Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-10-31

glorious promise, - WIZ be q Coz 70 snee
and to thy seed after thee" oh, broken
hearted father and mother, you have triei
everything else: now make an appeal for
, the help and omnipotence OF the covenant
family neutrality-suspicious. on Thanksgiving
Day, perhaps next Christ mas Day-the
prodigal may be home, aud II you crowd
on his plate moro luxuries than on any
other plate at the table am sure the
brothers will not be Jealous, but they
"because the dead IS alive again and because
the lest is founi." Perhaps your prayers
have been answered already. The vessel
may be coming homeward, and by the hight
OF this nights stars that absent son may bo
pacing the deck OF the ship, anxious for the
timo to CONS when no can throw his arm
around your neck and ask for forgiveness
for that a. mas oeen wrfnging your otd heart
30 long. Glorious reunion, that will be too
sacred for outsiders to look upon, but 7
would Just like to look through the window
when you have all got together ag lin and
Are seated at the banquet.
Though parents may in covenant b
They are not happy till they see
This chill rem happy too.
Again. remark that the unavailIng effort
OF the Mediterranean oarsmen has q coun.
terpart in the effort which We arc making to
bring this world back to Col, His pardon
an safety. II this world could have been
saved by human effort, II would have been
done long ago. John Howard took hold OF
one oar, and carey took hold Of another oar.
and Aaoniram Judson took hold Of another
oar, and Luther took hold of another oar,
snd John Knox TOOK hold Of smother oar and
taey p0}iea until they fell back dead from
the exhaustion. Some dropped in the ashes
OF martyrdom, some on the scalpinS
I'm nj nd Int Rhn
plague struck room Of the lazsretto,
and still the chains are not broken,
and still the despotisms are not demolished,
and still the world Is unsaved. What then?
Put down the oars and make no effoRtP
do not advise that. But want you, Chris
and the school and the college, and the mis-.
stonarV society are only the instrunentsli-
ties, and II this work Is ever done at all God
must doit, and He will do II In answer to
our prayer. "They rowed hard to bring 1t to
HE land, but they could not, wherefore they
cried unit the Lord"
Again, the unavailing effort ofthoss Med1-
terranean oarsmen has a counterpart In
every man that is trying to row his own soul
Into safety. When the eternal spirit flashes
upon us our condition. ws try to ann onr-
selves. We say, "Gfve me a stout oar for my
right hand. give me a stout oaf for my left
hand, and will pull myself into safety" No.
wave of sin comes an dashes you one way,
and a wave of temptation comes and dashe5
you in another way, and there are plenty OF
rocks on which to founter, but seemingly no
harbor into which to sail. Sin must be thrown
overheard, or We must perish. There
are men who have tried for years to become
Christians, They believe all say In regard
TO, n future world. They believe that re-
ligion is the first, the last, the infinite ne
eessity. They do everything but trust in
Christ. They make sixty strokes in a min
ute. They bend forward with all earnest
ness, and they lie back until the muscles ara
disten led, and vet they have not m Ife one
inch in ten years toward heaven. What IS
the reason2 That Is not the way to go to
skifr and put 1t down at the foot OF Nj.
agara and then head 1t up toward the
churning thunderbot- OF waters and ex-
pect to work YOUR way up through the
lightning OF the foam into calm Lake Erie
as for you to try to pull yourself through
the surf OF your sin into the hope and pardon
and placidity Of the gospel. You cannot do
IT in that way. Sin Is rough ses, AMI
longboat, yawl, pinnacs and gon lola go
down unless the Lord deliver, but II you
will cry to Christ AMI ky hold Of divine
mercy you are as safe from eternal con-
demnation as though You had been twenty
years in heaven.
But glory be- to God that Jesus Christ Is
able TO take US up out OF our shipwrecked
and dying condition and put us on the shoul-
der OF His strength, and by the omnipotence
of His gospel bear US on through all the
journey of this life and at last throu yh the
opening gates of heavenl He Is mighty to
save. Though your sin be long an black
and inexcusable and outrageous. the very
moment you believe will proclaim parion
quick, full, grand, unconditional; unco:n-
promising, ilimitible, infinite. On, the sra,s
of God am overwhelmed when come to
think of it. Give me a THOUSAND ladders, fash.
ed fast to each other, that l may sca'e the
height. Let the line run out with the an.
chor until all the cables OF the earth are exc
hausted, that we may touch the depth. Let
the archangel hy in circuit OF eternal ages in
irving to sweep around this thame. Oh, the
grace of Col! 1t is 50 high. 1t Is 50 broad.
1t Is so deep. Glory be TO my Col, that
where mans oar gives out Gods arm begins
Why will sc carry your sins AMI your sor-
rows any longer when Christ offers to take
them? Why will you wrestle down your
fears when this moment you might give up
and be save ]? Do you not know that every
thing is ready?
Plenty OF room nj the felst. JESUS has the
ring of His love all rea iy to put upon your
hand. Come now an sit dowl, ye hun ,ry
on 8, at the banquet. Ye VINO ar, in n =
of sin, take the robe OF Christ. Ie wlo ara
,wampe1 by the break RS 1roun you. cry
to Clrist to pilot you into smooth, still
waters. On account of ths peculiar ph15s
Of the subject 1 have drawn my present
Illustrations, you see, cliei; iro the
water. | remember that vessel want to
pieces on the Bsrmu1as great many yslrs
ago. 1t hal vast treasure on ootr
But, the vessel being sunk. no eHor; WIS
nade to raise 1t. After many yeLr5 hII
passed a company OF adventur"r5 whnt
put from England, an after a lolS voy-
age they reachel the place where the vessel
was sail to have sunk. Tney got into
small boat and lowered over the place. Then
The divers went down, AMI they brois
through what looked like a linn stone cover
fng, and the treasures rolled out-ynlt was
'ound afterwari to De, in American money,
worth 81, 500 900, and the Foundation Ola
great business house. At that time tina
wlole world rejoicei over WAIT Wis callei
iht, luck o. these adventurous. o. ye who
have been rowing toward the shors
and have not been aba to rsacn
it, want to tell you tonight that your boat
covers over in init. treasure! All t1e riches
Of Col are at your ieet-:retsures that
layer fail and Gro vas that never grow dtln.
Who will go down now AMI sees them! VINO
will dive for the pear. of gre 1t pres? Wlo
will be- prepared for lite, TOR death, for
Judgment, for the long eternity! SEQ two
hands OF blooi stretched out toward tly
soul as Jesus says, "Co ne unto me, all y,
hat labor AMI are heavy laden, and VIII
give you rest