The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-07-17

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when there was no one in the kings
tent, and then he would kneel down be-
fore him and worship; but the servants
of the king had arranged it so that
by drawing a cord the tent would sud-
denly drop. Ottacas after awhile came
in, and supposing he was in entire
privacy. knelt before Randolphus.
The servants pulled the cord, the tent
dropped, and two armies surrounding
looked down on Ottacas kneeling be-
fore ~Randolphus. If we are really
kneeling to the world while we profess
to be lowly subjects of Jesus Christ,
the tent has already dropped, and all
the hosts of Heaven are gazing upon
our hypocrisy. Gods universe is a very
public place, and you cannot hide by
pocrisy in it.
Going out into a world of delusion
and sham, pretend to be no more thai
you really are. If you have the grace
of God, profess it; profess no more than
you have. But 1 want the world to
know that where there is one hypo-
critic in the church there are 500 out
side of it, for the reason that the field
is larger. There are men in all circles
who will bow before you, and who are
obsequious in your presence and talk
fiatteringly, but who all the while in
your conversation are digging for bait
and angling for imperfections. In
your presence they imply that they are
everything friendly, but after awhile
you find they ave the fierceness of a
catamount. the slyness of n snake, and
the spite of a devil. God will expose
such. The gun they load will burst in
their own teeth; the lies they tell will
break their own teeth; and at the very
moment they think they have been
successful in deceiving you and de-
ceiving the world, the sheep will bleat
and the oxen will below.
/ learn further from this subject
how natural it is to try to put off our
sins on other people. Saul was charged
with disobeying God. The man say
it was not he; he did not save the
sheep, the army did it-trying to throw
it off on the shoulders of other people.
Human nature is the same in all ages.
Adam, confronted with his sin, said:
1.-The woman tempted me. and l did
eat" And the woman charged it upon
the serpent; and If the serpent could
have spoken, it would have charged it
upon the devil. l suppose that the
real state of the case was that Eve was
eating the apple and that Adam saw
it, and begged and coaxed until he got
a piece of it. l suppose that Adam was
just as much to blame as Eve vas.
You cannot throw off the responsible
ity OF any sin upon the shoulders of
other people.
Here is a young man who says: 81
know l am doing wrong, but have
not had any chance. 1 had a father
who despised God and a mother who
was a disciple of goddess fashion. l
am not to blame for my sins-it is my
bringing up" All mol that young man
has been out in the world long enough
to see what is right and to see what is
wrong, and in the great day of eternity
he cannot throw his sins upon his
father or mother, but will have to
stand for himself and answer before
God. You have had a conscience, you
nave had a Bible, and the influence of
the Holy Spirit. Stand for yourself,
or fall for yourself.
I learn further from this subject
what God meant by determination.
Saul was told to slay all the Amale-
kites, and the beasts in their possession.
He saves Agag, the Amalekite king,
and some of the sheep and ken God
chastises him for it. God likes nothing
done by halves. God will not stay in
the soul that is half His and half the
DEVILS. There may be nor sins in
our soul than there were Amalekites.
We must kill them. Woe unto us if
we spare Agag! Here is a Christian.
He says: Il will drive out all the
Amalekites of sin from my heart.
Here is jealousy down goes that
A~malekite. Here is backbiting-
down goes that A~malekite;' and what
slaughter he makes among his sins,
striking right and left! What is
that out yonder, lifting up his head?
1t is Agag-it is worldliness. 1t is an
old sin he cannot bear to strike down.
1t is a darling transgression he cannot
afford to sacrifice. Oh, my brethren, L
appeal for entire conservation! Some
of the Presbyterians call it the higher
life" The Methodists, / believe, call
it perfection" l do not care what
you call 1t; without holiness no man
shall see the Lord" l know men who
are living with their soul in perpetual
communion with Christ, and day by
lay are walking within sight of
Heaven. How do ! know? They tell
ne so. ! believe them. They would
not lie it, Why annot we all have
this conservation? Why Stay some OF
the sins in our soul, and leave Others
to bleat and below for our exposure
and condemnation? Christ will not
stay in the same house with Agag.
You must give up Agag, or give up
Christ. Jesus says, "All of that heart
or none" Saul slew the poorest of the
sheep and the meanest of h oxen,
and kept some of the latest. and there
are Christians who have slain the most
unpopular of their transgressions, and
saved those which are most respect
able, 1t will not do. Eternal war
against all the Amalekitesi no mercy
for Agag.
learn further from this subject that
1t Is vain to try to defraud God. Here
Sanl thought he had cheated God out
of those sheep and oxen; but he lost
his crown, he lost his empire. You
cannot cheat God out of a single cent,
Here is a man who has made $4,000 in
fraud. Before he dies every dollar of
it will be gone, or it will give him
violent unrest. Here is a Christian
who has been largely prospered. He
has not given to GOD the pro=
portion hat Is due in charities
and benevolences. Tod comes to the
reckoning, INT He takes it all away
from you. How often it has been that
Christian men have IA a large estate,
and il is gone. The Lord God came
into the counting room and said: 81
have allowed you to have all this prop
erty for 10, 15 or go years, and you have
not done justice to my poor children.
When the beggar called upon you, you
bounded him off your steps; when my
suffering children appealed to you for
help, you had no mercy. l only asked
for so much, or SO much, but you did
not give it to me, and now l will take
it ALL"
God asks of rs n seventh of our
time in the way of Sabbath. Do you
suppose we can get IN hour of that
time successfully away from its true
object? No, no., God has demanded
~one-seventh of your time. If you take
ona ho,.r ~ that tima that iS m de-