Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-05-17

COMES Witnln twenty PAGES OF YOU, ana nc
has it's eve on you, and II has Squatted for
the fearful spring, STEADY there." Cour-
age, y ye spiritual archers, There are
great monsters of iniquity prowling all
around about the community. Shall we
not in the strength of God go forth and
combat them We not only need more
heart, but more backbone. What is the
church of God that 1t should fear TO look
in the eye any transgressiOny There rs the
Bengal tiger of drunkenness that prowls
around, and instead of attacking nc how
many of US hide under the church pew or
the communion table, There is so much
invested in it we are afraid TO assault it
millions of dollars in barrels, in watts, in
spigots, in corkscrews. I'm gin palaces with
marble floors and Italian top tables, and
chased ice coolers, and in the strychnine,
and the logwood. and the tartaric acid.
and the nux vomica that go to make up
our pure" American drinks. L looked
with wondering eyes on the Heidelberg
tun." 1t is the great liquor vat of Ger
many, which is said to hold 500 hogsheads
of wine and only three times in a hundred
years il has been filled But as / stood
and looked at IL / said to myself: That is
nothing-S00 hogsheads. Why. our Ameri-
can vat holds 1920 900 barrels of strong
drink and we keep 300.O 900 men with moth
ing TO do but to see that it is filed Oh,
to attack this great monster of intemper-
ance and the kindred monsters of fraud
your Christian courage Through the
press. through the pulpit, through the
platform, you must assault 1t.
Would to God that all our American
Christians would band together. not for
crackbrained fanatcsm. but for holy
Christian reform! | think it was in 1893
that there went out from Lucknow, India,
under the sovereign, the greatest hunting
party that was ever projected. There were
10000 armed men in that hunting party.
There were camels and horses and elc-
plants. On some princes rode, and royal
ladies under exquisite housings, and 800
coolies waited uDOn the train. and the des-
olate places of India were invaded by this
excursion. and the rhinOcerOs end deer and
elephant fell under the stroke OF the sabre
and bullet. After awhile the party brought
back trophies worth 30 900 rupees. having
left the wilderness of India CHASTITY with
the slain bodies of wild beasts Would to
God that instead of here and there a strag
gler going out TO fight these great monsters
Of Iniquity in our country the millions OF
members of our churches would band to-
gether and hew in twain these great crimes
that make the land frightful with their
roar, and are fattening upon the bodies
and souls OF immortal meni Who IS ready
for such a party as that Who viii be 4
mighty hunter for the Lord:
/ remark. again, if YOU want TO be sue
cessfui in spiritual archery you need not
only to bring down the game, but bring 1t
in. | think one of the most beautiful pie
lures of Thorvaldsen is his Autumn" 1t
represents sportsman coming home and
standing under a grapevine. He has q
staff over his shoulder. and on the other
end of that staff are hung a rabbit and a
brace of birds. Every hunter brings home
the game. No one would think of bring
ing down a roebuck or whipping Cup a
stream for trout and letting them lie in
the woods. At eventide the camp Is
adorned with the treasures OF the forest
beak and fin and antler
If you go out to hunt for immortal souls.
not only bring them down under the ar.
row of the gospel, but bring them into the
church OF God, the grand home and en-.
campment we have pitched this side OF the
skies. Fetch them in. DO not let them lie
out in the open field. They need our pray
ers and sympathies and help. That il the
meaning of the church Of God-help. q
We hunters for the Lord, not only bring
down the game. but bring ii in!
III Mlthridates liked hunting well that
for seven years he never went indoors.
what enthusiasm ought we 10 have who
are hunting for immortal soulsi If Domi
tian practiced archery until he could stand
boy down in the Roman amphitheatre
with hand out, the fingers spread apart
and then the king could shoot an arrow
between the fingers without woundine
them. To what drill aud what practice
ought we to subject ourselves in order &c
become spiritual archers and mighty
hunters before the Lord!
But, let me say, you viii never work ans
better than you pray. The old archer'
took the bow. put one end of it down hesid,
the foot, elevated the other end. and Il
was the rule that the bow should be jus
the size OF the archer If it were Just hi
size then he would go into the battle Will
confidence. Let me say that your powe
TO project good in the world viii CORE
spond exactly TO your own spiritual stat
ure. In other words, the first thing IL
preparation for Christian work Is persona
| conservation.
''Oh. for a closer walk with God.
y calm and heavenly frame.
A light TO shine upon the road
That leads me 10 the Lamb
am sure that there are some men VIII,
at some time have been hit by the gOspe
arrow. You felt the wound OF that con
Viction, and YOU plunged into the worl
deeper, Just as the stag, when the hound
are after 1t. plunges into SchroOu Lake
| expecting in that way 20 escape. Jesu
| Christ Is on your track to-day O impen
tent man, not IN wrath. but IN mercy
| ye chased and painting souls, here Is TIA
stream of Gods mercy and saVatiO!
where you may cool your thirst,
Stop that chase of sin to-day. By tn
red fountain that leaped from the hear
of my Lord l bid YOU stop, There
mercy for you-mercy that pardons. mere
that heals, everlasting mercy. The twely
gates OF Gods love stand open. Enter an
be forever safe.
There is in a forest in Germany a plaC
they call the deer leap"-two crags. abol
eighteen yards apart, between them fea
full chasm. This is called the deer leap
because once hunter was on the track
a deer. 1t came to one of these crag
There was no escape for it from the pu
suit of the hunter and in utter despair
! gathered itself up and in the death agon
attempted to jump across. Of course
fell and was dashed on the rocks far b
meath. Here is a path to heaven. 1t
plain; it is safe. Jesus marks il out (,
every man to walk in. But here is a ma
who says, 81 won't walk In that path;
Will take my own way" He comes on I
until he confronts the chasm that divid
his soul from heaven. Now his last hol
has come, and he resolves that he will les
that chasm from the heights of earth
the heights of heaven. Stand back no
and give him full swing. for no soul ev
did that successfully. Let him try. Juml
He misses the mark and he goes dow
1pnfh heloxp dantb ssdasfroVed Wit hO