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eoLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
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 mean
est Of h oxen and kept some of the
finest and the latest, and there are
Christians who have slain the most IN
popular Of their transgressions and
saved those which are most respect
able. 1t will not do. Eternal war
against all the Amalekites-no mercy
for Agagi
I learn further from this subject that
it is vain to try To defraud God. Here
aul thought he had cheated God out
of those sheep and oxen, but he lost
his crown, he lost his empire. You AN
not cheat God out of a single cent.
Here is a mar who has made $40, 900 in
fraud. Before he dies every dollar of
it will be gone or it will give him vic
lent unrest. Here is a Christian who
has been largely ~prospered. He has not
given to God the proportion that is due
ELL dlld pCIlCt Il NOO
comes to the reckoning, and he takes it
all away from you. How otter it has
been that Christian men have had a
large estate and it is gone. The Lord
God came into the counting room and
aid Il have allowed you to have all
this property for 10, Is or 20 years, and
you ave not done justice to my poo
| children. When the lbeggar called upon
you, you bounded him off your steps;
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you for help, you had no mercy. 1 only
asked for 50 much or so much, but you
did not give it to me, and now 1 will
take it ALL"
THE SAFE COURSE.
God asks of us one-seventh of our
time in the way of Sabbath. Do you
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. If o take
one hour of that time that is to be de-
voted to rod service and instead Of
keeping his Sabbath use it for the pur-
pose of writing up our accounts or
making worldly gains, God will get
that o from you in some unexpected
way. Grd says to Jonah, you go to
Nineveh." He says: No, I won't. I'd
go to Tarshish." He starts for Tarsh-
ish. The sea raves, the winds blows
and the ship rocks. Come, We whales,
and take this passenger for Tarshish!
No man ever gets to Tarshish whom
God tells TO go to Nineveh. The sea
would not carry him; is Gods sea.
1he winds would not watt him; they
are Gods winds. Let a man attempt
to do that which God forbids him to do
or to go into a place where God tells
him not to go, the natural world as
we'll as God is against him. The light
nings are ready to strike him, the fires
to burn him, the sun TO strike him, the
waters to drown him, and the earth to
swallow him. Those whose princely
robes are woven out Of heartstrings,
those whose fine houses are built out of
skulls, those whose s%pringing fountains
are the tears of oppressed nations, have
they successfully cheated God?
The last day will demonstrate. It
will be found out ON that day that God
INDICATED 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 martyred dead,
awake and come UP from the dungeons
where folded darkness hearsed you and
the chains like cankers peeled loose the
skin and wore off the flesh n ratified
on the marrOwless bones. Come, We
martyred dead, from the stakes where
you We're burned, where the arm up
lifted for mercy fell into the ashes and
the cry Of pain was drowned in the
swapping of the flame and the bowling
of the mob; from valleys of Piedmont
and Smithfield market and London
Tower and h highlands of Scotland.
Gather in great procession and to-
gether clap your fbOny hands, and to-
gether stamp your moldy feet n let
h chains that bound you to dungeons
all clank at once and gather all the
flames that burned you in one uplifted
arm Of fire and plead for a judg-
ment. Gather all the tears We ever
wept into a lake and gather all the
signs We ever breathed into a tempest
until the heaven piercing chain clank
and the tempest sigh and the thunder
groan o to earth and hell and
heaven a judgment. Oh, on that day
God will vindicate his own cause and
vindicate the cause Of the troubled and
the oppressed! It will be seen in that
day that though we may have robbed
our fellows, we never have successfully
robbie God.
My Christian friends, as you go out
into the world exhibit an open hearted
critical in anything. You are never safe
if you are. AT the most ~inopportune
moment the sheep will tbleat and the
oxen below. Drive out the asst Amale-
kite of sin from you soul. Have no
mercy ON Agag. Down with your sins
down with you pride, down with your
worldliness. I know you cannot
achieve this work by your own arm,
but almighty grace is sufficient-thai
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 ship
wreck.