The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-07-29

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/ have crept into tho church and haze
introduced those thinss ~hich arc
doins harm 10 the church 10 the wri-
| lot Of this cplaflr exhofts the church
members to contend earnestly for
the faith which was ono. delivered
unto the saints The word contend
| means to asonlxe. stand true TO the
| principles OF the gospel. do not %.
turned aside 10 the right or left but
stand true
IT IL always a dangerous thing
for any movement TO become popu-
| lar. because ~ viii attract 10 II peo~
pi" sho viii Us" IT for a cloak. SO
this gospel. when 1t began 20 bocbme
popular attracted TO II those people
who did not have their heart In It,
Il have chosen one thought upon
which TO speak and given It wider
application than is given by the writ
ter Those people who have crept in
To the church are Ike clouds with
out water, carried about by winds;
trees whose fruit withereth, without
fruit. twice dead, plucked up by the
roots Raging waves OF the sea.
foamiug out their own shame Wan
dering stars. To whom Is reserved the
blackuess OF darkness forever
have thought Of the ocean in its
breadth aud eXpanse and of the ves-
sells that cross it. We can see three
classes of vessels. First the ocean
steamer. bent on business and though
storms may come and drive her from
her path, yet when the storm has
passed the captain directs the vessel
toward It's destination. This vessel
represents the man of business upon
the great sea of life. There is anoth-
er class we viii do well to notice.
The pleasure class; those out on the
ocean for a good time-these have
no business, no destination and they
represent another class in the social
world. people whom we see about
us every day. These people may be
harmless, but they are just drifting
without any thought why they were
! put into this world.
There is still another class
these are the most dangerous. we
lhave been told by sailors and marin
ers-all sailors are afraid of ice
bergs. All mariners are afraid OF
hidden rocks On the coral wreaths
many a vessel has been stranded
land gone down, but the greatest
danger is the derelict--the abandon
ed vessel, when all on board has per
ished and the vessel lying deep in
the water is drifting on How many
a proud vessel has truck the dere-
lict and gone down!
"As We stand ont and look at the
heavens We see the fixed stars. these
| represent that man or woman IN the
social world. who are fixed and an
| chored to the Lord Jesus. Then
there is the wandering star. that
leaves its orbit and breaks away
from it's chosen path-this is the
meteor it is consumed; this is the
derelict of the heavens. The dereliCt
means something abandoned. some
thing adrift The abandoned man or
woman, The writer of Jude says
They are wandering stars. 10 whom
Is reserved the blackness OF darkness
forever Thus We find these three
classes. Those ON business for their
King. that man or woman is he fix
ed star. or the great ocean steamer.
which sas ,tF business To- transact
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lihr Kiar business. while we are
here Then there U.s. tbe second class.
and . fear some of us h.loug co this
for re- ia great class represented by
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