Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-01-23

churches in your own house, but for the
vast population of our great cities, who are
treading on toward death, with no voice OF
mercy to arrest them. Ahl when the prod.
igal comes into the church, do not stare at
him as though he had no right to come.
Give him the best seat you can fnd for him.
Sometimes man wakes up from his sin.
and he says: "Ill go to the house of God. -
Perhaps he comes from one motive, per-
haps from another. He finds the church
dark and the Christian people frigid (and
there re no people on earth who can be
more frigid than Christian people when
they try) and the music is dull, aed he
never comes again. Suppose one of these
men enters the church. As he comes in he
hears song which his mother sang when
down, and some one hands him book.
Jerusalem, my happy home.
Name ever dear to me-"
! ."he say, II have heard that mar;
IN y He s. o1zsfu Christian people
80 =. every u i "a < psalm of thanks
g'v4og to God. lie SAYS; "Do you have
sais SO every Sunday? have heard that
the house of God was doleful place, and
i
rave re y enjoyed myselfw The next
S4bbs'h ne man is again in the same place
Tears repentance start down its cheek !:
he be4s to pray; and when the con,
nun "a table is spread, he sits Il. e-J
s9ne oae reaches over and says: "a slr
p sd to find you here. / $40 = "
didn't believe in such things" sAhi" Z
says, II have be F. capture0. l ca - o. g
day, and four5 L were all ) loging Z
cheerful here te;5 | { included | won ;
come among you. Where thou eoess y
GO; 'hY people shall be my people, N'd
God "a. God. Where thou diest viii d
and ':o will | be buried"
a. You can't drive men out of T. :
sins, but you eau coax them ont-you Cas-
charm them out.
! would 10 God that we could a.. aars TO
. higher appsee'4 ton of the Ssa7sea hs :
tagel We cennss count tie t.essrrss e.
our Christ III Sabbath. Is seeds o
over US the two wings of the are ge'
mercy. Oh, blessed Sabbath b.sS.sa s .
hathl They scof great deal ab3as 70
old Pdritanic SaboAtns, and thers ia a vo1-
derful amount of wit expended upon that
subject now--the Sabbaths they used to
have in New England. l never lived IN
New England, but would rather trust the
old Puritan!c Sabbath, with all its fan ts.
than this modern Sabbath, which is fast BE-
coming no Sabbath at all. If our modern
Sabbatism shall produce as stalwars Chris
tian character as the old New England Pu-
ritanic Sabbstism, shall be satisfied, and I
shall be surprised.
Oh, blessed day! blessed dayl 1 should
like to die some Sabbath morning when the
air is full of church music and the bells are
ringing. Leaving my home group with
dying blessing; should like to look off
upon some Christian assemblage chanting
the praises of God as went up to join the
one hundred and forty and four thousand
aud the thousands of thousands standing
around the threne of Jesus. Hark! 1 hear
the bell of the old kirk on the hillside of
beaven. 1t is a wedding bell, for behold
re Bridegroom cometh. It is a yictor's
3ell, for we are more than conqusrors
through Him who hath loved us. Il is e
for il calls the nations Of
earth and heaven to everlasting repoae.
''Oh when. thou city of my God,
Shall thy courts ascsnd?
Where congregations meier break up,
Sabhatns hava m end