The Penn's Grove record., 1892-04-15

,nt as We'll gotten up as you. When In the
English Pariis n.nt a ms ui,er was making
a great speech tnlt WIS nanswerable 4
LORI uerls.Vely ere ouI II remember you
wnen you bitcAeied my fathers bootsp'
Ies, ran'let the man, amt did not do it
weilF' Never he ash4msl of your early
~urrounIlhSs Yes, Yes, all the green leaves
We walk over were torn of some palm tree.
l have cult vIteI the lIbit of forgetting
the unpleasant things Of LIE, AMI / chiefly
REMEMBER the smooth things, and as far as
| remember now my lite has for the most
part novel over a road soft with green
leaves. They were torn OF two palm trees
that stool at the start OF the road. Ths
prayers, the Christian example. the good
advice, the harl WORK OF my father and
mother. How they toiied! Their fingers
were kmotted with hard work. Their fore
heads were wriuklei with many cares.
Their backs stopped from carrying our
burdens.
They long ago went into slunber among
their kindred and friends on the banks OF
the Raritan, but tue influences they threw in
the way OF their children are yet green as
leaves the moment they are plucked from a
palm tree, and We feel them on our brow
and under our feet, and they will strew all
the way until we lie down in the same slum-
Der. Self sacrifice! What a thrilling word.
Glad am l that our world has 30 many
specimens Of it. This sailor boy on ship
board was derided because he would not
hght or gamble, and they called him q COW
ard. But when a child fell overheard and
no one else was ready to help. the derided
sailor leaped into the sea, and, though tie
waves were rough, the sailor, swimming
with one arm, carried the child on the other
arm till rescued and rescuer were lifted INTO
safety, and the cry Of coward ceased n all
huzzaed at the scene of daring and self
lacrifice.
When recently Captain Burton, the great
author, died, he left a scientific book in
manuscript which he expected would be his
wife's fortune. He often told her 50. He
said, This will make you independent and
effiuent after l am gone" He suddenly
died, and it was expected that the wife would
publish the book. One publisher told her
he could himself make OUT of II 500, 0OO,
But it was a book which, though written
with pure scientific design, she felt would
10 immeasurable damage to public morals.
With the two large volumes, which had
cost her husband the work Of years, she sat
down on the floor before the fire and said to
herself. There is a fortune for me In this
book, and although my husband wrote IL
with the right motive aud scientific people
might be helped by it, to the vast majority
OF people it would ia harmful, and / know
1t would damage the world" Then she
tOOh dpiiL lut HidltusGt lpL S1tob hItdT SuetJ
and put It INTO the fire, until the last line
was consumed. Bravol She flung her
livelihood, her home, her chief worldly
re sources under the best moral aud religious
Interests OF the world.
How much are We willing to sacrifice for
othersf Christ is again Oh the march, not
from Bethpage to Jerusalem, but for the
conquest of the world. He will surely tax
1t, but who will furnish the palm branches
fnLr tho fritnnhanf waVy Salf aaCrtHaa 10
the word. There is more money paid to de.
stroy the world than to save it. There are
more buildings put up to ruin the race than
churches to evangellze it. There Is more de-
PRAYED literature to blast men han good
literature to elevate them.
Oh, for a power to descend upon us all like
that which whelmed Charles G.. Finney with
mercy, when, k~neellng in his law Office, and
before he entered upon his apostolic career
Of evangelization, he said: THE Holy Ghost
descended on me In a manner that seemed
to go through me, body and soul. / could
feel the impression like a wave Of electricity
going through and through me. Indeed 10
seemed to come in waves and waves Of liquid
love. 1t seemed like the breath OF God. I
can recollect distinctly that 1t seemed to fan
me like immense wings. / wept aloud with
Joy and love. These waves came over ms
and over me one after another, and until, l
rscollect, l cried out, I shall die IL these
waves continue to pass over me- l said,
Lord, l cannot bear any more" And
when a gentleman came into the Office and
said. "Mr. Finney, you are in pains' he re.
piled, "No, but 80 happy that cannot live"
My hearers, the time will come when upon
the whole church OF God will descend such
an avalanche of blessing. and then the
bringing Of the world to God will be a mat
ter OF a few Yeas, perhaps a few days or q
few hours. Ride on, D Christ for the
evangelization Of all nations. Thou Christ
who didst ride on the unbroken colt down
the sides of Olivet, on the white horse OF
eternal victory ride through all nations, and
may we, by our prayers, and our sell sao-
rifces, and our contributions, our con-
secrstions, throw palm branches in the
way. l clap my hands at the coming vic
tory.
Ifeel this morning as did the Israelitea
when on their march TO Canaan, they came
not under the shadow Of N palm tree, but
of seventy palm trees standing in an oasis
among a dozen usning fountains, or as the
Book putsi. Twelve wells Of water and
three score and ten palm trees" Surely
there are more than seventy such great and
glorious souls present to-day. Indeed, 1t Is
a mighty grove OF palm trees, and l feel
something Of the ~raptures which l shall feel
when our last battle fought, and our iase
burden carried, and our last tear wept We
shall become one oil the multitudes st. John
describes clothed in Vhite robes and palms
in their hands"
Hail thou bright, thou swift advancing,
thou everlasting Paln. sunday OF the skiesl
Victors over sin and sorrow and death and
woe. from the hills and valleys of the heav-
emily Palestine they have plucked the long.
broad, green leaves srd all the ransomed--
some in gates of pear. and some on battle
ments of amethyst, ana some on streets Of
gold, and some on seas Of sapphire, they
shall stand in numbers like the stars, in
splendor like the morn, waving their painsI