The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-07-17


crct rnmg. wncrner IL Dc guou Of
whether 1t be evil" This dny~aye
Il this very minute-on account of that
past sick bed thou art not far from
the kingdom Of God"
Signs OF the Time.
Almost saved! Yes YOU are. know
it. Why? The many "slgns of the
time tell us that hundreds and thou
sands Of immortal men ana women
are now enrolling themselves MS Chris
tan soldiers under the standard Of the
cross. And there IL Il mighty propel-
ling force in the power Of numbers
4 We all marvel ut the wonderful abil-
! ity of observation to which the trap
pers and the hunters OF old were able
to train their visual powers. For days
and weeks the Indian scouts were able
to follow their enemies across the west
4 ern prairies by the twisted blades of
grass and by other minute signs they
| were able to tell how many Indians
were In the war party ahead, how
many horses and cattle and squaws
4 ana papooses. During the Austro-
prussian war in 1866 Arehduke Joseph
/ of Austria was warned of an imminent
4 night attack by a gypsy soldier who
was able to foresee the advance of the
4 pursuing hosts by watching the birds
| fly over the Austrian eneampment.
| This soldier said TO Prince Joseph:
| "Your highness, birds sleep as we'll as
men. These birds would not be flying
| about at this time Of night If they had
| not been disturbed The enemy In
| large numbers is marching through the
woods and has frightened them. There
will soon be fighting on our front lines"
But, though hunters and trappcrs have
almost miraculous seeing powers in
reference to the natural world, 1t does
not take an inspired vision to see that
we are now living In 4 time Of great
religious awakening. How else can
you account for the thousands who, as
converts are giving their hearts TO |
Jesus Christ under the consecrated la |
bors of the evangeistic committee of
the Presbyterian church! How else !
can you account for the wonderful |
meetings of Campbell Morgan in Amer |
lea, and Of Torrey and Alexander in |
Australia and England, and the crowd
ed schools for Bible study in Winona |
and Northfeld and Chautauqua and |
Moody's institute of Chicago? Every |
where the vital question N upon every |
lip, "What shall l then do with Jesus,
who is called the Christi" Like PLATE
before the Jewish people. You must de-
eide the question in reference to Jesus
You must decide for Christ or against
Christ And in bringing YOU up to this
question | cannot be far wrong In stat
ing that thou art not far from the
kingdom Of God"
But why talk so much about the
wonderful manifestations Of the Holy
Spirits power in reference TO the world
at large? Have not we seen that pow
er manifested in our own church? Men
and women, can you sit stolidly in your
pcws when husbands and wives and
children and young men ana women
are seeking Jesus Christ, while so
many old people and middle aged PEG
pie and young people are coming? God
will never give you better opportu-
nifty TO seek him than just now, VIII
you not come to the Saviour now?
The last time Dwight l.. Moody ever
preached was at great series of meet
ings being held in Convention hall,
Kansas City. Suddenly he broke down,
and The doctors told him he must stop
work ut once. They bundled the great
lot n pI OF ri OH Ia Of for |
his Northiield home. But. though the
doctors could silence his tongue, they
could not keep still his pen. When \
they carried him to Mortified, with Z
his weak fingers he wrote out a tele
gram to his Kansas City friends who ,
were carrying on the meetings in his
stead. His telegram went something
like this: "Mr. Sonnd so. Kansas city:
Have reached home safely. Regret OK
ceedingly being forced to leave Had
been with you tonight | would have
preached on Thou art not far from ,
the kingdom Of God My prayer IS ,
that many may be led into the king
dom under Mr., Torrcy's preaching"
Oh. my friends, the redeemed lips Of
the Silntpu tNHnEtllSL are NlPHll1iG
with You from this text in this service
today. That same divine power which I
brought thousands and tens of thou 4
sands of sinners to the fountain of q
eternal life is pleading with you TO
come 10 Christ, even now while great ,
muItitudes are seeking him. Like \
King Agrippa, are You going TO be
almost persuaded and lost? Or like
Paul, the chief of sinners" are you !,
o be coronated ard to have seat up
IN throne IN heaven with Jesus
christ?
I know Of land where the streets are !,
paved
with the things which we meant to
achieve &
Il is walled with the money we meant 10
have saved
And the PLEASURES for which we gricvc j
rho kind words unspokcn. the promises
broken
And many coveted boon
Are stored away IN that land somewhere =
The land u Pretty soon"
There are uncut Jewels of possible fame
Lying there about I'm the dust
nd pv.n stniiq and laFfr aim