Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-06-28

| sn5 rPs anything. You have fretted
lnu worried almost enough. Do Won Nc,
sninS so? Some of YOU ara roaTiny ~ '-ot.e no'
'eIyes ridiculous in the sight of the ancaIs
mere is naval architect, and he dra9ys on,
NE ne pan OF ship of many thousand tons
ahiiys "0rkmen t are engaged on it for a long
| ~ Inc snip Is done, and some day with
the haSs up and the air gorgeous With ~.
is, that vessel is launched for Southamnton
| At that time a lad six years of ace Come.
tunhihS down the dock with a toy boat which
u mas maze with his own jackknife and he
1ays here, my boat is better than yours
'ust LOOK at this jibboom and these weather
| cross jack braces" and he drops his iittIa
oost beside the great ship, and there is a roar
OF laughter on the docks
All, my friends, that great shin IA vour ,;,o
as God planned it-vast, million tonned
ocean destined ets-nity bound. That IittIs
ooat Is your life as you are irving to hevv Z.
out and fashion 1t and launch it. All do NOT
ry 20 DE rival of the great Jehovah. God
y Always right, and in nine cases out OF fen
you are wrong. He sends Just the hardsbips
lust the bankruptcies, Just the cross that n
u pest Tor you to have. He knows what kind
oi grain you are, and He sends the right kind
oI tnrashlng machine. It will be a rod or
stan or iron wheel just according as YOU ara
| htches or cummin or corn
AGAIN, my subject teaches US that God.
| Keeps trial on US until we let CO. The farmer
shouts whoa y to his horses as soon as the
| gram has dropped from the stalk, The far
mer comes with his fork and tosses nm tina
| straw, and he sees that the straw has let gol
the grain and the grain Is thoroughly
.hrashed. So God. Shifting rod and turn
ing wheel both cease soon as we let 90.
we mold on to this world with its pleasures
| and rlches and emoluments, and our knuckIes
| are so firmly set that it seems as If we could
hold on forever. God comes along with
some thrashing trouble and beats US loose.
we started under the delusion that this was
great world. We learned out of our geopJ
| raphy that It was so many thousand miles
| IN diameter and so many thousand miles in
| circumference, and we said, "Oh, my, what
| a worid" Troubles came in after life, and
| This trouble sliced off one part of the world
and that trouble sliced off another part of ths
| world, and it has got to be smaller world
and In some OF your estimations a yery in
| significant world and It is dspreciating all
ihe time as a spiritual property. Ten per
sent. of, fifty per cent. off, and there are
| hose here who would not give ten cents for
his world-for the entire world-as q soul
| possession.
We thought that friendship was q grand
hing. In school We used to write compost
| ions about friendship, and perhaps wa |
made our graduating speech on commenced |
nent day on friendship. Oh, II was a charmed |
| hing But does it mean much to you as |
used to? You have gone on in life and !
one friend has betrayed you. and another |
,rfend has misirterpreted you, and another |
riend has neglected you, and friendship |
zones now sometimes to mean to. YOU merely |
mother ak to grind
So with money. We thought II n man had |
competency he was safe for all the future, |
)ut we have learned that a mortgage may be- |
| lefeated by an unknown previous incum-
orance that signing your name on the back
)f a note may be your business death war
ant that new tariff may change the cur- |
'ent OF trade that a man may be rich to-day |
md poor tomorrow. And God, by all these |
nisfortunes, is trying to loosen our grip, but |
till we hold on. God smites US with staff
out we hold on. And He strikes with a
'od, but we hold on. And Hesends over Us
he iron wheel of misfortune, but we hold on
There are men who keep their grip on this
world until the last moment who suggest to |
ne the condition and conduct of the poor In
iian in the boat in the Niagara rapids COM
ng on toward the fall. Seeing that he could
lot escape, a moment or two before he go, |
o the verge of the plunge he lifted wine
bottle and drank it OFF and then tossed the
bottle into the air. So there are men who
,lutch the world, and they go down through
he rapids of temptation and sin, and they
lold on to the very last moment life, drink
ng to their eternal damnation as they go
over and go down.
oh, let gol Let gol The best fortunes are
n heaven. There are no absconding cashiers
rom that bank, no failing in promises to pay. |
Set your affections on things above, not on
hing on the earth. Let gol Depend upon
t that God will keep upon you the staff, or
he rod, or the iron wheel until you do letgo.
