Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-12-10
MAN LOST, BUT
YET NEAR HOME

Friends, is there any difference be-
tween a man being lost and soul be-
ing lost It was cold winter day,
a deep snow lay on the ground, and
it seemed as though the very atmos-
phere was frozen. A man was out
hunting to find a deer or some other
game for food, as they were poor and
had not much for his family to eat
This happened in my boyhood days. J
He anxiously searched all day, know
ing his children we're waiting at home
with their mother, hungry. He got
weary and night was coming on, just
as be discovered he was lost Bears,
wolves and panthers roamed in those
woods. He walked fast and looked in
every direction, but il availed him
nothing His folks shot guns, but he
wandered all night, nearly covered
with snow and ice. He was very hun
CRY and his family was hungry when
he got in next day, but, friends, there
didn't one of them think of hunger,
when they realized that papa was
lost. They knew that 1T meant so
much to be lost out there when night
cal me on. The wild animals might
overpower him or the severe cold
might overcome him, and their anxiety
was very great.
Oh, do we really feel the weight
or meaning of the word, "lostr
Now, every one of mankind in per-
feet state, constitutes soul When
the body of man was made of the
Dust, it was a mere vessel, yet man.
Bat when God breathed the breath
of life into his nostrils (nOw take no.
tice, God is life, he breathed life,
which is spirit. small portion into
Adam, and he became living soul.
A union between the animal life and
the spiritual life, (which was termed
soul) and man became living soul.
While man finds himself in possession
of high type of animal life, this life
was given to said image of God for
purpose in carrying out Gods mission
that He gave to man.
Now, this man was lost, but that
soul was not necessarily in lost con
dition. The animal life was lost and
in deep anxiety. and the spiritual life
was still lost. If he had not been arous-
ed from the letbargy or inactivity of
dead soul. Jesus came to seek and
to save that which was lost. The
trumpet, Jesus, has sounded, and the
dead in Adam, the lost souls, are hear
ing Gods voice, and are coming out OF
the wilderness of sin. Oh, yes, they
have been lost so long, they are hun
CRY in their soul. Spiritually hungry
and they don't get weary in feeding
Oh the spiritual food, for they are
hungeriug after righteousness. oh.
that trumpet, it sounds so loud. Lis
ten, don't you hear it, loud enough to
raise up the dead. Even though
was dead (lost), heard it, f-r it
sounded way over the valley of death,
and through the wilderness of sin,
and the lost souls are hearing. Oh.
may God help you to hear His sweet
voice. This man was lost near home.
You say how could that be. for you
are speaking of the heavenly home and
how could soul be near the heav-
enly home, and be lost Friends,
just think seriously for moment.
Do you realize that we are very care
less. Yes, Jesus has said there was a
home in glory for the asking. ASK
and you shall receive" Again He
says, Whatsoever you ask in prayer,
believing, ye shall receive /" You see
it means so much to believe. This
man was near home and they fired
guns, but he could not hear. He
might have heard the guns they are
using in Europe today but the sound
of the trumpet Of Jesus is sounding
louder than any machines that man
can make. Even the dead heard His
voice. Dead in trespasses and sins.
How is it that the voice of Jesus
SOUNDS SO loud You 60 to your bro
ther bedside to wake him from his
slumbers, you place your hand on his
God touches the tender places in our
hearts, If we have any II our hearts
have become hard and stoney He will
give us tender hearts IL we ask Him
This man was not far from home, but
hid his home. There was
a veil before him, and he kept cir
cling around to the left. And our
home is straight up, SO you see we
must constantly be seeking higher
planes. This man was so near, yet
lost. Jesus says, Luke 10, verses 10
aud II, but into whatsoever city
ye enter, and they receive you not, go
your ways out into the streets of the
same, and say, even the very dust of
your city, which cleaveth on us, we
40 wipe Off against you; notwithstand-
Ing b9 ye sure of this, that the king
lom of God is come nigh unto you.
so no matter how near the kingdom
We are. and don't receive him, Jesus,
We cannot enter our home, we are
ost. The man and family of this mar
.atlve were very much exercised over
me lost condition of papa in the north
woods. Friends, listen, our minds
eem to comprehend the situation Of
nan lost in the woods on cold night,
'r the loss of property or friend, but
ian we comprehend the loss of the
oul, or the terror that awaits the lost
oul in eternity or hell. A thing that
GEMS small, perhaps, to some. like
making unfriendly remarks about
ome soul, while the kingdom of God
nay bs ever SO nigh to them, these
little things will draw them to the
eft and away from home. "And the
oul that sinneth, it shall die. Let
is be kind aud tender hearted and
make for peace and perhaps save
oul from hell. We. were lost, and
esus brought our t1Ins near and
rev us on OF many waters. Let us
.ns his praises unto all nations;
raise ye the Lora
Brother Eiitor, | want to say that
njoyed Brother VIM Loach's article
nd some otasrs God be-s them