The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-08

Lily of the Valley" But If one shall
come in the right spirit, asking h
way to Heaven, he will find it a plain
way. The pardon is plain. The peace
is plain. Everything is plain.
lie who tries to get on the road to
Heaven through the New Testament
teaching will get OIL beautifully. He
who goes through philosophical discus
sion will not get on at all Christ says:
Come to Me, and | will take all your
sins away, and l will AXE all your
troubles away" Now whati is the use
OF my discussing it any more? Is not
that plain? If you wanted to go to
some city, and l pointed you out a
highway thoroughly laid out, would
| be wise in OBTAINING you by
n geological discussion about the
gravel you will pass over, or a Physio-
logical discussion about the muscles
YOU will nave to bring into play? No.
After this Bible has pointed you the
way to Heaven, is it wise for me to de-
tain you with any discussion about the
nature of the human will, or whether
the atonement is limited or unlimited?
There is the road-go on it. 1t is a
plain way. This is a faithful saying
and worthy of all a~cceptation, that
Christ Jesus came into the world to
save sinners" And that is you and
that is me. Any little child here can
understand this as we'll as l an. I'm
less you become as a little child, you
cannot see the kingdom of God" If
you are saved, it will not be as a phil
osopher, it will be as a little child.
''Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven"
Unless you get the spirit of little chill
dren, you will never come out at their
glorious destiny.
Still further: This road to Heaven
is q safe road. Sometimes the traveller
in those ancient highways would think
himself perfectly secure, not knowing
there was a lion by the way, burying
his head deep between his paws, and
then, when the right moment came,
under the fearful spring the mans life
was gone, and there was a mauled car
cass by the roadside. But, says my
text, No lion shall be there" l wish
/ could make you feel your entire Sc
curity. / tell you plainly that one
minute after a man has become a child
of God he is as SAT- as though he had
been 10, 900 years in Heaven He may
slip, he may slide, he may stumble;
but he cannot be destroyed. Kept by
the power of God, through faith, unto
complete salvation. INCREASINGLY safe.
The severest trial to which you a
subject a Christian man is to kill him,
and that is glory. In other words, the
worst thing that can happen a child of
God is Heaven. The body is only the
old slippers that he throws aside just
before putting on the sandals of light.
His soul, you cannot hurt it. No
fires can consume ii. No floods can
drown it. No devils can capture it
Firm and unmoved are they
Who rest their souls in God:
Fixed as the ground where David stood,
Or where the ark abode
His soul is safe. His reputation is
safe. Everything is safe. But" you
say, suppose his store burns up?"
Why then it will be only a change of
investments from earthly to heavenly
securities. But" you say, suppose
his name goes own under the hoof of
scorn and contemptT' The name will
be so much brighter in glory. Sup
pose his physical health fails?' God
will pour into him the floods of ever
lasting health, and it will not make
any difference. Earthly abstraction
is heavenly addition. The tears of
earth are the crystals of Heaven. As
they take rags and tatters and put
them through the paper mill, and they
come out beautiful white sheets of pa
per, so often the rags of earthly desti-
tuition, under the cylinders of death,
come out a white scroll upon which
shall be written eternal emancipation.
There was one passage of Scripture,
the force of which l never understood
NATL ona dow Of Oh T1n1niy with
Mont Blanc on one side, and Montan-
vert on the other, | opened my Bible
and read: LAS the mountains are round
about Jerusalem, SO the Lord is around
about them hat fear Him" The sur
roundings were an omnipotent COM
mentary.
Though troubles assail, and dangers alright:
Though friends should all fail, and foes all
unite:
Yet one thing secures us, whatever betide,
The Scripture assures Us the Lord VIII pro-
Still further: The road spoken of is a
pleasant road. God gives US bond of
indemnity against all evil to every man
that treads 1t. -Ali things work to-
gether for good to those who love
God" No weapon formed against
them can prosper. That is the bond,
signed. sealed and delivered by the
President o. the whole universe. What
Is the nse of your fretting. oh, child of
God. about food? Behold, the fowls
of the air; for they sow not, neither do
they reap, nor gather into barns; yet
your heavenly Father feedeth them"
And will He take care of the sparrows,
will He take care of the raven, will
He take care of the hawk, and let you
dis7 What is the use of your fretting
about clothes? Consider the lilies OF
the field. Shall He not much more
clothe you, oh We of little faithf"
What is the use of worrying for fear
something will happen to your home?
.sHe blesseth the habitation of the
just" What is the use of your fretting
lest you will be overcome of tempta-
tions9 ''God is faithful, who will not
suffer you TO be tempted above that yc
are able; but will with the temptation
also makes a way TO escape, that ye
may be able % bear g Oh. Ibis Kings
and shas3e4Honses Of z-ent1rtatnmen
on either side he road for poor pill
grims. Tables spread with a feas
of good things and walls adorned Will
apples of gold in pictures of silver.
start out in this Kings highway, an,
/ find a harper, and l say: What
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