Sharp County record., 1888-08-30

the Gettysburg, the Au5teru']' 0no w -'Oo'
loo Of life, Tor bread.
And vet how many women 5here aro
coated between the rock Of bereavement
~, +r,a onesida and the rock OF destltuuon
ON the other, Bozez and Senah ln5erio'h-
ing their shadow and dropping 'nen
mon her miserable way
There is a sharp rock on the one side ana
sharp rock on the other side.
What are such TO do? somehow, let
them climb ND into the helght5 Oh INC
glorious promise;
r.,ave +bv fatherIess children; / VIII pre-
.or,,e them alive. and let thy widows trust IN
Or ret no into the heights Of that other
glorious promise. -,
The Lord Dreserveth the stranger ana E5'
ueveth the widow and The tatheriess.
o. We sewing women on starving wages
q ve widows turned out from the once
beautiful home. D, ye female teacheIS'
kent on niggardlv stipend. 0, ye despair
irg women. seeking N vain for work.
wandering along the docks and thinking
-o throw Yourself in5o the river last nlgh|
n va women of weak nerves and achlAg
sidas and short breath and broken nearr
Won need something moro than human
svmpathv: YOU need the sympathy Oh
God. Climb up into His arms. lie knows
it all. and He loves YOU more than IaVher'
or mother, OF husband ever could or ever
did: and instead of sitting down. wiring
ing your hands in despair you haa oe1I7r
begin TO climb. There are heights OF con-
ISOLATION for you, though now there Is
sharp rock on the one side and slarp
rock on the other side"
Again. hat man is in the crisis or the
text who has @ wasted life on the one side
and an Illuminated eternity on the oJheF'
| Though q man may all his life have cult
ured deliberation and se.t-Dojse, II ne
gets into that position all his self possess
sion is gone. There are all the wrong
thoughts of his existence, all the wrong
deeds. all the wrong wOrds-strata above
strata. grauittc, pouderOus, 0vershadoW-
inc. That rock I call BOzez. On the
other side are all the reTIbutlOns OF the
future. and thrones 0t Judgment the
eternal ages angry with his long def
onca. That rock I call Seueh. Between
these two rocks Lord Byron perlshed, ana
AIcibiades Derished, and Herod perlsned,
and ten thousand times ten thousand
have Derlshed o, man immortal, man
redeemed. man 5IOOd-DOught climb MP
ONT Of those shadows Climb 1p by the
wav of the cross. Have your wasted life
forgiven: have your eternal life secured.
/ This morning lust take one look 10 the
mast and see what it has been. and take
one look to the future and see what It
threatens to be. You can afford TO lose
your health you can afford 10 Lose your
property -Ou can afford TO lose your
reputation. but you can not afford to lose
vour soul. That bright, cleaning, gIou-
Gus. precious, eternal possession YOU
must carry aIoft in the day when the
earth burns up and the heavens burst
You see from my subject that when
man goes into the safety and peace or
the Gospel he does not demean himself.
There is nothing in religion that leads 70
/ meanness or unmanIiuess. The Gospel
Of Jesus Christ only asks you to climb
as Jonathan lid-climD toward Tod
climb toward Heaven, climb into she sun
shine 0t Gods favor. To become a
/ Christian is not to 90 meanly dOWn' IL IS
| to come gI0ri0usIy up-up into the COM
munion Of saints, up into the peace that
passeth all understanding, Up into the
compamouship OF angels. He lives upi
he dies up.
Oh. then accept the Wholesale invita-
| ton which I make this morning 10 all the
| people. Come up from between our in
-. liz r,l G-o,,,oI an, b o,,v.o s777 re
| Come up from between your bereavements
| and your destitution. Come up from be-
tween q wasted lite and an unillumlned
eternity Like Jonathan. climb with all
your might, instead Of sitting down to
/ wiring your hands in the shadow and N
/ darkness
/ A sharp rock on the one side, and sharp
/ rock on the other side