The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-06-14

IOny. muSt give WY -betore tue pcr-
petual wash OF the sea, but the redemption
that Paul offers you will be forever2 And
yet and yet and yet you wave him back to
the guardroem saying "Go thy way for
this time. When have a convenient season,
/ will call for thee
Again, Felix adjourned this subject OF re-
igion and put of Pauls argument because
he could not give up the honors OF the world
He was afraid somehow he W ould he COM
promised himself in this matter. Remarks
be made afterward showed him 10 be In
tensely ambitious. Oh, how he huggei the
favor OF men
never saw tho honors OF this world in
their hollowness and hypocrisy so much as
in the life and death OF that wonderful man,
Charles Sumner. AZ he went toward the
place OF burial, even Independence Hall. In
Philadelphia, asked that his remains stop
there ON their way to Boston. The flags wern
Mt half mast and the minute guns on Bost on
Common tbrobbed after his heart had ceased
to beat. Was Il always so2 While he lived
how censured oflegisative resolutions how
caricatured OF tho pictorials how charged
with every motive mean and ridiculous
how all the urns OF scorn and hatred and
billingsgate 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 right y
how he had 10 put the ocean between him
and his malgners thar he might have lit
tie peace, and how, when he went OIL sick,
they said he was broken hearted because he
could not get to be President or Secretary OF
| State
o. Commonwealth OF Massachusetts, who
| Is that man that sleeps In your public hail
covered with garlands aud wrapped In tho
stars and stripes Is that the man who. only
| n few months before, you denounced rs tho
foe OF republican and democratic institu-
| tions? Is that the same mani le American
~ N n
eulogium and newspaper leaders, which the
| dead senator could neither read nor hear,
atone for twenty-five years OF maltreatment
and caricature.
When see a man like that, pursued by
| all the hounds OF the political kennel so long
as he lives and then buried under n great
| pile OF garlands and amid tho lamentations
| OF whole nation, say TO myself What an
unutterably hypocritical thing Is all human
| applause ana all human favo, 4 You took
twenty-five years In trying to pull down his
| fame and then take twenty-five years in try
| ing 10 build his monument. My friends. vas
there ever a better com mcntary on the hol
| lowness Of all earthly fnvorP II there are
| young men who read this who are postpon.
ing religion in order that they may have the
/ fnvors OF this world. let me persuade them
Of their complete folly. II you are looking
| forward TO gubernatorial. senat oral or pres
idential chair, let me show you your great
mistake.
Can IL bc that there Is now any young
man saying; Let me have political Office,
| let me have some OF the high positions OF
trust and power. and then | will attend 10
! religion. but not now. Go thy way for this
| time. When | have convenient season,
will call for thee" "
And now my subject takes n deeper tone,
| and II shows what a dangerous thing IL this
dcferring OF religion. When Pauls chain
r,,,,aJ dow, ,be p,,rb,o s,,irs of Folly ,hot
was Feliy's Inst chnnce for heaven J,,ieino
from his cbnr,r,er n,terw,rI ha Wa rn
nroba,e and nbnr doneJ And so vns Dru-
| silIa
O. las. f., Tho so,,,ho-,, r,,l,. ,b,ro ,,,s ,
,remhlin,; Of tho eortb md ,bp mir COT bIacL
With smoee in,crsho, with linuiJ rocLs and
| vas,,,I,,s ,.ainaJ unon D,uaiIia n,J unon har
con n horrihIe ,aannsst oT oshra opd Grn
| Tho,. ala NO, reiec, r.li,.ion rrbey only nut
Il an Thay al No, unJcrs,nnJ thar that
| - ,ha, ,S,, Lo,,- ,.baa pa,,i s,ooJ ho,nra
| ,ho,,o ,yn. the rivo,,I bour unoo which evnrv.
| ,hin, ,v's noised md that n tinnaa Tho
| 80, .,-., Their co,,vanie,t season c,n,o
when laul and his guardsman entered the
palace. II went away when Paul and his
guardsman left. Have you never seen men
| waiting for n convenient senson? There is
such a great fascination abou, /, that. though
you may have grent respect TO the truth of
| Christ, yet somehow there is in your soul
tho thought Not quite vet Ii is
not time for me to become a Christian" I
| say to n boy, seek Christ. lie Snys, mo.
| Wait until get to be "A young man, | say
TO the young man. seek Christ" Hesaya,
''Wait until [ come 20 midli,r.' I meer1hs
same person in mIdlife. and say. "Scek
Christ He says, wait until | get old. &"
] meet the same person in old aga ana say TO
him, s'Seek Christ" lie saws. "Wait until
am on nv diving bed" / ann called 10 hts
diving couch. His last moments have come
l bead over the couch and listen for his LAST
words. | have partially 10 guess what they
ara by the motion OF his lips. he is so feeble.
bur rallying himself he whispers untiI can
hear him say. "I-am-wntiny-for -
morr--conyrni.nt - season 4" and h. Ia CON. :
/ can tell YOU when YOUR convenient senson
will come. / can tell you the wear II will
he 1894. 1 can tell Won whnt kind of n dov
II will be, II will be the sabbath dnv
I can tell YOU what hour il will he. II will
be between s and lOo'clock. In other words,
it isnow. Do you ask me how know this
is your convenient season? | know Il be-
causa you nra harc aud bacruso tba oia,t