Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-05-18

clvlllZation. Then our duty Is plain
to us. Let us GO on in this work,
for it is not mans invention, until
the pillars of Infidelity and Skepti-
cism tremble in the light of Gospel |
truth not only until the vail OF
lis temple is rent in twain, but until |
the whole structure shall fall, and all
its enanations lie crushed beneath the |
power OF gospel light!
Prompted by hope aud faith in the
final accomplishment Of this desire
We can cheerfully go on, knowing that
we are not alone in the undertaking
The philanthropic, not only of this
but of other christian and civilized
countries, are engaged in the WORK
Nor is this all Those hungeriug
ard thirsting after righteousness, not
only in our own, but other lands, are
sending appeal after appeal, and peti-
too after petition for the "bread of
eternal life," as continued in this holy
book China, with her 400, 900 900 hu.
man souls, with her barriers to nation
al intercourse now broken down, is
pleading, through the missionaries of
the cross, for Bibles. India slum-
bers not; but through like channels
pleads for the word of life'' +! Africa,
With her hungering children wrapped
in the swarthy skins of their cline
and race, yet with souls alive to heav
ems demands, like those occupying
fairer exteriors, is, also, stretching
forth her hand for this book ofbooks.
The islands of the sea, though
surrounded by the pillows of the deep,
and, as it were, cut off from the nigh
tier nations of the earth, and, al
though, bathed in the sunlight of eter-
nal summers, and famed by the gen.
tie br eezes from the bosom of the
deep, send out their demand for that
anchor of the christians faith, the Bi
ble All wish to be led by the same
door into the same eternal mansions
not made with hands. And behind all
this. with all the assuring evidences
in the past, with the long fulfilled and
continuing promises of seed time and
harvest, we are sustained in this work
by the assuring and combined com
mand and promise, to"castyour bread
upon the waters aud it will return un-
to you after many days"
Can we, then. as brethren OF this
common cause, afford to be idle, OIL
fail 10 respond ? Is not the harvest full.
ly ripe. and are not the laborers few
indeed
Who amongst us here tonight could
see a fellow man i'll danger, surround
ed by steadily rising floods, on hiss
ing or spreading flames, with nc
means at his command for escape
and earnestly pleading with, and i'm
ploring others to come to his relief
constantly crying as the danger in
creases, "help. help. or l perish )
and yet not make an effort, nor con
tribute dime to others who would
to rescue such person from the i'm
minent danger TO which he or sh'
thus stood exposed ? No you, coulC
not do that! And yet the cry come:
up to you and to me, from all quart
ers of the earth, from millions o
souls desiring salvation,-life, eterna
which this book promises, an,
shall we not come to the rescue?
we only need to discharge the dutie
of temporal character, regardless o
the great future, then of all men ma,
we not be most miserable?
The waves of life NAV, almost
have swallowed up the anxious soul
or the burning and Kissing flames o
o ALARMED conscience, may have al
most consumed the last hope of tn
sufferer while we slumber in the arm
of hope, Then let us awake to our du
ty as becometh the followers of tn,
meek and lovely SAVIOR. and act il
accordance with his demands upoI
US.
Soon, with US, these opportunitie!
will end, and allwho are here tonight
some sooner and some later, will bt
called to account, in the presence
not only of Christ the LORD" but al
so of that Father who sent him t
earth, for our stewardship here.
Shall we, then only be able to un
cover the single talent the Lord CAV,
us, and offer it again to him, in ful
satisfaction, for all he has done TO
us? If so, may not then our yer,
shame drive us from his presence for
eve:? But another thought and W,
must close. If this book, to assist il
the dissemination of which we hav,
assembled tonight, is thought to be
by the careless and unconcerned, il
life, no more than any ordinary book
why is it that when the shadows o
death are mantled around the hom
of such in difference, that then in tha
hour OF sadness, and of keenest afiiic
ton, the hand even of TIE careless
then instin ct.vely turns over thos
sacred pages for comfort and relief
All, yes. it is then comforting. ant
the formerly, careless reader, now b,
not too rigid construction of its de
mands, arrives at the ecomforting, con
soling conclusion that the departe,
friend, though careless in life; neve
having believed in Christ as
savior; never having uttered an audi
BILE prayer; never having tried in an,
way, to advance the redeemers king
dom; neverhaving thought of God, o
Christ, of heaven, of hell, of saliva
ton, must be in heaven must be hap
py and why? not because obedient
but because the living desire it on &C
coul. of their own carelessness, ant
to satisfy their own disturbed con
sciences! Some say ''because God, il
his abundent mercy could not create
soul for eternal misery" forgetting
no doubt, his other attribute of jus
tice Bnt say what they may, wha
they will, with one accord, in such al
hour, and under such trials and sOr
rows, this hook is almost alway:
sought foI and inv 'luntarily opened
from which " draw some consolation
! ror tba I;v;nr tho careless uncOncprn