Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1898-06-01

dollars (he was very old and not worth
much; somebody else. ''Twenty-five-
Thirty Thirty Forty. The
| aged minister began to tremble He
had expected 10 be able TO buy mis- own
freedom, and he had just $40. and ex-
/ pected with the $40 10 get free. As the
bids ran up the old man trent Died more
l ana Corc. Forty Fortv- five
! "Fifty"-"FiNty-five--- ..Sixtv~-"Six-
| ty-tve." The old man cried out ..Sev-
enty. He was afraid they woeld out
/ bid him. The men around were trans
fixed Nobody dared bid. and the auc-
/ tionecr struck him down TO himself
done-done.
But by reason of sin we are poorer
than that African. We can not buy
our deliverance. The voices of death
are bidding for Us. and they bid Us in.
and they bid Us down. But the Lord
Jesus Christ comes and saws. Il will
buy that man; bid for him my Beth
lehem mauyer; bid for him NV hum
ger on the mountain; bid for him my
aching head; bid for him my faintinr
heart; bid for him all my wounds"
voice from the throne OF God saws.
1t Is enough Jesus has bought him.
Bought with price. The purchase
complete. IL Is done.
Why. is not man free when he gets
rid OF his sins? The sins OF the tongue
gone; the sins OF action gone: the sins
OF the mind gone. All the transgres-
sions of so, 80, 80, 90 years gone-no
more in the soul than the malaria that
fioated in the atmosphere a thousand
years ago; for when my Lord Jesus
pardons man He purdons him and
there Is no halfway work about IL.
Here l' see a beggar going along the
turnpike road. He is worn ont with
| disease. He is stiff in his Joints lie
Is ulcered all over. He has rheum in
his eyes. He is sick and wasted. He
Is in rags. Every time he puts down
his swollen feet he cries: -Oh. the
pain. He sees Il fountain by the
roadside under n tree, and he crawls
up 10 that fountain and SAYS: L
must wash. Here l may cool my Ill
GERS. Here / may get rested He
Stoops down. and scoops up in the
palm OF his hands enough water 10
Stake his thirst; and that is all gone.
Then he stoops down and begins 10
wash his eyes; and the rheum is all
gone. Then he puts in his swollen
feet and the swelling is gone Then.
willing no longer TO De only half cured.
he plunges in and his whole body is
Iaved in the stream, and he gets upon
I the bank we'll Meantime the owner
OF the mansion NJ vonder comes
down, walking through the ravine
/ with his only son. and he sees tho
bundle OF rags, and asks: Whose
rags are theSe?' \ voice from
I the fountain saws: Those are my
( rags Then SAYS the master TO his
son; Go dp 10 the house and Get the
best new suit YOU can tnd and briur
1t down. And he brings down the
clothes. and the beggar is clothed in
them, and he looks around and saws:
Il was filthy. but now am clean. I
| was ragged. but now ! am robed.
/ was blind. but now / see. Glory BE- TO
/ the owner OF that mansion: and glory
/ DC TO that son who brought me that
! suit OF clothes; and glory be TO this
| fountain, where l have washed. and
where all who viii may wash and be
clean Where sin abounded. grace
I doth much more abound. The bird has
been dipped now. let il fiv away.
The next thing l noticed about this
bird, when it was loosened land this is
the main ideal, is, that il flew away.
/ Which way did it 60? When YOU let a
bird loose from your grasp, which way
/ does ii fly? Up What are wings for?
/ To fly with Is there anything in the
/ suggestion of the direction taken bv
| that bird to indicate which way we
ought TO go?
Rise. my soul. and stretch thy wings.
/ Thy better norton fr.trf..
| Rise from tranSitory things
To Heaven. thy native glace."
| We should be going Heavenward.
| That is the suggestion. But l know
/ that we have a great many drawbacks.
/ You had them this morning PERTAINS.
/ You had them yesterday. or the dav
before; and although you want to- be
/ going Heaven ward. Won are constantly
! discouraged. But / suppose when that
/ bird went out of the priests hands il
went by infections sometime stoon-
I ing. bird does not shoot directly
I m, but this is the motion OF a bird
/ 30 the soul scars toward God. rising
up in love, and sometimes depressed bv
/ trial. II does not always 90 in the
direction il would like 20. But the
main course is right There is one
III tiAE Af4b4t Wnltn 1 quote
oftener TO myself than any other. lie
kuowcth our frame. and lie remcm.
hcreth that we are dust
is ;he English official regulations for
1895 il is stated that the mean extreme
range OF the I.cc-Mctford bullet may
bc taken as about 8. 500 wards. although.
With strong wind. s. zoo yards havo
been observed. The bullets find their
way through joints ui walls. unless
the walls are made very fine and set i'm
cement About 100 rounds. conccn.
/ tratcd ON nearly the same spot. az COZ
yards. VIII brcak q niue-inch bric..
I wall Eammcl earth gives les, nro.
lection than loose. When fired into
sand. The bullet is found 20 be alyyn,,
turned aside after o had entered % l.t.
I tlc way
TUE Alabama was the first war YES.
sci to bc launched in war times FOO this
country ior nearly thirts-a-c rc1rs.
add iu consequence tnc event ,ya. NM.
ike the bop, -nal c.renonic. OF ot5s~
engine, of naval destruction and d..
tense here vcrs uo cheering fh1r.
sand, to witness the plunge co., when
the Kentucky and Kcar.arrc rIidcs
from the doci, into Ga, water. OnIv
select and uno,tentati1us party wiz.
messed Miss Morgan formally nc-to,y
the name OF Alabama u7ol the tree
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