Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-07-13

promises and the other on the foundations
&c heaven Deinetrius wore a robe so IN"
.rusted with Jewels that no one after MN
,ver dared to wear it. But our hing, Jesus
takes off the robe of His righteousness,
robe laood dyed and heaven impeaiieu,
and reaches it out to the worst wret fWoa III
III the earth and says: Put that on! "e''
it now! Wear it forever! ;:,. eli :,
The way we come at it. The salt on the
surface is almost always lmpure-that
which incrusts the Rocky Mountains and
the South American pampas and in India
but the miners go down through the
shafts and through the dark labyr'nths ana
along by galleries Of rock, and with
torches and pickaxes, find their way under
the very foundations of the earth to where
the salt lies that makes up the nation
wealth. To get to the best saline springs
Of the earth huge machinery goes down,
boring depth below depth, depth below,
depth, until from under the very roots OF
the mountains the saline water supplies
the aoueduct. This water is brought to
the surface and is exposed in tanks to the
sun for evaporation, or it is put IN boilers
nightly heated and the water evapora!es,
and the salt gathers at the bottom of the
tank. The work is completed, and tue for
Have YOU not been in enough trouble TO
have that work 20 on? l was reading OF
Aristotle who said there was held OF
flowers in Sicily SO sweet that once
hound, coming OH the track OF game, came
To that field and was bewildered by the
perfumes and so lost the track. oh, that
our souls might become like "a field which
| the Lord hath blessed" and exhale so much
| of the sweetness of Christian character
that the hounds of temptation, coming, Oh
our track, might lose it and 60 howiing
back with disappointment! r
But remark again that the grace OF
God is like the salt in it's preventative
quality. You know that salt absorbs the
moisture If articles of food and infuses
| them with brine, which preserves them for
A long while. Salt is the great antiputre-
factor of the world. Experimenters, IN
preserving wood, have tried sugar and
smoke and alright jars and everything
else, but as long as the world STANDS
Christs words will be suggestive, and men
will admit that as great preservative
salt is good" =,
But for the grace of God the earth would
have become stale carcass long before
this. That grace is the only preservative
of laws and constitutions and llteratures.
Just as soon as government loses this
salt of divine grace it perishes. The phllo'
sophy of this day, so far as it is antagonis'
tic to this religion, putrehes and stlnks'
The great want Of our schools OF learning
and our institutions OF science to-day Is
not more Leyden jars and galvanic batter
les and spectroscopes and philosophical ap,
paratus. but more of that grace that will
teach our men of science that the God OF
the universe is the God of the Bible.
How strange it is that i'll all their mag
nifcent sweep of the telescope they have
not seen the morning star of Jesus, and
that in all their experiments with light and
heat they have not seen the light and telt
the warmth of the Sun of Righteousness.
We want more of the salt of Gods grace
in our homes, in our schools, III our col
legcs in our social life, in our Christianity
And that which has it will live; that which
has il not will die. ! proclaim the tenden
cy of everything earthly to putrefactior
and death, the religion of Christ the enl;
preservative.
Ny subject is one of great congratulatior
to those who have within their souls Thu
gospel antseptic: This salt will preserv
them through the temptations and sor
rows of life and through the ages of eter
nitv. I do not mean to say that you vii
have smooth time because you arc
Christian. On the contrary, if you do you
whole duty / will promise you a rougI!
time. You march through an enemy
country, and they will try to double u
both hanks and to cut you off from You
source of supplies The war you wage wi
not be with toy arrows but sword plunge
to the hilt, and squirting on your. stee
over heaps of the slain. But / think tina
God omnipotent will see you through.
know He will. But why do / talk like q
, atheist when I ought to say ! know Ii
will? Kept by the power OF God throug
: faith unto complete salvation:
/ When Governor Geary, of Pcnnsylvani.
died years ago / lost q good friend. Ii
impressed me nightly with the horrors {
war. In the eight hours that we rode t
2 gether in the cars he recited to me tn
scenes through which he had passed in tn
: civil war. He said that there came on
battle upon which everything seemed
: pivot. kilograms from Washington sal
, that the life of the nation depended o
that struggle He said to me: II went int
2 that battle. sir, with my son. His motht
> and ! thought everything Of him. 70
know how father will feel toward h
] son who is coming up manly ard brave an
t good. Well, the battle opened and col
! conferred, and it was awful. Horses an
t riders bent and twisted and piled. up t.
] gether. 1t was awful, sir. We quit frlr
{ and took to the point of the bayone
t Well sir. didn't feel like myself that da
l ] had prayed to God for strength for tn;
g particular battle. and / went into it fee
i ing that I had in my right arm tt
: strength Of ten giants" and as the 90
t emor brought his arm down On the BAG
= of the seat it fairly made the car trembl
: "Well." he said "the battle was desperat
| but after awhile we gained little, and "
marched on little. J. turned round to ii
! troops and shouted, Come on. boys! an
/ st pped across dead soldier, and 10,
t was nv son! | saw at the first glance
t was dead and yet / did not dare to stop
S minute, for the crisis had come i'll tho ba
Y tie, so just got down on my knees. and
z threw my arms around him, AMI | gay
him one good kiss and said, Cood.l'
= dear and sprang up and shouted, Con
1 on. boys'" So it is in the Christian CO.
t fict. 1t is fierce fight. Heaven s wal
t ing for the bulletins to announce the tr
+ mendous issue Hail of shot, cash of s
i bre, fall of battleaX, groaning cn every sid
t We cannot stop for loss or bereaVemel
a or anything else With one ardent Ell
d brace and loving kiss we utter our far
r wells and then cry: Come on, boys
Il There are other heights to he capture
c there are other foes to be conquered, the
G are other crowns to be Won.
e Yet as one OF tne IIoru Surgeons
e must bind up two or three wounds .Ju
II lift them now, whatever the% be. | ha'
IS been told there is nothing like salt to at'
G the bleeding OF wound, and so ] take III
!, salt of Christ's gospel and put it Oh Il
t lacerated soul. 1t smarts little at frs
y but see, the bleeding stops, AMI 10 the fle'
comes again ina as the esn Of o ,e'lo on e%
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