The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-06-13

/ nity7 Do you not know that when death
/ comes you will have TO stop business,
/ though 1t be in the most exacting period
| of it-between the payment of the money
/ and the taking of the receipt? The mo-
| ment ne comes you will have to go. Death
! waits for no man. however high, however
! low. VIII you put your office, will VOC
put your shop in comparison with the af-
fairs Of an eternal world, affairs that in
volve thrones, palaces, dominiOns eternal?
Will you put 200 acres of ground against
immensely? Will you put forty or fifty
years of your life against millions Of ages?
o Felix. you might better postpone ev-
erything else. For do you not know that
the upholstering of Tyrian purple in your
palace will fade and the marble blocks of
Caesarea will crumble. and the break
water at the beach, made of great blocks
of stone sixty feet long, must give way
before the perpetual wash of the sea.
but the redemption that Paul offers you
will be forever? And yet and yet and
yet you wave him back to the guard
room, saying: Go thy way for this
time. When / have convenient season,
/ will call for thee"
Honors of the World.
Again Felix adjourned this subject Of
religion and put off Paurs argument be-
cause he could not give up the honors of
the world. He was afraid somehow he
would be compromised himself in this
matter Remarks he made afterward
showed him TO be intensely ambitious.
Oh, how he Rugged the favor of men!
l never saw the honors of this world in
their hollowness and hypocrisy so much
as in the life and death of that wonder
full man. Charles Sumner. AS he went
toward the place of burial even indie
pendence hall in Philadelphia asked that
his remains stop there on their way 10
Boston. The flags were at half mast,
and the minute guns on Boston common
| throbbed after his heart had ceased to
beat. Was il always so? While he
lived, how censured of legislative reso-
lutions, how caricatured of the picto-
rials; how charged with every motive
mean and ridiculous; how all the urns of
Scorn and hatred and billtngsgate
emptied upon his head: how, when struck
| down in senate chamber, there were
hundreds of thousands of people who
| said, Good for him; serves him rightr'
how he had put the ocean between him
and his maligners, that he might have
a little peace, and how, when he went off
SICK they said he was broken-hearted
| because he could not get TO be president
or secretary or state
o commonwealth Of Massachusetts,
who is that man that sleeps i'm your
public hall. covered with garlands and
wrapped in the stars and stripes? Is that
/ the man who. only a few months before,
y
and democratic institutions? Is that the
same man? Ye American people, We
could not, by one week of funeral
eulOgium and newspaper leaders. which
the dead senator could neither read nor
hear, atone for twenty-five years of NAL
treatment and caricature. When l see a
| man like that, pursued by all the hounds
Of the political kennel so long as he lives
and then buried under a great pile of
garlands and amid the lamentations Of
4 f,r.Hr -TE
| unutterably hypocritical thing is all
human applause and all human favor!
You took twenty-five years in trying to
pull down his fame and then take
| twenty-five years in trying to build his
monument.
Ny friends. was there ever a better
common tary on the hollOwness Of all
earthly favor? If there are young men
who read this who are postponing re-
ligion in order that they may have the
favors Of this world. let me persuade
them Of their complete folly. If you
are looking forward to gubernat orial,
senatorial or presidential chair. let me
show you your great mistake. Can it be
that there is now any young man say
ing: Let me have political office, let
me have some of the high position Of
trust and power, and then ! will attend
TO religion, but not now. Go thy way
for this time When / have a convenient
season, l will call for theer"
A Dangerous Delay.
And now my subject takes deeper
tone. and it shows what a dangerous
thing is this deferring of religion When
Pauls chain ratified down the marble
| stairs OF Felix, that was Felix's last
chance for heaven. Judging from his
| character afterward, he was reprobate
and abandoned. And so was Drusilla-
One day in southern Italy there was
a trembling of the earth. and the air got
black with smoke intershot with liquid
rocks, and Versuvius rained upon Drl-
silla and upon her son horrible tempest
Of ashes and fire. They did not reject
religion; they only put it off. They did
not understand that that day, that that
hour when Paul stood before them was
the pivotal hour upon which everything
was poised, and that it tipped the wrong
way. Their convenient season came
when Paul and his guardsman entered
the palace-it went away when Paul and
his guardsman left. Have you never seen
men waiting for a convenient season?
There is such a great fascination about
II that, though you may have great re-
spect to the truth of Christ, yet somehow
there is in your soul the thought, mot
quite yet. II is not time for me TO be-
come Christian" | say to a boy, Seek
Christ" He says. NO; wait until l get
TO be young man." l say to the young
man, Seek Christ" He says. wait
until / come to midlife." / meet the
same person in midlife and / say. Seek
Christ" He says, Wait until 1 get
old / meet the same person I'm old age
and say 10 him. Seek Christ" He says.
Wait until am on my dying bed" 1
am called 70 his dying couch. His last
moments have come. / bend over the
couch and listen for his last words /
have partially to guess what they are by
the motion Of his lips, he Is so feeble, but
rallying himself, he whispers. until / can
hear him say. "I-am-waiting- for-a-
more-convenient-seas and he is
gone,
Now Is the Accepted Time.
can tell you when your convenient
season will come. l can tell you the year
1t win be in 1894. l can tell you what
kind Of a day it will belt will be the
Sabbath day. I can tell you what hour
IL will bet will be between g and 10
o'clock. In other words II is now Do
you ask me how 1 know this is your con-
venient season. 1 know it because you
are here. and because the Holy Spirit is
here, and because the elect sons and
| daughters or God are praying for your
| redemption. All, know il Is your con-
venient season because some of YOU like
/ Felix, tremble as all your past life comes
| upon you with its terror. This night air
is aglare with torches TO show you up or
| to show you down. 1t is rustling with
| wings to lift you into the light or smite
| you into despair, and there is a rushing