Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-11-03
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X "chrisi hath redeemed me once for an
us impaired glow to the sentiment an,
H. an exultant, triumphant zcst to tn
or concluding words that was his power
., and his alone.
a THE EFFECT or MooDy's SERMON.
n Mr.. Moody, in his sermon from tn,
n words, "For there is no difference,
! was frccr in the use Of homely, shar1
- illustration and in bold pictures thar
N he had before been; but il is hard tc
n say whether he pleased his audience
. q more. They smiled, and indeed laughed
y at some things which he must have
q said for the purposcofcreating a laugh;
d and they were profoundly attentive Ia
q him throughout attracted and held by
a the easy colloquy with which he inter
q spersed all he said "You may not
. like that text" said he, oand | won't
be much surpriseds you don't. The
p medicine we don't like is often the bsst,
, and If we are sincere we have got to
: own up to II and apply the remedy
1 that will restore us. And If there is
, to be any trouble, it must not be be-
tween you and me, but between you
and your God. The words mean Just
, what they say--that we are living un-
der the law Of God, and under that
law there is no difference. II you
break one commandment of God, You
have broken the law Of God just as
much as though you had broken the
whole ten. You havenot livedup othe
law, and there is no difference between
you and other sinners. The law was
given to save man by. 1t was given
; that the whole world might be stopped
from setting up individual measures
and scales of right and wrong These
independent measures are always
making big mistakes, and there is not
one of them who does not make him
self a few inches taller than his neigh
Dor is.
CHRISTIANS WHO HAVE THE DRY ROT.
The old Adam stock of which we
are made is like the dry rot that has
struck two trees growing side by side
in an orchard One of the trees may
bear more fruit than the other, but
they both are rotten, worthless and
sure to die. The old stock of Adam is
bad; il is rotten; il is corrupt, and at
war with God. 1t has got to be
changed right through from the bottom.
No doctoring, no iussing and patching
are wanted to make il look good Ii |
has got to be thrown out, Just as much |
of it as we can get hold OF, for ii is all |
bad, and then when you are changed |
and new and live according TO the law,
you can be saved, not by the law
but by the death of Christ. When |
was living in Chicago / promised one
day to take my little boy to drive, and his
mother washed him and dressed him
to make him fit. But he ran out some
where and got his face dirty, and when
| saw him | told him that he was dirty
and that | would be ashamed to bo
seen with him, but he said that he was
not dirty, for his mother had washed
him. And | couldn't make him think
different until | held him before
looking-g glass, and then, you must
know, didn't wash the dirt away
with the looking glass, but with water.
The looking-gl was the law, that
was oil, and the water was the death
of Christ. You may make as many
divisions as you like in society. You
may divide men into rich men, poor
men, lunatics, brave men, Masons, Odd
Fellows, and sub-divide Just as much as
you want to, but God has only one divi-
sion, and that is the law, and the only
way to get away from the wrong side
of that division and out from under
the curse of the law is by penitence.
II is one of the hardest things in the
world to overlook and forget the divi-
sion that we have made, and to realize
that there is no difference between the /
men. can, for instance, imagine ,
Abraham going down to Sodom and I
mounting dry-goods box and predict !
ing the destruction of the city. How ,
many people do you suppose gave {
heed TO the old patriarch Not one. !
They probably said, What an old fool /
he must be to think that our dukes and I
our princes and our judges and our d
thieves are all going down without n i
difference.
NoAH's REMARKS TO ANTEDILUviANs. a
"And can imagine Noah preaching o
10 the antediluvians, telling them that c
4 they wanted to be saved they must I
get into his ark And not n single ,
outside of Noah's family Il
,ame near him. You know what came, a
lon't you? The food did come and it +
'wampcd everything. That's tho way Z
men are always falling. l don't be .
ieve Satan was in Eden fifteen minutes a
,ctoro he stripped Adam of everything "
10 had. See what failure there was P
indcr the Judges and the Prophets, s,
md now IL is 1000 years since Christ ?
eft among us grace and mercy, and b
ee what wretchcd failure we have &
made of il There is only one way to b
70 improved and that is by Gods c.
tandard. Christ is perfect and the n
levil knows it, and ! challenge every y
Ievil in hell TO point TO any defects u
But remember first of all the arbitrary n
aw and that that must first be Oh h
crved. Why, few years ago, when u
he police force of Chicago became nota-
'ly bad, they had law passed that
very policeman must be certain
eight, and they thought that 80 they :;
would change the men. There was ~ !,
,reat scramble for places you may he a,
ure, and there were two men who
lad recommendation from the very n n
oblest men in the State, and thoy felt .,
urc Of their appointments. They had "
and Judges TO back them, A.
nut when they went before the cx- y :,
minor, he said, 4 don't want to read I,
II these unless | have TO. First, how - J.
all are yon2 4 am five feet, replied =
ne, Then you won't do at all, and / !"
ont want your letters said the ex- =,
miner, for our rules say that all men - -
lust be five feet and six inches. And ~
he other candidate, who was five feet 4
nd five and nineteenth inches, was =,
brown out too, for he, too, was under =,
he curse of the law, and there was no Il
iiierence between him and the other. 4,
n the same way, If | invite all the 20
mitbs in the city TO take tea with me- /,
ones has no right to come because he :,
an sing and entertain company, Tor n,
is name is not Smith. There is no .,
ther way for you TO manage to get 4,
,to Gods feast, except by taking the r.
anne of Smith-that is the name Of h,
'inner'-and then God will know you. ii
md If you will stop flouting your dirty VI