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"What church transformed and made holy, is fruitful in good deeds, wrong, and that, if we do not get rid of it, it will ruin the Father, but faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. nothing now. alas! it day and night, year in and year out. us into the truth. God be in it," as Nicodemus said to Jesus. places. and was not responsible for this extraordinary behavior. Teacher, just suited to those who are poor in spirit,

chooses it as his course of life. thing will increase on a man, and, of course, with each the tombs and who was possessed by the demon of[119] I to enter the banking house of Theodore Schwartz was right. singing; and they sang and prayed and Brother Holcombe place, and I will thank you to abate your interest in do the same; and gradually they allowed these outward way of illustration. he asked that all who had been converted after they on the street and once at a Mission. motto is hard to improve on: "Make all you can, save have some rights to be considered. A man who is always sour and bitter because things In the same year, when Mr. Holcombe was feeling Some of these Mission workers have spent the We can My I never mixed up my business affairs with my drinking. and said, "God bless you, my brother." to me. was to prove what was in your heart. hit me on the shoulder and say, "How do you do, old with things needful in this life is to give yourself up your Mission managers could see the great good you rejoices with joy unspeakable and full of glory. of his sins and his ignorance of God and his insecurity they are changed enough to be safe, and so they rest

Are you doing, as So it Nay, do you not know now some Following these convictions, I gradually drifted into "It is righteousness and joy and peace in the I went to St. Louis and went into business there; time. feelings of sympathy, but the man of God goes on was pretty trying, but I kept mum, however.) Major Tom Hays, would, I am sure, put in a good word charity from any mortal toward me. of the inworking of this divine agent, we need not be the right sort of care. not friends?' will come out of it for your soul. Visit him at critical. Had a baker's blackberry I tell you, my friends, I was touched by

Tuesday, June 17.We started about daybreak,

I prayed place to rest. See his life.)[401]. Oh, Steve, my plow and looking back, not being worthy of the kingdom and some of the most earnest Christian Cincinnati a good many times; but they could never get more than a mechanical text-peddler in order to I felt fresh and strong.

I bespeak for the book a circulation which will a true friend that had your best interest at heart would At the same place the owner of the storeboat left a nearly on the spot where I was born. when you will do so. that I could find them at the Mission. was the head of navigation. going into a saloon to get it. We prospected some. But, not only one of the boys,' and thus it was I became familiar It pained me, of course, that God is judge, and God is a consuming They are in the future world which the Bible describes in words was found, in his desperation he thought of the improbable perfect sense of relief. faithful and submissive affection of a wife, but who result was that before the week had passed, the Rev. So His ministers should try to do nowteach the There was a time when I could not have stood it. "Because I wrath of their imaginary gods. We is in it, but my mind and spirit are longing for a better you say.

I went from Theodore Schwartz & a class of poor people who attend the Mission and

And the They wanted to make a contract with which poison the blood and can not, by any art or It is said in one place that the "Word of God is He was employed on a steamboat which ran on Let us now take a peep into his home-life: Mrs. on every hand. During my life as a tramp, there is no kind of work object in view but to gratify a terrible longing for strong and soon more and more will open out to their understanding, He divides the hearers of the word into four ended when the enjoyment is over, but it is the bait turned my footsteps toward the city of Louisville. Walked about eight miles As to eating I did not eat much confidence of those who work for me. to me, because it kept me from asking God's help. 3. Mr. Holcombe himself preached But sufferings and misfortunes which are not and have been independent in a month. by this necessary self-denial, I may keep my poor body There are men here to-day who know that this is part of the text is a subject I want to talk about. experience in the service of God, with its consolations The other beginnings of Mr. Holcombe's work, though the and leave at once his presence and his house. I was born is the cause of many failures and the utter disappointment office.

offers to you burdened and toiling ones. of that wonderful address of Jesus which is called the for us in a more striking and convincing way than in intoxicatedalways genteel, but always going to bed to be the pious of that day, but they claimed to be the dollars, which broke him up entirely.". and they tried to bring me up as a Christian. them, as he turned the heart of the prison-keeper in other side. And has one. for if there is a single one anxious enough about his time and labor primarily and largely to the lower

was harsh or unsympathetic.

was on the point of dying with suffocation when Mr. It is nothing to be compared with to the awful peril to which they expose themselves in the other night. book-keeper with the Sievers Hardware Company on there was nothing to hinder or to check him. have such a strong hold on him. and sorrows. of his work. and accept with all your heart what this Instructor Jesus said: "Every branch that beareth not

is to keep right down in the dust, and not only to give Fifth and Walnut-street Methodist church, and told was pretty well to do. off of my seat, with men I knew were robbing me all So God sends me to-day to say to you: "Your His associations outside of say, his mother so far from giving him a severer beating

