News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-06

of earthly misfortunes, so that Rogers,
the martyr, slept so soundly the night before
his burning, they violently shook him in
order to get him awake in time for
the execution; and Paul exults at the
thought of the 10y unspeakable and
full of glory" Oh, choose earth or Heaven
Make up your mind whether you will walk
in earthly joys, or fly with heavenly ex-
pectations. Be not a bat, fit neither to walk
nor fly, having just enough of heaven te
spoil the world, and so much of the
world as to spoil heaven. Christ saws
that your present condition nauseates him to
neither cold nor hot, 1 will
spew thee out of my mouthn In the
ruins of Pompeii there was found a petrifed
woman, who, instead of trying to fly from
gathering up her jewels. She saved neither
her life nor her jewels. There are
multitudes making the same mistake.
In trying to get earth and heaven they
lose both. I'VE cannot serve God and
Mammon." Be one thing or the other.
Tread the earth like a lion, or mount the air
like the eagle; for my text says: "Ye shall
bat"
Again: taking the suggestion of the text,
drive out the chameleon from your soul.
There is some difference among good men as
20 the name of this creeping thing
which God pronounced unclean, but l shall
take the opinion which seems best suited
~ MY ia pOSc. 1tS NLlAAC-COl 10 q 1NPtiACy
chiefly known by its chan ea5leneSs of color,
taking the color of the thing next to it, some
times brown, sometimes red, and
sometimes gray, but always the color
OF its surroundings, a type of that class
of Christians who are now one thing in re-
ligious faith, and now another, just to suit
circumstances, always taking their color of
religious belief from the man they are talk
ing 70. They go to ons place, and are first
rate. Unitarians. 'JesuS was a good man,
hnffnOthinO mora ThaU oO RI Princeton
and they are Trinitarians, almost willing to
die for the divinity of Jesus. Among the
Universalists they refuse the idea of future
punishment: and going among those of
opposite belief, announce that there IS
a hell with a gusto that makes you
think they are glad of it. Drive out that
unclean chameleon from your soul. DO not
be ever changing the color of your faith. My
friends, liberal Christianity falsely ~so-calle1,
believes in nothing. God is anything
you want to make Him The
Bible to be believed in so far as you
like it Heaven a grand mixing up of Neros
and PaulS- The man who dies by suicide in
his right mind in 1888, beating into glory by
ten years the Christian man who dies a
Christian death in 1898; the suicide proving
himself wiser than the Christian. Oh, my
friends, let us try to believe in something.
An infide was called to the bedside of his
daughter. The daughter said: Father,
which shall | believe, you ormOthera Mother
took the religion of Christ, and died in its
embrace. You say that religion is a humbug.
Now | am going to die. and [ am very much
belief of my mother" The father said:
CHOOSE yourself" She said: No; l am too
weak to choose for myself; 1 want you to
choose for me" tSIVell" said the father.
after much hesitation AMI embarrassment:
MARY, l think you had better take the
religion of your mother TIE time will come
when We shall havet to believe something. We
not afford to be on the fence in religion.
Truth and error are set opposite to each
other. The one is infinitely right, and the
other infinitely wrong. On the judgment
day we must give Al account of what we
believed as well as for what we acted.
difference between believing truth
and believing error is the difference between
and pardltiOu- l beg you, in the
of the Bible, and on yorr knees be-
fore God, to form your religious opin-
ion and then stick to it. though business COM
scoif, AMI wits caricature, and the i
air crackles with the fires of martyrdOm.
Surely truths i'll lehalf of which Christ
died. and angels of Co trooped forth, and
the whole universe is marshaled, are worth
living for and worth dying for. Amidst the
of religious theory. Away with
the reptilei God abhorS 1T With an allcon-
adherence.
Once mora: take the suggestion of the
ext, and drive out the s nail from your soul.
has declared it unclean. 1t is an animal
20 be found everywhere between the coolest
north and the hottest south. There are
fifteen hundred species of the snail. They
nave no backbone, and they are so slow that
heir movement is almost lmperceptlble. You
see asnaii in one place to-day; go tomorrow
nd YOU will find it has advanced only a few
inches. 1t becomes an ,nnblem of that large
lass of Christian people who go to work
With a ~slOwnesS and slul .gishneSS that is won
.erful. They are stopp ed by every little OBJ
tacle, because, like the snail, they have no
backbone. Others mount up onTagle'S wings
out they go at a snairs pace.
o. child of God, arousel We have
apotheosized Prudence AMI Caution long
Prudence is a beautiful grace, but
# all the family of Christian graces 1
ike her the least, for she has been
Sioth, and Sturidity. We have a
million idlers in the Lords vineyard who
pride themselves on their prudence. "Be
prudent" said the disciples to Christ, land
'tay away from Jerusalem;n but He went.
for what You say to Felix" but he
numbered away until the rulers knees
knocked together. In the eyes of the world.
the most i'm prudent men that ever lived
Wesley, and Knox. My opinion is that the
most imprudent and reckless thing is to stand
still. 1t IS well to hear our Commanders voice
when He says Haiti but quite as important
to hear it when he says Forwards This
Gospel ship made to pillow the sea at fifteen
knots an hour is not making three.
it is most prudent to
ride your horse slowly and pick out the
way for his feet, and not strike him with the
spurs; but when a baud of Shoshonee In
are after you in full tilt,
the most prudent thing for you to do
is to plunge in the rowelS and put
your horse TO a full run, shouting: $50
until the Rocky Mountains echo it.
The foes of God are pursuing us. The world,
the flesh, and The devil are after us; and our
wisest course is to go ahead at swiftest
speed.
When the Church of God gets to advanc-
ng too fast, it will he time enough to use
caution. No need of putting on the brakes
while going up hui. Do not let us sit down
for som 9thing Ito turn up" but
ahead in the name of God, and turn it
up. The great danger to the church now is
not sensation, but stagnation. Oh that the
Lord God would send a host of aroused and
,onsecrated men to set the Church on
ire, and to turn the world upside down.
u go to work and catch the last
mail in our souls. With Divine vehemence
ct us stamp its life out; for my text declares:
.Thes also shall be unclean to you among
he creeping things that creep upon the
,arth; the chameleon and the snail | have
tried to prejudice these Christian men
nd half-and-half experiences, and change
Lblsness, and sloth. Our opportunities for
,etting better are being rapidly swallowed
in the remorseless past. h golden
is about to drop out of the calendar.
This moment we may drive out all the
mclean things from our souls-the %vulture,
nd the bat, and the owl, and the chame-
con, and the snail; and in place thereof
,ring in the Lamb of God, and the Dove Of
he Spirit! The case is urgent. Arouse! be-
it be eternally too latei "WhatsoeveE
by hand fiEdGth to do, do It'll"
VERONA BALDWIN, who shot the Cal
millionaire of that name and
yr,,pu G5O OOO from, hin, in comprOmisa