The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1890-05-08
Some Of the most eirantAl. sulndle, of m.

communion. Having concluded the sacra.
ment they get up wipe the wine from
the lips, go out, and take up their
sins where they left of. To serve the devil
Is their regular work: to serve God, sort
OF play spell. With Sunday sponge thoy
expect TO wipe of from their business slate
all the past weeks Inconsistencies You
have no more right To take such mans life
asa specimen OF religion than you have to
take the twisted irons and split tiu.bsrs that
lie on the beach at Coney Island as a speci-
men OF an American ship. 1t Is time that we
draw line between ligion and the frailtie,
OF those who profess it.
Doyou not feel that the Bible. take Il all
In all. is about the best book that the world
has ever seen? Do you know any book that
has as much in it, Do you not think, upon
the whole, that its influence has been benefit
cent! l come 10 you with both hands ex-
tended toward you. In one hand have the
Bible, aud In the other have nothing. This
Bible In one hand I will surrender forever
just as soon as in my other hand you can put
a book that is better. To.day invite you
back into the good old fashioned reli gion of
your fathers--to the God whom they wor-
shipei, 10 the Bible they real, 10 tho prom.
ises on which they leaned, To the cross on
which they hung their eternal expectations.
You have not been happy day since you
swung of; you will not DO happy IA minuts
until you swing back.
Again; There may be some OF you who,
In the attempt after Christian life will
have 10 run against powerful passions AMI
appetttts. Perhaps IL il disposition e.
anger that you have u contend against;
and pernap' while in a very serious moo |.
you hear OF something that ml lkes you fc,i
that YOU must swear or die I know
Ciristan man VINO was onrs - cxl,p,rat,l
that he said u a m,iu customer: ~ cannot
swear at you myself for | am n msmb,r
OF the church; but II you will gr down
stars NV partner IN business will sw'ar at
you All your gD)l resolutions hsrsso.
fore have been torn & tltt,rs 10y explosion
OF temper. Now th're Il M harm in get.
ting mad II you only got mad ~ sin You
nee u bride aud 81 | lie tirs, hot hr,lthal
passions, AMI with then rile down injus.
tics AMI wroly There are tlJusnnl
things In ths world that W, ou ;ht to b,
mad at Theirs is no harm in g,tting r,l
hot II you only bring - tho fp~., thai
which neels hammsrins. \ mIn wa has
no power ot right'Dts inli ligaatipn Is an
imbsrile. But b, surc it j. righteous in.
di gnltipn, AMI not "A pstulau' " that b,ur4
AMI unrayels an | dapot,, th' sIll
THERE'S lary' class ot p,rDn, IN ml1-hfa
whp have still In them app'tit's thai
wsrs arpuSni in early mlnhpbi, ~ "A timp
wnen they prl lei th,mS 'lyeI o1 b'ius u
little fast "iisn livsrs,' "frss an easy"
"hail fellows well mot They ron,~ plyins
h N'iD'All llH'l'Hl, lDt lItAti " llHf
collected twenty ytt-' ayp Spu' % y1l
are trying u eS'tp'. arl you willie.
very narrpwly, az w,tl t1' SKIN os ypI'
teeth Col An You uTi soul unly kupv
what the stru sSle Is. Oulippt,lt grl
has pu!le o1t many spul thlt wI' d",p''
W t1s mlre than yol are. Hh'y linz tn
beach o; hetven--tl, mui'itl l. wlpn cot
has rescusl from TIM thrLll o. ,Ii;tlll
nrnlts. IT you TINS day turn your bir', On ths
wrong anl Start ausH, Col will hslp y,l.
