Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-07-21

| can not cheat God OUT Of a single cent.
Here is man who has made $40. 600 in
fraud. Before he dies every dollar OF
1t will be gone. or it will give him vio.
lent unrest. Here is a Christian who
has been largely prospered lie n. =
notgiven To God the proportion that =
due in charities and benevolences.
God comes to the reckoning. and lie
takes il all away from you. How o'ten
IT has been that Christian men have
had large estate, and it is gone The
Lord God came into the counting room
aud said: II have allowed you 10 have
all this property for 10. 10 or 20 years,
and you have not done Justice TO NV
poor children. When the beggar cali
ed upon you, you bounded him of
your steps; when my suffering children
appealed TO you for help, you had no
mercy. | only asked for so much. or
so much but you did not give it 20 me,
and now l will take it all"
God asks of us one-seventh O. our
time in the way OF Sabbath. Do Won
suppose we can get an hour of that
time successfully away from, it's true
OBJECT? NO, no; God has demanded
one-seventh of your time. II you take
one hour OF that time that is 10 DO
devoted to Gods service, and instead
OIL keeping His Sabbath, use il for tho
purpose OF writing up your accounts
or making worldly gains, God will get
'hat hour from you in some unex-
pected way. God says to Jonah: ''You
go to Nincveh." He says: mo. [
won't III go to Tarshish." He starts
Tor Iarshish- The sea raves. the
WINDS blow, and the ship rocks Come.
ye whales, and take this passenger for
arshlsh! No man ever gets TO Tarsh-
lsh whom God tells to go Nincvch. Tho
sea would not carry him; il is Gods
sea The winds would not wait him;
they are Gods winds. Let man at
tempt to do that which God forbids
MIN to do, or go into place where
God tells not TO go, the natural world
as well as God is against him. The
hghinings are ready 10 strike him.
the fires To burn him, the sun to smitc
MIN, the waters to drown him. and
the earth to swallow him. Those
whose princcly robes are woven ont
OF hearts strings; those whose
hne houses are built out of skulls:
those whose springiEg fountains are
the tears of oppressed nations-have
they successfully cheated GodP The
last day viii demonstrate-it will be
found out on that day that God vindi-
Gated not only His goodness and His
mercy, but His power to take care Of
HIS own rights and the rights of His
church, and the rights OF His on
pressed children. Come, we martvred
dead, awake! and come up from
the dungeons where folded dark
ness hearsed you, and the chains
like cankers peeled loose the skin.
and wore off the flesh, and ratified on
the marrowless bones. Come, We mar
tyred dead, from the stakes where Won
were burned, where the arm uplifted
for mercy fell into the ashes. and the
cry of pain was drowned in the snnn-
ping of the flame and the howlinp ~
the mob; from valleys of Pied mont and
Smlthheld Market and London Tow
er, and the Highlands of Scotland.
Gather in great procession, and to-
gether clap your bony hands and to-
gether stamp your moldy feet, and
let the chains that bound YOU To
dungeons ali clanil at once, and gather
all the flames that burned Won in one
uplfted arm of fire, and plead for a
Gather all the tears Va
ever wept in;o lake and gather ali
the signs We ever breathed into a tenn
est until the heaven-piercing chain
cLank, and the tempest sigh and TIN.
thunder groan, announce to earth and
nell and heaven a Judgment! on. on
that day God will vindiclte His own
cause and vindicate the cause of the /.
troubled and the oppressed! 1t will be 7
seen in that day that though we NAV
have robbed our fellows. we never
have successfully robbed God.
My Christian friends, as you 90 out .
into the world, exhibit an open-heart- /
ed Christian frankness Do not be hv- /
Pocritical in anything; you are never
safe II YOU are. At the most inoppor- .
tune moment, the sheep will bleat and
the oxen below. Drive out the last
Amalekite of sin from your soul. Have
no mercy on Agag. Down with vour
sins; down with your pride; down with
your worldliness. know you cannot
achieve this work by your own arm
but Almighty grace is suficient-that
which saved Joseph in the pit: that
which delivered Daniel in the den; that
which shielded Shadrach in the fire.
that which cheered Paul in the shin
wreck