The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1890-05-08
tian heroes. No faxots were hsap.d about

their feet; no inqusition demanded from
their recantation: no soldier aimed a pike at
their heart. but they hal mental tortures,
compared with which all ply steal consuming
Is as the breath Of a spring informing.
find in the community largs class OF
men who have been so cheated, 50 lied
about, SO outrageously wrouge1, that they
have lost their faith in everything. In a
world where everything seems 50 topsy
turvy they do not see how there can be
any God. They are confounded and fren-
zied and misanthropic Elaborate argu-
ments TO prove 10 them the truth of Chris
tianity. or the truth Of anything else. touch
them nowhere Hear me, all such men. L
preach to you no rounded periods, no orna-
mental discourse: but put my hand on
your shoulder. and invite you into the
peace OF the Gospel. Here is a rock on which
you may stand firm. though the waves
dash against IL harder than the Atlantic
pitching its surf clear above Eldystone
Lighthouse. Do not charge upon God all
these troubles OF ths world. As long As the
world stuck to God, God stuck TO the wousd;
but the earth seeded from his government,
aud hence all these outrages aud all these
woes. God is good For many hundreds OF
years He had been coaxiny the world to come
back To Him; but the more He has coaxel the
more violent have men been in their resist
snce, and they have stepped back and stepped
back until they have dropped into ruin.
hounds after you, and wac have thought
that God had forgotten you. Try Him,
and see IL He will not help. Try Him. and
ses IL He will not pardon. Try Him, and
see II He will not save. The flowers of
spring have no bloom so sweet as the
Towering Of Christs affections. The sun
hath no warmth compared with the glow
ot His heart. The waters have no refresh.
ment like the fountain that will slnks the
thirst OF thy soul. At the moment the
reindeer stands with his lips aud nostril
thrust in the cool mountain torrent tho
hunter may b. coming through ths thirSct.
without cracking n stick und,r hi, foot,
he comes Gloss by the stag, aims his sun.
draws the trigger AMI the poor thius rsars
In its death agony and falls backward It's
hntlcrs crashing On the rorSs; hut tn plnt-
ing hart that drinks from this wIter brooks
Of Coils promise shall never b. fat ally
wounded aud shall n,vcr die.
This world Is n poor portion for your soul,
oh business man An eastern ktns hal
craven ON his tomb two layers, repre- ,'ntr
rs sounding upDl each other with snap an |
under them the motto; "All Is not WORTH
that Apicius Cplius hanged himself b..
cause his steward intorm' him that h' hui
only eighty thousand plunlS sterling left.
All of this worlds rich's mako bnt a small
inheritance for a soul. Robe-pi"rr' att-nHtcl |
to win the applnuS' OF the world, but whom
he was dying, woman came rushing through
the crowd, crying u nun Mltl'ltT bi III
kin lrcl. descend tn hell, cpv,rrl with the
curses of every mother IN France MANY
who have cxpecte tho plnu Its % tho world
have died unler its Auathemt Naranntha.
oh, find your pace ~ Col Make ona
strong pull for heaven. NJ half WAY work
will do IT, There som times 90 n'Ia tim'Ou
shipboard when everything must b' a'r'
hr'l ~ save the passengers Tho clrSo ~
nothing; the rigging nothing. the captain
puts the trumpet u his lips aul shouts, cut
away the mast! Some Of you have been
tossed aud driven. nnl you have. in your ef-
forts 20 keep the world, wsll-ntgh lost your
soul. Until you have decided this matter. lot
everything else 70. Overheard w,th all those
other auNietios aud buri i'ns' YoI will have
q urop tho sails of your pride an cut away
th' mast! With on earnest cry Tor hplp,
put your cause int th' nlnl of Him wnb
helped Paul out ot tn br't<ers AZ VI 'lita an |
VINO, above the ,h"ill blast of TIN wrlthicSt
tempest that over blarken,l thr sky or
shook the ocean can hnIr the fllnt,,t impiJr.
alton for IN 'rcy.
shall go home to lay ferlin that spn' of
you, who have considered your case ~ hpps.
less, will take h,lrt again anl that, vita "A
blood re elrnnstnoSS, such 1S ypl have never
experienced before, you will start for th
good lanl of the GoSp,l-it lasttl look btrS
saying: "What great risk ran! Almost
lost, but saved! Just got through. AMI IA.
mOrsl Escaped by tn, SKIN OF my tc,th.'