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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1887-8-5, Page 3rafters �, AuuusT 5, 1.887 pend largely upon the answer we n 3OCt.I°ll, give to that question, practioally in our lives. I with I could impre's —'� this fact upon yon—that religion is a personal matter, salvation is a personal spatter, darnuation is a per- sonal matter. Nobody can repent for you, Nobody will die for you, Nobody rill appear at the judgment omit for you. God will judge you as personally as if you were the only man that over lived In Canada —its if you were the only human being that ever lived in this world. I wish men could see their indivld• ual personal responsibility to God. What most l do—not what must Canada do—not what must Amer. ice do—not what must Buffalo or Toronto do—but what must I do to be saved. Consider this term salvatiou,ilthis torm in the text, "to be saved."' Our terminology, some- times our can't, confuses this, ono of the grandest, dearest, broadest terms in all the scripture. Salvo - WHAT IS IT ? Half -way in and kali-way out Of its tiny house, Nearly all the time, no doubt, Still ae any mouse. But quite suddenly, mayhap, It will turn around, Say abruptly "Click 1" or "Clack 1" Make a rattling sound. Very food of keeping still In its little home, It will go, too—if you will --- Anywhere you roam .I Keep on its right aide, and learn 'Tisa triokish sprite : Or, perhaps, 'twill take a turn— What you out sumo night I Are you wondering whore and haw This strange thing can be ? Well—you need not puzzle now— I'll give you the key. PRO ooNFBSSO. Whose writes delightful story, True and touching, full of lore, Shall in human nature's longing Hold a place for evermore. All the 'looks and mossy harbors, Whore the sea ships come and go, Still rehearse that spell and pleasing Of the pages of Defoe. Eldorado ?—still we wonder Can there any Island lie In the west of life's attaining, Where our prime might never die ? Still in secret depths of foaling Wo escape Time's onward span ; For rhe youth's remote tranofusion Sirs the pulse of tho man. A. COB:43=80LO. Oh 1 fo• a gun with n seven-inch bore, All carefully loaded and set, With its muzzle in front of the sleepless youth Who tortues the brass cornet. Oh I for a olub, and a stout ono, The biggest that man could get, To knock the breath clean out of the youth Who tortures the brass cornet, It' WE ONLY ANEW. If we knew that forms aro fainting For the shade that we should fling— If we knew what lips were parohing For the water we should bring, We would haste with eager footsteps, We would work with willing hands, Bearing cups of cooling water, Placing rows of shadin( palms, If we knew what friends around us Closely press to say good-bye, Which among tho lips that kiss us First shbuld'neath the daisies lie,— We would clasp our arms around them, Looking on them through our tears ; Tender Words of love eternal We would whisper in their ears. If we knew that lives wore darkened By some thoughtless words of ours, Which had ever lain around them Like the frost among the flowers,— Oh 1 with what sincere repentenoe, With what anguish of regret, While our eyes were overflowing, We would say, "Forgive I Forget I" If we knew—Alas I and do we Ever care to seek or know, Whether bitter herbs or flowers In our neighbor's garden row 0 God forgive us I lest hereafter • Our hearts break to hear him say : "Careless child, I never knew you ; From my presence flee away I" THE FAULTS OF PREACHERS. Some are too weak, and some• are too strong Some are too short, 'and some are too long : Some are too stout, and some are too thin ; Some always out and some always in ; Some are too good and some are too bad; Some aro too grave and some are too glad Some nn their clothes are too exquisite ; Some never study, and some never visit ; Some aro too fine and some are too plain ; Some preach the same sermons again and again. Some, spite of whatever the oritios may saIn the midst of their most solemn ser- mons look gay ; And some, howe'er,pleasing the fact they rehearse, Are unable to smile, but look grave as a hearse, Some in their business transactions aro muffs ; Some can't keep their temper, but get in- to huffs ; Some are too high and some are too low ; And soma in their first sermon toll All they know ; Some are too hutnblo and some