The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-09-06
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p Falls r.,-, "Believs on the Lord Jesus Christ.
IN Thou shalt be saved. Acts xvi, 81.
,.u. are dark, dull, damp. loathsome
- even now. but they were worse IN
., ~ snostolic times. I Imagine to-day we
VI The standing in the Philipoian dungeon.
LVne ty vou not feel the chilli Do you not
~ Agt- " The eroans OF those incarcerated ones
..ua, Tie ~ for ten years have not seen the sun
,pneu' IN and the deep sigh OF women who
|,o | Is 10 Ismsmber their fathers house and mourn
I, I,s "a, their wasted estatesp Listen again. IL
'"' 'ne the cough OF n consumptive or the strug-
[.is Of one In the nightmare ot great hor-
y, You listen again and hear q culprlt,
ys chains rattling as he rolls over IN his
nd min. srsms and You say. "God. pity the prison
Z tools erm But there IL another sound In that
They n,sou n s the song ot Joy and gladness.
TO keen lyb,t a place to sing In The music comes
le rate Winding through the corridors OF tho prison.
foreign End in all the dark wards the whisper IL
% work Hssrd. "wbat's that2 What's thatp"
" prep n Is the song Of Paul and Silas. They
IN the t,nnot sleep; They have been whipped
rsrv badly whipped The lone gashes on
heir backs are bleeding yet. They lie f,at
In the cold ground their feet fast in wooden
made sockets and Of course they cannot sleep.
sher mt they can sing. Jniler. what are you do
,om. nr with these people? Why have they been
verdict mi In here2 oh, they have been irving TO
Judge make tho world better. Il that all? That
|osufrs sall A pt for Joseph. lions cave for
'oh' Daniel. blazing furnace for Shadrach.
Ia Eel Clubs for John Wesley. An nnathema for
|wd OF phlinp Meanchthon. dungeon for Paul
Lne or. and silas.
dane But while we are standing IN the gloom OF
cornpI The Philippian dungeon. and we hear the
Pi nity mingling voices OF sob and aud bias
phemy and hallelujah, suddenly an earth
quake The iron bars OF the prison twist
Eoarre the pillars crack OF. the solid masonry he
rhefM rims to heave. and all the doors swing OPEN
/. lie Tho taller feeling himself resnonsIbIa for
nlghs these prisoners and believing. in his pagan
were Ignorance suicide TO be honorable-sinoe
p The Bruus killed himself and Cat killed him
self. and Cassius killed himself-put his
use at sword to his own heart, proposing with ono
abo.t strong. keen thrust to put end to his ex-
atfau m n N Y N nri ln pnnl NfaIA At.N
PARKS Stop. stop! DO thysef no harm! We are
hdre5 all here"
''O Then I sec the iaer running through the
dust and amid the ruin OF that prison. and
smith see him throwing himself down at tho feet
hrC oithese prisoners. crying out What shall
whole Ido2 What shall do?' Did Paul answer
re- "Get out OF this place before there Is another
viii earthquake. Put handouts and hobbies on
these other prisoners lest they get away"
Eo,Ls No word OF that kind. His compact. thrill
tHs ing. tremendous answer memorable all
|orI through earth and heaven, was. "Believe on
cent the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt De
hai', saved"
|'0'' Well we have all read of the earthquake
IL Lisbon, In Lima, in Aleppo and In Cara
resi- cas-, but we live in u latitude where In all
the memory there has not been severe vol
ensi- canc disturbance. And yet we have seen
Id fifty earthquakes. Here is man who has
been building up large fortune. His bid
~ on the money market was felt in all the
.un ~ cities. He thinks he has got beyond all
Wv moving rivalres In trade, and he says to him
anu BILE perturbation" But I'm 1857 or In 1873 a
national panic strikes the foundation OF the
lib commercial world and crash goes all that
Igh. magnificent business establishment.
fist Here Is a man who has built up n very
last beautiful home. His daughters have Just
come home from the seminary with dplo-
, mas Of graduation. HIS sons have started
|ald II In lie, honest, temperate and pure. When
the evening lights arc struck, there Is hap
ton ton pjness and unbroken family circle. But
in fdere has 6seT ,sl2 ssaasas.A. down AZ Long
Branch. The young man ventured too far
it's put in the SURF The telegraph buried the
r. ferror up to the city, An earthquake struck
on hnder the foundation OF that beautiful
III home.
The piano closed the curtains dropped
the laughter hushed. Crash go allthose do
TO lmestic hopes and prospects and expecta-
pat tions So, my friends, we have all felt the
oO, shaking down OF some great trouble, and
there was a time when we were as much ex-
,o cited as this man Of the text and we cried
Hu out as he did "What shall do? What shall
he do?" The same reply that the apostle
made to him Is appropriate TO us, "Believo
on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be
r. saved"
y, There are some documents o. so little i'm
pc portance that you do not care to put any
more than your last name under them
h even your initials, but there are some docu-
r ments OF so great importance that you write
o out your full name. SO the Saviour in some
J." parts Of the Bible is called Lord" and in
other parts OF the Bible He Is called Jesus
Ph and In other parts OF the Bible He is called
y, "Christ" bur that there might be no mis-
H. take about this passage all three names come
together-"the Lord Jesus Christ"
Now, who Is this being that you want mo
20 TO trust In and believe In? Men sometimes
h- come to me with credentials and certificates
+ of good character, but cannot trust them.
There is some dishonesty In their looks that
Ia makes me know that shall be cheated IL L
p coniide In them. You cannot put your
/ hearts confidence in u man until YOU know
what stuff he is made OF. aud AN unreason-
able when stop TO ask you who this Is that
70 you want me 10 trust inp No man would
N think OF venturlng his life on a vessel going
out to sea that had never been Inspected.