Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-09-12
REF. DR.. TiLMACE.
THE BROOKLYN DININES sun
DAY SERMON.
SUBECT: Everlasting Life"
fx.r: sAr'se We and depart. for this Is no
wav, rao,


your rest. Micah IT,, 10.
This was the drum bea. OF n prophet who
wanted to arouse his people from their oo-
pressed aud sinful condition, but II may 1ust
as properly be uttered now as then. Bells
by long exposure and much ringing LOSE
their clearness Of tone. but this rousing bell
of the gospel strikes In "a clear tone az
when II first rang on the AIR.
As far ms can sea your great want ana
mine Is rest. From the time we enter life a
great many yeIations and annoyances take
after us. We may have our holidays
and our seasons OF recreation and quiet, but
where IA the man come to millife who has
found entire rest? The fact is that God did
not make this world to rest in. A ship might
as well go down OF Cape Hatteras to md
smooth water as man in this world to hnd
quiet. From the way tha. Col has strewn
the thorns and hung the clou is and sharp
enei the tusks, from the col Ia that distress
US, and the heats that snits US. and the
pleurisies that stab u5. ant the fevers tnat
consume US, know that He did not make
this world as n place to loiter in. God does
everything sucressfnllv. and this world
would be a very different world IL it were In
tended for US to lounge In. 1t does right
we'll for few hours. Indeed it is maSnth.
cent? Nothing but infinite wis and
goodness could have nike u this beverage OF
water. or hung up these brackets OF stars. or
trained these voices OF rill AMI bird and
ocean, SO that God has bur 10 lift His hand,
and the whole world breaks forth into or
chestra. But. after all. II IA only the splen-
1ors Of kings highway. over which we are
10 march on TO eternal conquests.
You and have seen men who tried tG
rest here They buiidei themselves great
stores. They gathered around them the pat.
ronage OF merchant princes. The voice or
their bid shook the money markets. They
had stock in the most succasSfut railroads
and In "safety deposits" great rolls OF Gov
eminent securities. They hal emblazoned
carriages high mnttlet steeis. footnen,
plats that confounded loris AMI senators
who sat at their tables, tap astry on which
fioatei the richest designs OF foreign looms,
splendor of canvas on the walls, exquisite
ness OF music rising among pe1estais OF
bronze and dropping. soft as light, on snow
ofsculpture. Here let them rest. Put back
the embroidered curtain AMI shake up the
pillow of down. Turn ont the lights. 1t Is
II O'Clock at night. Let slumber drop upon
the eyelids and the air float through the half
opened lattice drowsy with midsummer per-
fume. Stand back, all care, anxiety and
troubls. But, no. they will not stand oacS.
Th-y rattle the lattice They look under the
canopy. With rough touch they startle his
pulses They cry out at II O'Clock at night!
"hyaEe mani How can YOU sleep when
things are so uncertain? WHAT about those
stocks2 Hark to the tap of that flrebeili II
is your district How If you should die soon?
Awake, man! Think OF 1t. VINO will get
your property when you are gomez Wnat
will they do with it2 Wake upl Riches
sometimes take wingsi How If you should
get poor? Wake upr' Rising on one Oh
bow the man of fortune looks OK Into the
darkness Of the room and wipes ne damp
aess from his forehead and says, "Aias, Tor
sll this scene OF wealth AMI maslihcence-
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passed down a street OF city with /,
merchant. He knew all the finest houses on
the street. He said "There is something
the matter In all these houses. In that one
1t Is coniugal infelicity; in that one, dissi-
pated son; in that, dissolute father !; In
that, an idiot child in that, the respect OF
Bankruptcy" This worlds wealth can give
40 permanent satisfaction Thfs Is not your
,est.
You andI have seen men try in another
direction. A man says, "lf l could only
rise to such and such place OF renown; IL
could gain that Office II could only get
the stand and have my sentiments met with
one good round of hand clapping applause;
II | could only write n book that would live,
or make a speech that would thrill, or do an
action that would resoundT The tide turns
In his favor. His name is on 10, 600 lips. He
is bowed to and sought after and advanced.
Men drink his health at great dinners. At
his fiery words the multitudes huzza. From
galleries of beauty they throw garlands.
From housetops, as he passes in long pro-
session, they shake out the national stand
aight. On pillow stuffed with a nations
praise let him lie down. Hush all disturbant
voicesi In his dream let there be hoisted a
throne, and across It a coronation. Hush,
hush! ''Wake up" says rough voice
political sentiment is changing. How II
you should lose this place of honor? Wake
Up. The morning paper5 are TO be full OF
1enunciation. Hearken TO the eXecretlons
,f those who once caressed you. By to-
morrow night there will be multitudes sneer-
ing at the words which last night you eK-
peeted would be universally aimiret. How
san you sleep when everything depends
spon the next turn Of the great tragedy!
Up, man. OF this pillow" The man, with
head yet hot from his last Grafton, starts
up suddenly, looks out upon the night, but
pees nothing except the flowers that lie on
his stand, or the scroll from which he read
his speech, or the books from which he
quoted his authorities, and goes to his desk
10 finish his neglected correspondence, or to
oen an indignant line to some reporter. o.
sketch the plan for a public defense against
the assaults OF the people. Happy when he
got his first lawyers brief. exlliant when
he triunphei over his first political rival,
yet, sitting on the very top OF all that this
world offers of praise, he exclaims, "No
rest, no rest"
The very world that now appllu Is will
yoon hiss. That world sail OF the great
Webster: "What a statesman! What Won
man for any position" That same world
said after awhile: Down with him! He is
an office seeker. He is sot He is liber-
tine. Away with hmr And there is no
peace for the man until he laws down his
broken heart in the grave at Narshneld
Jeffrey thought that if he could only be Judge
that would be the making OF him got TO De
Judge and cursed the day in whica he was
born. Alexander wanted to submerSe the
world with his greatness; submerged 1t anf
then drank himself to death because he could
not stand the trouble. Burns thought he
would give everything if he could win the
favor OF courts and princes; won it, and
amid the shouts of n great entertainment
when poets and orators and duches5es were
adoring his genius wished that he could
creep back into the o0scurity in which he
dwelt when he wrote of the
Daisy, wes, modest, crimson tipnei flower.
Napoleon wanted to make all Europe
tren.Lie at his power; made it trembls,
then died, his entire military achieve
ments Gwindling down 10 pair of mill
tary boo.s which he insisted on hav-
ing on his feet when dying. AT Versailles
saw a picture Of SaDO!eOn in his rrin --~rs
Ywent into another room AMI saw bust o.
Napoleon as he appeared at st. Helena ont,
oh. what grief and anguish in the face OF the
latteri The first was Napoleon in triumph
the last was Napoleon with his heart BROKEN
How they laughed AMI cried when silver
tongued Sheridan In the midday OF pros
perity harangued the people OF Britain, ana
how they howle1 at an executed him when,
outsi le OF the room whers his corpse lay,
his creditor. tried to Sa his miserable bones
and sell them.
This world for restp "Aha" cry the
waters, 'no rest here, We plunge to the
sea-" "Ahar y cry the mountains, "no rest
herel We crumhle TO the plain "Aha"
rrv the towers mo rest here. We follow
nahy nj I into
dust" No rest for the flowers they fade.
No rest for the stars: thay die. No rest for
man he must work, toll. su fer and slave.
Now. for what havs l said all this? just
10 prepare you for the text. "Ariss ye and
depart, for this Is not your rest" am 60
ing to make you grant offer. Some of you
fanen5er that when gold WAS discovered In
Naliornia larye companies were made NC