Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-05-23

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hate the superb climate OF that good Ian,
where 1t Is never too cold or too hot 10,
cIoudy or too Glaring. Heaven will be NOR
70 Us IMAM to those supernal beings who wer,
lever tempted or sick or bereaved or trie,
| Or disappointed. So YOU NAV well tate m,
.ext out OF the minor key and set il 10 som.
.uhe In the majo key. "One genera
non passeth away, and another generator
Nothing can rob Us OF the satisfaction tha,
G. uhted thousan1s OF the generation Just
past were converted, comfortei md bor
vested Tor heaven by this church. whethn,
ntns PRESENT building OK the three precad.
ns Uuiiulngs IN wnicn they wofsi.T,;.,. IT, IT,
wo great organs Of the previous churches
went down in the memorable fires, but the
! huititudlnous songs they led year after yea,
were not recalled or injured. Tbera l. nr
power in earth or hell to XIII n haIIeluiab
MS impossible to arrest hosanna, What 4
latlstactlon to know that there are many
thousands In glory on whose eternal vel
are TINS church wrought mightilyI Moth
hS can undo that work. They have ascend.
| ed, the multitudes who served God in that
generation. That chapter is cloriously
ended. But that generation has left Its i'm
preston upon this generation.
Asillor was dying on shipbolrl, AMI he
,aid to his mates: MY lads, 1 can oniv
:hlnk OF one passage of Scripture, 'The soul
nat sinneth, IT shall die and that keens
d..
shall die Can't you think OF something
Else in the Bible to cheer me up?" Well
'lllors are kin !, and they tried to think of
'ome other passage of Scripture with which
% console their dying comrade, but they
could not. One of them said: 'tLet us call
Up the cabin boy. His mother was n Chris
Ian, and guess he has a Bible" The ca in
boy was called up, AMI the dying sailor
asked him II he had Bible. He said ''Ygs," "
'ut he could not exactly lnd It, and the Gy-
nS sailor scodel him and said, "A;n't YOU
ashamed OF yourself not to read your Bibis?"
30 the BOY explored the bottom OF his trunk
ana brought out the Bible, and his mother
lad marked passage that just fitted the
lying sailors case, "The blood OF Jesu;
GIr.st, His Son, clelnssth from all sin. ="
That helped the sailor to die in peace. So
2ne generation helps another, and good
hihSs written or said or done are repro
tuced long afterward.
| During the passing of the last generation
some peculiar events have unfolded. One
! lay while resting at Sharon Springs, " Y.
think II was in 1870, the year after my set
Iem2nt in BROOKLYN, and while walking in
he park OF that place, found myself asking
he question: Il wonder II there is auv
/ special mission for me to execute in this
world? If there is, may God show il to me -
There soon came upon me great desire to
preach the gospel through the secular print
| ng press. realized that the vast majority
! of people, even in Christian lands, never
enter church, and that it would be an op-
lportunty OF usefulness infinite If that doot
| ot publication vera opened.
And SO 1 recorded that prayer in a blank
! BOOK and offered the prayer day II and day
0ut until the answer came. though in a way
\ iiherent from that which 1 had expected,
; or 1t came through the MISREPRESENTATION
md persecution of enemies, and I have to
record 1t for the encouragement OF all minis
:ers OF the gospel who are misrepressn sntei
TpiSranrazaDfqtfpn ha 1-frr
enough anil bitter enough and continuous
enough there Is nothing that 50 wIdens ones
ied OF usefulness as hostile attack, If you
are really doing the Lords work The
bigger the lie told about me- tho big
ger the demand to see and hear what really
vas doing. From one stage of sermonic
publication to another the work has gone on
until week by week, and for twenty-three
gears, l have had the world for my audience,
~ no man ever had, AMI to-day more so
orn me that my sermons go now to about
!5.O0,OOO OF people in all lands. I Imention
ms not in vain boast, but as n testimony 10
he fact that Col answers prayer. Would
&c l had better occupied the field and been
more consecrated to the work. May God
'or2ive me for lack OF service IN the past and
iouble and quadruple and quintuple my
work in future.
