Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1885-05-22

| 90 over the 1OIu PteIoA taL
time that he is doing a sum IN afith-
metic. A man can read whole chapteE
in the Bible and never think OF one soil
tary word of what he is reading. I've
NOW It is objected that enthusiasm
| leads to fanaticism. I wish could see
some signs Of this danger among us.
/ Fanaticism itself is q thousand times
better than languor and torpidity,
/ though it isn't so respectable. we are
NOT 80 much in danger Of fanatieism as
we are Of cooling off and having no Ter
vid feeling at all. $500.
~ have come to have a great respect
for fanatics. think that all the hity
wears of the American Bible Society,
/ tbe 6ftv wears Of the American Tract
! Society. the fifty years Of the American
/ Roord If Missionaries for Foreign
/ Hsatben did not amount to so much,
combined together, as an Impulse ior
setting men free from bondage as the
one single incident in John Browns lie
his desperate, despairing endeaVor 70
rescue the slave. There was something
IN that that fred the heart OF the whole
| civilized world, He was fanatic
wonldn't want many John Browns; we
are not likely to have many; neverthe-
less fanaticism in a great soul IS often
limos a thousand times more benehclal
70 tbe human race than the want OF
some fanaticism.
at Is true that enthusiasm wastes:
But do You refuse to eat because IL
wostes food? When you were after
vcnr business ten thousand did you
ston because it would waste you to be
TOO intense The fact is this, that en-
thusiasm is shut down by men IN TINS
world to the lower functions OF lie.
tThere is nothing that wastes man
like laziness. There isn't a man VINO
, owns real estate who does not know that
a house will 90 to ruin quicker II unten-
ented than il used as a boarding house.
~ think that religion is iarcs-ls't
least that part of it that is called the
, means Of erace-when the hearts OF men
; are not in it. The man that drsgs HIM
, self through the Bible as a matter
5ntv. tbe man that superstitiously says
his pravers morning and night; the man
3 that goes to meeting because ms WIG
4 won't let him stay at nome; the man
that undertakes in everything to CONFORM
: to an average public sentiment though
he don't himself quite like it-What
wretch -,
3 "If there is anything that God
( despises it is burnt offerings and sacrl-
o Aces brought by those that don't care
o ANYTHING about them, but who want to
e appease Him by bringing these things
o to Him.
!, COPS Fo1ERATIoN OF SIN.
1t In continuation of his series OF ser,
a mons answering questions which have
IS been submitted to him, DR.. Ealmage
y Sunday morning discoursed on the eX
- istence and liberation OF evil. Choosing
le for his text Job xxi, Wherefore
n do the wicked live ?" the Doctor opened
u with a vivid description Of Job, his atfllc
ID tion. his surroundings and his miserable
70 comforters. and then set forth the causel
Of which led to the bitter cry OF the text
It was a sore affection, and Jobs vile
IN mt 10 her wits end, made diagnosis o
as Inc case and ventured to prescribe
III remedy. In his paroxysmal outburste
y and when his agony was greatest,
y might, she thought, afford INN some te
u. lief if he INDUCED in a little swearing
II audible laughteT) -and so she recon-
le mended. Jobs friends came to sc
- him; but they only added to his misery
" "You must be an old sinner, they san
as "God would not otherwise have sent
h' Won SO great a calamity" In his grei
Is agony and despair Job cried ou'
y, stVherefore do the wicked 1--we
Oh The question raised by Job was or
OF which had often been raised since. In
lat oood are cut of. The wicked renal
n' and prosper. Manasseh, the worst {
n ali the kings of Judah, reigned IL
longest. It was a great, sad tact Una
as wickedness did triumph and that 1t WI
DA' too frequently honored in death.
iie- DIR. Talmage then went on TO gl'
ne some reasons why wickedness was
3D. lowed to prevail, why the wicked we
lg- allowed to live. One reason was
en- demonstrate the long suffering and P
II fence of God. Before he allowed Noi
OF In sail with the ark God had been war
nat mo the world for one hundred al
no .,S9rty years. The patience of God wa
ms like all His other attributes, immeasu
=, able A second reason was that Il
inc punishment and destruction OF
mn wicked might be more signal. :,
gnu WWbv don't God kill the devil and
Vns done with it ?" DR.. Talmage's lit
ma DAUGHTER said to him one day. (Laug
70 ter.9 It was the same old question P
io ~ in the child's own way. GOD alioW
M, j men to go 30 far, but ne would p
bai them down ct last. A third reason v
-, Of to make it plain beyond all controy 2.
am that there was another place Tor aulu
DE-. ments, A fourth reason was that . II 81
Of man an opportunity to repent. IRA
md God for His slowness, said the Doct,
ket ssbut let us not forget that II SLOW q
I is sure. and let US make peace Win u
hat while His patience lasts.