Another thing my text teaches US is that
Christian sorrow Is going to have sure
erminus NV text says "Bread corn ia
bruised because he will not be ever thrashins
t." Blessed be God for that. Pound away, |
D fail. Turn on, o wheelH Your work Will
yoon be done. "He will not be ever thrash
ng it." Now the Christian has almost as
much use In the organ for the stop tremulant
is he has for The trumpet. But after awhile
ne will put the last dirge into the portfolio
forever. So much OF US as is wheat will be
separated from so much as Is chan. and there
will be no need OF pounding.
They never cry In heaven because they |
have nothing to cry about. There are no
.ears of bereavement, for you shall have your
friends all round about you: There are no
tears Of poverty because each one sits at the
Kings table and has his own chariot OF sal
yatiop and free access to the wardrobe where
princes get their array. No tears OF sickness, |
for there are no pneumon1as on the ar ana
no maariaI exhalations from the rolling
river of life and no crutch for the lame imo, |
and no splint for the broken arm, but the
pulses throbbing with the health OF the eternal
God in a climate like our June before the
blossoms fall. or our gorgeous OCTOBER De-.
fore the leaves scatter.
In that land the souls will talk over the
different modes of thrashing. ON, the story
Of the staff that struck the htches, and the
rod that beat the cummin, and the IRON
wheel that went over the corn Daniel Will
iescrfbe the Hons and Jonah leviathans,
and paul the eImwood whips with which
he WAS scourged, and Eve Will tell now
aromatic Eden was the day she left IL, ana
John Rogers will tell of the smart OF name,
and Elijah of the fiery team that wheeieu
him up the sky sleeps, and Christ OF tne
nunobness and psroxysm and hemorrhages |
Of the awful cruciflxion. There tney are pc
fore the throne of God. On one eie'aClon
all those who were struck OF the stan. Oh
higher elevation all those VINO were strucS
of the rod. On highest elevation, anu anu
amid the highest attitudes OF heaven, al
those who were under the wheel he Will
not ever be thrashing it.
on nv hearers, Is there not enough save
In this text to make a plaster larse hiiSii ehEde
Surt. the mother is very apt to say to IT,
ssNow. il will soon feel better. And TINS Is
what God saws when He unbosoms all Tue
trouble In the hush of this great prohisc.
weeping may endure for a nlsnt, put 10y
cometh In the morning." You may leave
your pocket handkerchief sopping wet with
fears on YOUR death pillow, but you win 50
M absolutely sorrowless- Ihey W. VIZ g.. |
hIaek YOU will wear white. Expresses iof
them, palms for you. -, .ho, nm
bara2 Ia this heaven? Am 80 pure now 4
will never do anything wrong? Am so Weit
that will never again bo slckr Are ~ ~e |
companionships so firm that they VIII heS .Set
again be broken? Is that MAIy in,n
i9bn2 Is that my loved one put away INTO
darkness? Can it be that these are ths a, a. .S
Of those who lay so wan and emaciated In 6h 5he
hack 40, on that awful night dyinsf oh
how radiant they are Look at them ! HOW
1Whv. how unlike this place is from wnso @
Thought when left the world below, MN hn1e
istars drew pictures OF this land, but now
80. cnrnnared with the reality They tol5
me rato on earth that death was sunset No, mo- aS
II is sunrise? Glorious suRrise! 1 see sonds
light now purpling the hills, and the ciouu'
fame with the coming day. - o,as !
Then the gates of heaven Will De oPenou, !:
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