The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-04-20

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enet the arm OF the mechanic, or scattered
the briefs of tho lawyer, or interrnpted the
sales Of the merchant. They bolt their store
doors against IL and fight IL back with
trowels and with yard sticks and cry,
AWAY With your rsli-ion from our store,
| our Office. our factory"
Thev do not understand that religion in
this worknday world will help you TO do
ANYTHING you ought TO do. It can lay n
Keel, IL can sail ship. 1t can buy cargo, IL
can work pulley. IL can pave a street, IL
can fit n wristband, IL can write constitu-
| ton, It can marshal host. IL is rs appro-
pirate TO the astronomer rs his teles ,ope, to
the chemist as his laboratory, to the mason
as his plumbline. to the carpenter as his
plane, 20 the child as his marbles, TO the
grandfather as his stan.
No time to be religious herei You have
no time not to be religious. You might "a
well have no clerks in your store, no books
in your library. no compass on your ship,
no rifls in the battle. no hat for your
bead. no coat for your bscs, no shoes for
your feet. Better travel on toward eternity
bare healed and bare footed. and houseless
an homeless, en1 friendless, than go
throu yh lie without religion.
Did religion make Rlleigh any less OF
statesman. or HavelocS any less OF so'-
dier, or Grnnell any less OF merchant, Or
West any less OF n painter? Religion is the
besg security IN every D1fgalu, lt - tne
sweetest nots in every song. It Is this bright.
est gem in every coronet, No time TO b. re-
ltyiousi Why, you will have TO take tjms
to be sicS. To ho troubei, % die. Our
world is only ths wharf from wnicl we nrs
10 ombariI for heaven. No time To secure
tho friendship ot Christ. No time ~ buyn
lamp aud trim IL for that walk through ths
darkness wnici otherwise will be iluinnei
only by the whitepcss OF the tombstones
NO time To- etucate tho eye FOR heavenly
soleniors or the hand for choral harps OF
ths ear for everlasting songs o. the soul f,r
hONor, glory ant immortality One would
think we had tins for nothing else.
Other persons arologZs Tor not entering
the Christian life because II is time enough
yet. That Il very like those persons VINO
send their regrets aud say IF will come in
perhaps at 1 or IL O'CLOCK. will not be-
there NJ the opening OF the banquet. but
will be there at the close" Not yeti Not
yet
Now. do not give any doleful view os
this life. There IL nothing In my nnture,
nothing in the grace Of GDl. that tends to-
ward doleful Wow OF humsn life I have
not much sympathy with a idison's descr,p.
tiol a. the "Vision OF Mirzi,n wnere he rep.
res'nts human lie rs being bridge ~ n
hundred arches. anl both enis Of the bridge
covered with clouds. AMI the race coming
or tbs most OF them falling down through
Toe first span, and all OF them falling down
through the lJss span. IL Is a vcrv dismal
picture. nave not much sympathy with
ths Spanish proverD wnicn sny Inc SKY
Is goDI, aud tbs earth Is gopd-tnat when
Is hai is between tue earth nnl tn. sky"
But while we Christian people are bound
to take a cheerful view Of life ", must nl.o
confess that life "a great uncertainty. and
that man VINO say, ~ can't become n
Coristlan because there is time enough yot -
j. running risk infinite. You do not per.
haps realz, the fact that this desc@ndin.
grade oi sin gets s.esper aud sleeper AMI
tnat you are gathering up a rush and ye.oc.
ity which after awntIe may not answer 20
the brakes. Oh. my frienis. be not anon.
those wac give their whole life 10 the world
aud then W their corpse 80 God. IL
does not seen falr while our pulses are N
iull play ot health that we serve our.
s'lves aud se.Ts tne world and then MAKE
col at leso tns present OF "A coffin IL doe.
not seem ri yht tnat We ru1 our siip from
cos, 20 cotst, catryiu. goes for ourselves
an, oleu waen ths snip IS crushed on the
rocks give u Go too sh.verei timber. IL
Is "A great thing for "A man on his dying uil.
low u repent better tnan never At all-iu'
how much batter, how much more generous.
IL would have be-n IL hs had reuentei fitty
years before! My friends, you viii never
get over these pro;rastinations.
Hare is a deusion. People td.iYk, ." can
20 p1 in sin and worl1iness, but after awhie
hsd come at tn, very START That is a
dsiu'iou. No onB ever gets fully over pro.
cr4szinltion. IL you give your soul % Col
some other timo tam this, you will enter
heaven VITA oliy h1lt IN, capacity for en-.
j)yment az EGowlsiSs YOU NIGH, have
nld. Tdere Will b3 height, of bl-sssduess
YOU might b1va attained, Won will never
resch; throusl oiSory on wlci you might
have Ussl seated, ou5 wntcl ycu will never
cltmb. We will never &c. owe. pro
crastlnatlon. ueltIor Ia tim. nor IN etsr.
nitv. We nave starts o. marcl from
which there IS no retreat. Toe sha4.
nws Of ets.uity gather ol oar Ja.a.
with the vast eternity | was thinking OF
this while comm, down ovsc thu Allegheny
Mountains AZ noon, by that wonderful plass
wL,cn you have all heard described O., the
ilor5ehpe-l dep ss'iJl IN the side %. the
mountain wh '.- -us trlln alWos, turns bacSs
again uDp1 IT.. AMI you sss how arprJ-
pri7te Is th, description O: tA' Horseshoe
an thinking On this very th -ine aui p-rplr.
~ this very sermon 70 scsuel @ M as II
tne great cDr-s'r o. eterllty suae!!a- al1aE
mad just strucS tia mountain w,tl one hoot
ami gone int ilNm,tto.s snica. - short =
tune, 80 snh ant Is ear,h, compared VITA
tA' vast e.prnHy'
THIS morning vo'css roll down the slv.
and a, th' Wor.is %. light are resiy 70 ry,
lJlc9 az four dlsE lt1rI.ipleut. Rush not
1870 80 presence q. tie King ed vltl
s'n wAen you may nave tlls robe ot rlCnt.
eoISneSs. Disn mo-. YOU. ZOOS % piece,
agains. tA3 tlrous %. "a crucjtsi Cur.sr.
lhro~ nos yogr croWa 90 ll;r OIL sua battle
ns"ts. All the scrlo'S ot Goi E"h thls ut1.
men, reaIy wtsu volume, %. Uv,ls .ut q
'eto'd the ue"s oE yOUc s3l. enIuc iy4t. ~ .
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