The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-24
The Blessed Rest.

What Is the use of going away off to get an illustration when in d house on Third Avenue. Brooklyn l saw a a. woman ad heaven used to be to me great way off. but it now Is just at the foot of the bed?" What Is the use of going away deathbed when all Wales was filled with the story of the dying experiences of Frances Ridley Havergal? She got her feet wet standing on the ground preach ing temperance and the gospel to group of boys and men, went home with chill, and congestion set in, and they told her she was very dangerously sick. "I thought so,'' she said, but it is really too good to be true that am going. Doc: tor, do you really think 1 am going?' "Yes." Today" Probably" She said. gate of heaven Then after spasm of pain she nestled down in the pillows and said There. now, it is all over-blessed rest" Then she tried to sing, and she to Christ, but could not sing only one word. He" and then all Was still. She finished it in heaven.
 Oh, fellow Christian workers, what Is the use of our being stale and obsolete and ancient when all around us are these evidences of Gods grace, Gods deliver 9nce Gods mercy and Gods wisdom? ? mons. freshen up in our songs, freshen up in our zeal, freshen up in our conse- cration, and if we do it, my brethren and
 
 people to come to church than if you throw corn on the ground you have to coax pigeons to come and at it, no more than you would have to coax tired horse to eat oats you throw in his man. ger. Yes, We must freshen up in our Sunday schools and in our prayer meet ings and in our pulpits;
 No Need tor Apologies.
 It is high time that the church of God stopped writing apologies for the church Let the men who are on the outside, who despise religion, write the 901logies. If any people do not want the church. they need not have it. It is a free cOu t, y. If any man does not want the gospel, he need not have 1t. It is a free country. But you go out, O people of God, and give the gospel to the m lions of America who do want it! It is high time to stop skirmi> hing and bring on a general en- gagement want to live to see the Ar mag! ddon, all the armies of heaven and h II in battle array. for I know our con- queror on the white horse will gain the day. It tn church of God be devoted to n' thing els but go light on to this
 When Moses with his army was trying to conquer the Ethiopiaus. prof ne his tory says. tt Was expected that he would go in a rounddbout way and come hy the banks or lhr river, as other armi. < had done, because the straight route was in feSte with snak \. and nu a my and no man had dared tn go across this sc-pent- lnfc sted region. But Moses surpris, them. He sent his men out to gath r up ibises The ibis is d bird celebrated for scrpent-slayng, and thoSe ibises were gathered into crat's and lto baskets. and they were carried al the head of the army of Moses, and coming up to the se,pent-infested region the crates were Tpened, and the ib ee flew forth. and the wIv was. cleared, and the army If Noses "a chcd right o1 and came s1 uneNre, l. dlv on the Ethiopians that they flew in vild dismay O church Of God, you are not to march in a roundabout way, hut to go straight forward, depending upon