Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-07-11

1eathene tnaI tQef0 Is no IutuI6 CHANCE lOr
hose who have wasted this.
Multitudes OF men who are kept within
bounds would say "Go to, now! Let me
get all out OF this life there Is in it. Come,
Iluttony and inebrfation and uncleanness
md revenge and all sensualities, and wait
lpon mel My life may be somewhat short
.ned in this world by dissoluteness, but that
will only make heavenly indulgence on q
arger scale the sooner possible. will over-
axe the saints at last and will enter the
heavenly temple only a little later than
hose who behaved themselves here. I will
IN my way to heaven take q little wider ex-
:ursion than those who were on earth pious,
and shall go TO heaven via gehenna and
via sheol." Another chance in the next
world means free license and wild abandon
nent in this.
Suppose you were party in an important
:ase at law, and you knew from consultation
With judges and attorneys that it would be
riei twice. and the first trial would be OF
little importance, but that the second would
1ecide everything, for which trial would you
make the most preparation. for which retain
he ablest attorneys. for which be most anX7
Gus about the attendance of witnesses? You
would put all the stress upon the second
| rial, all the anxiety, all the expenditure,
Iayins, "The first is nothing, the last IA
everything. Give the race an assurance of
1 second and more important trial in the
subsequent life, and all the preparation for
leral, post sepu!chrai, and the world with
,ne jerk be pitched off into impiety and god
essness.
Furthermore, let me ask why a chance
ihould be given in the next world II We have
.etused innumerabie chances in this? Sup
pose you give a banquet, and you invite a
yast number OF friends. but one man de-
Zines to come or treats your invitation with
Indifference. You in the course Of twenty
7ears give twenty banquets, and the same
nan Is invited TO them all and treats them all
II the same obnoxious way. After while
rou remove to another house, larger and bet
er, and you again invite your friends, but
Iend no invitation to the man who declined
)r neglected the other Invitations.
Are you to blame? Has he a right
o expect to be invited after all
he indignities he has done you? God in
his world has invited US all to the banquet
VI His grace. He invited US by His proyi-
ience and His spirit 3s5 days Of every year
tnce we knew our right hani from our left.
L we declined it every time or treated the
invitation with indifference and gave twenty
,r forty or fifty years OF indignity on our
,art toward :he banqueter, ami at last He
preads the banquet in a more luxurious and
Sinsly place, amid tho heavenly gardens,
lave We right to expect Him to invite us
tgain, and have we n right to blame Him II
ie does not invite Us!
Iftweive gates OF salvation stool open
wenty years or fifty years for our aimis-
ZION, and at the end of that time they are
.iosed. can we complain of it and say
These gates ought to be open again. Give
Is another chance?" Ifthe steamer is to sail
or Hamburg, and we want to get to Ger
many by that line, and We read in every
evening and every morning newspaper that
will sail on certain day, for two weeks
We have that advertisement before our eyes,
md then we go down TO the docks fifteen
minutes after it has showed off into the
tream and say 'Come back Give me
mother chance! 1t is not fair to treat me
II this way! Swing up to the dock again
md throw out planks and let me come on
)oardT' Such behavior would invite arrest
IS madman.
And II, after the gospel ship has lain Mt
inchor before our eyes for years and years.
md all the benign voices OF earth AM
heaven have urged US to get on board, as
The might sail away at any moment, and
Ifter awhile she sails without US, Is it
common sense to expect her to come back?
lou might as well go out on the highlands
It Navesink and call to the Majestic after
Size has been three days out und e1p.c. her
o return as to call back nm opportunity for
heaven when it once has sped away. All
heaven offered us as 2ratuity. and for a
lifetime we refuse to take If, and then
:ush on the bosses of Jehovah's buckler de-
nan1ing another chance. There ought to
oe, there can be, there will be. no such
our common sense agrees with my text. III
he tree fall toward the south or toward tine
lorth, in the place where the tree falleth
here it shall be ="
You see this idea lifts this world up from
N unimportant way station to platform OF
rupsndous issues and makes all eternity
yhirl around this hour. But one trial for
which all the preparation must be made in
his world or never made at all. That piles
Ip all the emphases and all the climaxes and
III the desiines into life here. No other
.hanc-! On. how that augments the value
IN Importance OF this chance!
Alexander with his army used 10 surround
city and then would lit 4 great light III
oxen to the people that il they surrendered
before that light went out all would be well,
)ut il once the light wsnt out then the bat
.eriny rams would swing against the wall,
md demolition and disaster would follow.
Nell, all we need do for our present and
everlasting safety is to make surrender to
Christ, the King and Conqueror-surrender
Of our hearts, surrender OF our lives, sur
-ender OF everything. And He keeps great
light burning, light OF gospel invitation, light
Sindlei with the wood OF the cross and
tanning up against the dark night of our sin
md sorrow. surrender while that great
ight continues 10 burn, for after it goes out
here will be no other opportunity oil making
peace with God through our Lord Jesus
Christ. Talk of another chance! Why, this
s a supernal chance!
In the time of Edward VI. at the battle OF
MusselburS, n private soldier. seeing that
The Earl of Huntley had lost his helmet, took
2ff his own helmet AMI put il upon the head
oT the earl, AMI the head of the private sO-
der uncovered, he was soon slain. whl!s
his commander rode safely out OF the battle.
But IN our case, instead OF private soldier
offering helmet to an earl, II Is 4 King put
.inC His crown upon an unworthy subject.
me King dying that We might live. Tell it ts
all points of the compass. Tell it to might
and day. Tell it to all earth and heaven.
Tell it to all centuries. all ages, all millenni.
urs. that we have such a magnificent chance
In this world that We need no other chance
in the next
am in the burnishel ju lgment hall CT the
last day. A great white throne is lifted,
but the judge has not yet taken it. While
we are waiting for his arrival hear immor-
tai spirits in conversation. "What are you
waiting here for?" says n soul that went up
from Madagascar to n soul that ascended
from America. The latter says, 81 came
from AmericI where forty years I heard the
gospel preached and Bible read, and from
the prayer that learned in infancy on my
mothers kn'e until my last hour 1 had gos-
pei advantage. bat for some reason did not
make the Christian choice, and 1 an here
waiting for the judge to give me new trial
and another chance 'Strange p says the
other. 81 had but one gospel call in NADIA
=
another chance"
"Why are you here?" says one who on
earth had feeblest intellect to one who had
great brain and silvery tongue and scepters
of influence. The latter responds. "Oh, I
knew more than my fellows. 1 mastered
libraries and had learned titles from col.
leses, and my name was synonym for
eloduence and power. And yet neglected
my soul. and 1 am hers waiting for a new
trial" Strange" says the one of the
feeble earthly capacity. "I knew but little
of worldly knowledge, but I knew Christ
and made Him my partner, and have no need
of another chance"
Now the ground trembles with the ap.
preaching chariot. The great folding doors
of the hall swing open. .Stand back?" cry
the celestial ushsrs. 'Stand back. and let
the judge OF quick and dead pass through ~
He takes the throne, and looking over the
throng OF nations He says, "Come to judg-
ment. the last judgment, the holy judS-
ment2' By one fash from the throne all the