The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-16

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= are sworn to down us if they can. III.
: knows all the temptations that viii
assail us between now and the momen
OF our last pulsation Of the heart, ant
YET ne dares TO write our name there
!. Boldness! Nothing at Saragossa, OF
ChElons, or Marathon, or Thermopylae
70 equal It'll Nothing in the sack Of
. gunpowder which one English soldier
carried under the blazing ar.
tlllery OF the Mohammedans and
blew up the gate of Delhi! Can
You not see the boldness in the
penmanship that has already written
our names there? Apostle Peter. what
do you think Of it? Asd he answers:
kept by the power Oh God through
Faith unto complete salvation" Oh,
blessed Christ, what dost thou mean
by it? And He answers: "They shall
never perish, neither shall any man
pluck them out Of my hand" "Your
names are written in Heaven" Il
I; Again, If according to the promise OF
the text you are permitted to look into
the volumes of eternity and shall see
your name there, you will find it writ
ten in lines, in words, in letters UNI
lnistakable. Some people have come
to consider indistinct and almost I'M
readable penmanship a mark of genius,
and so they affect it. Because every
paragraph that Thomas Chalmers. and
Dean Stanley, and Lord Byron, and
Rufus Choate and other potent men
wrote was a puzzle, imitators make
their penmanship puzzle. Alexander
Dumas says that plain penmanship is
the brevet of incapacity. Then there are
some who, through too much demand
upon their energies and through lack OF
time, lose the capacity of making the
pen Ineligible, and much of the writ
ing OF this world is indecipherable.
we have seen piles of inexplicable
chirography, and we ourselves have
helped to augment the magnitude.
But your name, once written in the |
lambs Book of Life, will be SO unmis-
taxable that all Heaven can read it at |
the first glance. 1t will not be taken |
Tor the name of some other, so that in |
regard to it there shall come to be dis
putation. Not one of the millions and
billions and quadrillions of the finally
saved will doubt that it means YOU
and only you. Oh, the glorious, the
rapturous gertrude of that entrance
on the Heavenly roll. Not saved in
promiscuous way. Not put into
glorlfied mob. No, mol Though you
came up, the worst sinner that was
ever saved, and somebody, who knew
you in this world at one time as abso-
utely abandoned and dissolute, should
'ay: Il never heard of your CONVEX
ion, and ! do not believe you have a
light to be here" you could just
augh laugh of triumph, and,
urning over the leaves contain.
ng the names of the redeemed,
ay: Read for yourself. That is
ny name written out in full, and do
ou not recognize the handwriting?
70 young scribe of Heaven entered
hat. No anonymous writer put it
here. DO you not see the tremor in
he lines? Do you not also see the
oldness OF the letters? Is it not as ?
lain as yonder throne, as plain as yon- :
er gate? Is not the name unmistaka4
lie and the handwriting unmistakaJ
lie? The crucified Lord wrote it, d
here the day I repented and turned. S
ear it! Hear.it! My name is written G
lerel There!" !,
And If there be in all this assembly n
hopeless case, so-called hopeless by i,
ourself and others, take the re- 81
OF saying that there is a =,
ace in that book where your name ii
ould. exactly fit it, aud look beauti- =.
i, and you can, quicker than 1 can +
ap my hands together, have it =;
ere. A religious meeting was h,
rown open, and all those who n
uld testify of the converting =,
ace OF God were asked to speak. ST. =
nee reigned moment, and then a 81
In, covered with the marks of dissi- /.
tion, arose and said: "You can SEES ?.
om my looks what have been, but al'
! now saved man. When l left -
me, 1000 miles from here, 1 had SO III
'graced my fathers name that he es
d: AS you are going away. I ~
We only two things to ask Of vi
n-frst, that you will never Of
ne home again, and, next, you eM
Il change your name. 1 prom. en-
d. have not heard my real name WI
years. went the whole round Of eel
, until there was no lower depth I'd tel
HON. But 1 am, by the grace OF
l, changed man. I wrote home. S
ing forgiveness for my hayward spi
S, and here are two letters. the
from father and another the
m my sister My mother died s
. broken heart. But these two RI;
ers ask me to come home, and ate
s start tomorrow morning." The eo,
was that his name was written in ;nrr
wen, where pray God all of our SIC,
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