Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-11

sermons have heard In England, many dis
sertation on the mysteries of the faith, on the
divine mission of the clergy, on bishops and
justification, and the theory of good works,
and verbal inspiration, and the efficacy OF tne
sacraments; but, during all these " wonueIiul ,.1
years, never one that ] can recollect on cohl-
mon honesty"
Now, that may be an exaggerated statemeht
Of things in England, but am very can,, ceI.s,,h
that in all parts of the earth we need to pftaSSn
the moralities of the gospel right along Deslue
the faith of the gospel.
My heareri What are you doing with that
fraudulent document in you pocketT NY otne. tLe.
hearerl How are you getting along with t tnat
wicked scheme you have now on footY Is snxs
a pool ticket" you have in your pocket1
Why, o young man, were you last nignt pIaceo
Where were you last night? Are your hanlts
as good as when you left your fathers mouse!
You had q Christian ancestry, perhaps. ana
you have had too many prayers spent on you W
DIR. Livingstone, the famous explorer, was
descended from the Highlanders. and he sSld
that one OF his ancestors one o. OF the HiIgn- hIIn
The Highlander was dying, he had his children
around his death bed. He said: "Now, my
lads, have looked all through our history as
far back as can find it, and have never
found dishonest man in all the line, and
want you TO understand ouinherit good blood.
You have no excuse for doing wrong. My
lads be honest"
All, my friends be honest before God, be
honest before your fellow men, be honest be-
fore your soul. If there be those here who
have wandered away. come back, come home,
come now, one and all, not one exception IN all
the assemblage, come into the kingdom OF God:
Come back on the right track. The door OF
mercy is open and the infinite heart OF God Is
Oh, l would be well satisfied If could save
some young man this morning, some young
man that has been going astray and would ike
to get back.
THE BRIDGE Is DOWN.
I am glad some one has set to music that
scene in August of 1881, when young girl
saved from death whole rail train of passen-
gers. Some of you remember that out West,
in that year on a stormy night, hurricane
blew down part of railroad bridge. A freight
train came along and it crushed into the ruin,
and the engineer and conductor per1shed.
There was girl living in her fathers CABIN
near the disaster, and she heard the crash Of
the freight train, and she knew that in few
moments an express was due. She lighted a
lantern and clambered up on the one beam of
which was trestle work, and started to cross
amid the thunder and the lightning
of the tempest and the raging OF
the torrent beneath. One misstep and
horror the lantern went out. Crawling some
times and sometimes walking over the slippery
rails and over the trestle work, she came to the
other side of the river. She wanted to get to
the telegraph station, where the express train
did not Stop. The train was due in five minutes.
She was one mile of from the telegraph
station, but fortunately the train was late.
With cut and bruised feet she few like the
wind. Coming up to the telegraph station,
painting with almost deathly exhaustion, she
had only strength to shout, THE bridge is
down." when she dropped unconscious and
could hardly be resuscitated.' The message
was sent from that station to the next station,
and the train halted, and that night that brave
girl saved the lives of hundreds of passengers
and saved many homes from desolation.
But every street is track and every style of
business is a track, and every day is track,
and every night is track, and multitudes un-
der the power of temptation come sweeping
down toward perils raging and terrific. God
help us to go out and stop the tram. Let us
throw some signal. Let us give some warning
BY the throne of Goo let us flash some influence
to stop the downward progress. Beware! Be-
warei The bridge is down, the chasm is deep
and the lightnings of God set all the night Of
sin on fire with this warning: He, that being
often reproved, hardeneth his neck, shall sud
denly be destroyed, and that without remedy"