dropsy. 1t is con-
sumption. 1t is all moral disorders in
one. Now you know there is crisis
in disease. Perhaps you have had
some illustration of it in your family.
Sometimes the physician has called,
and he has looked at the patient and
said: THAT case was simple enough;
but the crisis has passed. If you had
called me yesterday, or this morning,
l could have cured the patient 1t is
too late now; the crisis has passed.
just SO it is in the spiritual treatment
of the soul-there is crisis.
There are some here who can remem-
Der instances in life when, if they had
bought certain property, they would
have become very rich. A few acres
that would have cost them almost
nothing were offered them. They re-
fused them. Afterward a large village
or city sprung up on those acres of
ground, and they see what mistake
they made in not buying the property.
There was an opportunity of getting
it. 1t never came back again. And SO
it is in regard to a mans spiritual and
eternal fortune. There is chance; ii
you let that go, perhaps it never comes
back. Certainly, that one never comes
back.
A gentleman told me that at the bat
tie of Gettysburg he stood upon a
) height looking off upon the conflicting
armies. He said it was the most ex-
citing moment of his life; now one
army seeming to triumph, and now
the other. After awhile the host
wheeled in such way that he knew
in five minutes the whole question
would be decided. He said the emo
ton was almost unbearable. There is
just such time to-day with you. The
forces of light on one side, the forces
death on the other side, and in few
moments the matter will be settled for
eternity.
, There is time which mercy has set
for leaving port. If you are on board
before that, you will get passage for
| Heaven. If you are not on board, you
5 miss your passage for Heaven. As in
law courts, case is sometimes
adjourned from term to term, and from
, year to year, till the bill of costs eats
up the entire estate, SO there are men
who are adjourning the matter OF
, religion from time to time, and from
; year to year, until heavenly bliss is
, the bill of costs the man will have to
5 pay for it.
( Why defer this matter, oh, my dear
| nearer? Have you any ida that sin
E will wear out? that it will evaporatei
I
may find religion as man accidental
/, ly finds a pocket-book? All, no! Nc
: man ever became a Christian by acct
E dent, or by the relaxing of sin. The
embarrassments are all the time in
a creasing. The hosts of darkness are re
. cruiting, and the longer you postpone
!, this matter the sleeper the path viii
. become. ask those men who are be
fore me now, whether in the tel OF
2 fifteen years they have passed in thu
:. postponcment of these matters, they
|, have come any nearer God or Heaven
9 l would not be afraid to challenge Thu
q whole audience, so far as they may no
!, have found the peace of the Gospel
= in regard to the matter. Your hearts
: you are willing frankly to tell me, ar
becoming harder and harder. and tina
= if you come in Christ it will be more o
an undertaking now than it woult
!. have been before. The throne of judg
= ment will soon be set; and, If you have
anything to do toward your eterna
!, salvation, you had better do it now
!. for the redemption of your soul i
:. precious; and it ceaseth forever.
q Oh, if men could only catch on
4 glimpse of Christ, know they woul'
! love Hi m! Your heart leaps at tn
q sight of a glorious sunrise or sunset
: Can you be without emotion as the SUI
T of righteousness rises behind Calvar
q and sets behind Joseph's sepulcher
= He is blessed Saviourl Every natio
= has its type of beauty. There is Gel
d man beauty, and Swiss beauty, an
q Italian beauty, and French beauty
but care not in what land a man frs
v looks at Christ, he pronounces Hir
!, ''chief among ten thousand, and tn
o One altogether lovely"
,e The diamond districts of Brazil ar
It carefully guarded, and man does nc
g get in there except by pass from tn
government, but the love of Christ is
1t diamond district we may all enter an
1t pick up treasures for eternity. ST
,r day, if we will hear His voice, harde
Of not your hearts"
lie Take the hint of the text that has
" no time to dwell upon-the hint tn;
lie there is time when He can not
J. found. There was a man in this cit.
to eighty years of age, who said to
IN clergyman who came in: DO yo
lie think that man eighty years of az
re can get pardoned?" Oh, yes" sat
the clergyman. The old ma