Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-08-09

'riends, Is 1t not right for Us To ern-,Io,,
| ,h"iiI "DiiI grndstones2 II there be arr IL
pe loSic, II there be business faculty on
FOR Christ's sake "iu employ 1t
i ne lact is we fight with too dull ve,nons
snn we work with too dull implements. We
cIaan aau - We maui when we ought to make q
S4eah stroke- Let US go over among sborD
BUSINESS men and among sharp literary ,na6
ana ana md out what their taste is and then
transfer II to the cause OF Christ n tb,,,
10y SCIENCE and art, II will do US yoS1 to
run AGAINST 1t. In other words I,t ne o.
| ploy the worlds grindstones. We will Iis,an
10 their music, and we will watch their acu-
men, and we will use their grin6stonea ord
we VIII borrow their philosophical apparatus
" Ihnke axe our experiments, and we will bor-
Low Low lheir printing presses to publish our
| bioles. and We will borrow their rail trains
20 carry our Christian literature and xa
VIII borrow their ships to TRANSPORT our
That was what made Paul such master in
MS day. He not only got all the Iearnins, ha
could get of DR.. GamalieI. but afterr,rJ
| standing on Mars hill and In crowded thor
| Oughiares quoted their poetry and Crashed
thelr logic and welded their eloquence and
sInp'oyed their mythology until Dionysius,
,ne AreopaSte, learned in the schools OF
Athens and Heliopolis, went down under his
! tremendous powers
! That was what gave Thomas Chalmers bia
| power m his day. lie conquered the worlds
| Soiy did competed II TO ring the
| wisdom and greatness OF the Lord untiI for
the second time the n.c-2?i2- morning ssttaTs ,auy CO.
| yether, and all the sons of God shouted for
! Joy. That was what gave to Jonathan Ed
wards his influence in his day. He con-
querei tho world metaphysics and forced it
lnto the service of God, until not only the
bid meeting house in Northamptsn Mass
but all Christendom, felt thrilled by his
Christian power
Well, now, my friends, we all have tools of
christian usefulness. Do not let them lose
| their edges. We want no rusty blades in
! this fight We want no Golfer that cannot
rip up the glebe. We want no ax that can
| not fell the trees. We want no goad that
| cannot start the lazy team. Let us get the
very bess grindstones we can find, though
| they be in the possession of the Philistnes
, compelling them TO turn the crank, while we
bear down with all our might on the swift
/ revolving wheel until all our energies and
faculties shall be brought up to bright,
keen, sharp, glittering edge
Again, my subject teaches us on what q
1 small allowance Philiseine iniuuity puts a
man. Yes, these Philistines shut up the
mines, and then they took the spears and the
swords, then they took the blacksmiths, then
they took the grindstones, and they took
'verything but n file. Oh, that is the way sin
works. 1t grabs everything. 1t begins with
robbery, and it ends with robbery 1t de-
spoils this faculty and that faculty and keeps
on until the whole nature is gone. Was the
man eloquent before, il generally thiokens
his tongue. Was he fine in personal appear
ance, it mars his visage. Was he sffiuent, 1t
sends the sheriff TO sell him out. Was he m
huential, it destroys his popularity. Was he
placid and genial and loving, 1t makes him
splenetic and cross, and so utterly Is he
changed that you can see he Is sarcastic and
rasping and that the Philistincs have left him
nothing bat a file.
Oh, ''the way of the transgressor is hard. -
His cup is bitter. His night is dark. His
pangs are deep. His end is terrific. Philis-
tine miquity says to that man, "Now. sur
render to me, and 1 will give you al you
want-musio Tor the dance. swift stseds
for the race, imperial couch 10 SUM
Der on, and you shall be refreshed with the
rarest fruits in baskets OF golden fligree." -"
He lies. The music turns out TO be a groan.
