The Globe-republican., 1893-02-17

ciety. Come % me ct tho close Of Nv,
years and tell me what has been the re-
suit Of this advice. Bring with you tn,
young man who refused to take the I'D
vice and who went into sinful amuse
ment he will come dissipated, shabb,
in apparel, indisposed to look any one il
the eyes, moral character IS per cent
on. You will come with principle
settled, countenance frank, habits good
soul saved, aud all the Inhabitants Of
Heaven from the lowest angel up to the
archangel and clear past him to The
Lord God Almighty, your coadjustors
Tho Brightness OF LiSe.
This is not the advice Of misanthrope
There IS no man in the house to whom
the world is brighter than it is to me-
1t Is not the advice of dyspeptic-my
digestion Is perfect; it is not the advice
OF q WORKOUT man, but the advice of q
man who can see this world in all it:
brightness. and. considering myself
competent in judging what is good cheer
l tell the multitudes of young men In
this house this morning that there Is
nothing in worldly association so grand
and so beautiful and so exhilarant as in
Christian society.
know there is . great deal of talk
about the self denials of the Christian.
l have to tell you that where the Chris.
tian has one self denial the man Of the
world has thousand self denials. The
Christian is not commanded to surrender
anything that is worth keeping. But
what does a man deny himself who de-
MES himself the religion of Christ. He
denies himself pardon of sin; he denies
himself peace Of conscience; he denies
himself the joy of the Holy Ghost; he
denies himself comfortable death pill
low; he denies himself the glories OF
Heaven. Do not talk to me about the
denials Of the Christian life! Where
there is one in the Christian life there
are thousand in the life of the world.
Her ways are ways of pleasantness."
Again, l find great deal of religious
sunshine in Christian and Divine explain
alton. To a great many people life is an
inexplicable tangle. Things turn out
differently from what was supposed.
There is useless woman in perfect
health. There is an industrious and con-
secrated woman complete invalid. Ex-
plain that There is bad man with $50, :
900 of income. There is a good man of
$500 income. Why is that? There is q
foe of society who lives or. doing all the
damage he can, to IS years of age. and
here is Christian father, faithful in
every department Of life at IS years OF age
taken away by death. his family left help
less. Explain that Oh, there is no sentence
that oftener drops from your lips than
this: II cannot understand It. l can
not understand it,
No Real Life without Religion.
There are hundreds of people in this
house who are walking day by day in
the sublime satisfaction that all is for
the best, all things working together for
good for their soul. How a man can get
along through this life without the ex-
PLANTATION is to me a mystery. What! is
that child gone forever? Are you never
to get 1t back? Is your property gone
forever? Is your soul to be bruised and
tried forever? Have you no explanation,
no Christian explanation, and vet not a
But when you have the re-
ligiOn OF Jesus Christ in your soul it ex-
plains everything 80 far as it is best for
you to understand. You look of in life,
and your soul is full OF Thanksgiving to
God that you are much better off than
you might be.
A man passed down the street without
any shoes and said: II have no shoes.
Isn't it q hardship that have no shoes?
Other people have shoes. No shoes, no
Shoes" until he saw a man with no feet.
Then he learned a lesson. You ought to
thank God for what He does. instead of
yrumbling for what He does not God
arranges all the weather in this world
the spiritual weather, the moral weather,
d we'll as the natural weather. ''What
kind Of weather will it be to-day?" said
some one to farmer. The farmer re-
plied, ut will be such weather as like"
What do you mean by that?" asked the
other. SWELL" said the farmer, sit will
be such weather as pleases the Lord.
Ind what pleases the Lord pleases me-"
Oh, the sunshine. the sunshine of
Christian explanation. Here is some one
bending over the grave of tile dead.
What is going to be the consolation? The
lowers you strew upon the tomb? Oh,
10. The services read at the grave?
Oh, no. The chief consolation on that
crave is what falls from the throne of
God Sunshine-glorious sunshine. Res
sunshine.
Our Joy Here But a FOretaste.
Again, find great deal of the sun
hine of this Bible and of our religion in
he climacteric joys that are to come. A
nan who gets up and goes out from
concert right after the opening voluntary
las been PLAYED and before the prima
lonna sings, or Sefore the orchestra be-
,ins, has q better idea Of that concert
han the man has who supposes that the
hief joys of religion are in this world.
We here have only the first note of the |
ternal orchestra. We shall in that
world have the joy Of discovery. We !
Vill in five minutes catch up with the
stronomers. the biologists. the scien-
lists, the philosophers of all ages who so |
ar surpassed US in this world. We can |
ford to adjourn astronomy and geology |
nd many Of the sciences to the next |
World, because we shall there have better |
ppsratus and better opportunity.
must study these sciences so far as to !
elp me in my work. but beyond that I |
nust give myself to saving my own soul
nd saving the souls Of others, knowing |
hat in one fash of eternity we will |
atch it all. Oh, what an observatory
, which to study astronomy Heaven will
e, not BY power Of telescope. but by
upernatural vision. and II there be
doub 10. 600. 600 miles away