The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-04-01

1T is very eIijc"t that these two men
found more in Chiist than did good many
others of their time. Aud do YOU know
that there arc good many in New York
the same way. 1t is recorded in the gos-
Pels that many OF those who followed tho
Saviour left Him. and there are many who
follow Him to-day who say they
arc disappointed. Why? think
can tell you. When the crowds
followed Christ in the Holy Land they did
80 from various motives. Some OF them
wanted to SEQ Him perform miracles. They
wanted to sec the devils cast out and the
lepers cured, and so they were always say
ing to Him. master, show US sign"
others thought Ho was going to found an
earthly kingdom, and wanted to get into
Office whcn He founded 1t. Others thought
that they might entangle Him into saying
something against the Mosaic or Roman
laws which would lead to His condemna-
tion and death. Others followed Just from
morbid curiosity to see the crowd and
hear something new. Others He Himself
accused OF being after tho fishes and the
loaves. They did not care about His mes
sage.
"All these people soon got tired of fol-
lowing Christ; but 1 can vouch for one
thinE--that no man for eighteen hundred
years who has followed Jesus Christ for
what He is has ever been disappointed.
He Is all that you make Him to be. Some
| make u little Saviour, because they think
little OF Him.
''What seek yc, you that are horc o-night,
| Come, tell mo. I could 20 through the
| crowd and find just the same motives
actuating you as those who followed the
Lord in Palestine. There are somc men
| back there who came to see tho crowd.
| Another has come because his wife has
boon nagging Mt him for tho last three
weeks, and he promised to come. An
| othor man is here because he has nowhere
else to go. He says that IL he had good
| comfortable home you would not find him
| here. Another one comes to hear the
| singing. I'm glad he wanted to hear
something, anyway. Although some OF
| you have come with low motives, thank
God you have come at ALL and You may
change your mind before you're through.
In glad to have n chance ut YOU what
ever your motives for being here may be.
Hero is another text l want to read:
Seek yc first tho Kingdom of God and His
| Righteousness, and all these things shall be
added unto you SO many people think
| that they will attend to temporal things
first, and after they havc made comforta-
BILE fortune and settled down they will Mt
tend to eternal things. God saws No
You must first seek the Kingdom OF God
think if this werc really done you would
never cometo want.
Il have been besought on all sides to
preach sermons on capital and labor and
similar subjects. My friends, ] believe rs
long as you start right and follow that text
you will turn out right in the end. / be-
icve so many don't get on because the
Kingdom OF God comes last, not first, with
them. You can't tell what may happen be-
fore tho morning. Christ would not even
allow n man who followed Him to bury his
dead father before hc had obtained the
Kingdom OF God. Ibclieve there are thou
| sands and tens OF thousands OF young peo-
pie who have written on the lyloavcs of
their Bibles by somo loving father or
mother the text have quoted, from Mat
thcw vi, 33.
''1f Moses should suddenly appear hcre
what do you suppose would be the first
words he would say to you? II you asked
him to come to the platform and take my
place he would say: The choice is be-
tween life and death, Choose l;fe. II
HcEckiah were to come hero what would he
say? | think he would ask YOU How
long halt ye between two opinions?' II
solomon should appear he would say,
Whatever thy hand ilndeth to dc, do it
with thy might suppose that little tent
maker, Paul Of Tarsus, were hero. He would
shout Now is the accepted time. now Is
the day OF salvation.' And IL Jesus Christ
We're to appear among us He would say
Seek yc first the kingdom of God and His
righteousness and all these things shall bo
added unto vou.'"