St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-02-23

does not say to the Ay: "Come into
the web where ] kin insects" Oh,
no. The spider Gays: Dearest dy.
como and talk . morning walk with
me ON this suspension bridge Of gos-
samer glittering with diamonds Of
dew" Do not be hard on those gone
astray. It makes me sad to see Chris
tisn people give mp . prodigal as lost.
There are those who talk as though
the grace of God were . chain of 10
or so links and that when they had
run out there was nothing left to
touch bad case. II they were hunt
ing and got on the track Of the deer,
they would look longer among the
brakes and bushes for the lost game
than they would look for that lost
soul. $3.50 tS essN
People tell us that If . man has
del;rium tremens twice he cannot be
reclaimed, that il q woman has sac
rificed her integrity she cannot be
restored. The Bible has distinctly
intimated that the Lord Almighty
is ready to pardon four hundred and
ninety times. Why do say four hum
dred and ninety times? Because the
Bible says seventy times seven"
Now figure that out. You do not
think a man can fall four times. eight
times, ten times, twenty times, one
hundred times, four hundred times
and yet be saved. Four hundred and
ninety times! There are men before
the throne of God who have wallowed
in every kind Of sin, but saved by the
grace of Christ and washed in His
blood they stand there radiant now.
There are those who plunged into the
very lowest depths of the slums and
who have for hundreds Of times been
lifted up, and finally, by the grace of
God, they stand in Heaven, gloriously
rescued by the grace promised to the
chief Of sinners.
want to tell you that God loves to
take hold of a very bad case. When
the church casts you off. and when
the clubroom casts you off, and when
society casts you off, and when bust
ness associates cast you off, and when
father casts you off, and when moth
er casts you of, and when everybody
casts you off, your first cry for help
will bend the eternal God clear down
into the ditch of your suffering and
shame. The Good Templars cannot
save you, although they are a grand
institution. The Sons Of Temperance
cannot save you, although they are
mighty for good. Signing the tenn
perance pledge cannot save you. al
though 1 believe in it. Nothing but
the grace of the eternal God can save
you, and that will if you will throw
yourself on it.
They talk about the catacombs OF
Naples and the catacombs Of Rome
and the catacombs of Egypt. the
great burial places under the city
where is the dust of many genera
tions passed on, but I tell you New
York has its catacombs and Washing
ton its catacombs and all our cities
their catacombs. They are under
ground liquor dives, full Of dead mems
bones and all uncleanliness. There is
no need of going into the art gallery
to see in skillful sculpture that won
derful representation Of q man and
his sons wound round with serpents.
There are families represented here
to-day that are wrapped in the mar
tyrdom OF fang and scale and venom.
a living LAGOON of ghastliness and
horror.
There is only one class of persons
about whom / am disheartened, and
they are the Gospel hardened. They
have been faithful in attendance at
churches for 20, 30 and 40 years, yet
never have surrendered themselves to
God. AS Christ says: "Publicans and
harlots go into the kingdom of heav-
en- before them" They have resisted
all the importantly of divine mercy
and have gone through most power
full earthquakes of religious feeling,
and they are farther away from God
than ever. After awhile they win lie
down sick, and some day it will be
told that they are dead. No hope!
But turn to outsiders with an ex-
pectation that thrills through me,
body and soul. ''Other sheep have,
which are not of this fold" You are
not Gospel hardened. You have not
heard many sermons during the last
few years. You feel the Holy Ghost
this moment in your heart. You do
not weep, but the tear is not far off.
You sigh, and you have noticed that
there is always a sigh in the wind be-
fore the rain falls. There are those
here who would give anything if they
could find relief in tears. They say:
"Oh, my wasted life! Oh, the bitter
past! Oh, the graves over which ]
have stumbled! Whittier shall / fly?
Alas, for the future! Everything is
so dark, SO very dark! God help me!
God pity. mel" Thank the Lord for
that last utterance. You have begun
to pray, and when a man begins to
petition, God steps in and beats back
the hounds of temptation to their
kennel and round about the poor
wounded soul puts the covert of his
pardoning mercy. Hark! I hear
something fall. What was that? 1t
is the bars Of the fence around the
sheepfold. The Shepherd let's down
the bars, and the hunted sheep of the
mountain bound in, some of them
their fleece torn with brambles. some
of them their feet famed with the
dogs, but bounding in. Thank God!
"Other sheep have, which are not
Of this fold"
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