Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-12-13

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vi an the old peoplel How manv ola ra11,'io
-. ueio Ns IN yosr house? One, two or nona2
nW noW many In vast assemblaoa HI,a thisa
0HiJ mere ana there gray head. like m.
patches OF snow here and there in the aslds
on late April day. The fact Ia that the
Iioes oil the years are so strong that men 90
o, toEn unuer them before they getto be sixty,
oelore they get to be fifty, before they get to
be forty, before they get to be thirty. and If
you, my young brother. resolve now that Won
Will spend the morning of your days in de-
vourlng the prey the probability is that Won
VIII never divide the spoils in the evening
hour. He who postpones until old ace tho
rengaon OF Jesus Christ postp,nes II fora,,--
"here are the men who, thirty wears 400
resolved TO become Christians in old n1e
putting II on certain number of wears
nEey never got TO be old. The railroad COL
sN'n, OF the steamboat explosion or the
sup on the Ice, or the falling ladder. or ths
sudden cold put an end to their opportuni-
ues- Ihey have never had an Opportunity
since, and never will have an epportuniry
again They locked the door OF heaven
against their soul, and they threw avay the
FeyS. iney chased the world, and they died
"a the cnase. The wounded tiger turned on
them. They failed to take the game thew
pursued. Mounted on a swift courser, they
ieaped the hedge, but the oourser fell on
them and crushed them. Proposing to bar
Ter their soul for the world, they lost both
and got neither.
While this is an announcement m old n,o
pie VINO are SIN unpardoned, It IS no IN.
couragement to the young who are puttino
on the day OF grace. This doctrine that the
old may be repentant is to be taken eau
tlously. 1t IS medicine that kills or cures.
Inc same medicine given to different patients
IN one case it saves life and in the other il
destroys it. This possibility of repentance
at the close OF life may cure the old man
while 1t kills the young. Be cautious in tax.
ing it.
Again, my subject is descriptive OF those
who come to a sudden and radical change.
You have noticed how short a time ii is
from morning to night-only seven or eight
hours. You know that the day has q very
brief life. Its heart beats tventy-four times
and then it is dead. How quick this transi-
ton in the character of these Benjamites :
In the morning they shall devour the prey.
and at night they shall divide the spoils." Is
it possible that there shall be such trans
/ formation in any Of etf characters? YSs. a
man may be 1T o'closk IN Sre morning an
all devouring wording, and at O'Clock at
night he may be n peaceful distributiye
Christian.
Conversion is instantaneous. A man passes
into the kingdom OF God quicker than down
the sky runs zigzag lightning. A man may
be anxious about mis- soul for a great many
years that does not make him a Christian.
A man may pray a great whil9 ;that does not
, make him Christian. man may sesolvs
on the reformation OF his character and have
that resolution going on n great while that
deSss not make him a Christian. But the
very instant when Ee fings his soul o. tho
mercy OF Jesus Christ that instant is lustra-
| ton, emancipation, resurrection. Up to
! that point he is going in the wrong diceH
ton after that point he is going IN the right
direction. Before that moment he is a child
/ OF sin after that moment he IS a child OF
| G11. Before that moment devour.ng the
| prey after that moment dividing the spoil
| Five minutes is as good as five years.
| Ny hearer, you know very well shat tIe
| besT things you bavs done you have done in
| a fash. You made up your mind in an in
| slant to buy, or TO sell, or to invest, or 10
stop, or to start. If you had missed that one
! chance, you would have missed il forcvc-.
| Now Just as precipitate and quick and spoa-
| taneous will be the ransom OF your soul.
| Some morning you were making calcuS-
| ton. You got on the track of some financial
OF social game. With your pen or pencilyOu
we're pursuing 1t. That very morning you
| were deyouring the prey, but that very night
YOU were in a different mood. You fount
/ that all heaven was offered you. You Won
| Gered how you could get 1t for yourself and.
| for your family. You wondered ThGt re-
| sources 1t wousd give you now and hereafter.
You are dividing peace and comforts and say
| istaction and Christian reward In your soul.
