Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-07-28

could get OF Dr. Gamale. but afterwari
standing on Mars hill and in crowded thor
oughlares quoted their poetry and grasped
| their logic and welded their elOquence and
employed their mythology until Donysus,
| The Afeopagiie learned in the schools Of
Athens and Heliopolis, went down under his
tremendous powers.
That was what gave Thomas Chalmers his
/ mower in his day. lie conquered the world
astronomy AMI compelled It to ring out the
wisdom anl greatness OF the Lord. until for
| the second time the morning stars sang to.
gether and all the sons Of God Shouted for
| 10Y. That was what gave to Jonathan Ed
wards his influence In bis day He con-
1uere1 tho world metaphysics and forced 1t
Into the service OF God, until not only the
Old meeting house in Northampton. Mass.
out all Chrs,endom, felt thrilled by his
Christian power.
Well, now my friends, we NIL have tools OF
Christian usefulness, Do not let them lose
their edges. We want no rusty blades in
this fight. We want no Golfer that cannot
rip up The glebe. We want no ak that can
not fell the trees. We want no goAd that
cannot start the lazy team Let us get the
very best grindstOnes We can hnd though
they be in the possession of the Philstines.
compelling them 10 turn the crank. while we
bear down with all our might on the swift
revolving wheel until all orr energies and
faculties shall be- brought ~ to a bright
keen. sharp. glittering edge.
Again. my subject teaches vs. on what q
small allowance Philistine iniquity puts a
man. Yes these Phiistines shut up the
mines and then they took the spears and the
swords. then they took the blacksmiths. then
hey took the grindstones. and they took
everything but file. Oh. that is the way sin
works. It grabs everything It begins with
robbery, and If ends with robbery. Il de-
spoils this faculty and that faculty and keeps
on until the whole nature IS gone. Was the
man eloquent before it generally thic6ens
his tongue. Was ne fine in personal appear
ance. II mars his visage. Was he affluent it
sends the sheriff to sell him out. Was he in
fluential. il destroys his popularity. Was he
placid and genial and loving. it makes him
splenetic and cross, AMI 50 utterly is he
changed that yoI can see he il sarcastic and
rasping and that the Philistines have left him
nothing but file.
Oh. "the way OF the transgressor is hard. .
His cup is bitter His night il DARK. His
pangs are deep. His end il terrific. Philis-
tine iniquity says to that man, Now, sur
render to me, and I will give you all you
want-music for the dance, swift steeds
for the race. imperial couch to slum.
Der on, and you shall be refreshed with the
rarest fruits in baskets OF golden filigree.
He lies. The music turns out TO be a grOan.
The fruits burst the rind with rank poison.
The flligree is made up Of twisted snakes.
The couch is a grave. Small allowance OF
rest small allowance OF peace, small allow
ance OF comfort Cold. hard. rough-noth-
ing but a file. SO it was with Yoltaire, the
most applauded man OF his day
The Scripture was his jestbook whence he drew
BonmOts to gall the Christian and the jew;
An inndel when wei but what when slcki
Oh then text would touch him 70 the quick.
Seized with hemorrhage OF the lungs in
Paris, where he had gone TO be crowned in
the theater rs an idol OF all France, he sends
n messenger TO get priest that he may be
reconciled to the church before he dies A
great terror falls upon him. He makes the
place all round about him 40 dismal that the
nurse declares that she would not for all the
wealth Of Europe see another infdel die.
phlistine iniquity had promised him all the
worlds garlands. but in the last hour Of his
life. when he needed solaeing. sent tearing
across his conscience and his nerves Ale a
file.
SO it was with Lord Byron. his uncle1nness
in England only surpassed by his unclean-
ness in Venice, then going on to his brilliant
misery AZ MissOonghi, end fretting at his
nurse. Fletcher. fretting at himself, fretting
At the world. fretting at God and he who
gave 20 the world "Childe Harold and
"Sardanapaus.' and The Prisoner OF
Chillon." AMI THE Siege Of Corinth,' re-
duoei to nothing but file
Oh. sin has great facility for making prom
Uses. but it has just a. great facility ioi
breaking them. A Christian life is the only
cheerful life while life OF wicked surrender
is remorse. ruin and death. Its painted glee
4 L.. Ia ha brfrhfacf
DAYS OF the Mexican Empire MOnteZuma
said no felt knawing at his heart something
like canker. sin. like monster wild
beast OF the forest sometimes licks all over
its victim in order that the victim may be
more easily swallowed: but generally sin
rasps and gals and tears and upbraids and
files Is II not So HerO12 Il it not so, Hill
debrand? Il it not 50, Robespierre? Aye
ave it Is SO; it is so. The way Of the
wicked He iurneth upside down
History tells us that when Rome was
founded, on that day there were u yulturas
1ying through the air, but when trans
gressor Die, the skies is black with whole
0ocks OF them. Yutures When | see sin
robbinc 50 many people, and see them go
ing down day by day and week by week,
must give plain wlrniny. dare not keep
it back let | risk the salvation OF my own
-oH'. Rover. the pirate, pulled down the
warning bell on lnchcGps roeS. thinking that
ne would have 4 chance to despoil vessels
that were crashed on the rocks but one
night his own ship crashed down on this
very rors. and he went down with all his
cargo God declares. When | say 70 the
wicket thou shalt surely die. and thou
giyest him not warning. that sane man shall
die in his iniquity, bui his blood will | re-
quire at thy hands.
Z u 4 "a r,lr
4 is when the church Of God loses rs metal.
These philistinss saw that il they could only
got all the metallic weapons out OF the hands
n the Israei;es all would be well, and there
fore they took the swOr Is and the spears
They did not want them to have a single me-
iallie weapon When the metal OF the Is
rarlites was gone. their strength was gone
This is the trouble withthe church OF God to-
lay II is surrendering its courage. 1t has
not got enough metal. How seldom II j. that
YOU see man taking his position in pew.
IT in pulpit. or in religious society. AMI
holding that position against an oppression.
and all trial, AMI all persecution, aud al crit
csm.
The church Of Col today wants mos
backbone. more defiance. more cOnsscrEet
bravery. mora metal. How often you 500
nan start ont in some good enterprise and
n the first blast OF newspaperdom he has
collapsed. AMI all his courage gone. forget
al OF the fact that n a man b. right all the
newspapers Of the earth, with all their co.
imns pounding away at him. cannot do him
any permanent damage. It is Oaly when
nan il wrong that he can be damaged. Why.
,iol is going to ylndicate His truth. and He
Is going 10 stand by, you, my friends, IN
every effort you make for Christ's cause and
he salvation Of men.
I sometimes say to my WIFE, There Is
something wrong the newspapers have not
assaulted me for thrae months have not
lone my duty against public iniquties AMI
will STIR them up next Sunday. Then !
stir them mp, and all the following week tho
ievil howls and bowls. showing that have
aim very hard. Go forth in the service Of
Chris, and do your whole duty. You nave
)ne spher,. | have another sphere. The
Lord Of Hosts is with us. and the God oil
Jacob Il our refuge. Salah.
We want more OF the determination Of
Jonathan. / do not suppose he was very
wonderful man. but he got on his knees ana
,ambered up the rock, and with the help OF
his armor bearer he hewed down the
and a man OF very ordinary IN
iellectual attainments. on his knees, can