The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-08-26

conservation, and Marys broken heart,
and Ruth's |. wing and bereft spirit. o
choose Sc between Chemosh and Je-
hovah! The one service is pain and
disappointment; the other service is
brightness and life. have trie. both.
chose the service OF God because I
was ashamed TO do otf. erwise. l tel, it
would be imbecile for me to choose
Chemosh above eho-ah.
40 happy day that fixed my choice
On thee, my Saviour and my God!
Well may this glowing heart rejoice,
And tell its raptures al abroad.
o happy bond that seals my VOWS
To Him who merits all my love!
Let cheerful anthems fill His house,
While to His sacred throne l move.
+" High Heaven, that heard the solemn
VOW.
That VOW renewed shall daily hear;
Till in LIES latest hour bow,
And bless in death a bond so dear"
II. Again: If we want to be Christians,
like Ruth in the text, we must take the
Christians path: "Where thou Soest,
will co. cried out the beautiful Moabit-
esS to Naomi, the moth r-in-law- Dan
gerous proml>e that. There were deserts
to be crossed. There We're jackals that
came down through the Wilderness
Dead Sea. Naomi says !" Ruth. you
must go back. You are too delicate to
take this journey. You viii give out In
the first i've miles. You c;li.iioI go
You Lave not the phy>ical stamina or
the moral courage 10 20 with me
Ruth responds. Mother. l am going
anyhow. II stay III TINS land l will be
overborne of the idolaters. II L go along
with you / shall serve GOD. Give me
that bundle. Let M carry it. L am
going with you, mother, anyhow"
And if we want to serve God we must
thou goest, I will 60" Never mind the
Dead Sea. Afoot or horseback. II lheie
be rivers to ford, we must ford them
If there be mountains to scale. we must
scale them. Ii there be enemies TO fight,
we must fight them. II I,luires grit
and pluck to get from Moab to JUDAH
Oh, how many Christians there are who
can be diverted from the path by
culver of the lip, indicative OF scorn!
They do not surrender to temptation,
but they bend to it. And ii in a company
there be those who tell unclean S. cries
they will go SO far as to tell something
on the margin between the pure and the
impure. And if there be those who
swear in the room, and use the rough
word damn, they will go SO far as the
word "darn," and look over the fence
wishing they coulI go farther; but a. to
any determination like Ruth's to go the
whole road of all that is right they have
not the grace to do it. They have not in
all their body as much courage as Ruth
had in her little finger. Oh, my friends,
let us start for heaven and go Clear
through! In the river that runs by the
gate of the city we shall wash off all our
bruises. When DIR. Chalmers printed
his astronomical discourses, they We're
read in the haylofts, in the fields in the
garrets, and in the palaces, because they
advocated the idea that the stars were
inhabited. o hearer, does not your soul
thrill with the thought that there is
another world beautifully inhabited?
Nay, more, that you by the grace of God
may become one OF its glorious citizens?
III. Again remark: If we wait TO
eccme Chri~: ians, like Ruth II the exi,
We aust choose the Ctr sta S habita-
ton. Where thou lous st, WI. 1
lodge" cried Ruth to Ma. mi. She
knew that wherever Ma mi stopped,
whether it We're howell or mansion, there
woul,! be Christian ONE. and she
wanted to be in it. What do I mea by
a Christian home? l mean a home in
which the l.ibe is the clief book.
home in which the family kIieel in pray
ers; a home in which father and mo. her
are practical Christians; Ii me in
viii h on Sabbath, from sunrise TO sun
set, there Is p; olitabe converse, ard
cheerful song, and suggest rs OF u bet
ter world. Whether The wall be res. oed
or not, or on.y a ceiling OF unplaned
rafters; whether marble lions are
couchant at the front entrance, ora plain
latch is lifted by tow-string, that home
is the ante-chamber Of heaven. A man
never gets over having lived in such an
early home. 1t holds you in an e Ell. al
grip. Though your parents may have
been gone forty years, the tears OF peni-
tence and gladness that were welt at the
family altar still glitter in your me- orr.
Nay do you not now el warm AID hot
on your hands the tears which that
mother shed thirty y'ars ago, whe.. one
cold winter night She came and Wrapped
you up In tho bed and p aged ior your
welfare here and foI your EVERLASTING
welfaf. before the throne?
Dye Who are to SET up your own home,
see that II be a Christian home! Let
Jesus make the wine dL that wedding.
A home W .thout God IL an awful pla- .,
there are TO many pcflls 10 threaten 1t
| and God Himself is 60 bitterly against
it. but "the Lord enc.mpeth around
about the tabitation OF The just.
What q gland thing Il IL to have God
stand guard u, that door. ant the Lord
Jesus the family ply >ician; and the
wings OF angels the .noPy over the pill
| 10" and The Lord oil Glory perpetual
guest You say Il is Important taat the
| wife and the mother be u Christian.
| say to you it Is just as important that
| the husband anu fathe. be C. ristian.
| Yet how many clever ruen there are who
| say My wife does all the religion OF
my house. ain a worldly man; but
| have confidence in her. and think she
will bring tho whole family up all right"
| 1t will not do my brother. The fact
| that you are not Christi Ii has more
influence on your family than the .act
that your wife is q Christian. Your chill
dren will say: ''Falher's very good
man he is not a Christian, ant: if he can
| risk the future, 1 can Fisk the future"
o father and husband JOIN your wife on
| the road to heaven, Ind at hight gather
your family at the altar. Do you say !:
Il can't pray. l am man OF few words
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