Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-06-06

shape OF crown TO symooifZa his triumph.
A hundred lights blown ous In one strong
gust from the open door OF q sepulchre
Ziklag in ashesi
1preactsd this sermon to-day because
want to rally you, as David rallied his men,
Tor tho resoveEy Us the lovod and tho lost.
want not onfy to win heaven, but want all
This congregation TO go along With me. Tfeel
that somehow have responsibility IN your
arriving af that great city. Do You really
want to JOIN the companionship Of your loved
ones who haVs gonef Are you as anxious
10 join them Gs David ard bis men were to
Join they fanpies2 Then am here, In the
paine. OF God, to say that you may and to
tell you how.
-A,"o-L tn ~. a.a. niaaa- IL Won want ta
Join your foved ones IN glory, you MUST
travel the same way they went. No sooner
had the half dead Egyptian been resusc,;ated
than he pointed the way the captors and the
captives had gone. and David and his men
followed after SO our Christian friends
have gone into another Country, and II We
want to reach theis companionship we must
take the same road. They repented. We
must repent. They prayed. We must pray.
They trusted In Christ. We must trust In
Christ They lived a religious life. We must
I've religious life. They were in some
things like ourselves. I know, now they ara
gone, there Is a halo around their names,
but they had their faults. They said and
did things they ought never to have said or
done. They were sometimes .ebellious.
sometimes cast down. They were far from
being perfect. So 1 suppose that when We
have gone some things In us that are now
only tolerable may be almost resplendent.
But as they were Ike Us IN deficiencies we
on yht TO be like them in taking q supernal
Christ 10 make up for the deficits. Had it
not been for Jesus they would have ali
perlshe1, but Christ confronted them and
sail. II am tho way" and they took II.
| have ql5n IN ar1 hat ha 1afh tbaf
these cspttves trol vas troubled path, and
that David AMI his men had to go over the
same difficult way. While these captiyes
were being taken they said, "Oh, we ara
so tired; We are 50 sick we are so hungryP
But the men who had charge Of them said
''Sto2 this crying. Go on" David and his
men also foua1 ii hard way. They had to
travel it. Our friend have gone into glory,
an IT f. through much trlbulation that we
are to enter into the kingdom. How our
loved ones used to have to struggled How
their old hearts achedl How sometimes
they had a tussle for bread In our child
hood we won Tered why there were so many
wrinkles on their faces. We did not know
that what were callei crows feet" on their
iaces were the MARKS OF the black raven OF
trouble. Did you ever hear the old people,
seated by the evening stand, talk over their
early trials, their hardships, the acci-
dents. the burials, the disappointments, the
empty flour barrel when there were so many
hungry ones to feed, the sickness almost
unto death, where the next dose of morphine
decided between ghastly bereavement and
an unbrOken home circle2 On, yes 1t was
trouble that whitened their hair. 1t was
trouble that shook the cup in their hands. 1t
was trouble that washed the luster from
their eyes with the ran of tears until they
needed spectacies. IL was trouble that made
the cans n necessity for their journey. Do
you never remember seeing your old mother
E!ttiD.p IA, lnpI-ipC- ont ba
win low, her elbow on tho win low sill, her
hand to her brow, looking out, not seeing
the falling shower at all (yOu we'll knew she
was looking into the distant past), until the
apron came up to her eyes because the mem
ory was too much for her?