The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1900-07-13

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ladder, on which we can climb up into the
| light. II ~ positive necessity for the
| soul. You can tell very easily what the
| effect would be II a person refused TO take
! salt into the body. The energies would
| fail, the lungs would struggle with the air,
slow fcvcrs would crawl through the brain,
! the heart would hutter, and the life would
! bc gone. Salt, a necessity for the life OF
| the body; the grace of God, a necessity
! for the life Of the soul
/ Again ! remark that grace ~ like salt in
| abundance. God has strcwn salt IN vast
| proiusion all over the continents Russia
seems built on salt-ccllar. There IL one
region IN that country that turns out 10000
! tons of salt IN n year England and Russia
and Italy have inexhaustiblc resources ia
this respect Norway and Sweden white
with snow above, white with salt beneath.
Austria, yielding 100000 tons annually.
Nearly all the nations rich IN it-rOck salt,
spring salt, sea salt.
Christ, the Creator Of the world, when
lie uttered our text, knew II would become
more and more significant AZ the shafts
were sunk. and the springs were bored,
and the pumps were worked, and the crys
tails were gathered. So the grace of God Is
abundant. II s for all lands, for all ages,
for all conditions. II seems 20 undcrglrt
everything pardon for the worst sin, com
fort for the sharpcst suffering, brightest
light Tor the thlCkCst darkness,
Around about the salt lakes of Saratov
there are 10000 men tOIllng day and night,
nd yet they never exhaust the saline treas
urcs And # the 1000 900 600 of our race
should now cry out to God for Ills mercy
there would be enough for all-iOr those
luithcst gone IN sin, for the murderer
standing on the drop Of the gallows. II ~
an ocean OF mercy and " Europe and
Asia, Africa, North aud South America,
l..
IN II to-day they would have room enough
10 wash and come up clean,
Let no man think that his case is too
tough one for God 10 act upon. Though
your sin may bc deep and raging, let me
tell you that Gods grace ls bridge not
built ON earthly piers, but suspended and
spanning the awful chasm of your guilt,
one end resting upon the rock Of eternal
promises aud the other on the foundations
of heaven. Dcmctrius wore a robe so in
crustcd with Jewels that no one after him
ever dared to wear II. But our King, Jesus,
takes oil the robe of His righteousness. a
robe blood dyed and heaven impcarlcd,
and reaches It out 10 the worst wretch IN
all the earth and says Put that ont Wear
It now! Wear It forever
Again, the grace of God is like salt IN
the way we come at A. The salt on the
surface is almost always impure that
which incrusts the Rocky Mountains and
the South American pampas and m India
but the miners 90 down through the
shafts and through the dark labyrinths and
along 10y galleries of rock and with
torches and pickaNes, find their way under
the very foundations ot the earth to where
the salt lies that makes up the nations
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 roofs of
the mountains the saline water supplies
the aqucduct. This water Is brought To
the surface aud is exposed in tanks To the
sun for evaporation, OF II is put IN boilers
nightly heated and the wrtcr cvaporatcs,
and the salt gathers at the bottom of the
tank. The work Is completed, and the for
tune ls made
80 with the grace of God II is to bc
profoundly sought after. With all the
Conceutcrcd energies of body, mind and
soul we must dig for IT, No man stumhlcs
accidentally on it We need To go down
to the very lowest strata Of carncstncss
and faith to find It, Superficial cxpora
ton will not turn It up. We must strive
and lmplorc and dig until we strike the
spring ioamiug with living waters Then
the work ot evaporation begins, and as
when the saline waters are exposed to
the sun the vapors float away, leaving
nothing hut the pure white salt at the bot
tom of the tank, So. when the Christians
soul is exposed to the sun oi Righteous
ness, the vapors of pride aud scl6shncss
and worldllucss float off and there IL
chiefly lett beneath pure white holiness of
heart Then, Os IN the case of the salt
the furnace is added, Blazing troubles,
sturrcd 10y smuttcd stokcrS of worldhnCss
and the Crystallzatlon of grace.
Have YOU not been IN enough trouble 10
have that work go on? ! was reading of
Aristotle. who said there was a field of
flowers IN Sicily SO sweet that once a
hound, coming on the track of game came
20 that field aud was hCwildcred hy the
perfumes and SO lost the track. oh. that
our souls might become like "a field which
the Lord hath blessed and cNhalC so much
ot the sweetness of Christian character
that the hounds of temptation. coming on
our track, might lose IL and go bowling
back with disappointment
But | remark again that the grace OF
God - like the salt IN It's Trcscrvativc
quality Nou know that salt absorhs the
moisture of articles of food and infuscs
them with brine. which preserves them for
long while. Salt is the great antiputrc.
factor OF the world ENperimcntcrs. in
preserving wood, have tried sugar and
smoke and air-tight jars and everything
else. but rs long as the world stands
Chrlsts words viii bc suggestive and men
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salt is good
But for the grace of God the earth would
have become a stale carcass long before
this. That grace is the only prcservativc
of laws and constitutions and lteraturcs.
just rs soon as n government loses this
salt of divine grace u perishcs. The phlo-
sophy of this day. So far as It Is antagonis
tic tD this religion, putrchcs and stinks
The great want of our schools of learning
and our institutions Of science today is
not more Leydcn jars and galvanic batter
les and spcctroscopcs and philosophical ap-
pamtus. but more of that grace that will
teach our men OF science that the Cod of
the universe - the God of the Bible
How strange u is that m all their mag.
nhcent 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 felt
the warmth of the Sun uf Righteousness
We want more of the salt ot Gods grace
IN our homes. in our schools m our col
legcs, IN our social life. in our Christianity.
And that which has u viii live. that which
has u not viii die | proclaim The 'cudcn.
cy of everything earthly to putrciaction
and death. the religion Of Christ the only
prpscryattVc
Nv subject is one Of great congratulatiop
20 those who have within their souls this
gospei antiseptic. This salt will preserve