Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-09-02

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they are = thousand miles away from
any shore of help. They have for years
been trying to dig their way out. They
have been digging away. and digging
away. but they can never be delivered
unless now they viii hoist some signal
OF distress However weak and feeble
IL may be. Christ will see il. and bear
down upon the helpless craft, and take
them ON board; and it will be known
on earth aud in Heaven how narrowly
they escaped. escaped As with the
skin OF their teeth
There are others who. in attempting
to come to God. must run between a
great many business perplexitics. II n
man 20 over Ia business at 10 o'clock
in the morning and come away at
o'clock in the afternoon. he has some
time for religion; but how shall you
/ find time for religious conte mplation
I when you are driven from sunrise 10
sunset. aud have been for five years
going behind in business, and are
I frequently dunned by creditors
whom you can not pay, and
/ when from Monday morning until
saturday night yon are lodging bills
that you can not meet? You walk day
by day in uncertainties that have kept
your brain ON fire for the past three
years some with less business trou-
bles than you have gone crazy. The
clerk has heard a noise in the back
counting rOom. and gone in and found
the chief man of the firm a raving
maniac; or the wife has heard the
bang Of a pistol in the back parlor and
gone in, stumbling over the dead body
Of her husband "a suicide. There are
men pursue I. harassed. trOddcu do vu
and scalped Of business perple xities.
and which way to turn next
they do not know. Now. tod will
not be hard on you. lie knows what
obstacles are in the way OF you being
a Christian. and your first effort in the
right direction lie will crown with sue
cess. Do not let Satan. with cotton
bales, and kegs, and hogshea1s, and
counters, and stocks of unstable
goods. block up your way TO Heaven.
Gather up all your energies. Tighten
the girdle about your loins. Take an
agonizing look into the face of God.
aud then say. Here goes one grand
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away for Heaven. escaping ''as with
the skin of your teeth
In the last day it will be found that
Hugh Latimcr. and John Knox, and
liuSs, aud Ridley were not the greatest
martyrs. but Christian men. who went
up incorrupt from the >ontaminations
aud perplexities of Pennsylvania ave-
nue., Broad street. State street and
/ Third street. On earth they were
called brokers, or stock jobbers, or re-
tailcrs, or importers; but in Heaven.
Christian heroes. No faggots were
/ heaped about their feet; no inquisition
demanded from their recantation; no
soldier aimed a pike at their heart; but
they had mental fortunes, compared
with which all physical consuming is
Is the breath Of a spring morning.
This world is poor portion for your
soul. oh, business man, An eastern
king had craven ON his tomb two
! fingers. represented as sounding on
each other with a snap. and under
them the motto: ''All il not worth
I that" Apicius Coelius hanged himself
because his steward informed him that
he had only $50. 600 sterling left. All of
this worlds riches make but a small in
heri,ance for soul Robespierre at
tempted To win the applause of the
world; but when he was dying a wom-
an came rushing through the crowd,
/ crying u him: Murderer of my kim
dred. descend to- hell, covered with the
curses of every mother in France
Many who have expected the plaudits
% the world have died under its
Anathema Maranatha.
find IN the community large class
Of men who have been 81 cheated, 50
lied about. 50 oatrageously wronged,
that they have lost their faith in every
thing. Ia world where everything
seems 50 topsy-turvey, they do not see
how there eau b. any tod. They are
confounded, and frenzied. and mis-
anthropic. Elaborate arguments to
prove 10 them the truth OF Christian
Ity. or the truth of anything else. touch
them nowhere. Hear me. all such
men, | preach to you no rounded
periods, no ornamental discourse; but
put my hand On your shoulder. and in-
wife you into the peace of the Gospel.
Here - n rock on which You may stand
firm, though the waves dash against it
harder than the Atlantic, pitching its
surf clear above Eidystoue lighthouse.
Do not charge upon GoI all these
troubles of the world. As long as the
world stuck to Col, tod stuck to the
world; but the Sarth seeded from Ills
government. and hence all these out
RACES and all these woes God is gooi.
For many hundreds of years lie has
been coaxing the world to come back
to Him; but the more lie has coaxed.
the more violent have been men in their
resistance. and they have stepped back.
. aud stepped back until they have drop
ped into ruin.
Try this God. We who have had the
. bloodhounds after you and who have
thought that col had forgotten you
Try Him, and see il lie will not help.
Try Him, and see if lie will not pardon
Try Him. and see IL lie will not save
, The flowers of spring have no bloom
, So sweet as the Towering of Christ,
! affections. The sun has no warmth
compared with the glow of His heart
: The waters have no refreshment Xix,
the fountain tina. will stake tn,
: th4tSt Ol tnF Soul. At TIT
: moment the reindeer stands with hi.
u lip and nostril thrust in the cool noun
tain torrent, the hunter may be COMM:
through the thiclSet. Without crack
ing stick under his foot, he come
{ close to the stag. aims his gun, draw
' the trigger. and the poor thing rears il
l. its death agony and falls back ward, it
> antlers crashing on the rocks; but tn
Z painting hart that drinks from TIA
a water-brooks of Gods promise shall
never be fatally wounded. and shal
e never die.
o Oh. find your peace in God. Max
n one strong pull for Heaven. No hall
o way work will do it. There som,
IA times comes a time on shipboard wine
r. everything must be sacrificed to saw
n the passengers. The cargo is nothine