The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-05-18

demands, 10 ahead, though all earth and hell
oppose. Dodge not one inch from the right
position. But when nothing IL involved step
back or step aside.
can avoidp 60 not into quixotic battles TO
fight wipdmills. You will be % more use 10
the world and the church rs a. active Chris
tisn man than rs target for javelins. There
are Christians always In fight. n they go
into churches, they fight there. II they go
Into presbyteries or conferences or consocia-
tions they fight there. My ndvice to you is.
II anything Il 20 be gained for God or the
truth. stand out Of the way Of the javelin.
Samuel, xviii, II, David avoided out OF
his presence twice"
Washington was as mighty In his retreats
as In his advances. His army would several
times have been destroyed II he had not
lodged. He lodged on Long Island; he
lodged on New Jersey heights. Lincoln ON
his way TO Inauguration at Washington was
waited for BY nssassins. but he took another
train and lodged the desperadocs. We have
high example OF the fact that sometimes a man
Will serve God best by disappearing from this
or that place. this or that environment
A mob brought Christ 60 the top OF the
rocks back OF Nazarrah. They did not like
His preaching, and they proposed to hurl
Him down the prccipice. but while they
were getting ready for the massacre Christ
darted into the crowd aud amid tho confti-
sion escaped To Capernaum and continued
exercising devils and cooling fevers and I'LL
ing fish nets and giving healthy circulation
OF blood to paralysis and curing dementia and
turning corpses into living men and women
and doing His chief work.
What a good thing Hc lodged the crowd on
the rocks back Of Nazareth Likewise at
Jerusalem ono day. while He was sluntering
up and down In Solomon's porch waiting for
I'm opportunity to say kind words or do
useful decd. the people proposed to pay Him
To- IA. A.
but the record is, "Hc escaped out OF their
hands"
See also In my subject the unreasonable
attitude OF javclin toward harp. What had
that harp In Davids hand done 20 the iayelin
In Sauls handI Had the vibrating strings ot
the ono hurt tho keen edge Of the other? Was
there an old grudg" between the two fam
HES OF sweet sound and sharp cut2 Had tho
triangle ever insulted the polished shaftp
Why the deadly aim Of the destroying
weapon against the instrument of soothing,
calming, healln: soundp
Well. 1 Will answer that II YOU will tell mo
why the hostility OF 80 many TO the Gospel
why the virulent attacks against Christian
religion, why tho angry nntipathy OF 50
many 10 the most genial. most inviting, mos.
salutary influence under all the heavens
Why will men give their lives To writing and
speaking and warning against Christ and
the Gospelp Why the jnvclin OF the worlds
hatred and rage against the harp Of heavenly
love? You know and I know men who get
wrathfully red In the face and ioaming at
the mouth and use the gesture OF the clinchei
fiat and put down their feet with indignant
emphasis and invoke all sarcasm and irony
and vituperatlon and scorn and spite az tho
Christian religion. What has ths Christian
religion done that II should be 50 assailedP
Whom hath II bitten and left with hydro
phobin virus in their veins that Il should
sometimes be chased ns though IL were u
maddened caninei
To head of and tip dp and push down
and corner our rcligloa was the dominant
thought in the life " David Hume and Vol
taire and Shaitesbury and even the Earl Of
Rochester. until one day In "a princely house,
In which they blasphemously put God on
tf'al. and the Earl OF Rochester was the attor-
ney against God and religion and received
the aEplor9e C: .he whole comrsay. when
spSden,y TIE esEi was struck C.der conytc-
ticl az, criea ''9cod Coo. tat man who
wa.xs uprightly, wao sees me wonderful
works OF God and has the uJe o. hiS senses
and reason, should use then IA csfyinc his
Creator. wish had been n crawling leper
In ditch rather than have acted toward God
as have done"
Javelin, OF wit. jayelin OF irony. jayelin Of
scurrility. jayelln OF sophistry, lavclin oi hu-
man and dlabolical hostility nave been fiying
for hundreds OF years and ars flying now.
But aimed at whatl Az something that has
come To deyasiIte the world? AZ something
that slays nAtions2 AZ something that would
maui and trample under foot ami excruciats
and crush the human racey
No, aimed mt the gospel hnrp-harp on
which prophets played with somewhat nnser-
ing anu uncertain fingers. Lu, harp on which
apostles played with sublime certainty and
martyrs played while their fingers were On
fire. Harp that was dripping with the blood
OF the Christ, out of whose heartst-in.ss the
harp was rhordei AMI from whose dying
groan the strings Were keyed. on, gospel
harp! All thy nerves a-trsnb!c with stories
OF self sacrifice. Harp thrummei by timers
long ago turned 10 dust Harp tina, made
heaven listen AMI will yet make all the earth
hea-. Harp that sounded pardon to my smut
soul and peace over the grave where my dead
sleep. Harp that will lead the chant ~ th,
blood washed throng redeemed around the
throne. May jayclin slay me before ding
n Javelin at that. Harp which II seems Al
most too sacred for me % touch. and 80
call down from their thrones those who used
TO finger II and ask them To touch II now.
Come down. William Cooper. ant rln your
fingers over the strings oI thi, harp lie
says, Il will, and be plays
Ih,re is q iounlXln died With b,o,d
Drawn from lnimanuels yeius
Come down. Charles Wesley. AM t1uch the
strings.' He SAYS. II WILL anl be plays:
Jesus, lover OF my soai.
i~et inc lo lul unsou ny.
Come down, Augustus Toplsdy and sweep
your fingers across this gospel harp" He
says, Il will, Gni he plays.
Rock OF Aces, cleft for me.
Let me hide myself In thee.
Como down. Isaac Watts. and taSe tbs
harp He says, II will. and he plays.
Alas, aud did my Savior blssd,
And did my Sovereign die:
''P. +. Bliss. come down aud thruu this Soss-
pei harp" He says, Il will. ," and he pLays
tallelnjsh. us done
believe 90 the son.
Inefiable harp! Transporting harp Harp
n earth Harp OF heaven Harp saintiy
and seraphic Harp OF God Oh. l like the I
dea OF that old monument In the ancient
'hurch at Ullard, near Kilkenny. IrelSn,l |
The sculpture on that monument though /,
'htseled more than thousand years aAO, ~
appropriate to-day as then. the sculpture
harp upon cross. That :
where hang IL now taat Is where YOU bad l
better hang IL. Let the iavslin ~ lorvVes /
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