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

with that voice you will never hear again
unless you join her in the better county
told you never miud-you would be better
ny and by, and by that dying couch, whefs
sac talked so slowly, catching her breath
between the words-by all those memories |
ask you TO come and take the same relg.
ION. it was good enough for her-it Is goo 4
enough for you.
Aye. make better pen by the wounds
anu the death throes OF the Son of GOD. who
approaches you this morning with torn brow
and lacerated hands aud whipped back cry
ing: Come unto Me all We who are weary
and heavy laden. and will give you rest. "
Other persons apologize for not enterin :
the Christian life because ot the incorrigi-
bility OF their temper. Now, we admit It is
harder for some psople TO become Christians
than Tor 9th srs, but ths gracs of God never
came 20 mountain that IL could not climb,
or % m abyss that it could not fathon. or
to bonlage that IL could not break. TIE
widest horse that ever trod Arabian sands
has been broken TO bit and trace. The mad.
est torrent tumbling from mountain
shelving has been harpessed to the mill
wheel and the factsry band. setting n thou
sand shuttles all a-buEs and n-clatter. aud
tho widest, tie hau Sntiest, the most un-
governable man ever crsats by the gracs
or COL may be suDiuel nut sent out on
ministry OF kinduew, Ms God sends an
August thunderstorm e. water this wild
ilowers down in the grass.
Goot resolution, reformatory effort, will
not eff 'ct the chang. IL takes n mi ghtier
arm and n mightier hsn1 to bsni evil
habits than the hani that bent the bow OF
, uiysssc. and IL takes IA stronger lssso tian
ever bead the buif io on tns prairie. a man
/ cannot go fortl with any human weapons
and contend suscessfully against these
/ Tit1ns armed with uot lrn mountains. Bus
yoi have known men into wlose spirit the
innusnce OF the gospel o. Cnrist came until
ant t-A Al 81
u was with two merchants In New York.
| They wer5 very autagonistc. Tney had
done nll they could to in ire eacG other.
/ They we're IN ths same line OF business. One
OF the merchants was converted TO God.
| Having been converted, he asked the I.or /
{ 70 teach him how to begs himself toward
| that business antag )uist, ani hB was i'm
/ pressed with the fact that 1t WAS his duty
/ when a customer asked for "A certain kind of
go)ls which he had nor, but whicn he knew
. his opponent had, 70 recoumsn him to 60
20 that store. | suoposs that is about the
| hardest thing the man could do, but being
thoroughly convergsi e. is hs resolved to
| do that very thing. and uelng asked for a
] certain kind OF goo Is wnicn he had not he
| SAIL "G on 20 to su IN an | such n store and
YOU will get it." After awhile merchant
I No. . found these customers copiug so
sent, and ne found also that mercnauJ No.
had oeen brought 20 God, and he soug1t tho
Same rsi!gon. Now they are good friends
and gocd nelyhh)rs, the grace OF GJl en-
tirelv hanging tnsir disposition.
"Oh,' saws some one, 81 have a rough.
Jagged, impecuous nature. and reli ..on can't
do anything for me-" Do you know that
Martin Luther aud RDoe-t Newton aud
Richard BINtsr wsrs imustuous. all con-
/ suming natures, yet the grace os u Jl turne /
them into tue ni,htiest usefulness On,
how many WAC have been puynscious an /
! hard to please auu iraSciDie and more both .
a aN Ni,. in k.,s.
than about the beam like SOTO timber in
their own eye have b,en entirely claugst
by the grace ot God AMI have foun ous
that "Sollinsss is pro liable for the lie taat
| now j. as we'll as tor ths lie wnicl is to
Gomez
Peter, with nature tenpestuous as the sea
that he oucs tried ~ walk. at one loo, OF
Christ went out and wspt bitterly. Rici
| harvests OF gracs may grow on the tiptOp Of
the Jagged steep, and iocks OK Christian
gracss may fp9 pastUrags in fields OF branl-
bic androcs. Tdou "a your disposition 1,a.
be all a'brissle with frsttuiness though yon
have temper a-y.etm with quick liyht.
ntngs, though your avlricB h. liie that OF
tue horse lee IN. cryinr, "iiv,w tjouzh
damnaole impurities have wranosi you In
all consuming fire, Got can drive taat devil
out OF your SOU, aud over the clAos AMI tn,
darkness tie can say, Lst there b, liglt'
Converting grace has lifted the drun;ar ri
from the ditch aal snatch al the knife from
the hand of tue ass ASSN AMI the false KEYS
from ths burglar, aud in tho pestife"5u,
lanes o. the CITY met tbs daug ghtsr OF IN
under the dim lampiight AMI scattered her
sorrow aud her guilt with the wo:' is "rlg
sins are forgiven 20 and sin no more" For
scarlet sin scirisl ntoDem'nt.
Other persons apologize for not entering
the Christion If, because OF the iuconsiste1.
ces of those who proiess religion. rnsrs are
thousands OF poIr farmers. Ihor do not
know tna n tturA Ot soil nor IN = proper rotl.
ton OF c:ops. Their com i slorter in o.,
Stalk aud smaller in tue ear. + 'ey have ten
less bushels - the acre tnan their nrislupr.
But VINO declines being iarmer 5scau,,
there are 50 many poo. farmers
There are thouSln Is o. inronpaten: mer-
Giant They buy =. the wrong time Vh.y
get cheated ia tae sale OF their -oois Every
bale OF goods is t. them disaster Iney fl.l
after wnllc AMI 90 out OF hu,Ines. GIl
who declines To 10 merchant D,ra.,,
there are 50 many incompetent meycsxu...
There are thousands OF poor lawyers. rAty
cannot draw declaration thI. will can
the tear. Tley ctunot recover juss dam.
ages They cannot help "A detenient e,ctp.
iron the inIu'tlc, OF his prosecutors. rhey
are tue worst evidence asains any case IA
wnicl they are retained. But who decnra.
TO he a lawyer bscluse there ars SO macy
lncompetent lawyers. Yet there are ten.
OF thousands o. people VINO decline bein. re-
hsiou' because there are 50 many unworthy
Christians. Now, | say it is illogical. Poor
lawyers ars uothin; against jurisprL ionc,.
poor physicians are nothing against met
cine. poor farmers ars nothing asa,us. Rgr.-
culture. aud mean, contenntibls professors
OF religion are nothing against our g,or,ous
Christianity.
Sometimes YOU have heon riding alons on
n summer nigGt by a swamp, an yoa htvs
seen lights that kiniiul over dee iyel vege.
tation-lights walsh srs callot jtck-o-lau.
tern or will-o'-the .w.sp. These lgatS ars
merely poisonous mlaSmlta. My frieni,, on
your way to hsavsn you will want a bl,.cr
light than the will-o'- -thc.wisps which ,tlr,
ON tho rotten character ~ del Chrlstian
Exudations from poisonous trees In our |
neighbor's garden viii mako very polg |
BALM for our wounds.
Sickness viii come, an we will ba pushed /
out toward tho lisi Ssa whca divides thtN 7
world from tho mex, and not the lncaa. ,
sistency OF Christians hut the ral OF iatth /
will wav, hacS the waters as commander /
wheels his host, Tao judgment will coma /
with It's thundsrslod solsmultiss attsn iei I