The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-17
ford 10 wait. The clock OF des.iny strikes

meeting of our church court We wers told of
| q college started at the Far West by fn6dsls.
There was to be In il no nonsense of chapel
| prayers. and the obsolete Bible was not TO
| be found there. The faculty was made up
! OF the enemies OF Christianity. The collegs
| buildings were reared and the work begun
| But such an institution could not prosper.
A minister of the Presbyterian Church was
in bank one day on business, and he over
heard in an auinnIrs room Tue 90 isgs Board
OF Trustees discussing what they bad better
do with their college, as thew could not make
| it go any longer. One Of them said: LET
Us turn 1t over to the Pfesbyterians," pre-.
facing the word "Presby terisns' with q pro-
fame expletive. The motion carried. and
that college, built as q fortress of skeptic sm,
has become fortress of old fashioned, ortho.
dox religion. The devil built liz: righteous.
ness captured it. So there are in our cities
very expensive club.houses, the architecture
and the furniture and all the equipment q
bedszz 'ement of wealth, employed In max
ing gambling and dissipation respects BILE.
But fret not; these buildings will yet be free
Libraries, or hospitals, or
GALLERIES OF PURE ART.
Observatories have been put up at vast,x.
pense by monomaniac5 of athism, and, the
first you know, they are in possss,ionI of
Christian science. God said He would put
hook into the nose of Ssnnsoheribs and turn
him, and Gil the modern Sennacheribs OF in.
fidelity and sin have q hook in their nose
AID are turned tSis way aud that a tie
Lord wills IL. Great marble halls now devo-
ted TO sinful amusements will yet be dedi.
Gated for religious sssemblags. ALI these
castles OF sin will surrender under the battle
cry with which Oliver Cromwell led his army
on the field of Naseby: "Let G. ID arise let
His enemies be scattered" After the great
London fire there was found the ruins of
house with nothing standing but the arch,
m n rf ho oeS
structed it. and on these great ruins of hu-
mRnity that astounded the world are marked
the name of the God who built them and
the blackening Gins that consumed
them. Some of the worst men God has har-
nessed for special mission: Witness.
Cyrus and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. With the bayo-
nets OF bad man the Bsstile was pried open.
Some of the most selfish and wicked mer-
chants have by their talent opened new fields
for lawful commerce.
God sometimes lets the wicked live, that
they msy be monuments OF his mercy. II
was so with John Newton, 1t was SO with
John BuDyan, it vas 80 with Apgustin. Per
haps IL Is go with you and me. Those chisfs
OF sinners became chiefs OF grace. Paul the
Apostle, made out of Saul, the persecu,o-.
Baxter. the evangelist, made out of Baxte-,
the blasphemer. Whole squadrons with
head, though they were launched from the
dock.yards of diabolism. He lets them live
because he is going to make jewels out OF
them for coronets, tongues of FIRE out of them
Tor Pentecosts, warriors out Of them for ar
mageddon, conquerors ont OF thom TO ride at
the head of the White Horse Guards in che
great review of the last day.
Gcd lets the wicked live that all may un
derstsnd that there must be another world
FOR adjustments. SO many OF the bad up aud
so many OF the good down. There must be q
place where brilliant scoundrelism shall be
md md inn ,,,~Io
the heel OF oppression. Common fair ness as
well as eternal justice demands it. To the
Grand Assize We must ad journ the stipend
one fDjust.ces Of this nfe. They are NOT
r'ghted here. There must be s1me plsce
where they will be righted. God can not al.
ford TO omit the Judgment day or recon
struction of conditions. You can not make
me believe that that man stifled with apom-
nations, having devoured widows houses
and d1gested them and looked with basilisk
or tigerish eyes on his fellows, liking no mu-
sic so we'll as the sound of breaking hearts.
the front door OF the sepulcher and pass
right through to the back door of the sepol-
cher and there get into q celestial turnout
already hitohed up to drive tandem no the
primrosed hills, one glory riding as lsckey
ahead, and another glory riding as position
ported her invalid husband and helpless
children by taking in washing aud ironing,
often putting her hand to her side whore O
cancerous trouble had already begun
work, and falling dead late one night while
trying to get one Of the childrens garments
into the front door OF the sepuoher, isto
cross TO Its back door and find no one " lit.
ing, no one to say: Il am glad you have
come" and no one 10 show her the way to
the Kings gate. Ii can not be. Solomon
bemoaned the princes afeot and the beggars
Inv ohon anA hos L. -
the right foot ehsll get into tho stirrur. To
demonstrate to oil the world that there must
be another state for rearrRngipg these me.
qualities God lets the wicked live.
GOD LIFTS THE WICKED LIVE
Tor The RI ason that he has let Us livs-to give
rs time for happiness. What would you aud
have been IL God had followed sin with i'm.
has according to the Canticles, the feet foot
OF the roebuck when He goes To save. He
moves rs though hoppled by great languo,
ana Infinite iethargies when He comes to
puhith, celebrate Gods adjourn ents,
and Gods postponements, and Gods put
iiuss oil OF retribut.on. The slower the rail
rain moves the better, IL the drawbridge is
OF. Let our impatient criticism OF Provi-
dsnce because that man by watering stock
makes n million by ore ewoop aud keeps AZ,
md these other mon roll on IN bloated grro'
gapce all their days be exchanged for graft.
rude everlasting that God did let us live
when we deserved nothing but capsizes and
demolition. How long have you lived IN.
pardoned1 Fifteen years. twenty,years? brty
years2 sixty years? You have lived through
great religious awakenings. through do.
nestle calamities through business dis.
sster, through Alarming illness, |
through providences that startled ma.
tons and living yet strangers TO God aud
duty, and with no hope for future into
which any moment you may be preclpitatsd.
Through Jesus Christ get your nature revo.
lu,iopi2ed and transhgured. for God some.
times changes his gait, and instead az the de.
hberate step he becomes q swift witness and
people in your state nay be suddenly de-
siroysd and without remedy. Give up your