are too proud ; Some are too faint and some are too loud ; Some have many faults, some have but one ;. But I never hoard tell of ons that had none. SAM JONES AT NIAGARA, THE GEORGIA EVANGELIST PREACH- ES IN WESLEY PARK. Rev. Sam Jones said : I believe wo can select no eubjeatof more in• finite imporlaneo thou that which we can find in this question with its answer, "Whitt must I do to be saved 2" Pre•ominontly a personal question ; and the honor of Gimlet and Ilse salvation of our souls do. tion is not a shout, or a song, or getting happy, or joining the church, or being baptised,, or read• ing good hooka, or keeping good com- pany. Salvation is not simply be- ing able to get up and relate a good experience. Salvation is not pray. ing in your families, or reacting in your Bibles, or attending Sabbath school. Salvation is not a sad oountoaanee, a dejected look, What is salvation ? 1 say can't confuses people. People go to an experience. meeting and hear us telling our ex• porience, and they regard salvation as a kind of sentiment implanted in the soul, that makes people happy, as something that is expressed in a shout or in a song What must 1 do to be saved 2 How will you answer this intelligently and wise- ly. I have no right to advise n man to do anything in answer to this question that he may not die doing and be saved. 1 might ad- vise him in answer to this question to read good books. I know that is good advice. I wish there were no other sort of books. I wish parents would see to it that no other Bortof books come within the scored pre- cincts of their homes. But a man might read good books all his life, and die unsaved. I might advise a man to keep good company, and we will never know in this world the value of good company, or the baneful influence of bad company. 1 have said frequently 1 would rather associate with a hog than with a men that drinks whiskey. You can associate with a bog until you become hoggish, but you will never become a drunkard by associ- ating with hogs. (Applause and laughter.) In any town the marsh. aI walked around the public square and every voter he met he asked the question, "Which would: you rather be a drunkard or by hog, 2" and every man said, "A. hog:" Then he went around (+gain, and said, "Which would you rather have in your parlor with your daughter, a drunkard or hog 2" and every follow said "A hog." (Laughter.) He meant a four•leBfied hog. .I would rather associate ,,,with a dog than a swearing man, ,because you' might associate with . a dog uutd. you became doggish, bat you would. never become profane; I never heard a four•logged dog swear in my life. No angel in Heaven is proof against bad company. NO being on earth but can .be,imprpved by good company. ,Bot a man might pink good company all his life and die unsaved. There is but one sufficiency, and that is faith in Jesus Christ. Now, here is whore ^ that Clod hetet 2 The text gives the whole question turns, tine grand the auewer, 'Believe on the Lord central pivot, Let us get an intaili ' deans Christ and thou shalt be gent idea of what salvation is ; then saved." That is the one sufficiency let us get en intelligent idea of how that eaves a man. Lot us see if we I may be saved ; then let us see eau got out the whole trutlh in this how I may keep saved. Now, :the answer. I have read some books definition of salvation in tho Ortho- and Beard some sermons on faith, dox teat -books is about this : Sal- and they were as clear ae mad. vation means deliverance from the (Laughter.) 1 have heard people guilt, from the love and from the on their knees praying for faith. power of sin, No orthodox evan• Do any of you reoolloot any verse in wattle text -book puts it any lower the Bible where anybody ever pray. than that. Then you say, it this is, ed for faith." (A. voice, "Lord in - true there are very few;ipooplo sav- crease our faith") Yee, and Jesus ed, and you aro about light. 