The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-03
never examined the evidences


Christianity.
Thomas Chalmers, once a skeptic.
Robert Hall once a skeptic, Christmas
Evans once a skeptic; but when they
did lay hold Of the gospel chariot how
they made it speed ahead! If, there
fore, l address men and women who
have drifted away into skepticism, l
throw out no scott: I rather implead
you by the memory of those good OLD
times when you knelt at your
mothers knee and said your evening
prayer. and those other days of sick
ness when she watched all night and
gave you the medicines at just the
right time and turned the pillow when
it was hot, and with hand long ago
turned to dust soothed your pains and
with that voice you will never hear
again unless you join her in the bet
ter country. told you never mind, you
would be better by and by, and by
that dying couch where she talked so
slowly, catching her breath between
the words-by all those memories I
ask you to come and take the same re-
ligion. 1t was good enough for her;
it is good enough for you.
Aye. l make a better plea. By the
wounds and the death throe of the Son
of God, who approaches You IN infinite
love with torn brow and lacerated
hands and whipped back. crying.
Come unto me, all ye that labor and
are heavy laden, and I will give you
rest!"
Other persons apologize for not en-
tering the Christian life because OF
the incorrigibility of their tempeTa-
ment Now. we admit it is harder Tor
some people to become Christians
than for others. but the grace of God
never came to mountain that 1t
could not climb or to an abyss that 1t
could not fathom or to a bondage that
1T could not break And the widest,
the haughtiest. the most ungovernable
man ever created by the grace of God
may be subdued and sent out on min
istry of kindness, as God sends an
August thunderstorm to water the
wild flowers down in the grass.
Rich harvests of grace may grow on
the summit of the jagged steep, and
fiocks OF Christian graces may find
pasturage in fields of bramble and
rock. Though your disposition may
be all a-bristle with fretfulness, though
you nave d temper " ALL
| quick lightnings. though your avarlce
be like that of the horse leech, crying,
| "Give!' though damnable impurities
have wrapped you in all consuming
fire, God can drive that devil out of
| your soul, and over the chaos and
the darkness he can say, Let there be
light"
Converting grace has lifted the
| drunkard from the ditch and snatched
the knife from the hand of the assas-
sin and the false keys from the burg
lar, and in the pestiferous lanes OF
| the city met the daughter of sin I'M
der the dim lamplight and scattered
her sorrow and her guilt with the
words, Thy sins are forgiven; go
and sin no more" For scarlet sin q
| scarlet atonement
Other persons apologize for not en-
tering the Christian life because of the
Inconsistencies of those who profess
religion. Now, l say it is illogical. Poor
| lawyers are nothing against Jurlspru
dence; poor physicians are nothing
against medicine; poor farmers arc
nothing against agriculture, and mean
contemplate professors Of religion are
nothing against our glorious Chris
tienity.
Sometimes you have been riding
along on a summer night by swami
and you have seen lights that kindlet
over decayed vegetation-lights which
are called jack-o'-lantern or w1ll-o'
the-wisp These lights are merely poi
sonous miasmata My friends, on you
way to heaven you will want a bette
light than the '-the-wisps which
dance on the rotten character Of mort
bund Christians. EXudations from
poisonous trees in our neighbours gar
den will make a very poor balm TO
our wounds.
Sickness will come, and we will b.
pushed out toward the Red sea which
! divides this world from the next, an
not the inconsistency of Christians, bu
the rod of faith, will wave back tn
waters as a commander wheels hi
host The judgment will come, witt
its thunder shod solemnities. Oh, thel
we will not stop and say, There was
mean Christian; there was a coward.
Christian; there was an impure Chris
tian" In that day as now, If thou b
wise, thou shalt be wise for thyseli
but if thou soonest thou alone shall
! bear it
Why, my brother, the inconsistent
of Christians. SO far from being a
argument to keep you away from Goo
ought to be an argument to drive 20
to Him. The best place for a skiIlfu
doctor is in a neighborhood wher
there are all poor doctors, the hes
place for an enterprisng merchant t
open his store is in a place where tn