The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-03-01

'- 'iS "0'teI country, tod you 10 neye
mind. for you would feel better by an,
by. and by that dying couch where sh,
looked so pale and talked so slowly
catching her breath between the word,
and you felt an awful loneliness com.
Ing over your soul. BY all that BEG
YOU TO come back and take the same
religion. II was good enough for her
Ii Is good enough FOR you. Nav. |
have a better plan than that. plead
by all the wounds and tears and blood
and groans and agonies and death
throes Of the Son Of God. who ap-
proaches you at this moment with torn
brow and lacerated hands and whipped
back, and saying: "Come unto me, all
ye who are weary and heavy laden.
and | will give you rest"
Again. there is a field OF usefulness
out little touched. occupied by those
who are astray in their habits. All
northern nations. ike those OF North
America and England and Scotland
that is, in the colder climates-are dew
as'ated by alcoholism. They take the
hre to keep up the warmth. In south
ern countries, like Arsb and Spain.
'he blood Is so warm they are not
tempted TO fiery liquids. The great
homan armies never drank anything
stronger than water tinged with vine
gar but under our northern climate
the temptation to heating stimulsnts
IS most mighty, and millions Succumb.
Nhen a mans habits 90 wrong the
church drops him, the social circle
drops him, good influences drop him.
we all drop him. OF all the men who
get on the track but few ever get on
again. Near my summer residence
there is hfe-saving station on the
oeach' There are all the ropes and |
rockets, the boats. the machinery for
getting people off shipwrecks. One
summer | saw there IS or 20 men who
were breakfasting after having Just es-
capped with their lives and nothing
more. Up and down our coasts are
Quilt these useful structures. and the
mariners know II, and they feel that
II they are driven 10 the breakers there
VIII oe apt from shore TO come rescue.
The churches OF God ought TO be so
many hfe-saving stations, not 30
much TO help those who are in smooth
waters. but those who have been ship
wrecked. Come. let us run out the
llieDoats! And who will man them?
We DO not preach enough to such
men; we have not enough faith in
heir release. Alas, II when they
come 10 hear us we are laboriously
ry ng TO show the difference between
Dlapsarionism and supra apsarian-
sm' while they have c hundred yipers
'f remorse and despair coiling
iround and biting their immortal spir.
is. The church is not chiefly for
,oodish sort Of men, whose procliyl-
les are all right and who could get 10 ,
heaven praying and singing in their
'wn homes. 1t is on the beach to
ielp the drowning. Those bad cases
re the cases that God likes TO take
iold or lie can save a Oig sinner as
veil as small sinner, and when a
nan calls earnestly 10 God for help
e will 60 out to deliver such a one.
1t were necessary, God would come
own from the sky, followed by all
he artillery OF Heaven and a million
ngels with drawn swords. Get 100
lch redeemed men in your churches
nd nothing could stand before them.
or such men are generally warm
earted and enthusiastic. No formal
rayers then. No heartless singing
len. No cold conventionalisms then.
Destitute children of the street Of
r field Of work comparatively un-
coupled. The uncared for children
re in the majority in most Of our
ties. When they grow up. IL un-
formed, they will outyote your chill N
'en, and they will govern your chill II
en. The whisky ring will hatch out VI
her whisky rings, and grog shops III
III kill with their horrd stencil pub ga
sobriety unless the church Of God be
ses up with outstreiched arms and ie
folds this dying population in her OF
som. Public schools cannot do It. fr
I cannot do IT. Backwelrs island ba
!
Jails canont DO 1t. Church Of God.
Ike up 10 your magnificent missionl
u can do i'll Get somewhere, some .
W to work. III
The Prussian cavalry mount by put M
Y their right foot into the stir ~
p, while the American cavalry
'unt by putting their left foot into Nc
P stirrup. l do not care how you iu'
'unt your war charger II you only P"
into this battle for God and get pa.
re soon, right stirrup or left stir Wis
} or no stirrup at all. The unoccu- kn
d fields are all around US, and why rs
'uld we build on another mans ant
ndation? | have heard Of what IN
s called the laundering legion" apl
was in 179, a part Of the Roman cor
ny 10 which some Christians be- CAT
ged and their prayers, IL was said, Hi'
re answered by thunder and light IN
Q and hail and tempest, which
rthrew an invading army and y
ed the empire. And ! would TO a..
that our churches might be so
'hty in prayer and work that they o"'
I'D become laundering legion be- un'
, which the forces Of sin might be -
ted and the gates Of hell might ."e
nble. Launch the Gospel ship for in'' III
ther voyage. Heave away now, tho
B! Shake out the reefs in the fore sug
sail, Come, o Heavenly wind, and you
the canvas. Jesus aboard will as SER
our safety. Jesus on the sea will OF
lon MS forward Jesus on the 70