1 Christ turned right round and re- havo found out this ;diuoh—that• bilked them. What did he mean 2 there is a groat deal ofdifference r "You don't need me to give you any between professing religion and po ' more, but use that you were born sassing religion. Tho only sortof with." You say, "Jones that won't religion I believe in at all is ;that do. "Faith la the gift of God." hundred Dents in the dollar tort. Yes, and eight is the gift of God, It is that sort of religion that make but seeing ie my job. (Applause a man tell the truth every �•timo itis and laughter.) The power to hear mouth flies open ; that.makee him is the gift of God, but liatenins is a good husband, a good father,- a my job. The power to taste is the good member of the Ohurch,• a;good gift of God, but lasting, ham and citizen in the community in Which eggs ie my job, and I'm glad it is. he lives. Wo have talked onbugh (Laughter.) So faith ie the gift of about a Heaven hereafter. Let us God, but believing is my job, and pitch in and have a little of it down God never believed for anybody. hero before we go up yonder. No God never did anything for anybody man ever went t0 heaven that didn't have a little heaven to go to Beavon in. There is too much THE BRUSSELS POST singiug "Ws-t.a•y Over Yonder in the Promised Laud," anti ".S,rett 13y•aud•byo." I want to hear peo• pie singiug "Sweet now and now." I want to have Heaven right down here in America and Canada today. (A voice, "That's business," and applause.) If never get to Heav- en in the next world I want to he the most decent gentleman that ever went to hell, (Applause and laughter.) This old idea that God offers a premium on rascality by making it easier for a sinner than a decent man to got to Heaven—it is not true. 'There is a good deal of preaching on the doctrinal features of Christianity. There is a IVIetho• dist ringing the changes on infant baptism, and all the little babes in the town fast asleep, and all the grown up people going to hell. What do you think of that sort of preaching 2 Here is a Presbyter- ian tinging the changes of the final perserverance of the saints—and there isn't any one in his crowd that has anything to persevere on. (Laughter.) Here is an Episcop- alian preaching Apostolic success- ion—telling the people where they Dome from, when he had better be telling them where they are going to. (Laughtdr.) A Baptist is cry- ing rying "water," and half of hie °rend are going where they can't get a drop to cool their parched throats.. We don't need a gospel of doctrines and creeds, but we do need a gos- pel of backLoue that says "Wrong is wrong ; quit it. Right is right ; you had better do it." Talk about the doctrines of Christianity saving a man ! Talk about baptising a man and calling him a baptised be. Bever, and he's all right. "Believe and be baptised, and you will be saved." Brother, that's a greatbig half truth, but We only a half truth; and half a truth is like half a brink, only fit' to knock a fool down with. tLaughter.) An old . man said to me, "Mr. Jones, you balk more fool- ishness than any man 1 ever heard." I . said "Fooliehneee is the stuff you rub on fools." So if you catch me at that, it is just some- thing I am rnbbing on yon now about this question of .believing. The Bible tells me that the devils believe, and they do more—they tremble. Some people believe and sit still. If every man who is e believer and is baptised is saved, all the devil lacks is being able to Piave. Pandemonium any morning before breakfast is a pond of water to bap- tise with ; for if being baptised will save a fellow, all the devils in hell lack of being saved is some water to go down into. But salvation is a great principle, which, as it enters into the human heart, snakes it love right and hate wrong. And the greatest man in this country is the man that loves everything that God loves, and hates everything that God hates. (Amen.) In other, words, salvation is harmony. Sup• note one key of that .organ is out of tune ; it is out of tune with every- thing in Heaven and earth that is in tune. Put it in tune and it is in time with everything In; Heaven and earth that is' in tune. (Laugh'ter•) Some 'preachers will It is setting theten commandments pat a poor old armor on the back to music in the soul and melting and say, "Agonise, agonise." There every Christian duty to music in is but one thing fot a'sinner ; to do, the soul. So that when God corn- and that is to surrender, and then mends and all the chords of your 'itis God's businese 1> do the rest. being vibrate in response to the You find people very anxious about command and make mueio that being born again, but that is God's would charm the angels to hear, .part, of the wort:. Tovards the eon- that is salvation. What must I do elusion