The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-02-28

II MOI Onc--can III De; WHab Will No'
say? What will the angels say? Bet
ter crouch down in some corner 0
Heaven and never show yourself. Oh
that harvest is to be reaped now! Ant
that is this instant! Why not be reapec
for God this hour?
"Oh," says some man, ~ have beer
going on the wrong road for. 30, 40 OF
so years; l have gone through the
whole catalogue of crime, and must
first get myself fixed up" All, you
will never get yourself fixed up until
Christ takes you in charge. You get
worse and worse until He comes to the
rescue. Not the righteous; sinners,
Jesus came to ALL" So, you see,
take the very worst case there is. If
there is man here who feels he is
all right in heart and life, am not
talking to HING for he is proba-
bly, a hypocrite.@ will talk to him
some other time. Buff there is man
who feels himself all wrong, to him l
address myself. Though you be
wounded in the hands and
wounded in the feet and wounded
in the head and wounded in the heart,
and though the gangrene of eterna,
death be upon you, one drop of the
elixir of divine life will cure your soul.
Though you be soaked in evil indul-
gences, though your feet have gone in
unclean places, though you have COM
panioned with the abandoned and the
lost, one touch of Divine grace will
save your SOUL
rattle the gates of your sepulchre
to-day. take the trumpet of the Cos
pei and blow the long, loud blast Ro-
land went into battle. Charlemagne's
army had been driven back by the
three armies of the Saracens, and Ro-
land, in almost despair, took up the
trumpet and blew three blasts in one
OF the mountain passes, and under the
power of those three blasts the Sara
Gems recoiled and fed in terror. But
history says that when he had blown
the third blast Roland's trumpet broke.
take this trumpet of the Gospel and
blow the first blast, "Whosoever will"
blow the second blast, 'Seck We the
Lord while He may be found" blow
the third blast. "Now is the accepted
time" But the trumpet does not
break. 1t was handed down by our
to us, and we will hand it
down to our children, that after we are
dead they may blow the trumpet, tell
ing the world that we have pardon
ing God, loving God, sympathetic
God, and more to Him than the throne
on which He sits is the Joy of seeing
prodigal put his finger on the latch of
his Fathers house.
invite any one the most infdel, |
any one the most atheistic. invite
him into the kingdom of God with just
Is much heartiness as those who have
Tor so years been under the teach
ng of the Gospel and believed it all.
When was living in Philadelphia a
gentleman told me of scene in which
lie was participant. In Callowhill
treet, in Philadelphia, there had
,een a powerful meeting going on
or some time, and many were con-
'erted, and among others one of the
prominent members of the worst club
louse in that city. The next night
he leader of that clubhouse, the pres
dent of it. resolved that he would en-
eavor to get his comrade away. He
anne to the door, and before he en-
cred he heard Christian song, and
nder its power his soul was agitated.
lie went in and asked for prayer. Be
ore he came out he was sub
ect of conquering mercy. The
ext night another comfade went
0 reclaim the two who had been lost
D their sinful circle. He went, and
nder the power of the Holy Ghost be-
anne changed man, and the work
'ent on until they were all saved and
he infamous clubhouse disbanded.
h, it is mighty Gospel! Though
on came here a child of sin you can go
way child of grace, yor can go away
nging:
Amazing grace how sweet tho sound ,
That saved a wretch like me;
Ionce was blind, but now am found
Was blind. but now see.
Oh, give up your sins Most of your :
fe is already gone. Your children are :
Ding on the same wrong road. Why :
0 you not stop? "This day is saliva
on come to thy house." Why not this !.
oment look up into the face of Christ :
nd say:
Just as am. without one plea il
But that Thy Blood was shed for me: n
And that Thou bid'st me come to Thee, !.
Lamb OF God. come, come
Enter into the kingdom Of God. En-. G
+ now. The door of life is set wide !.
pen. / plead with YOU by the bloody n
veat of Gethsemane ard the death d
roam of Golgatha, by crossand crown, h
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