The Penn's Grove record., 1889-01-05

disasters i shall pluck advantage for
ny soul. Atl the promises are mine.
Christ is mille. Christian companionship
$ mine, heaven is mine. What though
apparel IL worn out? Christ gives
a robe bf Righteousness. What
my honey be gone? l have
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the promise, sAll are yours" What
my worldly friends fall away?
Ministering tngels are my bodyguard.
What though my fare be poor, and my
bread be scAntp / sit at the Kings
Oh, what IA poor, shallow stream IS
worldly ENJOYMENT compared with the
leep, broad, pverfowing river of Gods
,eace, rolling midway in the Christian
Sometimes you have gone out
IN the iron-bound beach of the sea
when there has been a storm on the
,cean, and YOU have seen the waves
lash into white foam at your feet.
They did not lido you any harm. While
here, you Thought of the chapter writ
EN- by the rsi,lmist, and perhaps you
'ecited it to Yourself while the storm
vas making c commentary upon the pas.
age: "God Is our
REFUGE AND STRENGTH,
very present help i'll time of trouble.
Therefore will l not fear, though the
be r~eIhoved, and though the
be, carried into the midst of.
he sea, though the waters thereof roar
md be troubled, though the mountains
ihake with the swelling thereof" Oh,
low independent the religion OF Christ
makes a man of worldly success and
worldly circui instances! Nelson. the
light before his last battle, said: "To-
l shall win either IA peerage, or
! grave In Westminster Abbey" And
t does not naake much difference to
he Christian whether he rises or falls in
mattess; lie has everlasting re-
Town anyway. Other plumage may
,e torn in tile blast, but that soul
Idorned with Christian grace, is fairer
han the dove,l its wings covered with
liver. and its Feathers with gold.
You and l lave found out that peo-
lie who pretend to be happy are not al
Ways happy. Look at that young man
,aricaturing the Christian religion,
cofling at everything good, going into
Clustering drunkenness, dashing the
bot ]. to the floor, rolling
he glasses from the bar-room counter,
.aughing, shouting. stamping the floor.
s lie happyp will go to
HIS NIhS,cuT pillow.
Will see HIM turn the gas off. [ will
six myself If the pillow on which he
leeps is as soft as the pillow on which
hat pure young man sleeps. Ali no.
When he opensl his eyes in the morning,
will the world be as bright TO him as to
hat young maih who retired at might
aging his prayers, invoking Gods
upon Ibis own soul and the
ouls of his COMRADES, and father and
and brother and sister far away?
No, no! His laughter will ring out
rom the saloon SO that you hear it as
'ou pass by. bug it is hollow laughter;
it is the swapping of heart-strings
nd the rattle OF prison gates. Happy!
hat young man happyl
Let him fill high the bowl; lie cannot
IN upbrabding conscience. Let
he balls roll Through the bowling alley,
he deep rumb,e and the sharp crack
annot Oyerpower tie voices of condem-
alton. Let him wllrl in the dance of
in and temptaI ION and death. All the
rilliancy OF tie scene cannot make
i'm forget the Just look OF his mother
s he left home, when she said to him:
Now, my son,t you will do right; /
m sure you Will do right; you will,
pOn't your" That young man happy?
Why. across eveAy night there fit shad-
VS. of eternal darkness; there are ad-
ers coiled up in every cup; there are
'ultures OF desptir striking their iron
eak into his hetrt; there are skeleton
myers of grief pfnching at the throat.
l come in amid the clicking of the
lasses and under the flashing of the
handellers, an4 l cry: WOE! woel
lie way of thl ungodly shall perish.
There IS no peac4, saith my God, to the
The Why of transgressors is
Oh. my Friends, there is more
by in Il drop LOT Christian sa.isfac-
ion than i'll whOIe rivers of sinful de-
ight. Other wings may be drenciied
f the storm and splashed of the tenn
est, but the dow that comes in through
he window of this heavenly ark has
wings like the dJve covered with silver,
nd her feathers with yellow gold.
Again | remark, religion is an adorn-
nent in the style of usefulness into
phlch it inlucts p man. Here are
TWO YloUNG MEN.
The one has iiibe culture, exquisite
1ai dfobe. plenty Of friends, great
success, 9ut he lives for him.
elf. Ills chief cIre is for his own com.
ort. lie lives udelessly. He dies un-
egretted. Here bs another young man.
lis apparelsmayl not be SO good, his
ducation may NOT be SO thorough. He
ives for others. His happiness is to
make others hapHy. He is as selfdeny-
ng as that dying lsoldier falling in the
anks, when he s4id: 'Colonel, there
5 no need Of thPse boys firing them
elves by carrying me TO the hospital;
ct me die just where | am" So this
'oung man of whbm l speak loves God,
wants all the world to love Him, is not
,Shamed to carry d bundle of clothes up
hat dark alley to the poor. Which of
hese young mem do you admire the
The n p sham, the other
A PRINCE IMPERIAL,
Oh, do you know of anything, my
learer, that is more beautiful than to
zee a young man Start out for Christi
Iere is some II failing; he lifts him
Up. Here is a yaa,abond boy; he intro
luces him to a mission school. Here is
family freezing ito death; he carries
hem a scuttle Of coal. There are eight
hundred millions perishing in midnight
leathen darkness by all possible means
10 tries to send Ito them the Gospel.
lie may be laughed at, and he may be
neered at, and heImay be caricatured,
,ut he is not ashamed to go every
where, saying: u an not ashamed of
he Gospel of ChriSt. 1t is the power
4 God and the wisdom of God unto
SUCH a young man can go
trough everything. There is no force
n earth OF in hell that can resist him.
show you
THREE sPECTACLEs.
Spectacle the first: Napoleon pas ies by
With the host that went down with him
o Egypt, and up with him through
}ussia and crOSsad the continent m