The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-10-17
THE SAVING L00R.
.,,up,E BEYOND THE GATES
x. Sc mon which the Rev. DIR.
r.,msre Intended TO Preach.

? 1, the Christian lie we mus, not go sup
.had This world was not made Tor us 70 rest
snO In time Of war you will find around the
N. ~ some city, far from the scene Of
SUI 49,, mon in soldiers uniform, who havo
conui,, CO. be AWAY They obtained fur
arsns srd they are honestly and righteously
whgssdutv. hut have to tell you that in this
Sonn.,;s,ian Sn conflict, between the first moment
,yben we enlist under the banner OF ChrSt
WI ,be last moment in which we shout the
al. ary there never will be single instant
V.J%, n we will have n right TO be or duty.
~ W .bro,vs all around this Christian life the
fau, fal.o,,cnts won't OF the old Roman and Grccian
.'.aames-thosc games that sent a man ON
s with such stretch OF nerve
ami muscle, that sometimes %nas ne ,,rOMnsd wned
~ g-n exhausted. Indeed, history tells
'h,, tbore we're cases where men came up
n,lv had strength just to grasp the
W, and then fall dead. Now, says this
ko.,ie making alusion to those very games,
~ ~ arc all to run the race, not to crawl 1t,
All Ia walk it-but run the rnce set before
-, looking unto Jesus and just rs in the
u,ien times. man would stand at the end
,bo road with beautiful garland that was
" ~ upt around the head or brow of the
U.isf,,I racer. so the Lord Jesus Christ
s,.rJ. ot the end uf the Christian race with
No. Garland of eternal life, and may God
sropt that 10y His holy spirit we may 50 run
rSc Jistinruishcd Welliston, the chemist,
.s.a.Lcd where his laboratory was, and the
,,,p,rcrs expected 10 be shown some large
.r.rtu,put dlcd with very expensive appara-
o. lint Wclliston ordered his servant to
brins ON n tray few glasses and a rotort,
and he said To- the inquirers: That is all my
iab,rntofv 4 make all my experiments with
,io.,~ Now. know that there are great
mani Who take n whole libraryto express their
theology They have so many theories on ten
,bon.and things: but | have To say that all
,nv theology is compassedi in these three words.
Hooking unto jesus and when we can
understand the height and the depth and the
ienrth and the breadth and the iniinity and
tbc immensty Of that passage we can under
stand all
remark in the first place, we must look to
Christ A. our personal Saviour. Now, you
know a. well as l. that man is only blasted
min Of what he once was There is not 80
| much difference between vessel coming out
Of Liverpool harbor, with pennants flying
and the deck crowded with good cheer and
the guns booming and that same vessel driv-
inc against Long Island coast, the drowning
| Messengers ground to pieces amid the timbers
4 Of the broken up steamer, rs there is be-
| tween man as he came from the hands of
Col. equipped for grand and glori-
ous VOYAGE. but afterward, through
1 N, pllotagc Of the devil, tossed and driven
strewn with the fragments of an awful and
eternal shipwrcck Our body Is wrong How
n easily II is rausackcd of disease. Our mind
wrong How hard it is 10 remember, and
4 how easily 10 forget The whole nature dis
ordered from the crown of the head to the
sole Of the foot-wounds bruises, putrefying
4 sores "All have sinnCd and come short of the
glory of God" by one man sin entered
into the world and death by sin
and 80 death has passed upon all
men for that all have sinnedr There
is in Brazil plant they call the murderer" 4"
for the simple reason that IL is so poisonous it
kills almost everything it touches. IL begins
10 wind around the root of the tree and
coming up to the branches reaches out TO the
ends of the branches, killing the tree as it
goes along When IL has come 10 the tip end
Of the branch the tree is dead. Its seed fall
70 the ground and start other plants just as
murlerous.
And so it is with sin. II is n poisonous
plant that was planted in our soul long
while ago, and II comes winding about the
body and the mind and the soul, poisoning,
poisoning, poisoning killing, killing killing
Us II goes Now, there would be no need of
my discourSng upon this il there were no
way of plucling out that plant IL is most
inconsderae thing for mo To come TO man
who is in financial trouble and enlarge upon
his trouble IL | have no alienation to offer
q
who Is sick and enlarge upon his disease
have no remedy To offer.
But have right TO como
10 man in financial distress
or physical distress If have financial re-en-
iorcement 10 offer or n sure cure TO propose
blessed be God that among the mountains of
our SIN there rolls aud rcverbrates n song of
salvation. Louder than all the voices Of
bondage Is the trumpet of Gods delverancc,
sounding. "Oh, Israel thou hast DESTROYED
myself but IN Me is thy help At the
barred gates Of our dungeon, the conqueror
knocks and the hinges creak and grind at
the swinging open, The famine struck pick
up the mamma that falls in the wilderness
and the Hoods clap their hands saying:
Drink Oh thirsty soul, and live for
e'er' aud the feet that were torn and
neep cut ON the rocky bride path Of sin
%" come INTO a smooth place, and tho
ry aldclS crackle rs the painting hart
breaks through to the water brooks
.nd the dark night of the soul begins
grow gray with the morning. yea To
purple, yea 10 flame, from horizon TO
orzoh The batteries of temptation sill
fncd' troubles that fought against lis
aptured and made Ia fight on our side Not
result OF any toll or trouble on our
arN put only as result of Looking unto
Os, but what do you mean by Look
unto JesusHn some one inquiries | mean
alth' What do you mean by faitby I
lsah believing. what do Won mean nv
neylhgf | mean this; If you promise TO
acertan thing for me, and | have con-
~i elVe III your Veracity-if you say you will
We me such a thing and | need IL very
"'. / come IN confidence that you are an
NJ ~ ni'n ana VIII do what you say. Now,
NSru Jesus Christ says: "You are in
VI pardon and life and heaven, You can
on eh tneh II you come and get them -
a, eul can't come and ask first
su ulald You won't give il 10 me -
sl ~, you are unbelieving But Won saw. III
pa,, ,o'l,e 1 ana ask, | know. Lord tesus
me 81 "It III earnest about this matter |
NJ ASKING Tor pardon. Thou hast nrom.
ar ~ give II to me- Thou wilt rive n To- me
y,,,'a rast gwen II 10 me- That is faith
t'u sec IL YETI oh saws some one III
bo,. understand it, No man ever did
VulNlhe help. Faith is the gift Of
litv otr uu say That throws the responsi.
IN osG ~ my shoulders No Faith Is tho
A., o'' put II comes in answer 10 PRAYER
nl a over glorious Is my Lord
<r. ia ".Nsl lc loved and Vet ndnr.d.
Snr N1rth u all the nations Knew
"a -. "noie earth would love Him. too
an e~a,, Jam, that we must look 10 Jesus
pw h ai,,pie' NOW, mere copyist. Won
bortfo,io "aysa failure. II n painter 90 To
lSite ~ VI gallery Of art however ex
I'M tboobet bet MS idea of the natural world
ns ~ pictures, he will not succeed as
no,, ~ artist who starts ont and doshes
me- cum I'm the grass and sees the morning
M tha W Dullt II in the clouds or noured if
p houhtaln, or kindled n ,inon the
Ieople wondered ~, ~ uPoh .,io