New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-12-05

farther, until after while he says: st is
time tio haul in that line" and with a few
sfronei pulls he brings her to the beach of
fire. hat do gou say? That she was a
1nembeir Of the church? cannot help that.
When Satan goes a-fshing, he does not care
What school the fish belong to-. whether it is
q Presby mackerel or an Episcopaian
salmorl Amidst the thunder crash of Sinai,
God said: Thou shalt NOT bear false wit
ness against thy neghbor." And in Levitt
cxs, he says: Thou shalt not go up and
down ais a tale-bearer.n Take not into your
ear that scum of hell that people call little
tattle. Hhosoeyer willingly listens to a slam
der is equally guilty with the one who tells it,
and an old Writer says they ought both to be
hung, one by the tongue and the other by
the ear Do not smile upon such a spaniel,
lest, ike a pleased dog, he put his dirty paw
upon you Throw back the shutter OF your
SOUL OH Christian men and women, and see
if there be within you q yulture with filthy
talons and cruel beak. Let not this unelean
thing roost in your soul, for my text saws.
sYe shall hold in determination among the
fowls, the yulture."
Again. taking the suggestion OF the text,
drive out the bat from your soul. No won
der God set this bird among the unclean. 1t
is an otfense to every one. Letit fly into the
window of a summer night, and all the
hands, young and old, are against it. 1t is
half bird and half mouse. 1t seems made
partly to walk and partly to fly, and does
neither we'll: and becomes an emblem of those
Christians who try to cling to earth and
heaven at the same time, They want
to walk on earth in worldliness, and yet fly
toward heaven in spirituality; an d theirsoul
between feet and wings, is constantly per-
picked. Oh. my brethren, be one thing or
the other! Choose the world, if you prefer it,
and see how many dollars you can win, and
1,/, I,
large a business you can establish, and how
grand house you can build, and how fast
q span ofhorses you can drive. You may
be prospered until you can fail for $500 900,
instead of having the disgrace of failing
only $40, 900 as some unenterprising peo-
pie do. 1t is quite a reward to be able
for 10 or 20 years to be called one of the
solid men of Brooklyn or Boston; and
them to make your fortune last as long as
possible, we will givey you a splendid funeral,
and you will have 25 carriages following
you, with somebody in the most of them,
and your coffin shall have silver handles on
the sides, and we will mourn for you in
splendid pocket-handkerchiefs bound with
Grape, and with bombazine 20 full yards
long, trailing half acrose the parlor, SO that
all the company may stand upon it, and we
will write our letters for the next six months
on paper edged with black. But my friends,
your worldly fortunes will not last, | will buy
out now all thatyo will be worth in worldly
estate rs years from now. have the money
in my pocket with which to do it. Here it
is! Two cents! 1t is large sum to offer
for all you will possess at the close of rs
years. Choose the world if you want to; but
fnot, then choose heaven. That estate lies
partly on this side of the river. but mostly
on the other. tits ever accommodating. The
prospect of it makes one independent 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
Joy 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 expecta-
tons Be not a bat, fit neither to walk nor
fly, having just enough of heaven to spoil
the world, and SO much of the world as to
spoil heaven. Christ says that your present
condition nauseates him to positive sickness:
Because thou art neither cold nor hot.
will spew thee out OF my mouth! In the ruins
OF Pomperi there was found a petrifed
woman, who instead of trying to fly from the
destroyed city, had spent her time in gather
ing 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. eye cannot
serve God and mammon." Be one thing or
the other. Tread the earth like the lion, or
mount the air like the eagle; for my text
says: "Ye shall have in domination among
the fowls, the bat.''
Again: taking the suggestion of the text,
drive out the chameleon from your soul
There is some difference among good men as
to the name of this creeping thing which God
pronounced unelean, but / shall take the
opinion which seems best suited to my pur-
ph1mpa0n q q ri "
known by it's changeableness of color taking
the color OF the thing next to it, sometimes
brown sometimes red, and sometimes gray,
but always the color of it's surroundings, a
type of that class of Christians who are now
one thing in religious faith, and now another,
just to suit circumstances, always taking
their color of religious belief from the man
they are talking to- They go to one place,
and are firstrate Unitarans. s'Jesus was q
good man, but nothing more" They go to
Princeton and they are Trinitarians,
almost willing to die for the
divinity of Jesus. Among the Univer-
salists they refuse the idea of future
punishment; and going among those of op-.
posite belief, announce that there is q hell
with a gusto that makes you think you are
glad oft Drive out that unclean chameleon
from your soul. Do not be ever changing
the color of your faith. My friends. libe1 al
Christianity, falsely so-callei, believes in
nothing. God is anything you want to
make him. The Bibleis 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 10 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 S omething
An intidel was called to the bedside of his
daughter. The daughter said, Father,
which shall believe, you or mother? Moth
er took the religion of Christ, and died in its
embrace. You say that religion is
die, and [ am very much per-
picked; shall believe you, or take the belief
of my mother?' The father said, "Choose
for yourself" She said, mo, am too weak
to choose for myself; want you to choose
for me- WELL said the father, after
much hesitation and embarrassment Mary,
| think you had better take the religion of
your mother" The time will come when we
shall have to believe in something. We5can-
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. In the Judgment
day We must give an accounted what we be-
heved as well as for what we acted. The diff
ference between believing truth and believing