Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-07-16

hut will have % stand Tor himself ana an-
swsr before God. You have had con
science. ven have had Bible and the infiu-
enr. 81 the HOLY spirit. Stand for yourself
or fall for yourself.
Here Is a business man. He SAYS, u
know don't 40 exactly right In trade. hnl
all the dry goods men 10 Il aud all the hard
ware men DO this. and | am not r'~p"h-
sible." You cannot throw OF your SIN ul'i
the shoulders of other merchants. bod
will hold you responsible for what you 10
aud them responsible for what they de-. !
want to quote one passage 0f Scriuiur' LOT
you-I think n Is in Proverbs IT thou he
wise, thou shalt boz wise for thyseli. hut "
thou srurnpst thou alone shalt bear u.
learn further from this subject what
God meant hy determination. saul was
told To- slay an the Amalekitrs and the
beasts in their possession. tie saves Asag,
the Amalekite king. aud some 0i the sheep
and oxen. God chastises him for II. God
will not stay in the soul that is hae His
aud half the DEVILS. There NAV he more
sins In our souls than there Were
Amalekites. We must Kill them. Wo"
unto us il We spare AgaC. Here is a Chris
tian. He says: IL will drive out all the
Amalekites Of sin from my heart. Here Is
iealousv-down goes that Amalekite. Here
Is haekbiting down goes that Amalekite, 90
and what slaughter he makes among his
sins, striking right and left! What Is that
out yonder, lifting up his head2 II j.
Agag-it is worldliness. It's an old sin he
cannot bear to strike down. II is darling
transgreSsion he cannot afford To sacrifice
Oh. my brethren, appeal for entire conse-
Grafton. Some Of the Presbyterians call
It the higher life The Methodists
I believe, call it perfection. | do not
care what YOU cali II, without holiness no
man shall see the Lord" know 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
know? They tell me so. | believe them
They would not lie about it,. Why cannot
we all have this cOnsecrationy Why slay
some OF the sins IN our soul and leave
others to hleat and below for our exposure
and condemnation? Christ will not stay in
the same house with Agag. You must Civ"
up Agag or give up Christ. Jesus says:
"All Of that heart or none" Saul slew the
poorest of the sheep and the mcan"St of
the oxen 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
for Agag,
learn further from this subject that il is
NUtl " Try W hfllhN'A 'fiA. Ilfl' t'-All
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 80 900 in fraud. Before he dies
every dollar OF 1t will be gone, or it will
give him violent unrest. Here Is a Chris
tian who has been largely prOsperci. He
has not given to God the proportion that is
due in charities and beneyolences. God
comes to the reckoning, and he takes II all
away from you. How often It has been that
Christian men have had "A large estat" aud
it is gone. The Lord God came into the
counting room and said. Il have allowed
you to have al this property for ten, M
teen or twenty years, aud YOU hay" not
done justice to my poor children. When
the begcar called upon you, you bounded
him off your steps; when my suffering chill
drcn appealed to You for help, You had no
mercy | only asked for SO much or so
much but you did not give It TO me. aud
now | will take it all"
God asks Of Us Onc-seyenth Of our time in
the way of sabbath. Do you suppose we
can get an hour " that time successfully
away from its true object? No, no. God
has demanded Onc-scyenth of your time,
Ii you take one hour OF that time that Is to
be devoted to Gods service and instead of
keeping his sabbath use it for the purpose
Of writing up your accounts or making
worldly gains. God will get that hour from
you in some unexpected way. God says to
Jonah. You 20 10 Nineveh." lie says,
NO, wont. I'll 20 To Tarshish." lie
starts for Tarshish. The sea raves, the
winds blow and the ship rocks. Come. We
whales, and take this passenger for Tar
shish! No man ever gets to Tarshish
whom God tells to 20 to Nineveh. The
sea would not carry him; it is Gods sea.
The winds would not wait him. they are
Gods winds. Let a man attempt TO do
that which God torhids him to do or to 60
into place where God tells him not TO 70.
the natural world as well as God is against
him. The lightuings are ready to strike
him, the fires TO burn him, the sun to
smite him, the waters to drown him. and
the earth TO swallow him. Those whose
princely robes are woven out of heart
strings, those whose fine houses are built
ont Of skulls, those whose sPrinGing toun-
tains are the tears Of oppressed nations,
have they successfully cheated GodS
The last day will demonstrates II will he
found out on that day that God viuiiratcd
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 oppressed children, Come, We mar
tyred dead, awake and come up from the
dungeons whore folded darkness hearscd
you and the chains like cankers peeled
loose the skin and wore off the flesh and
ratified on the narrOwless bones Come, We
martyred dead. from the stakes where
YOU were burned, where the arm uplifted
for mercy fell into the ashes and the crv OF
pain was drowned in the swapping Of the
flame and the bowling OF the mob, from
valleys of Piedmont and Smithneli mark ct
and London Tower and tde highlands of
Cot In, I'm, !
together clap your bOny hands and to-
gether stamp your moldy feet aud let the
chains that bound you to dungeons all
clank ut once and gather all the flames
that hurned you in one uplfted arm Of fire
and plead for judgment Gather all
the tears We ever wept into a lake and
gather all the signs we ever breathed into
tempest until the heaven piercing chain
clank and the tempest sigh and the tuun-
der grOan announce to earth and he'll and
heaven n Judgment. Oh, on that dav God
will vindicate the cause of the troubled and
the oppressed, 1t will be seen in thnt day
that though we may have robbed our fell
lows, we never have successfully robbed
God
My Christian friends, as you go out into
the world exhibit an open hearted c. ristiau
frankpess. DO not be hypocritical in any.
thing. You are never safe If YOU are, Al
the most lhOpportune moment tho sheer
will bleat and the oxen below Drive ont
the last Amalekite of sin from your soul
Have no mercy on Agag. Down with you1
sins, down with your pride, down with youI
wOrldliness. | know you cannot achiev
this work by your own arm, tut almight,
grace il sufficient that which anyed JOspui
in the pit, that which delivered Daniel il
the den, that which shielded Shadrarh II
the fire, that which cheered Paul in tn.
shiuwreck.