The Penn's Grove record., 1897-07-16

and a mother who was d disciple of goddess
fashion, l am not to blame for my sins; II Is
my bringing up. Oh, no; that young man
has been out In the world long enough to
see what is right u 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 an
swer before God. You have had o con-
science, you have had a Bible n the influ-
enco of the Holy Spirit. Stand for yourself
or fall for yourself.
Here Is a business man. He says, 81
know I don't do exactly right in trade, but
all the dry goods men do II aud all the hard
ware men do this. and I am not respon>
slble." YOU cannot throw off your sin upon
tho shoulders Of other merchants. God
will bold you responsible for what you do
and them responsible for what they do. 1
want to quote one passage Of Scripture for
you-J think It Is In Proverbs-hH thou be
wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself, but II
thou soonest thou alone shalt bear it,"
l learn further from this subject what
God meant by determination. saul was
told to slay all the Amalekites and the
beasts in their possession. He saves Agag,
the Amalekite king, and some OF the sheep
and oxen. God ehastises him for 1t. God
will not stay in tho soul that is half His
and half the DEVILS. There may be more
sins in our souls than there wero
Amalekites. We must kill them. Woo
unto us IL we spare Agag. Hero is "a Chris
tian. He says: 81 will drive out all the
Amalekites Of sin from my heart. Here Is
icalousy-down goes that Amalekite. Hero
is baekbiting-down goes that Amalekitc,"
and what slaughter he makes among his
sins, striking right and LETT 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. It Is d darling
transgression he cannot afford to sacrifice.
oh, my brethren, l appeal for entire eonse-
Grafton. Some of the Presbyterlans call
1 believe, call it "perfection.d / do not
care what you cali It, without holiness no
man shall see the Lord" Iknow men who
are living with their soul In perpetual com-
munion With Christ aud day by day are
walking within sight Of heaven. How do I
know? They tell me SO. I believe them.
They would not lie about it. Why cannot
we all have this conservation Why Stay
of the sins in our soul and leave
others to bleat and below for our exposure
and condemnation7 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
the oxe and kept some OF the finest and
the latest, and there are Christians who
have slain the most unpopular of their
transgressions and saved those which are
most respectable. 1t will not do. Eternal
war against all the Amalekites-no mercy
Agagi
I learn further from this subject that II Is
vain to try to defraud God. Here Saul
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 u single cent. Here Is a man who has
made $40, 900 In fraud. Before he dies
every dollar of 1t will be gone, or 1t will
give him violent unrest. Here is q Chris
tian who has been largely prospered. He
has not given to God the proportion that Is
In charities and benevolences. God
TO the reckoning, and he takes 1t all
away from you. How often 1t has been that
men AVE had a large estate and
1t Is gone. The Lord God came into tha
counting room and said: 81 lave allowed
you to have all this property for ten, fiji.
teen or twenty years, and you have not
the beggar called upon you you bounded
him off your steps; when my suffering chill
dren appealed to you for help, you had no
mercy. / only asked for so much or so
much, but you did not give 1t to me, and
now 1 will take 1t ALL
God asks Of us o~ne-seventh OF our time In
tho way Of Sabbath. Do you suppose VIC
can get an hour OF that time successfully
away from its true object? No, no. God
has demanded one-seyenth of your time.
II you take one hour OF that time that Is to
be devoted to Gods service anG instead OF
keeping his Sabbath use It for tho purpose
OF writing up your accounts or making
worldly gains, God will get that hour from
you in some unexpected way. God says to
"No, won't. I'll go to Tarshish." He
starts for Tarshish. The sea raves, the
winds blow and the ship rocks. Come, We
and take this passenger for Tar.
shishl No man ever gets to Tarshish
whom God tells to go to Nineveh. The
would not carry him; 1t is Gods sea.
The winds would not wait him; they are
Gods winds. Let a man attempt to do
that which God forbids him to do or to go
Into q place where God tells him not to 80,
the natural world as well as God Is against
him. The lightnings AFRO ready to strike
him, the fires to burn him, the sun to
5mite him, tho waters to drown him, and
the earth to swallow him. Those whose
princely robes are woven out of heart
those whose flne houses are built
out Of skulls, those whose ~springing foun.
tains are the tears of oppressed nations,
have they successfully cheated God?
The last day will demonstrate, 1t will be
out on that day that 0od indicated
not only his goodness and Ills mercy, but
power to take caro- of His own rights
and the rights of His church and the rights
Of His oppressed children. Como, ye mar
tyred dead, awake and como up from the
dungeons where folded darkness hearsed
you and the chains Ike cankers peeled
loose the skin and wore OIL tho flesh and
on the narrowiess homes. Come. We
martyrcd dead, from the stakes where
you were burned, where tho arm uplifted
for mercy foil into the ashes and the cry Of
pain was drowned In the swapping OF tho
lame and tho bowling of the mob; from
valleys Of Piedmont and Sm;thleld market
and London Tower and tho highlands Of
Scotland. Gather in great procession and
clap your bony hands, end TO-
stamp your moldy feet and let tho
that bound you to dungeons all
clank at once and gather all the flames
that burned you in n upliftcd arm OF flre
and plead for u judgment. Gather all
tho tears ye ever wept into q lake aud
all the signs We over brsathed mo
4 tempest until the heaven piercing chain
clank and tho tempest sigh and the thrn-
der groan announce to earth and hell AMI
heaven a judgment. oh, on that day God
will vindieate the cause OF the troubled and
the oppressed 1t will DO seen in that day
that though we may have robbed our fell
we never ..havei successfully robbed
God.
My Christian friends, as you go out into
he world exhibit an open hearted Christian
.frankness. Do not be hypocritical in any
thing. You are never safe II you are. At
tho most inopportune moment the sheep
will bleat and the oxen below. Drive out
tho last Amulekite of sin from your soul.
Have no mercy on Agag. Down with your
sins, down with your pride, down with your
! know you cannot achieve
this work by your own arm, but almighty
IS suflcient-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 tho
shipwreck.