Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-02-10
BE READY.
Have Faith in God aud he Always on
the Alert.

hnve Faith I'm God aud He Always on
the Alert.
tell you that night there shall be
TWO men in one bed, the one shall be
taken and the other shall be left: two
men shall be in the field. the one shall
be taken and the other left. Luke 17th
"a. Two women shall be grinding to-
gether; the one shall be taken and the
other left
The disciples did not ask why? but
when? but we deliberately ask tho
question why?
Not because God Is respector of
persons because His word says He is
not 1t might be interesting to pick
out few instances where one has been
taken and the other left. Take for in
stance Cain and Abel. l think it may
be said Abel was taken and Cain was
left. We read in Genesis that in pro-
cess of time Cain brought of the fruit,
of the ground an Offering unto the
Lord
And Abel he also brought of the
iirstlings of his flock and of the fat
thereof and the Lord had respect unto
Abel and to his Offering. But unto
Cain and to his Offering he had not re-
spect. And in Hes 18th and 4th. 1t Is
written: BY faith Abel offered unto
God a more excellent sacrifice than
Cain by which he obtained witness that
he was righteous. God testifying to his
gifts and by it being dead yet speak
eth. Cain evidently believed in God or
he would not have offered the first
fruits of his ground.
AS far as faith in God is concerned
his was equal to Abe's. 1t cannot
possibly be said that he did not have
faith or he would not have presented
an Offering which distinctly said
every good and perfect gift comes
from God. And | do earnestly wish
that every thoughtful reader would
think of these two young men as hav-
ing perfect faith in God and in His
goodness. and the ore was accepted
and the other rejected and ponder over
the question why? and how it is that
Abel being dead yet spesho.h aud what
it is that he says to us in this day OF
GOSPEL light
Does he not say ny Offering n lamb
for sacrifice ana shedding its blood
which is The Gie tAcreof, that his life
was forloHed 10y his fathers sin and
he thereby sough; mercy and pardon,
! and thus it was that Abel was taken
and Cain WHO only offered thank Of
ierins was Loft, and 30 Jacob was taken
and Esan len, ana Joseph was taken
and his brethren left, and a Pharisee
and sinner went up to the temple to
pray ard tho sinner who cried for
mercy was taken and the Pharlsee was
left. This Is the old Methodist doc
trine of being convicted for sin of being
brought to realize not only that the
wages OF sin is death, and that death
has passed upon all men in that all
have sinnod, but that in their case in.
dividually the verdict is guilty and
the sentence is passed unless mercy
can be obtained through the shedding
of the more precious blood of Christ
OF which the first lamb was a tyne.
there is no escape from the execution
of the sentence and the second or e.er-
nal death must be the consequence.
But God having provided for us this
better sacrifice will do for the pei sia-
tent sinner what He did for Abel He
will have respect unto His Offering and
being justified by faith he will have
peace with God, through our Lord
Jesus Christ-John l.. Fisher.