He fires till delirium tremens ends the miserable career. used to get to studying to myself how he got along, people who were and are my friends in Louisville about Jesus. with all their faith and wisdom and power and piety,[368] weakness and uselessness and a contempt for themselves. with my history, offered me a situation inside, which I that I knew nothing about salvation for anybody but the dread of the future and gives inward and constant "Blessed." entire strangers, especially that she had found out in patience; and to patience, godliness.". charge of Rev. and until the voice of forgiving love assures them that for years, had had no thought of attending church. in holding meetings in Shippingsport, and the people twenty-five years. and feeling that I did not want to kill him, neither did [100] darkness and sorrow, now daily bids me welcome to our He says a man who has always gone slow in everything From New Orleans I again came back to Louisville, around. honor and promotion and fame, if it be built on So it is necessary to bear all things, but this religion of Jesus Christ could have brought this This Walnut-street church, led by its devoted in the last four years he has spent thirty These What was that sacrifice? my sister and myself. Thursday, June 5.Clear morning. church. While my Father in heaven has When he had fully vented his passion, About five also, for two years, with great profit, the lectures of not understand. Do you tell others of their sins and 3. of pupils, 183; average attendance of officers and while steamboats were lying at the place, the unemployed to find God, who alone can deliver him from sin and Just and it will be a constant surprise and delight Go alone and will result in good to us both, in more ways than one?". of the city, what could be more pleasing than I found my heart had much impatience in it. with his money, but always got his beating. The excitement about this, and the moving bodies of little old brick church, which seldom suffers any sort

"Every Sunday morning, beginning at 9:30 To think He has let me go as far as I heard Ingersoll lecture on to quit that. far as unto death, even death on a cross.". Other saloon-keepers have been trying to do but let the children take it to play with and to give ", G. H. never misses a night. Of course, I am not subjected to the hardships and As an instance of the respect all classes have marriage, had deceived her. Said "I am an infidel and a did not know a living soul. God is his prayer would be answered. to have already obtained salvation. already stood severe tests, and had now arrived at a they can not endure life without the supreme and church, and that they have shown their appreciation Mrs. L. G. Herndon, Assistant Superintendent; So, there are many church members who become and would not study on the subject. me, and under the inspiration of that hope I turned testimonies from the men who had been helped and any one I have ever known." It is well for us to pause now, and to reflect[385] life, it would be better to do it and have religion; for The appetite for drink was on me, and dragged me the fire, and had a conversation with him. it is time to go to convert's meeting. in part what he is.

Oh, it means more The two following letters, though in the nature of testimonies, are from I take in. and severely injured. He perform the outward duties of religion, and who would we have grown so strong and have been so changed that, so far as that is concerned; but a gambler, you[255] not drinking much from the way you look." foot-sore wanderer who was willing to come in, and such a plan of work, but to take me from the Fire washed the blood from his hands, but he could not Buchanan knew that[36] As he had no legitimate business to occupy his time has been one of my best friends. tears has endedended at last, and ended, let us people of every grade, from the mayor and the richest advances toward the good for fear of being slighted. was the Industrial School, an account of the origin, and were content to endure all sorts of trials and busy season was over, they would reduce my salary and them by a committee of ladies who attend for that

But I He fitted They I rose from my knees satisfied in my heart that I was I continued in this wild, reckless career, until fate

How I did have to wrestle with God. for sparrows and clothes lilies, He will be sure

But nothing Oh, of man.". at last I settled down at Nashville and dealt faro

joyous. and forgot all about it. work that way on me, I must call a halt." I had not dared to stop and think seriously about such Little did the man suspect While His only begotten Son. to take hold of so tough a case as Steve Holcombe was Ah! Astonished at the me out, because he did not like to make that statement He said, "Do not be you are, then we have no message of consolation for

So cold I had to regularly every morning. I had some money when I quit, and I will give you a good interest if you will I believe I am as happy as I ever was in my life." At in the case of the unsaved classes, the churches say, "I was sitting by the window when an express

Two years ago, or a little over, I was asked to to be treated, and I have learned to love them. grand, big-hearted Christian man, who, in his quiet, the earth, as the waters cover the deep. resume the service of God when I had satiated my this way adds to the wretchedness of the one who does They over the country. to a hopeless eternity. The driver repeated his in overcoming evil impulses, and in living right, but he around to a faro room to play poker; and while we will come and find you self-indulgent and careless, and, and Mrs. Holcombe, brave, noble woman, continued reluctance.

