The Opelousas courier., 1900-06-16

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mausoleum In the rock, back down over
the precipiees OF perdttion until He walked
amid the ca verns OF the eternal captives
and drank of the wine OF the wrath oil
Almighty God, amid the Ahabs and the
Jezebels and the Belshazzars. Oh. men Of
the pulpit and men Of the pew, .Christ's
descent front leakel to eartI does not
measure half the dlstaneel. It was from
glory to perdition: He descended into
hell. All the records of earthly retreat ara
as nothing compared will this falling
back. Santa Aunas with the fragments OF
bis army flying over the plateaus OF Mexico.
from Moscow into the awfai SHOWS q
Russia are not worthy to be mentioned
with this retreat, when all the powers OF
darkness seemed to be pursuing Christ as
He fell back until the body of Him who
came to do such wonderful things lay pulse.
less and stripped. Methinks that the city
OF Al was not so emptied OF its inhabitants
when they went to pursue Joshua as per-
dftion was emptied OF devils when they
started for the pursuit OF Christ, and He
fell back and back, down lower, down
lower. .ehasn1 below chasni, pit below pit,
until He seemed to strike the bottom Of OBJ.
Irrigation and seorr and torture. Oh; the
long, loud, idbilant shout Of hell at the de.
feat OF the Lord God Almighty!
Lesson the second. The triumph OF the
wicked IL short. Did you ever see an army
Id q panicp There Is nothing sd uncon:
trollable. II you had stood at Long Bridge;
Washington, during the opening of our
sad Civil War, you would know what it is
to see an army run. And when those men
OF AL looked cut and saw those men Of
Joshua In a stampede they expected easy
work. They would scatter them as the
equinox the leaves. Oh, the gleeful and
~jubilant descent OF the men OF Al upon the
men OF Joshuai But their exhtiaration was
brief, for the tide OF battle turned, AMI
these quondam conductors left their miser-
able carcasses iii the wilderness Of BetiIa.
ven. So 1t always Is; The triumph OF the
wicked Is short, You make $40 600 at the
gambling table. Do you expect to keep 1t?
You will die In the ~poorhouse. You make
q fortune By Ubiquitous traffic. Do you ex-
pect to keep 1t? Year money will scatter,
or II. will stay long enough to curse your
children after you are dead.
Call over the roll of pad men who pros.
pered and see how short was their prosper
ity. For awhile, like the men OF All, they
went from conquest to conquest, but after
awhile disaster rolled back upon them, and
they were divided into three parts. Mis-
fortune took their property, the gravetook
their body and the lost world took their
soul. ] am always interested In the buili-
ing OF palaces OF dissipation, / like to have
them built OF the best granite and have the
rooms made large and to have the pillars
made very Arm. God Is going 10 conquer
them, and they will be turned into asylums
and art galleries and churches.
How long will 1t take yonr bows to get
through your iii gotten gains? The wicked
do not live out half their days. For awhile
they swagger and strut and make a great
splash In the newspaper. but after awhile
1t all dwfndies down into a brief p~ara0ranh.
"Died suddenly. April s, 1900, at thirty-lve
years OF age. Relatives and friends OF the
nr&ff a. nAa IL ~ IA - Nkk.~A 49, 49, -
Wednesday at 2 o'clock from his late resi-.
dence on Madison square. Interment at
Greenwood or Oak Hin.b Some OF them
jumped on the docks, Some OF them took
prussic acid. Some OF them fell under the
snap of a Derringer pistol. Some OF them
Where are William Tweed and his assoc
ciates? Where are James Fisk. the liber.
tine, and all the other nisdemeanants?
The wicked do not live out half their days.
Disembogue, 9 world OF darknessf Come
up. Hlldebrand and Henry III and Robes.
pierre, and with biistering and biasphem-
Ing and ashen lips. hiss out. 1.-THE triumph
Lesson the third: How much may be ae-
conplished by lying in ambush for oppor-
.unities. Are you hypercrItical OF Joshua's
maneuyer? Do you saw that 1t was cheat
ing for him to take that city by ambus- |
cade? Was it wrong for Washington to
kiadle campfres on Jersey heights. giving /
the impression to the opposing force that !
a great army was eneaEnped there when
there was none at all? l answer. IL the
war was right, then Joshua was right In
bis stratagem. He violated no flag OF
truce. He broke no treaty. but bya lawful
ambuscane captured the CITY of al.
oh, that we all knew bow to lie in am.
bush for opportunities to serve God TIE |
best OF our opportu mites do not III, on the |
surface, but are secreted. BY 1ac by |
s~tratacen. by Christian amhy cadet YOU |
nav take almost any castIff~nf III for
Christ. Come up toward men WITH a reg.
ular besiegement of argument, and you
will be defeated, but Just walt until the
door OF their hearts Is set aiar, or they are |
off their guard, or their severe caution is
away from homo, and then drop In on them
from q Christian ambuscade.
There has been many a man up 70 his
chin in scientific portfolios which proved
there was no Christ and no divine reyelu-
tion, his pen a scImeter flung int the |
heart of theological opponents, who never
~tfleless has been discounted and captured
for God by some little three-year-old child
who has got up and put her snowy arms
around hts sinewy neck and asked some |
question about God.
oh, make a flank movement Steal q
march OF the deviil Cheat that man into |
heRyeni A $5 treatise that will stand all
the law or homileties NAV fail to do that
which q penny tract of Christian enrreaty
may accomplish.
Oh, for more Christians In arnbuscade-
lying In idieness. but waiting for a |
quick spring, waiting until just the right
conaesi Do not talk to- u mar about
the vanity OF this world on the day when
has bought something at s12' and is
gong % soil It at rs" But talk to him
about the vanity OF the world on the day
when he has bought something at al" ard
Ii compelled to sell it at ia
Lesson the fourth: The importance OF