The fruits burst the rind with rank poison
The fliigree is made up OF twisted snakes
The couch Is a grave. Small allowance OF
rest. small allowance of peace, small allow
snce of comfort. Cold, hard, rough-noth-
ing but file. SO it was with Voltaire, the
most applauled man of his day
I The Scripture was his jestbook, whence he drew
Bnnm9ts 70 gall the Christian t and the Jew Jew
On then text would touch him to the quick.
Seized with hemorrhage OF the lungs in
Paris, where he had gone to be crowned in
the theater as an idol OF all France, he sends
a messenger 10 get priest that he may be
reconciled TO the church before he dies
!
pIa -e III round about him 30 dismal that the
| muse declares that she would not for al the
! wealth OF Europe sse another fnhdei die.
Philistine iniquity had promised him all the
J worlds garlGnds, but in the last hour OF his
I life when he needed sol8cing. sent tear1D :
| across his conscience and his nerves o file, a
file.
SO IT was with Lord Byron, his uncIeanness
in England only surpassed by his unclean-
ness = Venice, then going on TO his brilliant
F,FrhN md FrNff n
uurse. fletcher, fretting at himself, frettins
at the world, fretting at God, and he who
gave TO the world "Childe Harold" and
"Sardanapalus," and The Prisoner of
/ Chliion," and 1.-THE Siege OF Corinth, re-
tuced TO nothing but file
Oh. sin has great facility for making prom
SEES. sSE it has just rs great facility for
res kin them. Christian life is the only
,heo,.- life, while life OF wicked surrender
is femorse, ruin and death Its painted giee
is sspuIchral ghastliness. In the brightest
LAYS OF the Mexican Empire Montezuma
said lie felt knawing at his heart something
like 4 canker. Sin, like a monster wild
| beast OF the forest, sometimes licks all over
its victim in order that the victim may be
more easily swallowed but generally sin
rasps and gals and tears and upbraids and
tiles. Is it not 80, Herod? Is 1t not so, Hill
debrand? Is it not 50, RoSespierre? Aye
| ave u. it Is so; it is so. The way OF the
wicked He turneth upside down"
| History tells US that when Rome was
founded, on that day there were II vultures
dying through the air, but when trans
| gressor dies the skies is black with whole
| dOcks of them. VultureSi When l see SIN
ro5bing so many people, and see them go
lny down day by day and week by week,
| must give a plain warning. dare not Keep
it back lest l risk the salvation Of my own
soul. Rover, the pirate, pulled down tine
warning bell on Inchcape rock, thin King that
ne would have a chance TO despoil vessels
that were crushed on the rocks, but ono
night his own ship crashed down on tns
very rock, and he went down with all ms
cargo. God declares. when say 10 the
wicked thou shalt surely die, and thou
yiyest him not warning, that same man saall
lie in his inlquity, but his blood Will re-
| duire at thy hands.
learn from this subject what sad thing
II is when the church OF God loses It's metal
these PhIlistines saw that If thcy could only
get all the metallic weapons out OF the hands
| OF the Israelites all would be well, ana there-
fore they took the swords ana the spears
Thev did not want them to have single me-
tallic weapon When the meth oi 'ite Is
raeIites was gone, their strength was gone.
| This ia the trouble with the church OF Go TO-
day. II is surrendering its courage. IL mas
no, got enough metal How seldom II Is that
v,u see "A man taking his position In pew
or in nuIpit or in religious society, an l
| GaIIin,, that posItion again. all oppression,
and all trial, and all persecution, ami all crit-
| icisn.
The church Of God to-day wants more
backbone, more defiance, more consecratec
bravery. more metal. How often you see
man staa out In some good enterprise, and
nj the first blast OF newspaperdom ne ma
collapsed and all his courage gone, forget
fui 81 tho fact that IL a man be right all the
newspapers m Of the earth, with all their col
umns pounding away at him, cannot 20 nun
any permanent damage! 1t Is only when zen
man is wrong that he can be damasen. Wy, ~
7 God is going TO vlndicate His truth, ana he
Ia ,oing 10 stand by, you, my friends, IN
every effort you make for Christ's cause and
the salvation of men ,er ..
.o.natiueS Sly to my WHO: IHeTe -