The Globe-republican., 1893-04-21

! The Judgment will come. with its thun'
dershod solemnities, attended by burst
ing mountains ana the deep laugn OF
EARTHQUAKES and suns will t1y before
the feet of God like sparks from the
anvil. and 10000 burning worlds shall
blaze up like banners in the track OF
/ God omnipotent- Oh. then we will not
stop and say: There was a mean Chris
tian: there was a covyaroly thlstlan;
there was lying Christian: there was
an impure Christian" in that day
as now. If thou be wise. thou shalt be
wise for thyself: but if thou scornest,
| thou alone shall bear it" Why. my
brother. the inconsistency of Chris
| tians. so far from being an argument
/ to keep you away from God. ought to
be an argument to drive You to him.
! Other persons apologize for not be-
coming Christians because they lack
time. As though religion muddled the
/ brain of the accountant. or trlpped the
pen of the author. or tnickened the
/ tongue of the orator. or weakened the
/ arm of the mechanic. or scattered the
/ briefs of the lawyer. or interrupted
| the sales of the merchant. They bolt
| their store doors against it. and fight 1t
back with trowels and with yardsticks.
and cry: Away with yOIr religion
from our store. our office. oar factory.
They do not understand that religion
| in this workaday world viii help You
to do anything you ought to DO II can
Law keel. it can sail q ship. it can buy
a cargo. it can work pulley.sit can
! pave a street. il can fit a wristbant. It
can write a constitution. il can marshal
a host. 1t is rs appropriate 70 the as
tronomer as his telescope: to the chem
ist as his labora tory: to the mason as
his plumb-line: to the carpenter as his
plane: to the child as his marbles: TO
the grandfather as his staff.
No time to be religious here. You
have no time not to be religious. You
might as well have no clerks in your
store. no books in your library. no com
pass on your ship. no ride in the battle.
on hat for your head. no coat for your
! back. no shoes for your feet. Better
travel on toward eternity bareheaded
and barefooted and houseless and home
less and friendleSs than to go through
life without religion.
Did religion make Raleigh any less
OF statesman. or Havelocb any less Of
soldier. or Grinnell any less of mer-
chant or West any less OF painter?
Religion is the best security in every
bargain: il is the sweetest note in every
song. it is the brightest gem in every
coronet No time to be religious, Why.
YOU will have to take time to be sick.
| to be troubled. TO die. Our world is
ONLY the wharf from which we are to
embark for Heaven. No time to secure
the friendship of Christ One would
think we had time for nothing else.
Other persons apologize for not en-
tering the Christian life because it is
time enough yet. That is very like
those persons who send their regrets
and say: Il will come in perhaps at IL
or II o'clock: l will not be there at the
opening of the banquet, but | will be
there at the close" Not yet. Not get!
Now. do not give any doleful view
Of this life: there is nothing in my ma
ture. nothing in the grace of God. that
tends toward doleful view of human
life. / have not much sympathy with
AGdison's description of the Vision OF
Mira" where he represents human life
as being a bridge of a hundred arches
and both ends of the bridge COW
cred with clouds. and the race
coming on, the most OF them
falling down through the first span and
all of them falling down through the
last span. 1t is very dismal picture.
] have not much sympathy with the
Spanish proverb which says: The sky
is good and the earth is good-that
which is bad is between the earth and
the sky"
But while we as Christian people are
bound to take cheerful view of life,
we must also confess that life is a great
uncertainty. and that man who says:
Il can't become a Christian because
there is time enough vet. Is running Il
risk Infinite Iou do not perhaps
realize the fact that this des-
cending grade of sin gets steep
er and sleeper. and that You are
gathering up a rush and velocity
which after awhile may not answer to
the brakes. o. my friends. be not
among those who give their whole life
to the world and then give their corpse
70 God. It does not seem fair while
our pulses are in full play of health
that we serve ourselves and serve the
world and then make God at last the
present OF coffin. 1t is a great thing
for a man on his dying pillow TO repent
better that than never at all: but
how much better. how much more gen.
erous. it would have been if he had re-
pented fifty years before, My friends.
YOU will never get over these procrasti-
nations
Here is a delusion. People think. Il
can go on in sin and worldliness. but
after awhile / will repent. and then il
will be as though had come at the
very start" That is delusion. No
one ever gets fully over procrastina ton.
II You give your soul to God some other
time than this you will enter Heaven
with only half the capacity for enjoy
, ment and knowledge you might have
had There viii be heights of blessedness
You might have attained you will never
reach thrones Of glory on which you
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