The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-09-20
unlocked handcufr. quicker than the bay.

unlocked handcuf, quicker than the bay
onets of revolution pried open the
Bastile, you may be liberated and made a
free son or a free daughter of God. You
have only TO choose between serfdom and
emancipation, between chain and n coronet
between Satan and God. Make up your
mind and make IL up quick. When
the. King Of Sparta had crossed the
Hellespont and was about to march through
Thrace he sent word to the people in the
different regions asking them whether he
should march through their countries ms
friend or an enemy. by all means as n
friend answered most Of the regions, but
the King Of Macedon replied; II will take
King Of Sparta: "Let him consider 1t.
but meantime, we march-we march" "
SO Christ. our King. gives us our choice
between his friendship and his frown, and
many of us have long been considering what
we had better do; but meantime He marches
on. and our opportunities are marching by.
And we shall be the loving subjects Of His
reign, or the victims of our own obduracy.
30. urge You to precipitancy, rather than
slow de'iberation. and ! write all over your
soul the words of Christ saw inscribed on the
monument of Princess Elizabeth in the Isle
of Wight. the words to which her index
finger pointed in the open Bible when she was
found dead in her bed after n lifetime OF
trouble: Come unto Me. all We who are
weary and heavy laden. ani will give you
W.
the Saviours grace. have that fire Of thirst
utterly extinguished. Is there n defrauder
herei You may be made n saint. Is there
libertine herel You may be made as pure
as the light When minister in an outdoor
meeting In Scotland was eulogizng goodness
there were hanging around the edge
OF the audience some OF tho most deoraved
men and women. and tho minister said moth
ing about mercy for prodCals. And a de
PRAYED woman crie1 ont: "Your rope Is not
lAN rrANNE. 81. E....s IA.
Gol. our Gospel can fathom the deepest
depths and reach 70 farthest wanderings and
here is n rope that IL long enough to rescue
the worst: "Whosoever will ~
But why take extreme cases when we all
have been or are now the captives of sin and
deatht And we may through the great
Emancipator drop our shackles and take q
throne. You have looked at your hand aud
arm only aS being useful now, and a curious
piece OF anatomy hut there is something
about your hand and arm that makes me
think they are an undeveloped wing
And IL you would know what pos
sibilities are suggested by that. ask
the eagle that has looked close into the eve
otthe MONDAY sun; or ask the alhatross that
has struck its claw into tho black locks of tho
tempest; or ask the condor that this morning
Is descending TO the highest peak of CHM
bornzo. Your right hand and arm aud your
left hand and arm, two undeveloped wings,
better get ready for the empvrenu
Rise. my son and stretch thy wing,
Thy better portion trac i."
There have been chains famous in the
worlds history such ~ the chain which
fastened the prisoner of Chillon 20 the pillar,
INTO thc staple of which | have thrust my
hand. on the isolated rock of tho LAX. of
Geneva such aS the chain which tho
Russian exile c'anks on his way TO the mines
OF Siberia; such rs the chain which Ienobia.
the captive queen, wore when brought into
the presence OF Aurelian. Ave, there have
been races in chains, and nations in chains,
and there has bcen n word in chains: but
thank God, the last one OF them shall be
brok n, and under the liberatng power of
the omnipotent Gospel the shackes shall
tall from the last neck, AMI tn, last arm and
the last foot. But these shattered fetters
shall all be gathered IN again from the dun
gcons, and the work houses, and the mines.
and the rivers. and the fields, and they shall
again be welded aud again strung link TO link,
AMI polished ani transformed until this world
which has wandered Off and been n recreant
woEli and lost world, shall by that chain
be lifte and hung to the throne of God, no
longer the iron Chain of oppression. but the
golden chain OF redeeming love. There let
this old ransomed world swing forever! Roll
on We years, roll on ye days roll on We
hourS,a and hasten the glorious contamination