In this my quarter century sermon re-
cori the fact that side by side with the pro-
eessiOn OF blessings have gone n procession
d disasters. l am preaching to-day in the
fourth church building since began work IN
this city. My first sermon was in the old
church on Schermerhorn street 10 an audi
ence chiefly OF empty seats, for the church
was almost eItinguished. That church Glled
and overfowing, we built a larger church,
which after two or three years disappeared
In fame. Then we built another church.
which also in a line OF fiery succession dis
appeared in the same way. Then we put up
this building, and may it stan.i for many
years, fortress OF righteousness and a
lighthouse for the storm tossed, its gates
crowded with vast Gssenblagas long after we
have csasad to frequent them!
We nave raised in this church over ST.
$50, 900 for church charitable purposes dur
ing the present plstorate. while We have
given, free OF all expense, the gospel to hun
dreds of thousands OF strangers, year by
year. L record with gratitude to Col that
during this generation of twenty-five years I
remember but two Sabbaths that 1 have
missed service through anything ike physical
iniispOsitions. Almost a fanatic on the sub
ject of physical exercise, 1 have made the
pJrks with which our city is blessed the
III cans OF good physical condition. daily
walk and run in the open air have kept me
rea " for work and ia good humOr with all
the world. l say to all young ministers OF
thu gospel it Is easier to keep good health
tTan to regain it when once lost. The reason
- many good men think the world is going
- rum IS because their own physical con-
,lition is on the down grade. No man ought
10 preach who has "a diseased liver or an en-
laCged spleen. There are two things ahead
OF us that ought TO keep US cheerful in our
work-heaven and the millennium.
And now. having come up to the twenty.
1th milestone in my pastorate, 1 wonder
how any more miles AN to travel? Your
company has been excee dinghy pleasant, o
my dear people, AMI L would like to march
by your side until the generation with whom
We are now mOyil; abreast and step to step
shall have stackel arms after the last battle.
But the Lord knows best, AMI we ought to
be willing to stay or go.
Most of you are aware that 1 propose at
this time, between the close OF my twenty
n'th year of pastOrate and before the begin
ming of my twenty-sixth year, to be absent
or Il few months in order to take a journey
aroun tho world. l expect 10 sail from San
Francisco in the steamer Alameda May 81.
Nv place here on Sabbaths will be fully oc-
..upiei, while on Mondays and every Monday
[ will continue to speak through the printing
press i0 this and other lands as heretofore.
Why do go? To make pastoral visitation
among people | have never seen, but to
whom have been pernitted long while to
aim MISTER. l want TO see them in their own
.ilirs, towns and neiSnoornOOds. l want to
SEow what are their properties. = II their
adv isiiiC- AM what hrir OTPOT, un.tles, and
- cT arSc my work an Srt more EiHptei'
ness. Wy 60 go7 For educational pIr-
poses. want to freshen my mind and heart
by new scenes, new faces, new manners AMI
customs. / want better to Un lerstand what
are the wrongs to be riEhtel an | the waste
places to be reclaimed. will put all learn
In sermons to be preached to you when 1 re-
turn. 1 want to see the Sandwich Islands,
not so much in tho light of modern politics
ps in the light OF the gospel of Jesus Christ
which has Transformed them, anl SlmO1
and those vast realms Of New Zaallnl AMI
Australia and Ceylon AMI India want TO
see what Christianity has accomplished. L
want to see how tho missionaries have been
He'd about as living in luxury ami idleness.
want to know whether the heather re-
ligions are really as tolerable AMI rs COM
rs they were represented by their
adherents in the parliament of religions at
Chicago. / want to see whether Moham-
madonfsr and Buddhism would be Coo1