The Brookhaven leader., 1886-10-21

fore, Il generally thickens his tongue. Was
he fine In personal appearance, IL mars his
visage. Was he afluent, II sends the
sheriff to sell him out Was be inhuen-
tial, 10 destroys his popularity. Was he
placid and genial, and loving, 1t makes
him splenstic and cross; and so utterly
is he changed that you can see he Is sar-
castle and rasping, and that the Philis.
tines have left him nothing but a file.
oh, "the way of the transgressor Is
hardw His cup il bitter. His night 10
dark. His pangs are deep. His end ls
terrific. PhllIstine iniquity says to that
man:
"Now, surrender to me, and | will give
you all you want-music for the dance, swift
steeds for the race, imperial couch to
slumber on, and you shall be refreshed
with the rarest fruits in baskets Of golden
filagree"
He lies. The music turns out to be q
groan. The fruits burst the rind with
rank poison. The filagree is made up Of
twisted reptiles. The couch is a grave.
Small allowance OF rest, small allowance
of peace, small allowance Of comfort.
Cold. hard, rough--nothing but file. So
IL was with Voltaire, the most applauded
man of his day:
The Scripture was his Jest book, whence he
drew
Bon mots to gall the Christian and the
jew.
An fnfidei when we'll, but what when sicki
oh, then text would touch him to tbs
ouickl
Seized with hemmorhage of the lun-s ia
P,ris, where he hal gone to be crowned as
the idol of all France, he sends a messen-
ger to get priest that he may c recon.
ciled to tie church before he dies.
A great terror falls upon him. He
makes the place all AROUND about him so
dsmv that the nurse declsred that she
would not for all the wealth of Europe
see another infdel die. Philis inc i'm
EQUITY has promised him all the WORLDS
garlands, but in the last hour of his life,
when lie needed a soIacing, sent tearing
across his con science and his nerves a file,
a file. So it VS. with Lord Byron, his
uncleanness in England only surpassed
by his uucleanu S. in Veni ., then going
on to end his Missy at MsSoOnghi, fret
tim at his nurse Fletcher. fire tin at him.
self, fretting Z the world. fretting Mt God;
and he gave the void "Clilde Hrrold."
and "SardanapaluS." AMI "The Pris oner
Of Chillon," and Tue Siege of rinth,"
reduced to nothing but file. Oh, sin has
a great facility fer making prom ,es; but
it has Just a great facility for breaking
them!
A Christian life /, the only cheerful ii e
Will lie of wicked surrender is re.
morse. ruin and death. Its pain ell z lee
is sepulchral ghastliness. In the bright.
est DAYS of the Mexican Empire NJ rnte-
yuma said he felt gnawing at his heart
somath ing like a canker. Sin. like a
monster wild beast of the forest, some-
times ticks all over it's victim in order that
the victim may be more easily swallowed;
hut generally sin raspS, and gals, and
te4rs. and up5raids, an files. Is it not
so, Hcrod? Is it not so, Hildehrani? Is it
not so, Robespierre' Aye! aye! 1t is so,
it is so.
The way fthe wicked He turneth upside
down.
learn from this subject what a sad
thing it is when the Church of God loses
its metal These Pnilistines saw that if
they could only get all the metallic
weapons olt of the hands Of the Isra elites
all would he well, and, therefore, the
took the swords and the spears. They
did not want them to have a single metal.
lie weapon. When the IN etal of the Israeli
ties was gone their strength was gone.
This is the trou lie with the Church of God
to-day. II is surrendering its courage. 1t
has not got enough metal. How seldom
it is that you see man taking his posi-
tion in pew or in pulpit or in religious
socity and holding that position against
oil opposition, and all trial, and all perse-
cution, and ell criticism.
The church OF Col to-day wants more
backbone, more defiance, more conSecrat-
ell bravery, more metal. How often you
see a man start cut in some good enter
prise, and at the first blast of opposition
he has collapsed and all his courage gene
forgetting the fact that if man be right,
all the opposition of the earth pounding
away at him can not do him any perma.
nent damage. 1t is only when a man is
wrong that he can be damaged. Why,
God is going to vindcate His truth, and
He is going to stand by you, my friends,
in every effort you make for Christ's
cause and the salvation of men.
Go forth in the service of Christ, and do
you whole duty. You have one sphere. l
have another sphere.
The Lord of Hosts is W it'll us, and the God
of Jacob is our refu ge. Selah
We want more of the determination of
jonathan. l don suppose he was a very
wonderful man, but he got on his knees
end clambered up the rock, and with the
help of his armor bearer he hewed down
ba iSti nd nfU
nary intellectual attachments on his knees
can storm any thing for God, and for the
truth. We want something of the deter
mination of the general who went into the
war, and as he entered his fl st battle his
knees knocked together, his ply steal cour.
age not quite up to his moral courage; and
he looked down at his knees and said:
"Ah, if you knew where 1 was going to
take you, you would shake worse than
thatr
There is only one question for you to
ask, and for me to ask-what does God
want me to do? Where Is the fell,
Where is the work? Where is the anvil?
Where is the prayer Getting? Where is
the pulpit? And, finding out what God
wants "a to do, go ahead ana do it-all
the energies of our holy, mind and soul
enlisted in the undertaking. o! brethren,
we have but little time in which to fl hi
for Col! You will be dead soon. Put in
the Christian cause every energy that Coz
gives you.
What thy hand findeth to do, do It with all
thy might; for there is neither wisdom nor
device, in the grave, whittier we are all
fastening.
Opportunities of usefulness gone for
ever; souls that might have been benefi led
three months ago never again COMING