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ors waiting to demand what Is due them"
Yet at that very time the French psasantry
were bringing their yaluables to him to Keep.
A celebrated writer says Of the trans.
noSS SSS'apE a4sna can than e. snasad sdm
sion. This old soldier, after thirty
years service, this iron man and victorious
general, established in an enemy's country
at the head Of an immense army, Is afraid OF
his creditorsl This is the kind Of fear that
has seldom troubled conquorors and invaders,
and I doubt il the annals OF war present
anything comparable to its sublime SIM
plicity."
Oh! is it not high time that we preached
the morals of the Gospel, right beside the
faith of the Gospell MIR. Froude, the cele-
brated English historian, has written OF his
own country these remarkable words:
From the great house in the city OF Lon;
don to the village grocer, the commerelai
s With Of lsps ans"nd So has dssp Sssn iarats Ras t
gone that a strictly honest tradesman
can hardly hold his ground against competi-
ton. You can no longer trust that any ar
ticle you buy is the thing which it pretends
to be. We have false weights, false meas
ures, cheating, and shoddy everywhere. And
yet the clergy have seen all this grow up in
absolute indifference; Many hundreds Hea
of sermons have L heard in Eng
mysteries of the faith. on the
and justification, and the theory Of good
works. and verbal inspiration, and the
efficacy of the sacraments; but, during all
these thirty wonderful years, never one thai
can recollect on common honesty"
Now, that may be an exaggerated state.
ment Of things in England, but I am very
certain that in all parts of the earth we need
TO preach the moraities of the Gospel right
along beside the faith of the Gospel.
My hearer what are you doing with that
fraudulent document in your pocket2 My other
hearer! How are you getting along with that
wicked scheme you have now on foot? Is
that ''pool ticket" you have in your pocket?
Why, 0 young man, were you last night
practicing in copying your employers sig
nature9 Where were you last night? Are
your habits as good as when you left your
fathers housea You had a Christian ances-
try, perhaps, and you have had too many
prayers spent on you to 60 overheard.
DR.. Livingstone the famous explorer, was
descended from the Highlanders, and he
said that one of his ancestors, one Of the
Highlanders, one day called his family
around him. The Highlander was dying; he
had his children around his death-bed. He
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
you inherit good blood. You have no excuse
for doing wrong. My lads, bs 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 king.
dom Of God Come back to the right
track. The door of mercy is open and the
Infinite heart Of Godis full Of compassion.
Come homel Come home! Oh, would be
we'll satisfied il could save some young man
this morning, some young man that has been
going astray and would like TO get back.
am glad some one has set to music that
scene in August OF 1881, when young girl
saved from death whole rail train Of pas
sengers. Some Of you remember that out
west, in that year on stormy night hlr-
ricane blew down part of a railroad bridge:
A freight train came along and it crashed
into the ruin, and the engineer and conduct
or perished. There was a girl living
in her fathers cabin near the disaster,
and she heard the crash OF
the freight train, and she knew that in a
She lighted lantern and clambered up on
the one beam of the wrecked bridge on
to the main bridge, 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
it would have been death. Amid all that
horror the lantern went out. Crawling
sometimes 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, so that the
danger might be telegrarehd to the station
whe,e the train did stop. The trat
was due in Ave minutes. She was one
mile off from the telegraph statloa
With cut and bruised feet she flew
like the wind. Coming up to the telegraph
station, painting with alinost deathly e1haus1,
| tion, she had only strength 20 shout, /" The
bridge is down" when she dropped unconI
scious and could hardly be resuscitated Thd
message was sent from that station to taa
next Station and the train halted, and that
| night that brave girl saved the lives OF nun.
dreds of passengers and saved many homes
| from dezolstion.
But every street is a track. and every style
of business is a track, and every day Is
track, and multitudes under the power OF
temptation coming sweeping on and sweep
ing down toward peris raging and terrlno.
| God help us to 60 out and st9p Ene
train. Let US throw some signal EI
us give some warning. BY the throne
downward progress. Beware! Bewarel The
bridge is down, the chasu is deep sud ths
lghtnings of God set all the night Of sin on
| fire with this warning: Gle, that being
often reproved hardeneth his neck, sgali
suddenly be destroyed, and th at without
| remedy"