The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1900-08-24

where sin abounded grace mucl
more aboundeth." With the 1O.OO
unpardoned sins of your life, 20 anc
tell Jesus.
Aou Will never get rid OF your sins
in any other way. And remember
that the broad invitation which ! ex
tend to you will not always be ex
tended. King Alfred, before modern
timepieces were invented, used to di.
vide the day into three parts, eight
hours each, and then had three wax
candles. by the time the first candle
had burned to the socket eight hours
+ had gone, and when the second can
die had burned to the socket another
eight hoHs had gone, and when all
the three candles were gone out then
the day had passed. Oh, that some of
us, instead of calculating our davs
and nights and years by any earthly
timepicce, might calculate them by
the numbers of opportunities and mer-
cies which are burning down and
burning out, never TO be relighted, lest
at last we be amid the foolish virgins
who cried: Our lamps have gone
outl"
Again ] commend the behavior of
the disciples to all who are tempted.
l have heard men in .midife say they
had never been led into temptation.
If you have not felt temptation. it is
because you have not tried to do
right. \ man hopplcd and handcuifed.
as long as he lies quietly, does not test
the power of the chain, but when he
rises up and with determination re-
solves to snap the handouts or break
the hopple, then he finds the power of
the iron. And there are men who have
been for ten and twenty and thirty
years bound hand and foot by evil
habits who have never felt the power
OF the chain because they have never
tried to break it. 1t is very easy to
go on down with the stream and with
the wind lying on your oars. but Just
turn around and try to 90 against the
wind and the tide, and you will find il
go down the current of our evil habit /
we seem to get along quite smoothly, /
but if after awhile we turn around /
and head the other way, toward Christ /
and pardon and Heaven, oh. then how /
we have to lay to the oars. You will
have your temptation. You have one
kind, you another, YOU another, not
one person escaping.
1t is AL folly for YOU to say TO some
onc: 81 could not be tempted as YOU
ire" The lion thinks it is so strange
hat the fish should be caught with
4 hook. The fish thinks it is so
strange that the lion should be caught
With "a trap. You see some man with
cold. phegmaiic temperament, and
-ou say: 81 suppose that man has not
my temptation" Yes, as much as you
laye. In his phlegmatic nature he
Ias a temptation to Incidence and
ensoriousness and ovcrcating and
n temptation TO ignore the
rcat work Of life, temptation TO lay ,
own an obstacle i'm the way Of all
God enterprises. The temperament
ecides the styles Of temptation. but
lnguine or lymphatic, you will have
nmptation. Satan has a graphing
ook just fitted for your soul. A man
ever lives beyond the reach Of temp ;
ltion. You say when a man gets TO c
e 20 or so years of age he is safe
'om satanic assault. You are very 7
uch mistaken. 4 man at S5 years J
age has as many temptations as c
AN of 25. They are only different l
ylcs of temptation. Ask the aged II
iristian whether he is never assault {
Of the powers Of darkness. If you v
link you have conquered the power !
temptation, you are very much mis- t
ken. a
No man gets through life without o
wing a pommeling Some slander Il
mes after you. horned and husked &
I'd hoofcd, 10 gore and trample you. e
ld what are YOU to do? | tell you b
linly that all who serve Christ must c;
Ger persecution. 1t is the worst a
IN in the world for you to be able o
say: Il have not an enemy in the e
,rld." A woe is pronounced in the b'
BILE against the one of whom every in
dy speaks weh. If you are at peace al
th all the world and everybody likes ii
Il and approves your work, it is be- al
use YOU are an idler in the LOrtl's Fl
Ieyard and are not doing your duty. 81
those who have served Christ, re
wcver eminent. all have been NAL st
atcd at some stage of their eXpe- as
nee. You know it was so in the III
ne of George Whitefeld, when he Of
cd and invited men into the king III
n Of God What did the learned tn
Johnson say Of him? He pro- tn
lnced him a miserable mountebank. Ii,
W was it when Robert Hall stood
spoke as scarcely any unin SCI
red man ever did speak of the av
ries of Heaven? And as he stood WI
bath after Sabbath preaching on or
Sc themes his face kindled with Th
ry. John Foster a Christian man, wi
I of this man: "Robert Hall is lat
v acting, and the smile on his face yo
q reflection of his own vanity.T er
n Wesley turned all England up chi
down with Christian reform, and of
the punsters were after him, and yol
meanest jokes in England were sta
petrated about John Wesley. the
at is true of the pulpit is true of the
pew; il is true of the street; it aw
rue of the shop and the store. All pre-
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