of his address Sam Jones in order that I may love everything mode sone ramadss about the. pay that God loves, and hate everything of the preachers. Preaohers, he said, did not work for money, but stop their salaries and they would. stop preaching. (Laughter.) Some people objected to paying twenty. five cents to get into Wesley Park. Now, the Niagara people ought to be the last people in . the worldto object to any kind of`a charge at all. There were some places about the Falls where you oouldn't turn around three times without paying half a dollar. order to see or hear or tattle you must comply with the conditions oI agoing, hearing or tatting. So, in order to believe, you mu.et oompiy with the condition of belief, What is that condition 2 The aonditioa of salvation is faith ; the condition of faith is repentance, When a man repents, he ouu't help but bo- /love, to save his life, until he does repent he can't believe, to eaves his life, That's the whole businges, What is repentance ? The boot definition of repentance I ever hoard was given mo by a good old woman. It is being Pio sorry for your mean nets that you are not going to do it any more. Or, to put it in the language of the humble speaker, "Quit your meanness." A good preacher was preaching repeutanoeli ons evening, and he was splitting /mire a mile long between evangeli. cal and legal repentance. Byand- bye old Uncle John Knight, a good old Methodist preacher,, rose and said :—"Brother Smith, will you let me tell the people what repent- ance is 2" "Certainly." Old Un- cle John started up the church aisle limping, for one log was three or four inches shorter than the, other, and saying as he wont, "I'm going' to bell." Then he turned right round and started theother way, and as he limped along he said, "I'm going to Heaven, I'm going to Heaven." That's repentance. It's just turning right round and going the other way. There is but ono road in the moral universe, and Heaven is at one end of it and hell at the other. .Every saint and ev- ery sinner is on the .same road, and every sinner is going towards hell and every saint is ' going towards Heaven. Andall the sinner's got to do if ho wants to go to Heaven as to turn right round in the road he's in and go the other way, Speaking of unconverted persons who were ohureh members. Ur. Jones said -; —See the old dodgers .and shirks and sharks in the Church. Here in one old shark gobbling np real es- tate. He nes hie ,eye, on a parcel of land belonging to a widow. He get a mortgage on it. Then he forecloses the mortgage and gets the laud in his own name, and on ' Sun, day morning he goes.. to, church and singe, ',Hallelujah 'tis done'— (Laughter)—"I've got it at last." We have got Abe idea fill over this country that a ,(f1(o.,w, elanrt gel re- ligion withoutopplingi to ;an altar. I believe in altars thoroughly.; But, Brethren, do you know:how old the altar is. Just 72 years old." Now what do you reckon became of those people who lived in the 1800th year before an ,: oldMethodist preacher down In Georgia thought of au al. tar ? When Jeeiis said to Matthew sitting .at: the :reoipt of Customs, "Follow me," Matthew closed up his tat: book AO went . right along, when sonic of would have said to him, "Matthew,- you .mush go to the altar first. You're -not oonverted yet." I tell you when a fellow gets up and quits his meannee,s, it he ain't got religion,,wbat'a the matter with hien 2 ];s•itsoniethinghe ate •? that any man could do for liitneelf. God is too busy for that. Now in There are 1,700telephones in To- ronto. Up in Chatham they aro going to pave some sidewalks and roadways with brick as au experiment. The asphalt sidewalks lately laid in (tali are giving every satisfaction, and make asmooth and hard walk. 3 EAST HURON V R0N Carriage a ik JAMES F UX.JRS, —HANUFA C i trIt1m OF— OARRILGES, DEMOCRATS, EXPRESS WAGONS, BUGGIES, WAGONS, IETC,, ETC., ETC. All made of the Best Material and finished in a Workmanlike manner. Repairing and Painting promptly attended to. Parties intending td buy should Call before purchasing. RErgnExrcEs.—Biargden Smith, B. Laing, Jas. Cutt and Wm. Mc- Kelvey, Grey 'Township ; W. Cameron, W. Little, G. Brewer and D. Breckenridge, Morris Township; T. Town and W. Blashill, 'Brus- sels ; Bev E. A. Fear, Woodham, and T. 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