Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-05-03

| an I the death thraeS OF the Son of GoJ. who
| approaches you this morning with torn brow
| and lacerated han Is and whipped back cry
| ing: "Come unto Ne all We who are weary
md heavy Ia len an will give You rest"
Other persons apo.oy Ze for not enterin 2
| the Christian life because OF the incorrigi-
| bility of their temper. Now, we admit it is
| harder for some peools TO become Christians
| than Tor Others, but the graos of God never
came to a mountain that it could not climb,
pr to an abyss that it could not fathosn. or
| TO a bondage that it could not break. TIE
| widest horse that ever troi Arabian sands
| has been broken to bit an traca. Tne mad
| est torrent tunbliug from mountain
| shelving has been harneSsed to the mill
| wheel and the factory oan1, setting thou
| sand shuttlss all a-bIZz and a-clatter, and
| the widest the han ,htisst the most un-
-~-~---"is ''sn s"a- crsstst hv the grsr.
| Of Col may be suSluei AMI sent out on
| ministry of kindness, God sends au
| August thun ierstorm to water the wild
| flowers down in the grass.
| Goot resolution, reformato-y effort, will
not effect the change. IL takes a mightier
arm and a mightier hand to band evil
| habits than the han1 that bent the bow OF
| Ulysses aud it takes a stron ger laSso than
ever held the buffalo on tbs prairie. A man
| cannot go fortu with any human weapons
AMI contend successfully against these
| Ttans armed with uotorn mountains. But
| you have known men into wIose spirit the
| influence of tue gospel o. Christ cans until
| their disposition was entirely changed. So
| it was with two merchants in New York.
They wers very anita yoniStic. TneY had
done all they could TO injure each other.
( They we're IN the same line of business One
| of the merchants was convertei 60 Goi
| Having been converted, he asked the Lord
| TO teach him how to bear himself toward
| that business antagonist AMI hs was i'm
pressed with the fact that it was his duty
when a customer asked for a certain kind of
| goots which he had not, but which he knew
] his opponent had, to reco nmeni him to 90
to that store. l suppose that Is about the
hardest thing the IN IN could do, but being
thoroughly converted to Go hs resolved 10
do that very thing, and being asked for a
certain kind of goods which ms had not he
| said, "You go to such AMI such store and
you will get it," After awhile merchant
No. found these customers coming so
selt, and he found also that merchant No. l
had oean brought TO God, and he sought the
same religion. Now they are good friends
and good neiShbors, the grace OF God en-
tiraiy changing their disposition.
"Oh," says some one, 81 have a rough,
jagget, impetuOus nature. and reli zion can't
do anything for me-" Do you know that
Marin Luther and Robert Newton and
Richard iNJer were impetuOus, all con-
| suming natures, yet the grace OF God turne1
them into the mightiest use'ulness2 Oh,
how many VINO have been pugnacious and
hard to please and irascible and more both
cred about the mote IN their neighbor's eye
than about the beam like ship timbar in
| their own eve haYe been entirely changed
by the grace of God and have found out
that "goiliness is profitable for the life that
| now is as well as for the life which is te
comew
Peter, with nature temnestuous as the sea
that he once tried 30 walk, at one look OF
Christ went out and wept bitterly. Rich
harveSts OF grace may grow on the tiptop of
the Jagged steep, and hOcks of Christian
grac-s NAV tini plsturage in fields of bram-
BILE and rock. Though your disposition NAV
be all -brisrle with fretfulness, though you
have a temper agile im with quick light
nings, though your avarice he Ike that of
the hnrse-leech, crying, "Giver though
damnable i'm DuritieS have wrapped you in
all consuming fire, Go can drive that devil
out OF your soul, and over the chaos and ths
iarknesS He can say, Let there be light. :"
Converting grace has lifte the drunKa rd
from the ditch and snltchsd the knife from
the hand OF the assassin AMI the false KEYS
from the burglar, aud in the pes tiferous
lanes of the city met the daughter of sin
under the dim lamphght and scattered her
sorrow and her guilt with the wori. "Fhy
sins are torgiven-go and sin no more" For
carlet sin a scarlet atolemsnt.
