The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-07-14


Pastor Baptist Church in Fredericks-
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lind thcm dried up and gone. lie IS
wording and the world cannot sdtisiy
ms heart.
There is a great crying and groaning
IN the world tonight, II rises In awfnl
cadence above HES music. and makes
TINS world seem. n you listen 90 IT, Ike
a weary place Of torture. IL comes rom
the siums and the prison houses where
the slaves OF evil habits cry out I'm tho
darkness. 10 comes from the sided pai-
aces OF those who have lived for riches.
10 means through pages whore dis'p-
pointed genius wceps ont It's misery, ana
n brings us 90 this Inevitable conclusion:
n a man Doe as gifted as Lord Bacon no
WI feel that philosophy cannot satlsfy
MS heart. NJ he be- as brilliant a. Lord
Byron ne cannot sing sweetness INTO his
soul. n be be as able as Napoleon %
turn the forces Of the world 10 his own
advantage. he viii find .hat those for,e
VIII crumbie beneath him. md out oi no
rum the bruised heart VIII cry ont lor
tna satisfaction that only faith I'm Col
can hcstow. and he will hear the echo
o. Gods decree I'm the outer dafNne-s
'tnere shall Doe weeping and gnashins -
tcctG
Young disciple Of Christ. there % no
sacrince that God has called upon Nou
% make. that is not compel fuci 10 you
a hundred fold 20 this ne You ay
down the bauhlc and won receive ire
diamond. you lay down tho fading lower.
and YOU take NO the eternal blossom or
a new life You turn away from seem
inv pleasure. and y0u become nfr3 on
Gof partakcrs Of tho Divine Nature.
Far be - from me % lessen one l''f mo
snirit or hor0ism IN those Young comic
we have not had too much. hui 700 H.
re of the heroic But the hero aoes rot
magnify his har1shi9s. and the s''ii'r
VINO mas tasted the iov NJ victorious h't-
lie would not for a life time of ln'Nl~
rence change his ioy Tor th" weak q" ui-
tauon Of the pamnered dandy whose
nipno-t pleasure Springs from me
beauty OF his nocktic or The cNeeli'nt fct
OF his latest dress sY't.
"Let us have heroes On orr ranks. LEI
US De men md women who would die
need be- FOR orr hope On Christ. but
let as not forget that every ihrob ~
hero's heart compen-ates Tor az that y
costs 10 be n hero. SATAN SAYS. 'i}e nv
followers and you shave have Jesus
saws. Become my disciples and YOU SHAH
be- Satan blinds the cyc with hf p-of-
fored aifts and pleasures until he has set
his bnghting stamp ON heart and hra'a
Jesus hlls the life with the fru't ~ tho
Spirit until the whole becomes possessed
OF new senses OF pleasure undreamed of
before and we find every sorrow borne
for Him is but the birth paug Of great
joy.
4 GRAND HERO.
paul was I'm prison. Paul was deserted
bv his friends. Paul was facing death.
but like a Gagged bird he sings and th"
music Of his song comes down the ages.
Again and again the words. II joy are
written by his trembling hand. J JOY
i'm your steadfastness. Dearly beloved,
my joy and crown. THAT I might finish
my course with joy And can you meas
ure the exaltatlon 81 that joy when he
said. L have finished my course ! have
fought a good fight
Of tell you Paul was happier IN his
prison than Herod Aggrppa had ever
been I'm all his wicked life; and Paul was
tasting joy. deep JOY, when Nero, who
condemned him. was crying OUT m DIT
terness OF soul.
sing . young hearts as you enter
within the gateway Of dlscpleship with
Jesus. The pathway f. narrow. and you
may be compelled 10 leave outside some
Of the indulgences that youth holds dear.
but the path you are treading IS bathed
with sunlight that grows brighter as you
travel farther on. and without there Ia
only darkness and weeping and crashing
OF teeth.
"There never was time IN the history
81 the Hebrews when the claims made by
one Of that people 10 be The Light OF
the World would have seemed so pre-
posterous as II must have seemed as made
hv Jesus. eighteen hundred years ago.
II Abraham had said h when In tho land
Of Canaan he soiourned as a stranger.
or amid the corrupuons Of Egyp, where
his purity OF life made him stand out
I'm lonely grandeur before tho men OF his
day. Il would have seemed less strange
10 the world. II Moses had claimed IL
after he had taught proud Egypt 10
knee and a slave nation 10 iva inc
world might have listened. II David had
said II when with his songs he had tuned
every ear TO sweeter music, or u had
been Solomons boast when his kingdom
had reached the acme OF It's power surely
a more patient hearing would have been
granted. But this man born OF nation
despised OF all the world native OF a
town desplsed OF this despised nation, and
He OF all this town the most despised
Poor. unknown, and even now almost
within the tolls OF the men who would
take his life, surely his light will go out
on the morrow and His claim viii b
laughed 10 scorn.
FATE OF NATIONS.
1.-THE Romans naughty LIP CURED In
oontenpt but Rome went down before
the stone that was cut ont OF the noun
tain without hands, and to-day every
nation walks in the light or gropes IN
la. n
av,ant ~ their knowledge and acceptance
Of Christ
owe ralk OF a Kingdoms wealth Of re-
sources OF the extent OF its domain OF
the numbers OF It's subjects. but II power
were governed by those things, China
would be the greatest nation OF the earth
to-day, what has China done THAI shs
should be rent into pieces az the tee
in the river breaks In the spr'ngtims
foods? Nothing but close her eyes to the
light that for eighteen hundred years