Telegram-herald., 1890-05-05

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suythins against Mocicinss You are rner.
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ness II charging upon Christlznlry the
Nfekednsss II IL disciples We admit soIas
Of the charges against those who profs.s 70
lsion some u the aaosG gigantic s~lnales
q the present dag have been carried On by
men bsr, u the ekurch There are uen
stznSinx IN the front rank Ia tie churChes
who would not be trusted for I've doAsrs
without good collateral security They
leave Jheir business disboEesties IN The
yestibule Of the church as they 20 IN and
~ AZ The communion Having concluded
he sacrament, they get up, wipe the wine
trotn their lips, 20 cut, and take up theiT
sins where they lefI OF. To serve Lhe devil
Is their regular work. 20 serve God, = sort
Of play spell With Sunday sponge they
expect - wipe of from their business slate
al tbs past week 5 Inconsistencies. You
have 10 more right 10 take such q man
life ss a specimen of religion than you have
70 take the twisted irons and sFiit timbers
that lie on the beach al COney Island As a
specimen Of an American ship IL Is time
that We draw a line between religion and
the frailties Of those who profess 1t.
THE BIBLE
Do You not feel that the Bible. take IL
al in all. Is about the best book that the
world has ever seen? Do you know any
book that has as much in its Do you not
think, upon the whole, that its influence
has been benehcent' come 70 you with
both hands extended toward you. In one
hand have the Bible. and in the other
have nothing. This Bible ia one hand
VIII surrender forever Just as soon as in
my other hand you can put book that ,s
better Today invite you back into the
good old fashioned religion Of your fathers
to the God whom they worshiped, 10 the
Bible they read, TO the promises on which
they leaned, 10 the cross on which they
hung their eternal expectations. Ycu have
not been happy a day since you swung off,
you will not be happy minute until you
swing back.
Again: There may be some of you who,
in the attempt after Christian life, will
have TO run against powerful passions and
appetites. Perhaps it is disposition to
anger that you have TO contend against;
and perhaps, while in a very serious mood,
you hear Of something that makes you feel
that you must swear or die. | know a
Christian man who was once so exasperated
that he said TO a mean customer: "I can
not swear at you myself, for | am mem
Der of the church; but if you viii go down
stairs my partner in business will swear at
you" All your good resolutions hereto
fore have been torn 10 tatters by explosion
of temper Now there is no harm IN get
ting mad if you only get mad at sin. You
need 10 bride and saddle those hot bresthed
passions, and with them ride down injus-
tice and wrong. There are thousand
things in the world that we ought TO be
mad at There is no harm in getting red
hot If you only bring to the forge that
which needs hsmmering. A man who has
no power Of righteous Indignation is an
imbecile. Bat be sure it is a righteous in
dignation, and not petulancy that blurs
and unTavels and depletes the soul.
There is large class Of persons in mid
life who have still in them appetites that
were aroused in early manhood, at q time
when they prided themselves on being a
little fast, ""high livers, free and easy"
"hail fellows well met" They are now
paying, in compound interest, for troubles
, they collected twenty years ago. Some Of
you are trying 70 escape, and you wiI-yet
very "a liy, las with the skin OF your
teeth" D-i and your own soul only know
what the struggle IS Omnipotent grace
has pulled out many soul that was deeper
in the mire than you are. They line the
beach Of heaven-the multitude whom God
has rescued from the thrall Of suicidal
habits. If you this day turn your back on
the wrong and start anew, God will help
you. Oh. the weakness Of human helpl
Men will sympathize for while, and then
turn you OF. If you ask for their pardon,
they will give 1t, and say they will try you
+ again; but, falling away again under the
power OF temptation, they cast you of
forever But God forgives seventy times
seven; yea, seven hundred times; yea,
though this be the ten-thoussndth time,
/ he is more earnest, more sympathetic,
/ more helpful, this last tine than when you
/ took your first misstep
A HARD STRUGGLE
4 II, with all the Influences favorable for a
-
how much harder IL * when, for instance,
some appetite thrusts its iron grapple into
( the roots Of the tongue. and pulls a man
( down with hands Of dcstruction' II, under
/ such circumstances. be break away. there
/ will be no sport in the undertaking, no hol-
/ iday enjoyment but a struggle in which
| the wrestlers move from side 70 side. and
bend and twist. and watch for an opportu-
/ nifty 10 get in q heavier stroke, until with
one final effort, in which the muscles are
! dstended. and tie veins stand out, and the
/ blood starts. the swarthy habit falls under
the knee Of the victor-escaped AZ last as
with the skin Of his teeth"
| The ship Emma, bound from GottenburE
/ 70 Hsrwich. was sailing on, when the man
/ on the lookout saw something that he pro
nounced a vessel bottom Up. There was
T something on Il that looked like a sea gull,
but was afterwsrd found To be q waving
T handkerchief. In the small boat the crew
pushed out to the wreck, snd found that it
was q ospsized vessel, and that three men
had been digging their way out through
F the bottom Of the ship. When the vessel
/ capsized they had no means Of escape The
captain took his penknife and dug awsy
through the plR1ks until his knife broke
Then az old nsil was found. with which
they attsmrtel "a scrspe tl.ir way out of
the darkness. sach one working until his
hand was well nigh psralyzed and he sank
back faint and sick Aftsr long and tedious
work The light broke through the bottom
q the ship. Handkerchief vvas boisted
Help came. They were taken on board The
vessel and saved Did ever men oome 40
near vatery grave without dropping into
ito How narrowly they escaped -escaped
only With ths skin RI their teeth
There are men vho have heen cspsizsd q
evil passions sud capTized m.id ocean. snd