Other persons apologize for not entering
the ChrisJiOn life because of the inconsisten-
cies of those who profess religion. There are
thousands of poor farmers. They do not
know the tturs Of soil nor the proper rota-
ton OF crops. Their corn is shorter in the
stalk aud smaller in the ear. Tuey have ten
less bushels TO the acre than their neigh borS
But who declines being a farmer because
here are 50 many poor farmers.
There are thousands of incompetent mer-
chants. They buy at the wrong time. They
get cheated IN the sale of their goods. Every
bale OF goods is tn them disaster. They fail
after whlla and 20 busi
who declines to De a merchant because
there are so many incompetent merchautsf
There are thousands OF poor lawyers. They
cannot draw a declaration that will stand
the test. They cannot recover just dam
ages. They cannot help defendent escape
from the injustice of his prosecutors. They
are the worst evidence against any case in
which they are retained But who declines
to be lawyer because there are so many
incompetent lawyerss Yet there are tens
OF thousands OF people who decline being re-
ligious because there are so many unworthy
Christians. Now, say it is illogical Poor
lawyers are nothing against Jurisprudence,
poor physicians are nothing against medi-
cine poor farmers are nothing against sgri-
culture, and mean, contemplate professors
ot religion are nothing against our glorious
Christianity
Sometimes you have been riding 9ong on
a summer night by swamp, ami You nave
seen lights that knhle1 over dec iyei vege-
tation-lights which are callei jack-o-lau-
tern or wili-o'-the-wisp. These lights are
merel yapoisouOuS mIaSmata. MY friends on
your way to heaven you will want better
ligh than the will-o'-the-w wisps which dance
on the rotten character of dead Christians.
Exudations from poisonous trees in our
neighbor's garden will maze very poor
balm for our wounds.
Sickness will come, an we will be pushed
out toward the Red Sea which divides this
world from the next, and not the incon-
sstency of Christians but the rod of faith
will wave back the waters as a commander
wheels his host. The judgment will come
with ats thundershOt solemnities, ATTENDED
by bursting mountains and the deep laugh
OF earthquakes, and suns will fly before the
feet of God like sparks from the anvil, and
1000 burning worlds shall blaze like BAN
ners in tue track OF God omnipotent- Oh,
then We will stop and say, There was a
mean Curistian; there was cowardly
Christian, there was an impure Christian"
In that day as now, ''lf thou be wise, thou
shalt De wise for tnyselt, bus If thou scorn-
est tn III alone snall bear IL" Why, my
brother, the Inconsistency of Christians so
far from being argument tD keep you
away from Go ought to be an argument to
drive YOU to Him. The. best place for a skill
ful doctor is a neighborhood where they are
all poor doctors: the best place for an enter
prising merchant to open his store Is in
place where the bargain makers do not un-
tor you VINO want to become the illustrious
and complete Christians-Jhe best place for
you is to come right down among US who
are so incompetent and 50 inconsistent some
Zines
Otuer persons sp llogize for not becoming
CHRISTIANS because they lac k time, as though
religion muide1 the brain of the account
ant or Uripped the pen of the author, or
thickeued the tongue of the orator, or weak
enc the arm of the mechanic, or sctGy-rs %
the briefs OF the LAWYER. or intsrrupted this
sales of the merchant. They bolt their store
doors against it AMI II gnt it back with
trowels AMI with yard sticks and crv,
SAwav with your RELIGION from our store,
our Office. our factory"
They do not understand that religion in
this workadsy world will hello you to do
anything you ouyht 20 do It can lay =
keel, it can sail p shin. it can buy a cargo, it
can work pulley, it can pave a street, it
can fit a wristband, it can write constitu-
ton, il can marshal host It is as appro-