Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-03-28


% struggle for the necessaries OF lie. The
yons OF rich bankers and merchants gener.
ally become bankers and merchants. The
most Of those who become ministers are the
sons Of those who had terrific struggle to get
their everyday bread. The collegiate and
theological education OF that son took every
luxury from the parental table for eight
years. The other children were more scant-
lily appareled. The son at college every lit
tie while got bundle from home. In il
were the socks that mother had knit, sitting
up late at night, her sight not as good as
once it was, and there also were some de-
licacies from the sisters hand for the yora-
cious appetite OF hungry student.
The years go by and the son has been or
dcined and is preaching the glorious gospel,
and great revival comes, ana souls ny
scores and hundreds accept the gospel from
the lips OF that young preacher, and father
and mother, quite old now, erS visiting the
son at the village parsonage, and at the close
of a Sabbath OF mighty blessing father and
the way and asking them il he can do any
thing to make them more comfortable, say
ing if they want anything in the night Just
10 knock on the wall.
And then all alone father and mother talk
over the gracious influences of the day and
say: "Well, 1t was worth all we went through
10 educate that boy! II was a hard pull but
We held on till the work was done. The
world may not know it but, mother, we held
the rope, didn't we?" And the voice. tremu-
lous with joyful emotion, responds "Yes,
faIker: We held the rope. / feel my work is
done. Now, Lord, lettest Thou Thy servant
. depart in peace. for mine eyes have seen Thy
salvation" ''Ishaw ~ says the father ~
never felt so much like living in my life as
now. want to see what that fellow is goins
IN 10 do, he has begun so we'll"
o.. men and women here assembled. Won
brlg sometimes how you have fought your
way in the world, but I think there have
been helpful influences that you have never
fully acknowledged. Has there not been
some influence in your early or present home
tlat the world caunot see? Does there not
reach TO you from among the New England
hills, or rom western prairies. or from south
eru plantation, or from English or Scottish
or Irish homes, cord of infiuer CO that has
kept you right when you would have gone
aslray, and which, after you had made o
crooked track, recalled you? The rope NAV
have been as long as thirty years or 500
miles long or 5000 miles long, but hands that
went out OF mortal sight long ago still hold
me rope.
You want very swift horse, and you need
10 rowel him with sharpest spurs, and TO let
the reinS lie loose upon the neck, and to give
shout 10 racer ii you are going to ride out
of reach Of your mothers prayers. Why. a
ship crossing the Atlantic in seven davs cant
sail away from them! 4 sailor finds them
4 On the lookout as he takes his place and
J finds them on the mast as he climbs the rat
lines to disentangle a rope in the tempest.
AMI finds them swinging on the hammock
when he turns in. Why not be frank and ac-
: knowledge 1t? The most of US would long
ago have been dashed to pieces had not
gracious and loving hands steadily and loy-
in;!y AMI nightly held the rope.
Bat tners must come time when we shall
Nnt ont Who these Damasrencs were who
luH.FrH. !'Ii in the Is 4 ..,r I,,,,.,
"a ! a! ,apse VINO have rendered 10 Go an!
-" world unracognIze1 AMI unr.corIaj
-'~y,"rs. That is going to be one OF the gla
cEr.temsntS of heayen-tha hunting up and
p.eSinS out OF those who did great good on
r:iF-l and got no credit for IL. Here the
rEurrh mas been going on nineteen c..n-
lGrles. and this is probably the first sermon
eyer recognizing the services OF the people in
tlGt Damascus balcony. Charles G.. FInney
said to dying Christian, "Give my love tc
St. Paul wnen you meet him." When YOU
and meet him, as we will, 1 shall ask him
to introduce me to those people who got him
out OF the Damascene peril.
Once for thlrty-six hours we expecte
every moment TO go to the bottom of the
ocean. Tho waves struck through the sky
lights, and rushed down into the hold of the
ship, and hissed against the boilers. Il was
an awful time, but by the blessing of Gel
and the faithfuluess OF the men in charge we
came out OF the cyclone, and We arrived at
IlOlit. Licu one, DelOre leaVlnS the ship,
thanked Captain Andrews. l do not think
there was man or woman that went OF
that ship without thanking Captain Andrews
and when years after 1 heard OF his death
was impeled to write 4 letter OF coincidence
to his family in Liverpool.
Everybody recognized the goodness, tn
courage, the kindness of Captain Andrews.
but it occurs to me now that We never
thanked the engineer. He stood away down
in the darkness amid the Kissing furnaces
doing his whOe duty. Nobody thanEeI tn,
engineer, but God recognized his heroisrt,
and his continuance, and his fidelity, and
there will be just as high reward for the en-!
giueer who worked out of sight as the cap.
tain who stood on the bridge of the ship IN
he midst Of the bowling tempest
y Christian woman was seen going alonf
the edge Of wood every eventide, and the
neigh5Ors in the country did not understand
how mother with so many cares and ankle
ties should waste so much time as to be Ills
sauntering out evenin; by evening. Il was
found out afterward that she Went there to
pray for her household, and while there one
evening she wrote that beautiful hymn,
famous in all ages for cheering Christian
hearts:
IDye grgor ay,-bFf, ,,..-,