You arefividing the spoil.
| One sabbath night at the close Of the ser
/ vice l said to some persons, when did yon
| first become serious about your soulf' AMI
thev told me, Tonight And 1 said 70
| others, when did you give your heart to
| GOd?" And they said, Tonight" And
| aid TO still others. "Whea did you resolveto
serve the Lord all the days o. your Hfo!
| And they said, ''To-nighr." 1 sau by tAs
| gayety Of their apparel that when the grace
! Df God struck them they were dey curing tb@
! prey, but l saw also in the food OF joyful
| tears. and IN the klndling captures on their
| arow, and In their ezhilarant and transport
| ing utterances, that they were dividing the
spoil.
| II YOU have been In this building when t-t
lights are struck at night, you know tnat
! with one touch of electricity they are all
| bIazed. On, would to God that the DARK
| ness OF your soul might be broken Fp, ano
! that by ons quick, overwhelming, instanta-
paous fash Of illumination you might De
| brought into the light ana the hoeFtS VI 'Ho
| sons OF God
You ses that religion Is a different thing
from what come Of you people suppose. 4G1
thought it was decsdence. You thouS2
religion was nac9rasion. You tnouSHt - 4
| was highway robbery that 1t struck one
| down and left him half dead that It plueAed
| out the eyes that It plucEed out the pIume5
| OF the soul that It broke the wing ana
| crushed the beak ~ it came olsv-nS Tna@a1.
BLACK talons throughfne air. No, that "a nor
What is religion? 1t Is dividing the spoil.
| II ia taking a defenseless soul and psnopiy'
ing it for eternal conquest. 1t isthe dlstrIpu,
| ton Of prizes by the kings hand, every media
stamped with coronation. II Is an eA-AiaI
ation. expansion. It is imparadisatlon. II
is entbronement. Religion makes man
master of earth, of death and he'll. 1t goes
forth TO gather the medals OF victory won hy
Prince Emanuel, and the diadems OF heaven
and the glory of realms terrestrial and celss'
tiaI snd then. after ranging all worlds foi
everything that Is resplehdent, II u4'iueS 'H'
spoils. A.. ..
nous English evangelist, was doing Wneh -
| his diving moments he said "Cnrlst Is al
Christ is alp Why, he was entering int
light. lie was rounding the Cape OF Goo.
Hope. He was dividing the spoli. VIVA
was the aged Christian Quakeress colhz
when at eighty years OF age she arose In th'
meeting one day and said ''The time OF my
denarfTIre is come My grave clothes ar
falling orr" She was dividing the spoil
She Ionged with wings TO ny away
And mix wlth that eternal day
What is Daniel now doing, the lion tanner
and Elijah, who was drawn by the naihlh'
coursers, and Paul, the rafting OF who's
chains N ade kings quake, and all the othe'
victims of Hood and fire and wreck and gun
Iotins-where are they2 Dividing the spo4
Ten thousand times ten thousand,
| in sparkling raiment bright,
| Tha armies OF the rsnsomed saints
Thron. up the sleeps OF Light
rTIs nnish.d all is finished,
Their nsht with death ana s-n-
Lift high Yo1r golden gateS
And let the victoFs H.
Oh what grand thing it is to be Gnr,.
tian: We begin now to divide the spoil, bC
the distribution will not be completed to a.
eternity There is poverty struck soui
| tbara is a business despoied soul. rher" Is
| ,Io struok soul, there is bereaved soul
xdy do you not come and get the spoil. Q
Sbgistian character, the comfort, the Joy tn
) peace, the salvation that l am sent to one
you in my Masters naneH
,rsoEness. though your hand trembls II
fear, though your Dyes rain tears OF uncon o;I
rroiIahIe weepInS-come and get the spoil
; Rest for all the weary: Pardon for all IN NJ
cniItv- Rescue for all the bestormed. Liz
srnii the daad. verify believe that ther
!, ara some who have come in he-e dowrcas
= Sncouse tho world is against them, and De
cause they feel God is against them' WIT
, will 90 away saying