Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-05-31
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is way TO Inauguration at Washing gton YVES
waited for by assassins, but he took another
train and lodged the desperadoes We have
high exal pie of the fact that sometimes man
will serve God best by disappearing from this
or that place. this or that environment.
A mob brought CHRIST to the top of the
rocks back of Nazarrah. They did not like
HIS preaching, and they proposed to hurl
Him down the precipice. But while they
were getting ready for the massacre CAkst
drrted into the crowd and amid the confu-
sion escaped TO Capernaum and continued
exercising devils and cooling fevers and fill
ing fsh nets and giving healthy circulation
of blood to paralysis and curing dementia and
turning corpses into living men and womeD
and doing His chief work.
What good thing He lodged the crowd on
the rocks back of Nazareth Likewise at
Jerusalem one day, while He was sauntering
up and down in Solomon's porch waiting for
an opportunity to say kind words or do q
useful deed, the people proposed to pay Him
for His self sacrifices by stoning Him to death,
''ut the record is, 'He escaped out OF thsD
hands"
See also In my subject the unreasonable
attitude of javelin toward harp. What b.
that harp in David's hand done TO the isyelin
In Sauls hand? Had the vibrating Strings of
~ one hurt the keen edge of the other? Was
there an old 0rndoa h~twAAn tha two faa.
- -....rp cutf Had the
triangle ever insulted the polished shaft2
weapon against the instrument Of soothing,
calming, healing soundG
Well, L will answer that II you will tell me
why the hostility of SO many to the Gospel,
why the virGient attacks against Christian
religion, WAY the angry antipathy OF SO
many to the most genial, most inviting, most
salutary influence under all the heavens.
Why will men give their lives to writing and
speaking and warning against Christ and
the GospelI Why the javelin OF the worlds
hatred and rage against the harp OF heavenly
love? You know and L know men vino get
wrathfully red il the face and foaming at
the mouth and ;.ss The gesture of the clinched
49, - out down their feet with LDdi@nHns
smplisis and invoke all sarcasm ana irony
Rnd vituperatiOn and scorn and spite at tho
Christian religion. What has the Christian
religion done that it should be so assailed2
Whom hath i bitten and left with hydro
phobia virus in their veins that 1t should
sometimes be chased as though it were
naddened canine?
To head of and trip up and push down
and corner our religion was the dominant
thought in the life OF David Hume and Vol
taire and ShafteSbury and even the Earl OF
Rochester, until one day in princely house,
in which they blssphemOusy put God on
trial. and the Earl OF Rochester was the attdO
ney against God and religion and received
the applause OF the whole company, when
suddenly the earl was stru2S under convic-
tion and cried "GOod God, that man who
walks uprightly, who sees the wonderful
works OF God and has the use OF his senses
and reason, should use them in defying his
Creator! / wish had been a crawling leper
In a ditch rather than have acted toward God
a. have done
Jayetin, of Wit, javelln Of irony, javelin Of
scurrility, jayelin of sophistry, jayelin of nu-
man ana dIabolical hostility have been flying
for hundreds Of years and are flying now.
But aimed at what? At something that has
come 10 devastate the world? At something
that slays nations? At something that would
maui and trampls under foot and ex2ruciats
and crush the human race?
No, aimed at the gospel harp-harp on
which prophets played with somewhat lInger-
ing and uncertain fingers. but harp on which
apostles played with sublime certainty, and
,G,..vyrs pIaysd while their fingers were OF
fire. Harp that was dripping with the blood
Of the Christ, out of whose heartstrings the
harp YVES chorded and from whose dying
groan the strings were keyed. Oh, gospel
harp! All thy nerves a-tremble with stories
pi self sacrlrice. Harp thrumIned by fingers
long ago turned TO dust Harp that made
heaven listen AMI will yet MAKE all the earth
hear. Harp that sounded pardon to my sinful
soul and peace over the grave where my dead
sleep. Harp that will lead the chant Of the
blood washed throng redeemed around tho
throne. May iavelin slay me before ninS
iayelin at that. Harp which il seems al
most too sacred for me to- touch, and 80
to finger II and ask them to touch 1t now.
Come down, William Cooper, and run your
fingers over the strings OF this harp" He
Nays, Il will, AMI he plays:
Ihtre a iouuUain all.d With blood
Drawn from ImmaUnsls yeIns.
"Come down. Charles Wesley, and touch the
strings" He says, Il will, and he plays:
Jesus, lover Of my sodl,
Let me to fny bosom fy.
Come down, Augustus Toplady, and sweep
your fingers across this gospel harp" He
says, 81 Will, and he plays
RoSx OF Ages, cleft for me.
Let Inc hide myself In thee.
"Come down, Isaac Watts, and take this
harp" He says, II will, and he plays;
Alas, and did my Ssv.Or bleed,
And did my sovereign die7
.sP. P Bliss, come down and thrum this Cos
Del harp" He says, II will, " and he plays:
HsIlelujah. 't- donel
believe On the Son.
Inefable harpl Transporting hap! Harp
of earth Harp Of heaven! Harp sanity
and seraphic Harp OF God! oh, like the
idea of that old monument in the ancient
church at Ullard, near Kilkenny, Ireland.
The sculpture on that monument, though
chiseled more than n thousand years ago, as
appropriate to-day as then, the sculpture
representing harp upon cross. That is
where hang it now that is where you had
better nanS IT, Let tue ldFeltn De forever
buried, the sharp edge down, but hang the
harp upon the cross.
And now upon our souls let the harps OF
heaven rain music, and as when the suns
rays fall aslant in Switzerland at the approach
OF eventide, and the shepherd among the
Alps puts the horn to his lips and blows a
blast and says: "Glory be to Cod" and all
the shepherds on the Alpine heights or dswn
the deep valleys respond with other blasts of
horns, saying, "Glory be to God and then
all the shepherds uncover their heads and
kneel in worship, and after few moments Of
silence some shepherdrises from his knees and
blows another blast OF the horn and says,
Thanks be to God and all through ths
mountains the response comes from other
shepherds, "Thanks be to God" so this mo-
ment let all the valleys of the earth respond
to the hills Of heaven, with sounds of glory
and thanks, and it be harp of earthly worship
to harp of heavenly worship, and the words
Of ST. John in the Apocalypse be fulfilled, 81
heard a voice from heaven as the voice OF
many waters and as the voice OF a Sreai
thunder, and as the voice Of harpers harpibS
With their harps."