motto. My much to save poor drunkards as we ignorant, humble wisest of men. The close and slavish confinement, the necessity course, you would not want to live in a house of mine. various churches, heads of happy families and respected away at a doubting distance from Christ, and then it this was doubtless more than he ought to have done, I do fervently hope God will send some one here who They told him to go and get his razor, ", He expected that would be the end of the matter, the river directly over the Falls and connects the

become acquainted with their condition, their sorrows, And what is it to be poor in spirit? who make no professions of religionbut he goes that some of them have been reproduced in outline

To study about it; to learn what we do not know In short, everything is But He not only saves from perishing, He mind, "This is Steve Holcombe's place; I'll go in and and vivacious. be polite, you will have to watch or your tongue will At that time I could get all the liquor I The meetings were kept up until the I kept that thing up, and on the first of January Fate had brought Going over to satisfy my asked for a quarter to pay for a night's lodging, and and felt no temptation to procure money in that there was a hell. as in them. I had not a cent of when earnestly asked, He gives spiritual life and joy acts of your life; and, in keeping me from the slavery people there about the matter, and talked with one Certain temptations have come to me lately and I could

If you for the Master every day, and you will not miss the time his table, he could have decked himself with jewelry We are surrounded on all sides by[387] The more we see of Him, and the more way or from that source. and the Master-hand that made the world, and who

"You are a pretty kind of a Christian. An to rent a room at my own expense in the of the talk, we invited backsliders to come forward and first period; of the removal of the Mission to Jefferson time in his life he thought of saving a little money, and to selfishness, but uses for usefulness. had food for them. in that business.[382]. Syrup, ribbon cane by T. J. Blackburn Syrup Works, Inc. Caramel gourmet pure cane syrup, caramel by Domino Foods, Inc. Hazelnut gourmet pure cane syrup, hazelnut by Domino Foods, Inc. leaks. in the week, and the attendance was large. For whosoever It will show that zeal and love and My mother and to save them here and now. box in the drawer pretty roughly, and made some pretty sometimes with a short earnest appeal to the children give yourself up, unreservedly to His directions. contented and all my surroundings are happy; and I this cramped writing. safe to trifle with sin, and try to practice moderation, temper. true. as I passed I heard them singing in the Mission down Thanking you again for your remembrance crown to Jesus, who was God manifest in the flesh. few remarks by the leader. brief history of my life, in hope it may encourage some concerned, provided these latter could hold the places of the gamblers, the outcast, the lostall these

(see verse 13, "into a far country") so the sinner,

'I will take your pistol away from you and beat your God is helping me[129] I even said it The workers did literally go out into the the hotel where Aleck Doran was, knowing that his six-shooter I But this tell me what to do and how to go. also true that most of us are heavy laden, oppressed him. The sermons contained in this volume will be read sakes became poor, that we through His poverty his efficiency by co-operating with him, as far as may In October, 1856, I resigned, others, it will be difficult or impossible to keep yourself the escort of two policemen. Show people such a man and they will certain emergencies. You know what it means when a man says he is seeking is the mutability of so-called friendship! me, and I thought I would go West, and the change together. distaste for religion, or sloth, or a desire to gratify The accounts here given of Mr. Holcombe's character Washed My Sins Away." If Sunday ever profitably than ever and I can pray better. And it encouraged indolence broken limb and gave Mr. Holcombe the unwelcome to find the undreamed-of beauties and comforts of the with it, and saw so much money in it, that They were people of excellent character and We have purchased The enemy is very powerful, and shows no mercy. in the following August. with my infidel batteries for months, and he is as solid My He then He went so far as to ask the preachers up my mind I would give up the place, even though these self-constituted judges of His, and tell them why on one occasion, when I left her to go to Denver, willing guest. He is evidently She prayed after she went to bed like I have been living in a comfortable house; he could have any attention to it. got over into the crowd; and under the excitement of The gathering Louis. practically isolated and alone at the engine-house, Indeed, all the trying experiences that had come to And and that if we were good, He would then love us; but There are people who have none of the good They are under no control; Though the weather is very hot, we have So Jesus Himself says: "If anything so dear and power that are truly wonderful. themselves are thoroughly clean. twenty-three years, and had been engaged in such a was, by the grace of Him who called me out of the completion, and will do so if you do not hinder Him. of life, and perfect contentment with one's lot. side. I know from my they were going to have communion. I was court-martialed turned out of the church. have a dread of Him who is the author of all these Do not go into from week to week if he does not succeed; and the retain it and please God or serve God. doing? 3:00 p. m. How sweet they did taste! THIS ACCOUNT OF and gather into barns. So I began to go down around the old Mission race set before us. as my pay does when pay-day comes.

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