The Penn's Grove record., 1889-04-20

y 'nhBoiiSdi tHlISllinS, SluIlng at Tie
: holy sacrament of our Lord Jesus
Christ, and suppose hat the majority
OF them are ssanCh believers In our
Christian religion. And then hear
THE DYING WORDS OF JUDGE BLACK
a man who had been Attorney-G General
of the United States, aud who had
been Secretary of the United States
no stronger lawyer OF the century than
Judge Black-dying, his aged wife
kneeling by his side, and he utteriug
that sublime and tender prayer: &c
Lord God, from whom 1 derived my
existence, and III whom | have always
trusted. take my spirit TO myself, and
let thy richest blessing come down
upon my Mary" The most popular
book to-day IS the Bible, AID the
mightlest institution Is the Church,
and the greatest name among the
nations, and more honored than any, is
the name of Jesus.
WOnders Of SET. sacrifice: A clergy
man told me in the Northwest that for
SIX years he was a missionary at the
extreme north, living 400 miles from a
post office, and sometimes he slept out
of doors in winter, the thermometer
sixty and sixty.five degrees below zero,
wrapped in rabbit skins woven togeth-
er. l said: sis ii possible? You do
not mean sixty and sixty-flve degrees
below zeroI" lie said, Il do, and ]
was happy"
ALL FOR CHRISTI
Where is there any other being that
will rally such enthuslasmP Mothers
sewing their fingers off TO educate their
boys for the gospel ministry, For nine
years no luxury on the table until the
course through grammar school and
college and theological seminary be
completed. Poor widow putting her
mite into the Lords treasury, the face
OF emperor or president impressed upon
the coin not so conspicuous as the
blood with which she earned it.
Millions of good men and women, but
more women than men, to whom
Christ is everything. Christ first, and
Christ last, and Christ forever.
Why, this age is not so characterized
: by invention and scientific exploration
AZ it is by gospel proclamation. You
car get no idea of it unless you can
ring all the church bells in one chime,
and sound all the organs In one diapa-
son, and gather all the congregations
of Christendom III one Gloria In Elk
celsis. Mighty camp meetingsl Mighty
Ocean Grovesl Mighty Chautauquasi
Mighty conventions of Christian work.
ersl Mighty general assemblies of the
Presbyterian Church! Mighty confer
ences of the Methodist Church.
Mighty associations of the Baptist
Church, Mighty conventions of the
Episcopal Church, | think, before
long, the best Investments will not be
in railroad stock or Western Union,
but In trumpets and cymbals and festal
decorations, for we are on the eve Of
victories wide and world uplifting.
q you dead churches, wake upI
Throw back the shutters of stiff eccle-
siasticisin, and let the light of the
spring morning come inl Morning for
the landl Morning for the seal Morn
Ing of emancipation! Morning of
light and love and peacel Morning
of a day In where there shall be no
chains to break. no sorrow to assuage.
no despotism to shatter, 10 woes to
compassionate. o Christ, descend
Sacred temple, take the crownl Bruised
hand, take the sceptrel Wounded
foot, step on the throne! "Thine Is
the kingdom"
These things 1 say because | want
youto
BE ALERT.
| want you to be watching all these
| wonders unrolling fiom the heavens
| and the earth. Col has classified them,
whether calamitous OF pleasing. The
| divine purposes are haruessed in traces
| that cannot break, and In girths that
| cannot slip, and in buckles that cannot
loosen, and are driven by reins they
must answer. | preach no fatallsm.
A swarthy engineer at n OF the
| depots In Dakota said: when will you
| get on the locomotive. aud take a ride
with usP" "Well," | said. NOW, if
that suits yon?" So l got on one side
of the locomotive, and a Methodist
| minister, who was also invited, got
Cd the other side, and between us
we're the engineer and the stoker. The
| train started. The engineer had
| his hand on the agitated pulse of
| the great engine. The stoker SHOW
eled In the coal, and shut the door. with
a loud clang. A vast plain slipped
under us, and the hills swept by, and
that great monster on which we rode
trembled and bounded and snOrted and
ragged as it hurled us on. l said to the
Methodist minister on the other side of
the locomotive: SHY brother, why
should Presbyterians and Methodists
quarrel about the DEGREES and free
agency You see that track. that firm
track, that iron track; that is the
decree. You see this engineers armp
That is free agency. How beautifully
they work together. They are going
to take US through. We could not do
without the track, and We could not
do without the engineer. So | rejoice
day by day.
WORK 20 ALL TO DO,
and we may turn the crank of the
Christian machinery this way OF that,
for we are free agents; but there Is the
track laid SO long ago no one remem-
bers it, laid by the hand of Almighty
God in sockets that no terrestrial or
satanic pressure cal ever affect. And
along that track the car of the worlds
redemption will roll and roll to the
Grand Central Depot OF the millennium.
| have no anxiety about the track. !
am only afraid that for our Incidence
God will discharge us and get some
other stoker and some other engineer.
The tram is going through with us or
without us. So, my brethren. watch
all the events that are going by. II
things seem to turn out right, give
wings to your joy. If things seem to
turn out wrong, throw out the anchor
OF faith, and hold fast.
There Is a house In London where
Peter the Great of Russia lived awhile
when he was moving through the land
lncognito and in workman's dress,
that he might learn the wants OF the
people. A stranger was visiting al
that house recently, and saw in a dark
attic an old box, and he said to the
owner Of the house, whats in that
boxP' Tie owner said, 81 don't know:
that box was there when | got the
house. and it was there when my
father got it. We haven't had any
curiosity To look at II; | guess there's