The Globe-republican., 1893-07-28

himself. fretting at the world. fretting
at God; and he who gave to the world
''Childe Harold" and ''Sardanapalus."
and THE Prisoner of Chillon," and
1.-The Siege of Corinth," reduced to
nothing but file! Oh, sin has great
facility for making promises, but it
has just as great facility for breaking
| them. A Christian life is the only
cheerful life, while life of wicked
surrender is remorse. ruin and death
Its painted glee is sepulchral ghastli-
ness.
In the brightest days of the Mexican
empire, Montezuma said he felt gnaw-
! ing at his heart some thing like
canker. Sin, like a 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 unbraids. and files. Is it not
so, Herod? Is it not SO, Hildebrand?
Is it not so. Robespierre? Aye. aye! 1T
is so: it is so. The way of the wicked
he turneth upside down" History
tells US that when Rome was founded,
on that day there were twelve vultures
| flying through the air: but when a
transgressor dies, the sky is black
| with whole focks of them. Vultures!
When see sin robbing so many people,
and see them going down day by day,
and week by week, must give plain
warning. l dare not keep iC back lest
risk the salvation of my own soul.
| Rover, the pirate, pulled down the
| warning bell on lnchcape rock. Think
| ing that he would have a chance to
| despoil vessels that were crushed on the
| rocks: but one night his own ship crashed
| down on this very rock, and he went
down with all his cargo God declares:
when | say to the wicked, thou shalt
surely die, and thou givest him not
| warning, that same man shall die in
his iniGuity: but his blood will re-
quire at thy hands"
learn from this subject what a sad
thing it is when the church of God
loses its metal These Philistines saw
| that if they could only get all the
| metallic weapons out of the hands of
| the Israelites all would be we'll, and,
therefore, they took the swords and the
spears. They did not want them to
have single metallic weapon. When
the metal of the Israelites was gone
their strength was gone. This is the
trouble with the church of God to-
| day. 1t is surrendering its cour.
age. 1t has not got enough metal
How seldom it is that you see
man taking his position in pew.
or in pulpit, or in a religious So
ciety, and holding that position against
all oppression, and all trial. and all
persecution. and all criticism. The
church of God to-day wants more back
bone, more defiance, more concentrated
bravery, more metal. How often you
see man start out in some good enter
prise, and at the first blast of newspa-
perdom he has collapsed, and all his
courage gone. forgetful of the fact that
if man be right, all the newspapers
of the earth, with all their columns
pounding away at him, cannot do him
any permanent damage. 1t is only
when a man is wrong that he can be
damaged. Why, God is going to vindi-
cath His truth. and He is going to stand
by you, my friends, in every effort you
tion of men.
sometimes say to my wife: There
is something wrong: the newspapers
hare not assaulted me for three
months. l have not done my duty
against public iniquities, and | will
stir them up next Sunday" Then l
stir them up. and on the following
week the devil howls. and howls, show
ing that have hit him very hard. Go
forth in the service of Christ and do
your whole duty. You have one sphere.
1 have another sphere. The Lord of
Hosts is with us. and the God of Jacob
is our refuge. Sel:h.'
We want more of the determine ton
of Jonathan. do not suppose he was
a very wonderful man: but he got on
his knees and clambered up the rock,
and with the help of his armor-bearer
he hewed down the Philistines: and
man of very ordinary intellectual at
tainments on his knees can storm any
thing for God and for truth. We want
something of the determination of the
general who went into the war. and as
he entered his first battle his knees
huOchtu together. HIS pIiS SiCdl CouEdRc
not quite up to his moral courage, and
he looked down at his knees and said:
''Ah, if you knew where l was going to
take you. you would shake worse than
that There is only one question for
you to ask and for me to ask. What
does God want me to do? Where is the
field? Where is the work? Where is
the anvil? Where is the prayer meet
ing? Where is the pulpit? And, find
ing out what God wants us to do. 60
ahead and do it-all the energies of our !
body, mind and soul enlisted in the un- |
dertaking. Oh. my brethren. we have |
but little time in which to fight for I
God. You will be dead soon. Put in 4
the Christian cause every energy that !
God gives you. What thy hand find |
eth to do, do it with all thy might, for |
there is neither wisdom nor device in /
the grave whittier we are all hasten
ing" Oh, is it not high time that we
wake out of sleep? Church of God. lift /
up your head at the coming victory! |
The Philistines will 90 down. and I