"a Tn" w'lkltSs OF hIntn nelp' VI Will
sympathiz' for a wIiln an then turn Vol
or. ltyOu aS< for tn'ir their ptr lpl, tl,v
viii give II, an say ti'y will try ypuayItu.
but falling away again unlir tn ppwtr ~
temptation, tlay cast you of forever. Blt
Cod for gives ssv,n.y tinss seven: va. s,y'n
huntrei times; ysL thpIsh this to- tl' ton
thousaulth TIM, lie i mlr' earnest, mpr,
sympathetic, more helpful. this last timp Tn IN
wn'n you took your tir't miSStep
II, with all tn iulu 'ncss favorable for a
right life, men nt<' - many mistakes, how
much harder IL is whnn, for instance. som,
appetite thrustS IL iron grlpole into the roots
OF the tongue, AMI pulls man down with
hands ot destruction lf. un ler surn circum-
stances, no brelk away, there will b. no sport
IN the undertaSlns NJ holilaY enjoyment
but struggle in which the wras,lerS move
from side TO side, and b,nd aul twist an
watch Tor an opp prtunitv tO get IN u heavier
stroke, until with one luu effort, In which
the muscles nr1 distanisl, ami tho vainI
stand out, an | the blood starts, the swarthy
habit falls under the knee OF the victor-.-r$-
cape at last rs with the skin Ot hi, ts'ta.f
Tho ship Emma, b)unl from GD'tnnburg
u Harwich. was sallin. on. when tn man on
the iooiout saw something tllt h prp.
nOuncsl vessel bottom IN Ther, WAS
something on IL that lDokrl liz, sel. sull,
but was atterward found T. b. a waving
handkerchief. In th" small boat tn, cgcw
pushed out u tho wreri, AM tolll that II
wa, "A clpsiZsl vessel, aui tnIt three m'u
had been digging their way out through tls
bottom Of the snip. When the ve,,'l cip.
sized they had No means of e,,ap'. lhp
captain took his ponknltc ani dug away
through the plauks until his knife hrpth.
Then an old nail wa, found, with wItrI thy
attempted 20 scrap, their way out o: tl'
darkness, elch one wOrklns until his han
was well nigh parayI,l aud he sank ba =
faint and sick. After long AMI tedlou, WORK
the hight broke through the bottom Of IA"
ship. 4 handkerchief was hplStel. Hslp
came They were taken ON board the vessel
and saved. Did ever men come - near a
watery grave wltIout droppln, into IL.
How narrowly they escaped ,-tsC lp-i only
with the skin OF their t'sth.'
There are men who have hean CapsiZhl %
evil passions, and capS,Hl mid-octl1, m
they are u thousand miles away trom any
SupIe pl HtlI, lH'l 44ifN lbl NHil ~ ''tl Ct
ing to dig their way ont. Thsy hlV' been
digging away nnl digging away, bur they
can never be delivere unless they VIII hD.,y
some signal os distress. However " Al, an Il fe'-
be IL may be-, Christ will 50, IL, AM b'lr Iowa
upon the helpless craft, anl take them ol
board, AMI will be- known In elrtl aud In
heaven how narrowly thtY e''aphl-"s'-
capsd "a with the skin OF their teeth.
There are others wac in ate npting -
come 10 God must run between great
many business perplexIteS. IL man -
over 10 business at 10 o'clOcS in ths mora
ing, and comes away ut 3 ocloc in ths al
ternoon he has some time Tor religion; but
how shall you finl time for religious con-
temptation when you urs drlven from sun
rise 70 sunset, AMI have been for five y" us
going behind in business, aul ars frequent
ly dunned by ere litors whom You cannot
pay, and when, from Monday mornins uu-
I'll Saturds, night, you ara dot;iny bills
that you cannot mest2 You walk day by
day In uncertainties that have kept your
brain on fire for the past three years Somt
with less business troubles than you hav,
gone crazy. The clerk has hoard noise il
the back counting.room, aud gone in ant
maniac; or the wife has hearl tue bang O
stumbling over tho dead body OF her nus
to-day three hundred men pursued, har
rasss1, trodden down aud scalped of busi
ness perpiexities, AMI which way 10 turl
next they do not know. Now God viii no
be- hard ON you. He knows what obstacle
-. 0 ahrtg ftut.