The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-11

built them and the blackening sins that cos
sumed them-some of the worst men God has
harnessed for special mission-witness, Cyrus
and Observation-Disclosures. With the bayonets of
bad man the Bastiie was pried open. Some OF
the most selfish and wicked merchants have By
their talent opened new fields for lawful COM
merce.
God sometimes let's the wicked live that they
may be monuments of his mercy. 1t was so
with John Newton. it was with John Bunyan,
1t was so with Augustln. Perhaps it was so
with you and me- Those chiefs of sinners became
chiefs Of grace Paul. the apostle, made out of
Saul the prosecutor. Baxter the evangelist,
made out of Baxter, tho basphemer. Whole
squadrons with steamers of Emanuel flying
from the masthead though they were launched
from the dockyards of diabolism He let's them
live because he is going to make jewels out of
them for coronets tongues of fire out OF them
for pentecosts, warriors out of them for Arma-
eeddon, conquerors out of them to ride at the
head of the white-horse guards in the great
review Of the last day.
God let's the wicked live, that all may under
stand that there must be another world for adj
Justments So many of the bad up and so many
of the good down. There must be a place where
brilliant scoundrelism shall be arraigned and In
nocence arise from under the heel of oppression.
Common fairness. as we'll as eternal justice de-
mands If. To the grand assize we must adjourn
the stupendous in justices of this life. They are
not IlguteU mere. Iner6 must DC soma place
where they will be righted. God cannot afford
to omit the Judgment day or reconstruction OF
conditions. You cannot make me believe that
that man, stuffed with denominations, having de-
voured widows houses and digested them, and
looked with basilisk or tigerish eyes on his fell
lows. liking no music SO we'll as the sound of
breaking hearts, is going at death to get out OF
his landau at the front door of the sepulcher
and pass right through to the back door of the
sepuleher. and there get into celestial turnout,
already hitched up to drive tandem up the prim-
roSed hills, one glory riding as lackey ahead, and
another glory riding postillion behind, while
that poor woman who supported her invalid hus-
band and helpless children by taking in washing
and ironing, often putting her hand to her side,
where a cancerous trouble had already begun its
work, and falling dead late one night, while try
ing to get one of the childrens garments ready
for the Sabbath day, and going afoot into the
front door of the sepucher is to to its back
door and find nothing waiting-no one to say Il
am glad you have come" and no one to show her
the way to the Kings gate 1t cannot be. Solo
mon bemoaned the princes afoot and the beg
CARS a-horseback. and there must be a time
when the right foot shall get into the stirrup. To
demonstrate to all the world that there must be
another state for rearranging these inequalities
God lets the wicked live.
God let's the wicked live for the reason that
he has let us live-to give US time for happiness
What would you and | have been if God had
followed sin with immediate catastrophe2 What
ticles, the fleet foot of the roebuck when he
goes to save. He moves as though hobbled by
great languor and infinite lethargies when he
comes to punish. l celebrate Gods adjourn
ments, Gods postponements, and Gods outings
off retribution. The slower the rail train moves,
the better, if the drawbrdge is off. Let our inn
patient criticism of Providence because that man
by watering stocks makes a million by one
swoop, and keeps it, and these other men roll on
III bloated arrogance all their days, be exchanged
for gratitude everlasting that God did let US live
when we deserved nothing but capsizes and
demolition. How long have you lived
unpardonedl Fifteen years. Twenty years.
Forty Forty years. Sixty years. You have
ings, through domestic calamities through
business disasters, through alarming i'll
ness, through providences that startled
nations, and living yet strangers 20 God and
any moment you may be precipitated Through
Jesus Christ get your nature revolutionized and
TRANSFORMED for God sometimes changes his
gait, ard instead Of the deliberate step he be-
comes swift Witness and people in your state
may be suddenly DESTROYED and without rem
edy. Give up your war against God and have
Him your eternal ally When King Phillip of
France, led his army with bows and arrows to
fight King Edward III, of England, at the most
critical time in the battle a shower of rain so
dissolved the bowstrings that they were of no
effect, and Phillips army was worsted And
my hearers, all your weaponry will
be as nothing when God rains
upon you discontinue out of the
heavens But safe are all those who have God
for friend instead of foe. The chariots of God
are twenty thousand. Change alegiance Take
down the old flag and run up the new one! The
American Congress, during the time of the
American revolution, were fer long days in
anxiety to know whether the army of Washing
ton or the army of CORVALLIS would conquer.
and when the news finally arrived at the door
of Congress that CORVALLIS had surrendered and
the war was over, the door-keeper dropped dead
from joyful excitement. Oh, if this moment
the long conflict between your soul and God
could terminate in your surrender, the glad
tidings would soon reach heaven, and nothing
but the supernatural health of your glorifed
loved ones could keep them from prostration--
from JOY at the close of the spiritual hos
Utilities.