St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-10-24
Copyright, 1893, by ]. II. Edison.
tion can no man lay than that IL laid
which Is Jesus Christ. /" And 60 we are moi

eenl W Tell you now to lay foundation
we are not going to try to show you hov
you can improve the foundation you hay
Deen trying to lay on which to establish
your soul, but we come to you in tn,
name OF the eternal God Of Heaven, an,
point you to the only foundation, tn,
ROCK Christ Jesus. The God who ha.
created you and placed within you
bosom that precious, undying soul, ha
not left you to perish upon the shiftin,
sands OF time, but has established sur,
Foundation, an enduring Foundation
and that Foundation is Christ. Upol
Him and Him alone the soul may rest IL
peace and safety. AS we sing in the ole
Gospel hymn: "All other ground is sink
Ing sand" And 80 the man whose life /.
not founded on the Rock Christ Jesus 1,
the man without a foundation; he is tn,
foolish man.
WITHOUT foundation a building
w is unsafe. and certain of de.
struction when the storm descends up.
on it. and man without a foundation
is unsafe. Unsafe! The fact that he
does not realize his peril does not
prove that his position is not unsafe
The man who few years ago was
swept over the falls of Niagara, with
the careless laugh scarcely cold upon
his lips, while his friends or the bank
sought to warn him of his peril, was not
kept from going down to death in the
roaring, plunging waters, because he
did not realize his peril. And the man
without a foundation is in a position
OF peril, of awful peril, and in danger
OF plunging his soul into eternal ruin,
even though he does not realize it.
And the fact that the man without a
foundation continues to prosper and
flourish in this life does not prove
that his position is not one of peril.
This is one of the mysteries of life
which troubles the Christian sometimes.
The man without a foundation seems
to have SO much and to be SO securely
established. and the Christian who has
a foundation has SO little. This was
what troubled the Psalmist He says:
Il was envious at the foolish, when I
saw the prosperity of the wicked"
Without foundation they seemed to
have SO much and to endure. But when
he went into the presence Of the Lord,
"then," says he, Il understood their
end. Surely Thou didst set them in
slippery places; Thou easiest them
down to destruction" During the
time of fair skies and gentle winds the
house on the sand stood, but when the
storm came it fell. During the few
years of this life the man without q
foundation may seem to get along
pretty well, but when the storms of life
settle down, and death cuts the soul
OF, then the awful lack Of foundation
is realized. The man without founda-
ton is in terrible peril.
p UT for this life, the man without
- foundation is unstable in all his
ways. The Psalmist in the first
Psalm sharply draws the contrast be-
tween the man with foundation and
the man without The former is like
a tree planted deeply and firmly by
rivers of water. that bringeth forth his
fruit in his season; his leaf also shall.
not wither; and whatsoever he doeth
shall prosper" But the man without a
foundation is like the chaff which the
wind driveth away He is tossed
hither and thither. Inclination draws
this way to-day, and circumstances
and temptations drive that way to-,
morrow. There is no fixedness of pur-
pose, because God is left out of the
reckoning. Human reason, human
judgments, human tendencies de-
termine the life and conduct, and to-
day the man stands in this position,
or holds this view, or adopts this pol
icy. engages In this enterprise, seeks
this avenue of pleasure or diversion,
and tomorrow has shifted to another
position, he holds other views, he has
another policy, engaged in
other enterprise, or Is rushing after
the latest pleasure and diversion which
the world in its Internal ingenuity has
devised. The man without foundatlon'I
Is unstable.
Not many weeks ago there came
moving through the streets of the Sec
ton Of the city where reside house.
A house without foundation. And
It was on the move. AS I passed 1t
one evening with my little girl, she
suddenly exclaimed: "Why, papc. !
there is someone living in it," And
sure enough there was A house with
,ut foundation sheltering its precious
human lives. And many human life
without foundation is sheltering an
eternal soul. And 1t moves on. Here |
.o-day, there tomorrow, perpetual |
menace to the precious soul it shelters. !
b UT the house which was moving |
y through the streets was being taken |
Is direct as possible to a foundation |
which would support it and give 1t |
Would that everyone |
Who hears or reads this message, who |
8 without foundation, might be led to
move upon the only Foundation,
,hrist Jesus. God is not going to push
lis Foundation under you and force
,ou to stand upon it. You must leave
our present position. and get over to
where Christ is. Repent! is Gods mes
age to you. The hard. unrepentant
leart does not realize the peril Of the
mixing sand, but repentance opens
he eyes Of the soul to its desperate
nd lost condition In sin. God be
nerciful to me- sinner" must be the
nv. observation-disclosures and genuine
the condition Of heart
,hich will break the letters which