The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-02-20

Outlawry, if it had its way, would rend
and tear and destroy, and instead OF
three-fourths of the people not having the
apparel they ought to have, there would
be four-fourths in rags. / will tell you
how the distribution will be made. BY
increased generosity on the part OF those
who have supplies-by increased industry
and sobriety on the part of those who have
suffering and deficit. Not all, but the vast
majority of the cases OF poverty are the
result either OF idleness or drunkenness
on the part of the present sufferers, or
their ancestors. Not all, but the
majority OF the cases. The rum jug is the
lnaelstrOm that swallowed down the
livelihood of the vast multitudes who are
in rags. Now, there is going 20 be a
change, and by increased generosity on
the part OF the crowded wardrObes, and
increased industry and sobriety on the
part OF the empty wardrobes, there will
be enough to wear for all. God did His
part toward dressing this world. lie
grows an extra amount of warmth on the
sleeps back, and the flock that roam the
mountains and the valleys with a super
abundance of warmth that was intended
to be transferred to the human race when
the shuttles of the factories all the way
between the Chattahoochie and the Mer-
rimac shall have spun and woven 1t. And
here comes the Rocky Mountain goat and
the cashmere and the beaver, and here
comes the merino sheep, its origin traced
clear back to Abrahamitic and Davidic
time. God writing in white letters
of snowy fleece for thousands of years
His wish that the whole human
race may have warmth and enough cloth
ing. Now, who will do the most toward
settling this question of apparel? That
man who idly sits down to discuss low
tariff, or no tariff at all on wool, or
Won, the Christian woman who will go
forth, having examined first your own
wardrobe, to see if there is any spare
apparel, and take a lad from the street to
a clothing store and give him full outfit?
Abstraction never did anything-never
clothed back, never shOd foot, never
fed hungry man. Abstraction. For do
not be deceived by this mild January and
February weather, and think that God
has forgotten the ice and the snow. We
shall have deep SHOWS, and so much frost
on the window-pane you cannot see
through it, and whole flOcks OF billiards..
For God has not forgotten the promise
He made at the beginning that winter as
well as summer shall not cease, and be-
tween this and the springtime crocus you
and will again be led to cry out with the
psalmiSt. "WhO can stand before His
colo? ?" Let us take another look and see
how we can serve our own generation.
We would be very short-sighted GER
tainly if we were anxious that there
should be food and clothing and shelter
for the most insignificant part of man
his bOdy-while we cared nothing about
feeding and clothing his immortal soul.
Time Is only little piece broken off
great eternity. What are you and do
ing for the souls of our generation? Let
me say that this is a generation worth
saving. We talk about the improvements
in navigation and locOmotion and art and
machinery, and we make a great ado
about the telegraph and the telephone and
the stethoscOpe and we say, what a
wonderful advance between the electric
light and the tallow candle" But all that
advancement is insignificant compared
with the advancement of the human race.
We put halo around the people OF the
past. In olden times, once in a while
there would come forth good and great
man, or a good and great woman, and
the world would make a great fuss
about it; but there are so many such
men and women now we do
not speak of it. l tell you that this
generation is more worth saving than
any OF the $50 generations that have
passed. Well, now how are we going to
begin? With ourselves. That is the pill
lar from which we must start We will
never save anybody else until we our
selves are saved. Have you ever noticed
how strong a man is when he is in the
right? At the time of the centennial ex-
hibition at Philadelphia the directors as
sembled to settle whether they should
open the exhibition on Sunday. A man
of the world from Nevada, who was
member of the board of direction, arose
in the midst of the discussion and said:
well, / feel as if l was prodigal got
home again. / went far west twenty
years ago, where we had no Sabbath, and
/ haven't been as good man as ought
to have been, but to-day I am thinking
about my glorifed mother and what she
taught me about the Sabbath day, and |
feel Just now as if were kneeling bv her
side saying my evening prayer. Gentle
men, / vote for the observance OF the
Christian Sabbath" Well, the whole
thing went by storm, and when
the question was put: "Shall the
exhibition be opened on the Sabbath day?"
1t was an almost unanimous "No, no, no"
One man in the right--boldly in the right,
magnificently in the right. My friends,
we will successfully talk no more religion,
we will successfully preach no more relig-
ion than we have ourselves. We will
never lift anybody on the rock until we
get both our feet planted on the eternal
rock. How to be saved? People have
been saved in less time than ! have been
talking about it. What? Without a
prayer? Yes. Without time for much
deliberation2 Yes. Without a tear?
Yes Believe and you will be saved Be-
ieve what? That Jesus Christ died to
save your soul from sin and death and
hell. Will you believe? Do you believe?
You do. l see it in many of your faces.
Welcome, Welcomed Hail, hail. Saved
yourself, how are youg going to save others?
BY testimony. Tell it to your families,
tell 1t to your business associates, tell it
everywhere. Oh, what a grand thing it
would be 10 save this whole generation.
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