Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-11-15

| standing the jsrrinS mountains and the full
I orchestra OF the tempest, and the blazing of
Inc air, pours out the ten drops-no more,
no less-which our people need TO take for
their moral convaleScence.
But shall not leave you under the dis
couragement of the Ten Commandments, be-
cause we have all Offended. There is an
other mountain in sight. and while one
mountain thunders the other answers in
thunder, and while Mount Sinai with light
nlng, writes doom, the other mountain, with
lightning, writes mercy. The only way you
VIII ever spike the guns of the Decalogue is
by the spikes of the cross. The only rock
mat will ever stop the Sinatic upheavals is
the Rock of Ages. Mount Calvary fs higher
han Mount Sinai.
The English survey expedition, know,
say that one Sinaitic peak is 1000 feet high
and another 5000, and another 5000 feet high
and travellers tell ia that Mount Cavalry Is
only bluff outside OF the wall of Jerusalem
but Calvary, in moral significance overtop5
and overshadows all the mountains of the
hemispheres, and Mount Washington and
Mont Blanc and the Himalayas are hillocks
compared with II. You know that some
times one fortress will silence another for
sress.
mountain OF the law L put the mountain of
the cross. ''rhe soul that snneth, it shall
Ole, boomS one until the earth Jars under
the cannonade. Save them from going
down to the pit. have found a ransom" I"
pleads the other, until earth and heaven and
hell tremble under the reverbera;ion And
Moses. who commands the one, surrenders
to christ, who commands the other.
Once BY the law our hopes were slain.
But now in Christ live again
Aristotle says that Mount Etna erupted one
day and poured torrents of scoria upon the
villages at the base, but that the mountain
divided its flame and made n lane of safety
Tor all those who came to rescue their aged
parents. And this volcanic Sinai divides its
fury for those whom Christ has come 70 res
cue from the red ruin on both sides. Stand
ing as do to-day, halfway between the two
mountains-the mountain of the Exodus and
the mountain of the nineteenth of John-all
ny Terror comes into supernatural calm. for
lie uproIr OF the one mountain subsidies into
luet and comes down into so deep silence
.Aat l can hear the other mountain speak
aye, can hear it whisper, ''The blood, the
blood, the blood that cieanseth from all sim"
The survey expedition says that the Sinai
&c mountains have wadys or water courses
alleyat and Ajelah-emptying into Feiran.
But those streams are not navigable. No boat
put into these rocky streams could sail. But
have to tell you this day that the boat OF
gospel rescue comes right up amid the wa
tercourSeS OF Sin9itic gloom and threat ready
to take us of from under the shadows into
the calm sunlight of God's pardon and into
the land of peace.
Oh, ifyou could see that boat OF gospel res
cue coming this day you would feel as John
Gilmore in his book, ''The Storm Warriors"
says that ships crew felt on the Kentish
Knock sands, or the coast of England, when
they We're beng beaten to pieces and they all
felt they must die! They had given up all
hope and every moment washed Off another
plant from the wrerS. and they said, eve
must die we must die - But after awhile
they saw Ramsgate lifeboat coming through
the breakers for them. and the man standing
highest up on the wreck said: 'Can il be?
1t is, it is, it is, it is Thank God Ii is the
Ramsgate llfeboat 1t is, it is, 1t is, it is r'
And the old Jack TGr, describing that life
bo It to his comrades after he got ashore.
said, ''Oh, my lads, what beauty It did
seem, coming through the breakers that awful
DAY" May God, through the mercy in Jesus
Christ, take US all OF the miserable wreck OF
our sin into the beautiful lifeboat of the
gospel