"What chance is there for infidelity when we are
"parting from our friends daily? There is none at all.
"The infidel will grasp at every straw for help until
"death stares him in the face and then his infidelity takes
"its flight; for the realities of the eternal world are
"resting in mighty power upon him. When every earthly
"support and prop fails him he then sensibly feels the
"eternal truths of the immortality of the soul.
"Concerning the doctrine of or sprinkling
"children or they must welter in hell the doctrine is
"not true nor supported in Holy Writ and it is not
"consistant with the character of God"
"The moment children leave this world
"they are taken into bosom. The only
difference between the old and young dying is that
one lives longer in heaven and eternal light and glory
than the other and was freed a little sooner from
this misserable wicked world. Notwithstanding
all this glory we for a moment lose sight of it
and mourn the loss but we mourn not as those
without hope."
We should take warning and not
wait for the death bed to repent. As we see the
infant taken away by so may the youth and
middle aged as well be called suddenly into eternity
Let this then prove as a warning to all not to
procrastinate repentance nor wait till a death bed comes
for it is the will of God that man should repent and
serve Him in health and strength and in the power of
his mind in order to secure his blessing and ^not^ to wait
until he is called to die."
" intention was to have treated
upon the subject of baptism; but having a case of
death before us I thought it proper to refer to that
subject. I will now however say a few words upon
baptism as designed.
"God has made certain decrees which
"What chance is there for infidelity when we are
"parting from our friends daily? There is none at all.
"The infidel will grasp at every straw for help until
"death stares him in the face and then his infidelity takes
"its flight; for the realities of the eternal world are
"resting in mighty power upon him. When every earthly
"support and prop fails him he then sensibly feels the
"eternal truths of the immortality of the soul.
"Concerning the doctrine of baptizing or sprinkling
"children or they must welter in hell the doctrine is
"not true nor supported in Holy Writ and it is not
"consistant with the character of God"
"The moment children leave this world
"they are taken into Abraham's bosom. The only
difference between the old and young dying is that
one lives longer in heaven and eternal light and glory
them the other and was freed a little sooner from
this misserable wicked world. Notwithstanding
all this glory we for a moment loose sight of it
and mourn the loss but we mourn not as those
without hope."
We should take warning and not
wait for the death bed to repent. As we see the
infant taken away by death so may the youth and
middle aged as well be called suddenly into eternity
Let this then prove as a warning to all not to
procrastinate repentance nor wait till a death bed comes
for it is the will of God that man should repent and
serve Him in health and strength and in the power of
his mind in order to secure his blessing and not to wait
until he is called to die."
"My intention was to have treated
upon the subject of baptism; but having a case of
death before us I thought it proper to refer to that
subject. I will now however say a few words upon
baptism as designed.
"God has made certain decrees which