Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-08-28

rise 60 sunset and have been for ave years
yoing behind In business and are frequent
u dunncd BY creditors whom you cannot
pay. and when from Monday morning until
you cannot meetf You walk day by day In
that have kept your brain on
dre for the pest three years. Some with
|ess business troubles than you have gone \
crazy. The clerk has heard n noise IN the |
hack counting room and gone In and found i
the chief man OF the firm a ravins maniac.
or the wife has heard the bang OF u pistol |
In the hack parlor and gone In. stumbling |
over the dead BODY OF her husbands |
suicide. There are men pursued. haressed, |
trodden down and scalpsi OF business per- |
plexities. and which way 20 turn next they |
DO not know. Now God will not be hard on |
you. He knows what obstacles are in the
way OF your being a Christian and your
trst effort In the right direction He will
crown with success. Do not let satan. with
cotton bales. and kegs. and hogshesds. and
counters, and stocks OF unstable goods
block up your way 70 heaven. Gather up
ali your energies. Tighten the girdie about
your loins. Take an agonizing look into
the face OF God. and then say, Here goes
one grand effort for life eternal" and then
bound away fer heaven. escaping So with
the skin Of your teeth"
In the last day II will be found that
Hugh Latirner. and John Knox. and Huss
and Ridley were not the greatest martyrs.
but Christian men who went up incorrupt
from the COMMUNICATIONS and perplexities
OF Pennsylvania avenue. Broad street. state
street and Third street. On earth they
were called brokers or stock loocerS. or re-
tailsrs. or importers. hat IN heaven Chris
tian heroes. No fagots were heaped about
their feet; no inQuisition demanded from
them -acan.atiOn: no soldier aimed pike
at their heart. but they had mental tor
trre compared with which all physical
consuming is as the breath OF a sprinS
morning.
I end IN the community a large class ~
men who have been 50 cheated. 50 lied
about 50 outrageously wronged. that they
have lost their faith IN everything. In
world where everything seems 50 toQsy
turvy they do not see how there can be any
God. They are COMPOUNDED and frenzied
and uisanthrooic. Elaborate Arguments
- prove 20 them the truth Of Christianity
or the truth OF anything else touch them
nowhere. Hear ne. al such men. I preach
- YOU 10 rounded periods. no ornamental
discourse. bat put nv hand on your shout
der and invite you into the peace % the
gospel. Here is rock on which you may
stand firm. though the waves dash against
& harder than the Atlantic. pitching its
surf clear above Eiivstone lighthouse.
Do not charge upon God oil these troubles
% the world. A. long as the world stuck
- God God stuck q the world. but the
earth seeded from His government. and
hence all these outraCes and all these
woes. God "a good. For many hundreds
OF wears He has been coaxinc tho world 10
come back 20 Hin. bat the more He has
coaTed the more violent have men been IN
their resistance. and they have stepped
back aud STEPPED back untf they have
dropped into ruin.
Try this God. " who have had the blood
hounds after YOU and who have thought
that God had forgotten YOU Try Htn and
see - He will not help. Try Hin and see II
He will not pardon. Try Him and see II
He viii not save. The flowers @: spring
have no bloom 80 sweet a. the Towering OF
Christs affections. The sun hath no
warmth COMPARED with the glow % His
heart. The waters have no reireshnent
like the fountain that viii slake the Thirst
O. thy soul. AZ the moment the reindeer
stands with his lip and nostril thrust IN the
cool mountain torrent. the hunter may be
coming through the thicket. Without crack
ling q stick under his foot. He com = close
hy the stag, aims his gun. draws the trig-
ser. and the poor thing rears IN its death
agony and falls backward its antlers crash
ing on the rocks. Bet the painting hart that
drinks from the water brooks Of God.
promise shall never be fatally wounded and
shall never die.
This world Il q poor portion % your soul
business mani An eastern king had
craven on his tomb two fngers. represented
/ a. sounding on each other with a snap. cnc
under them the motto, "AN is not worth
cause his steward informed him that hl
had only $50 coo sterling left. All % thi
worlds riches mako but a small inheritanr'
f for a soul. Rlbespierre attempted 20 vii
T the applause - the world. butwhcn he va.
\ DYING woman came rushing through th'
4 crowd. crying TO him. Murderer % IA
\ kindred descend 10 he'll. covered with tn
curses OF every mother IN France Nam
who have expected the plauiits ofthe worl'
have died under its anathema rnarana'ha
on. and your peace IN God Make on
/ strong pull for heaven. No halfway worl
/ VIII DO Il. There sometimes comes a tim
! on shipboard when everything must b
/ sacrificed 20 save the passengers. ih
cargo IL nothing. the rigging nothing. Tn
captain puts the trumpet 70 his lips az
I shouts, cut away the mast.' Some 81 yo'
/ have been tossed and driven. and YOU have
ia your effort 70 keep the world. we'll nis
lost your soul. Until You have decide
this matter let everything else 90. over
board with Ell those other anxicti-s An
burdens. You will have 20 drop the sal
% your pride and cut awav the mast. Wit
one earnest cry for help put your cause Int
the hand Ot Him who helped Paul out {
| the breakers o. Ne!ita, aDf who. above -
| sbrill blast o! the wrathlesi tempest tina
! ever blackenet the sky or shook the ocean
can hear the fsintest imploraticn for mere
| I shall close this sermon feeling thi
| some OF You who have considered yot
| ease as hopeless viii take heart again. an
| that with blood red earnestnees. such
| you have never experienced before. 20
! will start for the good land Of the gospel
40 last 20 look back. saying what
| great risk ] ran! Almost lost. but save