The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-04-17

physician who il skilfnl enough :
meet your case. You say: Bring o.
all that medicine, bring on that physi
clan, / am terribly sick, and I wan
help" If l come to you and you fee
you are all right in body, and all RICH
in mind, and all right IN soul, 20,
have need of nothing, but suppose
have persuaded you that the leprosJ
Of sin is upon you, the worst OF al
sickness. Oh! then you say: bring
me that balm Of the Gospel, bring me
that divine medicament, bring me
Jesus Christ.
5"But," says somc one in the audience
show do you know that we are in
ruined condition by sin?" Well, can
prove it in two ways, and you may
have your choice. can prove i
either by the statements of men or BY
the statement Of God. Which shall II
be? You say: slot us have the state
ment of Cod Well. He says in one
place: 1.-THE heart is deceitful above all
things and desperately wicked. "
He says in another place: What is
man that he should be clean?
and he which is born of woman.
that he should be righteous?" He
says in another place. There is none
that doeth good-no not one" He
says in another place, las by one man
sin entered into the world, and death
by sin, and so death passed upon all
mon, for that all had sinned." well"
you say, II am willing to acknowledge
that, but why should I take the partic-
ular rescue that you spropose?" This
is the reason. Except man be born
again he can not see the kingdom of
God" This is the reason: "There is
one name given under Heaven among
men whereby they may be saved" Then
there are thousand voices here ready
to say: "Well, Lam ready to accept
this help of the Gospel. 1 would like
to have this Divine cure; how shall /
go to work" Let me say that mere
within, an underlined longing amounts
to nothing. You must have stout, a
resolution like this young
man in the text when he said: II will
arise and go to my father" "Oh,"
says some man. how do I
know my father wants me? how
10 | know if go back, I would
be received?" "Oh,.' says some man,
''you don't know where / have been;
you don't know how far 1 have wan
Tered, you wouldn't talk that way to
ne if you knew all the iniquities
rave committed. What is that fut-
,er among the angels of God? What is
hat horseman running with quick dis
,atch. It is news! It is newsl Christ
has found the lost. 8A# 4
Nor angels can their joy contain,
But kindle with new fire,
The sinner lost is found, they sing,
And strike the sounding Tyre.
When Napoleon talked of going into
tally, they said: You can't get there.
f you knew what the Alps we're you
talk about it or think about |
{. You can't get your ammunition |
wagons over the Alps" Then Napoleon
ose in his stirrups, and, waving his
and toward the mountains, he said: |
There shall be no Alpsi9 That won-]
erfula pass was laid .ont which has
cen the wonder of all the years since
the wonderment of all engineers.
md you tell me there are such noun
aims of sin, between your soul and
|od, there is no mercy. Then I see
hrist waving His hand toward the
/ hear Him say: II will
ONE over the mountains of thy sin
nd the hills of thine iniquity." There
hall be no Pyrenees; there shall be no
lips. a'# s@
Again: I notice that this resolution
the young man of my text was
FUNDED in sorrow at his misbehavior.
was not mere physical plight. Il
ras grief that he had SO maltreated
is father. 1t is sad thing after ia
her has done everything for child to
ave that child ungrateful. s42 @&
How sharper than serpent's tooth 10 10,
To have a thankless child. gsh fsaA Il
That is Shakespeare. "a foolish SON
the heaviness of his mother" That
the Bible. Well, my friends, have
OF some of us been cruel prodigals?
ave we not maltreated our Fa-
her? And such "a Father!
hree times day has He fed thee. He
as poured sunlight into thy day and
night kindled up all the street lights
| Heaven. With what varieties OF
pparel He hath clothed thee for the |
JASON. Whose eye watches thee?
those hand defends thee? Whose
cart. sympathizes, with thee? Who
ave you your children? Who is guard
e your loved ones departed? Such
Father! So loving, SO kind. If Hell
ad been a stranger; IL He had for
ken us; il he had fiagellated us, If
q had pounded us and turned us ont
doors on the commons, it would not
ave been SO wonderful-our treat
ont of Him. Init He In = Fafhars ~