The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-29

J, 1885,
your soul thrill with the thought that there 10
another world beautifully inhabited Nay more.
| that you, by the grace Of God, may become one
| - is glorious citizensa
! g. Again / remark, If we want to become
| Christians. like Ruth in the text. we must
choose the Christians habitation. Where
thou lcdgest will l LODGE" cried Ruth
to Naomi. She knew that wherever Naomi
stopped, whether it were howell or mansion, there
would be Christian home, and she wanted to
! be In it, What do mean by Christian homer
mean home in which the blole
| is the chief book O home In wnicn
| the family kneel in prayer; home
| in which father and mother are practical Chris
tians;fa home in which, on Sabbath, from sunrise
to sunset, there is profitable converse, anc cheer
| full song, and suggestions of a better world.
Whether the wall be frescoed or not, or only
ceiling of unplaned rafters; whether marble lions
are couchant at the front entrance, or plain
| latch is lifted by tow-string. that home is the
antechamber of heaven A man never gets over
having lived in such an early home. 1t holds
/ You in an eternal grip Though your parents
may have been gone forty years, the tears of
| penitence and gadness that were wept at the
family altar still glitter in your memory Nay,
| do Won not now feel warm and hot on your
hands the tears which that mother shed thirty
| years ago, when, one cold winter night she came
and wrapped you up in the bed and prayed for
| your welfare here and for your everlasting well
| fare before the thronel
| A. Again, remark if we want to become
| Christians, like Ruth in the text we must choose
| Christian associations. snThy people shall be
| my people, cried out Ruth to Naomi.
1.-THE folks you associate with want TO asso.
ciate with. They will come and see me, and
will go and see them. | want to move IN the
| and, therefore, mother, | am going back with
| You to the land of Judah"
Do you who are seeking after God-and sup
| pose there many such in this presence-do
| You who are seeking after God prefer Christian
| society to worldly societyl
NO" you say, II prefer the worlds mirth,
| and the worlds laughter, and the worlds innu-
| endo, and the worlds paraphernalia."
Well, this Is free country, and you shall
have the right Of choice but let me tell you that
the purest mirth, and the most untrammeled
| glee and the greatest residence OF soul are in
side of Christian companonship, and not out
side of 1t.
s. Once more: IL we want to become Chris
tians, we must like Ruth in the text. choose the
Christians death and burial. She exclaimed:
Where thou diest. will die. and there will
be buried" / think we all, when leaving this
world, would like to be surrounded by Chris
tian influences You would not like to have
your dying pillow surrounded by ciricaturists.
and punsters, and wine bibbers. How would
you like to have John Leech come with his Lon
don EDITORIALS, and Christopher North, with his
jokes when you are dyng2 No! no! no! Let me
have Christian nurse in my last sickness. Let
me have Christian physician to administer the
medicines. Let il be Christian wife, or parent,
or child, that watches the going out of the tide
of my mortal existence Let Christian men come
in the room and read of the illuminated valley.
and the extinguishment Of grief, and drown the
hoarse blasts of death with the strains of
"Mount Psgah' and Saint Martin"
In our last moment we will all be children.
a ScOtch
when dying:
Sing me BARNS hymn"
where thou diest will die, and there will
be buried Sometimes an egitaph covers up
more than it expresses. Walking through
Greenwood Cemetery have sometimes seen an
| inscription which impressed me how hard the
| sculptor and friends were trying to make out a
| good story in stone / saw from the inscription
| that the man or woman buried there had died
without hope The inscription told me the
man was member of Congress- or bank
| president, or some prominent citizen, but
| said nothing about his souls destiny.
| The body is nothing. The soull The SOUL And
| here by this inscription / see that this man was
born in 1900 and died in 1875 Seventy-fve
| years on earth, and no Christian hope! Oh, If
in all the cemeteries of your city the graves of
| those who have gone out or this world unpre-
| pared should sigh on the wind, who would have
| the nerve to drive through such place. If all
| those who have gone out of this world unpre-
pared could come back to-day and float through
this air, telling the story Of their discontinue,
this audience would fall fiat on its face, asking
| to be rescued from the avalanche of horror
| Ny hearers, do you wonder that this Ruth of
| my text made the Christians choice, and closed
| it with the ancient form of imprecation. upon
| her own soul if she ever forsook Naomi ''The
Lord DO so TO me, and more also, if aught but
| death part thee and me-"
| They were to live together Come the jackals,
| come the bandits, roll on Dead sea! My hear
ers, would you not like to be with your Christian
| friends foreverl Have there not gone out per-
sons from your household whom you
| would like to spend eternity withl They
| were mild and loving, and gentle, and
| beautiful while here. You have no idea that
| the joys of heaven have made them worse.
Choose their Christ and you may have their
heaven. They went in washed through the blood
| of the Lamb. and you must have the same glo-
rious ablution. With holy violence l put my
hands on you to-day to push you on toward the
immediate choice of this only Savior Have Him
you must, or perish world without end Elect
this moment as the one of contrition and trans
port o give one intense. earnest, believing,
loving gaze into the wounds opened for your
eternal salvation!
Some Of you I confront for the first and the
last time until the judgment and then we shall
meet. Will you be ready
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