Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-28


that the nurse declares that she wou
not for all the wealth OF Europe see
another infidel die Philistine inlquity
h d promised him all the world gar
lands but in the Lass hour of his life
when he needed solacing, sent tear ng
across n conscience and his nerves
file, file So it was with Lord
byron, his uncleanness in England
only surpassed by his unclanness in
Venice, then goi, e on TO end his brill
liant misery at Missolonghi, fretting at
his nurse, Fletch II, tretting at him
5 If, fretting at the void,
fretting at God; and he who
gave o the world "Childe Harold,
and "Sardanapalus," and The Pris-
oner of Chillon," and The Siege Of
Corinth," reduced to nothing but a
file! OH, sin has great facility for
making promises. buJ it has just as
great facility for breaking them. A
hristian life is the only cheerful life,
while life of wicked surrender is re-
morse, ruin, and death. LIS painted
glee is sepulchral ghas illness. In the
brightest days of the Mexican empire,
Mont.Zuma said he fe gnawing at
his heart sum thing like a canker.
Sin, like a monster wild beast of the
forest, sometimes ticks all over its
victim in order hat the victim may be
more easily swallowed; bat generally
sin rasps, and gals, and tears, and
upbraids, and files Is it not so, Herod?
Is it not so, Hide brand? is it not so.
Robespier e? Aye! aye! it is so it is
so. - he way OF the wicked he turn
eth upside down" History tells
us that when Rome was founded, on
that day there were twelve vultures
flying through the air; but when a
transgresso' dies, the Sky is black
with whole hocl1s Of them. Vultures!
When | see sin robbing so many peo-
pie, and | Sc them going down day
by day, and week by w elk, ] must
give plain warning. | dare not Ike p
it back lest | risk the salvation of my
own soul. Rover the pirate pulled
down the warning bell on Inc lcape
rock, thin'ins that he would have a
chance to despoil We ,sels that We're
crushed on the rocks; but one ght
his own snip crashed down this very
rock, and went down with all his
cargo. God declares: Nv hen | lay TO
the wicked. thou shalt surely die, and
thou glvest him not warning, that
same man shall die in his niquity; but
his blood Will require at thy hands.
i learn from this subject, what a
sad thing it is when he church of God
loses its metal, These rhi,istines saw
that if they only could get all he me-
tallic weapons out of the hands of the
lsraelites, all would be well, and
therefore, they took the swords and
spears. They did not wa / them TO
have a nglc metallic W, apon. When
the meta of the Israel ties was gone,
their streng h was gone. This is the
trouble with the church of God to-day,
tits surrenderiug its courage. 1t has
not got enough metal. How seldo Il
1t is that you see a man taking his
position in pew, or in pulpit or in a
rel gious society, anu holding that
position against all oppression, and
all trial. and all persecution, and all
criticism. The chu ch OF Col to-day
wan more backbo more defiance,
more conSecraie ed bravery. more metal
How often W see a man start out in
some good enterprise, and at the first
blast of newspaperdom he has
collapsed, and all his cOur-
age gone, forgetful of the fact
that if man be right, all he news
papers of the earth, with all The + col
umns pounding aw Y at him, cannot
do him any permanent damage. IL is
only when a man is wrong that he can
be damaged. Why, God is going to
vi dictate his tru IN, an he is gong to
stand by you, my friends, in every
effort you make for Christ's cause and
the saliva ion OF men, ! sometimes say
to my wife, There is something
wrong; the newspapers have not a.
saul ed me for three months. | have
OF done my duty against public in
iquities, and | will stir them up next
Sunday" Then | stir them up, and all
the following week the devil ho>vls
and bowls, showing that | have hit
him very hard. Go Torch in the serv-
vice of Christ and do your whole duty.
You have one sphere. ] have another
sphere. The Lord of hosts is with
us, and the God-of Jacob is our refuge,
Selah." We want more of the deter
mi nation of jonathan. l do not sup
pose he Was a very wonderful man; but
he got on his knees and Clambered
up the no tx, and with the help of his
armor- bearer he hewed down the Phil
! istines; and a man of very ordinary
intellec ual attainmen S, on his knees,
can storm anything for God and for
/ the truth. We want something of the
| determination of the general who went
into the war, and as he entered his
| frs battle, is knees knocked together,
| his physical courage not quite up to
his moral courage; and he looked
| down at h knees, and said: "Ah, ii
you knew where was going to take
you, you would shake worse than
that" There is only one question for
You to ask and for me 10 ask. What
does God want me to do? Where is
the field? Where is the work? Where
is the anvil? Where is the prayer.
NEE ing? Where is the pulpit? And,
finding out what God wants us to do,
go ahead and do it-all the energies Of
our body, mind and soul enlisted in
the undertaking. Oh, my brethren,
we have but little time in which
to fight for God. You will be dead
soon. Put in the Christian cause
every energy that God gives you.
What thy hand findeth to do, do it
with all thy might, for there is neither
wisdom nor device the grave whittier
we are all has ening.' o, is il not
high time that we wake out of Sleep
Churen of God, lift up your head at
the coming victory! The Philistines
will 60 down, and the Israelites will
pO nm We Or.a on the w in min y side