Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-10-17

calypso says It 10 fountain Kissed Oh INC
sun. Ezekiel says it is foliaged cedar.
fetch home bride While Job in the
text takes up a whole vase OF precious
stones-the topaz and the sapphire ana
the chrysoprasus-he takes out OF TINS
beautiful vase Just one crystal and hoIos
it up until it CLEANS in the warm light 1T, OF
the eastern sky, and he exclalms, Inc
crystal cannot equal It!
Oh, it ia not stale religion. it is not
stupid religion, it is not toothless bag, as
come seem to have represented it; it is
not a Meg Merrilies with shriveled arm
come to scare the world. 1t is the farest
daughter of God. heiress OF al His wealth,
her cheeks the morning sky, her voice the
music OF the south wind, her step the
dance of the sea. Come and WOO her:
whosoever will let him come. Do YOU
agree with Solomon and say it is a lily!
Then pluck it and wear It over your neart.
Do you agree with Paui and say 1t is
crown? Then lei this hour be Your coro-
nation. Do you agree with the Apocac
Then come and slake the thirst OF your
soul Do you believe with Ezekiel and
say it is a foliaged cedar? Then come I'M
der it's shadow. Do you believe with
Christ and say it is a bridegroom come to
fetch home a bride? Then strike hands
with your Lord and King while ] pro-
nounce you everIastingiy one. Or if you
think with JOB that it Is a jewel, then put
it on your hand like a ring, on YOUR neck
like bead on your forehead like a star,
while, looking into the mirror Of God 8
word, you acknowledge The crystal can
not equal IT,"
"What." say you. will God wear lew
eIry?" If He wanted it He could make
the stars OF heaven His belt and have the
evening cloud for the sandals OF HIS f set
But He does not want that adoTnment.
He will not have that jewelry. When
God wants jewelry He comes down and
digs it out OF the depths and darkness OF
sin. These souls are all crystalilzatons OF
mercy. He puts them on, and He wears
them in the presence Of the whole UNI
verse. He wears them on the hand that
was nailed over the hear that was
pierced on the temples thar were stung.
'Thev shall be Mine saith the Lord, IN
the day when | make uD Nv jewels.
Wonderful transformation Where SIN
abounded grace shall much more abound.
The carbon becomes the solitaire. Il ne
| CRYSTAL cannot equal it
Three crystals! john SAYS cIystal at.
mosphere. That means health. Balm OF
eternal June. What weather after the
worlds east wind. No rack OF storm
clouds One breath OF that air viii cure
the worst tubercle. CRYSTAL light on all
the leaves; crystal light shimmerinG on
the topaz OF the temples: crystal light
tossing in the plumes OF the equeatrains
Of heaven on white horse. But the
crystal cannot equal it," John says cryS,,
tai river. That means Joy. Deep and
| ever rolling. Not one drop OF the Potomac
or the Hudson or the Rhine to soil it; not
one tear OF human sorrow 10 lmbltter 1t.
| Crystal, the rain out OF which it was made:
| CRYSTAL the bed over which it shall roll
al 70 q
! But "the crystal cannot equal ii" john
saws crystal sea. That means multitude
nously vast, vast IN rapture, rapture vast
| as the sea, deep as the sea. strong as the
sea, ever changing as the sea; hlI!ows of
| light, pillows OF beauty. blue with SKIES
| that were never clOuded and green with
| depths that were never fathomed; Arctlc4
| and Antarctics and McditeTr&neans and
| Atlantics and Pacfics in crystalline mag
niiicence. Three crystals - crystal light
| falling on crystal river. crystal river
rolling into a crystal sea. But the crys-
| tai cannot equal it.
oh" says some one, putting his hand
over his eyes, can it be that | who have
| been in SO much sin and trouble will ever
come to those crystalsE Yes, it may be
it will be. Heaven we must have, what
| ever we have or have not, and we come
| here to get it. Glow much must | pay
for it," you say. You viii pay Tor it just
az much as the coal pays to become the
| diamond. In other words, nothing. The
same Almighty power that makes the crys
| tai in the mountain will change your heart
which is harder than stone, for the prom
| Use liz, Il viii take away your stony heart
and | will give you heart OF flesh
"Oh," says some one. ''it is just the
doctrine l want. God is to do everything
and l am to DO nothing" My brother, it
| is not the doctrine you want. The coal
makes no resistance 1t hears the rcsur
rection voice i'll the mountain, and 1t
comes to capitalization, but your heart re
sists The trouble with you. my brother
is the coal wants to stay coal.
do not ask you to throw open the door
and let Christ in l only ask that you
we will have to get rid of our sins. l vii
have to get rid of my sins, and YOU vii
have to get rid of your sins. What vii
we do with our sins among the three
crystals? The crystal atmosphere wOuC
display our pollution. The crystal river
would be befouled with our touch. Trans
| forma ton must take place now or nC
transformation at all. Give sin full chance
| in your heart, and the transformation W!l
be downward instead of upward. Instead
| of a crystal it will be n cinder.
In the days of Carthage Christian CIR
was condemned to die for her faith, and
boat was bedaubed with tar and pitch anC
| filled with combustibles and set on fire
| and the Christian girl was placed in The
boat, and the wind was offshore, and The
boat foated away with its precious treas
ure No one can doubt that boat landed
| at the shore OF heaven. Sin wants to pu
YOU in fiery boat and shove you off in a,
opposite direetion-of from peace. of
from God, off from heaven, everlastng,,
off, and the port toward which you woult
sail would be a port of darkness. and tht
guns that would greet you would be thu
| guns of despair. and the flags that woulc
wave at your arrival would be the b,acl
flags of death. Oh. my brother, You mus
either kill sin or sin will kill you Ii is NJ
exaggeration when l say that any man o.
woman that wants to he saved may b.
saved. Tremendous choice! \ thousant
people are choosing this moment betweel
salvation and destruction. between ligh
and darkness, between charred ruin aIC
| glorious capitalization.
THOUGHT SMOKING A CRIME.