The Penn's Grove record., 1889-08-10

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Der, in the late war, / was at Antietam,
and / went into the hospitals after the
battle, and said to q man: "Where are
you hurt?" He made no answer, but
held up his arm, swollen and splintered.
1 saw where he was hurt. The simple
fact is, when a man has n wounded soul,
all he has to do is to hold it up before
q sympathetic Lord, and get it healed.
1t does not take any long prayer. just
hold up the wound. Oh, it is no small
thing, when a man is nervous and weak
and exhausted, coming from his evil
ways, to feel that God puts two omni-
potent arms around him, and says:
ssYoung man, I will stand by you. The
mountains may depart, and the hills
be removed, but l will never. fail you"
And then, as the soul thinks the news
is too good to be true, and cannot be-
lieve it, and looks up in Gods face,
God lifts his right hand and takes an
oath, an affidavit, saying: Gas l live,
saith the Lord God, l have no pleasure
in the death of him that d1eth." Blessed
be God for such a gospel as thisl ''Cut
the slices thix," said the wife to the
husband, cor there will not be enough
to 90 all around for the children; cut
the slices thin" Blessed be God,
there is
FULL LOAF o EVERY ONE
that wants it! Bread enough and to
spare. No thin slices at the Lords
table! 1 remember when the Master
Street Hospital, in Philadelphia, was
opened during the war, a telegram
came, saying: "There will be three
hundred wounded men tonight; be
ready to take care of them" and from
my church there went in some twenty
or thirty men and women to look after
these poor wounded fellows. As they
came, some from part of the land,
some from another, no one asked
whether this man was from Oregon, OF
from Massachusetts,, or from Mime
sofa, or from New York. There. was II
wounded soldier, and the only question
was how to take off the rags the most
gently, and put on the bandage, and
administer the cordial. And when a
soul comes to God, He does not ask
where you came from or what your an
cestry was. Healingfor all your wounds!
Pardon for all your guilt! Comfort for
all your troubles!
Then, also, 1 counsel you, if you want
to get back, to quit all your bad associa-
tions.
ONE UNHoLY INTIMACY
will fill your soul with moral distemper.
In all the ages of the Church there has
not been an instance weere a man kept
one evil associate and was reformed.
Go home to-day, open your desk, take
out letter paper, stamp, and envelope,
and write a letter something like this:
my Old Companion; 1 start this day for
heaven; Until I am persuaded you will join
me in this, Farewell"
Then sign your name, and send the
letter by the first post. Give up your
bad companions, or give up heaven. 1t
is not ten bad companions that destroy
a man, nor five bad companions, nor
three bad companions, nor two bad
companions-but one. What chance is
there for that young man L saw along
the street, four or five young men with
him, hating in front of a grog shop,
urging him to go in, he resisting,
violently resisting, until after a while
they forced him to go in? 1t was a
summer night, and the door was left
open, and l saw the process. They held
him fast, and they put the cup to his
lips, and they forced down the strong
drink. What chance is there for such a
young man?
/ counsel you also, seek Christian adj
vice. Every Christian man is bound to
help you. nyou find no other human
ear willing to listen to your story of
struggle come to me, and l will, by
every sympathy of my heart, and every
prayer, and every toll of my hand,
stand beside you in the struggle for
reformation; and as l hope to have my
own sins forgiven. and hope to be ac-
quilted at the judgment-seat of Christ,
l will not betray you. First of all seek
God, then
SEEK CHRISTIAN COUNSEL.
Gather up all the energies of body,
mind, and soul, and appealing to God
for success, declare, this day, everlast-
ing wal against all drinking habits, all
gaming practices, all houses of sin.
Half-and-half work will amount to
nothing: it must be a Waterloo, Shrink
back now, and you are lost. Push on,
and you are saved! A Spartan general
fell at the very moment of victory, but
he dipped his finger in his own blood,
and wrote on a rock, near which he was
dying, Sparta has conquered. Though
your struggle to get rid of sin may seem
to be almost a death struggle, you can
dip your finger in your own blood, and
write on the Rock of Ages: Victory
through our Lord Jesus Christi
Oh, what glorious news it would be
for some of these young men to send
home to their parents in the country
They go to the p~ost-office every day OF
two to see if there are any letters from
you. How anxious they are to hear
Nothing would please them half SO
much as the news you might send home
tomorrow that you had given your
heart to God. 1 know how it is in the
country. The night comes on. The
cattle stand under the rack, through
| which burst the trusses of hay. The
horses, Just having frisked up through
| the meadow at the nightfall, stand
knee-deep in the bright straw that in
vites them to lie down and rest. The
porch of the howell is full of fowl. In.
THE L FARMHOUSE AT NIGHT
no candle is lighted, for the flames clap
hands about the great backlog, and
shake the shadow of the group up and
down the wall. Father and mother sit
there for half an hour, saying nothing.
l wonder what they are thinking of!
After a while the father breaks the sill
ence and says: "Well, 1 wonder where
our boy is in town tonight" And the
mother answers: SIN no bad place, |
warrant you; we always could trust him
when he was home, and since he has
been away there have been so many
prayers offered for him we can trust
him STILL" Then at s o'clock-for they
retire early in the country-at O'Clock
they kneel down, and commend You to
that God who watches in country and
in town, on the land, and on the sea.
Some one said to a Grecian general:
"What was the propdest lament OF
your life?" He thought a Moment,
and said:
1.-THE PRoUDEsT MoMRS
of my life was when I sent word home
to my parents that 1 had gained the
victory" And the proudest and most
brilliant moment in your life will be
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