Connecticut western news., 1893-07-27

aliu l lie GIlSOn6T or ILllliOU, anu u0 Siege of Corlntn. reduced to nothing but a file!
 THE WAGES OF SIN.
 Oh, sin has great facility for making promises, but it has just as great facility for breaking them. A Christian life is the only cheerful life, while life of wicked surrender Is remorse, ruin and death. Its painted glee IS sepulchral ghastliness. In the brightest days of the Mexican empire Montezuma said he felt gnawing at his heart something like a canker. Sin, like monster wild beast of the forest, sometimes ticks all over its victim in order that the victim may be more easily swallowed; but generally sin rasps and gals and tears and up- braids and files. Is it not so, Herod? Is it not so, Hildebrand? Is it not so, Robespierre? Aye! aye! it is so; it is so. .'The way of the wicked he turneth up side down"
 History tells us that when Rome was founded, on that day there were 12 vultures flying through the air, but when a transgressor dies the sky is black with whole focks of them. Vulturesl When 1 see sin robbing so many people, and see them going Gown day by day and week by week, l must give plain warn ing. I dare not keep it back lest risk the salvation of my own soul. Rover, the pirate, pulled down the warning bell on Inchcape rock, thinking that he would have chance to despoil vessels that were crushed on the rocks, but one night his own ship crashed down on this very rock, and he went down with all his cargo. God declares, "When I say to the wicked thou shalt surely die, and thou givest him not warning, that same man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will 1 require at thy hands," learn from this subject what sad thing it is when the church of God loses it's metal. These Philistines saw that if they could only get all the metallic weapons out of the hands of the Israel ties all would be well, and therefore they took the swords and the spears. They did not want them to have single metallic weapon. When the metal of the Israelites was gone. their strength was gone. This is the trouble with the church of God today. Itis surrendering it's courage. It has not got enough metal. How seldom it is that you see man taking his position in pew, or in pulpit, or in religious society, and holding that position against all oppression, and all trial and all persecution, and all criticism.
 The church of God today wants more backbone, more defiance, more conse- crated bravery, more metal. How often you see man start out in some good | enterprise, and at the first blast of news paperdom he has collapsed, and all his courage gone, forgetful of the fact that | if a man be right all the newspapers of the earth, with all their columns pound | ing away at him, cannot do him any per manent damage! It is only when man is wrong that he can be damaged. Why, | God is going to vindicate his truth, and he is going to stand by you, my friends, | in every effort you make for Christ's cause and the salvation of men.
 I sometimes say to my wife: ''There IS something wrong; the newspapers have | not assaulted me for three monthsl Ihave not done my duty against public iniqui- | ties, and I will stir them up next Sun- | day." Then I stir them up, and all the | following week the devil howls and howls, showing that I have him very hard. Go forth in the service of Christ and do your whole duty. You have one | sphere. I have another sphere. "The | ~-------
 Lord of Hosts is with us, and the God o1 Jacob is our refuge. Selah."
 | We want more of the determination of Jonathan. I do not suppose he was very wonderful man, but he got on his knees and claInbered up the rock, and with the help of his armor bearer he hewed down the Philistines. and man of very ordinary intellectual attain | rnents, on his knees, can storm anything 1 for God and for the truth. We want something of the determination of the | general who went into the war, and as he entered his first battle his knees knocked together, his physical courage not quite up to his moral courage, and he looked down at his knees and said,
 fAh, if you knew where was going to take you, you would shake worse than that!'
 There is only one question for you to ask and for me to ask. What does God want me to do? Where is the field?
 Where is the work? Where. is the anvil?
 Where is the prayer meeting? Where is the pulpit? And finding out what God
 wants us to do go ahead and do it-all
 the energies of our body, mind and soul enlisted in the undertaking. Oh, my
 brethren, we have but little time in
 which to fight for God. You will be
 dead soon.
 Put in the Christian cause every ener- gy that God gives you. What thy hand
 findeth to do, do it with all thy might,
 for there is neither wisdom nor device in
 the grave whither we are all hastening." l" Oh, is it not high time that we wake out of sleep? Church of God, lift up your
 head at the coming victoryl The Philis-
 tines will go down, and the Israelites
 will go up. We are on the winning side. Hear that-on the winning side!
 think just now the Kings horses are
 being hooked up to the chariot, and
 when he does ride down the sky there
 will be such hosanna among his
 friends and such wailing among his
 enemies as will make the earth tremble
 and the heavens sing. see now the
 plumes of the Lords cavalrymen toss | iHS III Iue dlr. 1ue drCudnSel DeIOTe Ine
 throne has already furnished his trum-
 pet, and then he will put its golden lips
 to his own, and he will blow the long,
 loud blast that will make all nations
 free. Clap your hands, all ye people!
 Hark! hear the falling thrones and the
 dashing down of demolished iniquities. | A Stranger In the Land.
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