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I recognize the bird; he was a game old rooster that used to crow at me every time I passed him." "Beastly pagans," Kettle growled. "There's no holding some of them yet. They suck up the glad tidings like mother's milk at first, and they're back at their old ways again before you've taught them the tune of a hymn. I just want to catch one or two of these backsliders. By James!
Christianity spoke again and said, "I have always maintained that men were naturally backsliders; that human virtue tended of its own nature to rust or to rot; I have always said that human beings as such go wrong, especially happy human beings, especially proud and prosperous human beings. If you were a philosopher you would call it, as I do, the doctrine of original sin.
They did not believe God's word; but they believed the tempter. That is the way backsliders fall by turning away from the word of God. In Jeremiah ii. we find God pleading with them as a father would plead with a son.
Twice on each Sabbath, and on two evenings in the week, I preached as clearly and pungently as I could; sometimes to awakened souls, sometimes to backsliders, sometimes to the impenitent, sometimes to souls who were seeking salvation.
When one of these highly destined servants of the Great King fails in his duty, when he cannot pardon the sinner, when he looks churlishly upon a child, or condemns the innocent amusements of the young and happy, when he makes the sweet Sabbath a day of penance instead of praise of tyranny instead of rest, when he has no charity for backsliders, no sympathy for the sorrowful, no toleration for the contradictors of his own particular theory do we not feel that his very existence is a blasphemy, and his preaching a presumption!"
If when sinners, backsliders, or believers come to the altar they would pray with earnestness and desperation, there would be a far larger PER CENT. of them who would go away fully satisfied. God never gives great blessings to indifferent people. When He sees a man in an agony of desire and longing, then He hastens to gladden his heart with an answer. Prayer must be full of faith.
And if the white visitors treated his fervent appeals to the unconverted and backsliders as part of the program, but having no slightest application to them, this was also the regular thing, and nobody was troubled thereat. But while J.W. was away at college a new pastor had come to Saint Marks, a college and seminary graduate. And he had come just in time.
It may be very profitable, said Christian, but do you begin. Well, then, there are in my judgment several reasons for it." And then, with the older man's entire approval, Hopeful sets forth several reasons, taken from his own observation of backsliders, why so many men's religion is such a temporary thing; why so many run well for a time, and then stand still, and then turn back.
While them other poor mistaken backsliders shall be undergoing their thousand years of buffetings, they'll reign triumphant, the saved saints of the Mil " How long Brother Jarrum's harangue might have rung on the wide ears of his delighted listeners, it is not easy to say. But an interruption occurred, to the proceeding's.
Ahem! returned he of the Candlestick, somewhat disconcerted at this rebuff. 'It's the general fast, sir, and I cannot enter into ony carnal transactions on sic a day, when the people should be humbled and the backsliders should return, as worthy Mr. Goukthrapple said; and moreover when, as the precious Mr.
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