The Brookhaven leader., 1888-12-06

! ways as she passes, h6plng to see new evil
dences OF dcpfavity in the windows. 1
think that when Satan has a job so insn.s
itely mean that in all thu pit bA eau not
find devil mean enough 20 do IL, and all
brides ard threats have failed to get one
willing for thg Internal crusade, he says
to one OF his sergeants: go up to Brock
Ign, and in snch street. Cd Such a COR
ner, get that gcsstpihg woman, and she
will be glad to do it." And sure enough,
| Ike hungry fish, she takes the HOOK in
her mouth, and Satat tlacksns the line,
and lets her rHn out farther and farther
until after awhile he says: 1T Is time
to haul IN that line," aud with few
strong pulls he brings het 10 the beach Of
fire. What do yoa sayS can not he D that
When Satan goes a-f hing, he does not
\ care what school the Asa Belong to,
whether 1t is Pres SIBERIAN mackerel or
an Episcosol.an salmon. "Thou shalt rSt
bear false witnesses agalpst thy neigh
| Dor" Aud in Leviticus He says: Thou
shalt not 50 up AMI down as tale baaN-
! err" Fake not into your en- Eat scum of
hell that people ~Gii tittle-tattle. Who
! soevcr willingly listens to SANDER is
! equally guilty with the one who tells 1t,
and an old writer says they ought both to
! be hung. the one by the tongue ard the
other by the car nu not smile upon such
a spaniel, lest, like pleased dog, he put
| his dirty paw upon you. Throw back The
shutter of your soul, oh Christian mGA
I and women, and see If there be within
| you vulture with filthy talons and cruel
beak, Let not this unclean thing roost in
| your soul, for my text says: I'VE shall
hold in abominatlon among the Fowls, the
yulture."
Again, taking the suggestion OF the
| text, drive out the bat from your sorh
| No wonder God set this bird AMONG the
uHclean. 1t is an oS anse to every one
Let it fiy into the window of n summer
| night and all the hands, y5dng and old,
are against it. It's half t!rd and half
| mouse, st sss:hs made partly to walk
! and partly to fy, and does neither we'll,
and becomes an emblom of those
Christians who try to cling to earth and
Heaven at the same timh They want IT,
walk on earth In worldliness, and yet fly
! toward Heaven In spirituality, aud their
eoU!s, between feet and wings, IS con-
stantly perplexsd. o, my brethren, 0e
one thing or the ather! Choose the world
| if you Prefer 1t, and see how many dol
lars you can win, and how much applause
you can gain, and how large bus!tess
! you can establish aad how grand a
! honse you can build, and how fast q span
I OF horses you can drive. You may be
| prosperous until you can fail for half
| a million dollars insteal of having the
disgrace of failing for only ten thousand
| dollars, as some unenterprisinS people
do. 1t is quite q reward to bo able for ten
or twenty years to be called one Of the
solid MEN of Brooklyn or Boston; and
| IN 10 at a,,n
as possible, we will qlro you q splendid
funeral, end you shall have twenty five
carriages following you, with some body
in the most of them, and your coffll shall
have silver handles on the sides, and we
will mourn for you in splendid pocket
| handkerchief bcund with Grape, and
with bombazine twenty full yards long,
trailing half across the parler so that all
the company may stand upon it. and we
will write our letters for six months on
paper edged with black. But, my friends,
your worldly fortune will not last. ! will
buy out now all that you will be worth In
worldly estate seventyfve years from
now. l have the money in my pocket
with which to do it. Here it is! Two
cents Ii is large sum to offer for all
you will possess at the end of seventy
five years. Choose the world, if you want
to, but, if not, then choose Heaven. That
estate lies partly on this side of the river,
but mostly GU the other. 1t is ever &C.
cumulating. The prospect of 1t makes
one independent of earthly misfortuEes /;
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 UNI
speakable and full of glory" Oh. choose
earth or lleavenl Make up your mind
whether you will walk in earthly Joy, or
fly with Heavenly expectations. 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 posit sick
ness, because thou art neither cold nor
hot, l will spew thee out of my mouth ~
IN the ruins of Pompeii there was found
petritied woman, who, instead of trying
to fly from the destroyed city, had spent
her time in gathering up her jewels. She
saved neither her life nor her jewels.
There are multitu1es making the same
mistake. In trying to get earth and
Heaven they lose both. Eye can not serve
God and Mammon." Be one thing or the
other. Tread the earth like q lion, or
mount the air like the eagle, for my text
says: Eye shall have IN abomination
among the fowls the bat"
Again. Taking the suggestion of the
text. drive out the chame icon from your
soul. There is some difference among
good men as to tho name of this creeping
thing which God pronounced uuclean, but
| shall take the opinion which seems best
suited to my purpose. The chameleon is
q reptile, chiefly known by its change
ableness of color, taking the color of the
thing next to it, sometimes brown, some =
times gray, 5ut always the color of its
surroundings, type of that class Of
Chri ;tians whJ are now one thing in re-
ligious faith, and now another, just to
suit cirCumst ances, always taking their
color of religious belief from the man
they are talking to. They go to one place,
and are lirst-rate Unitarians. Jesus was
u good man, but nothing MORE" They
go to Princeton, and they are Trinita-
rians, almost willing to die for the di-
yinity of Jesus. Among the Univer-
salists they refuse the idea of future
punishment; and going among those of
opposite belief announce that there is q
hell with a gusto that makes you think
they are glad of it. Drive out that I'M
clean chameleon from your soul. Do not
be ever changing the color of your faith
Ny friends, liberal Christianity, falsely
so called, believes i'll nothing. God is
any thing you want to make Him. The
Bible TO be believed in so far as you like