Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-09-19

lily deserves very well OF the country. You
fold the newspaper and sit down at the table
and perhaps do not think OF that incident
again. That 10 historical faith,
But now you are on the sea, and It is night
and you are asleep, and you are awakened
by the shrek Of "Firer You rush out on
the deck. You hear, amid the wringinS Ok
the hands and the iainting, the cry; "No
The sail puts out its wing Of fire, the robes
make a burning ladder In the night heavens:
the spirit of wrecks Kisses In the waves, ana
on the hurricane decks shakes out Its banner
nfeboats |" cried the captain. "Down with
the lifeboatsr' People rush into them. The
boats are about full. Room for only one
more man. You are standing on the deck
beside the captain.
Who shall 1t be2 You or the captain2
The captain says. ''You" You jump AMI
are saved. He stands there and dies. Now,
you believe that Captain Braveheart sacr.-
feed himself for his passengers, but you
believe It with love, with tears, with hot
and long continued exclamations, with
grief at bis loss AMI joy at your deliverance.
That is saving faith-in other words, what
you believe with ali the heart and believe
in regard to yourself. On this hinge turns
my sernon-aye, the salvation OF your i'm
mortal soul. You often go across bridge
you know pothing about. You do not
know who built the bridge, you do not
know what material 1t Is made OF, but
you come to 1t and walk over 1t
and ask no questions. And here Is an
arched bridge blasted from the '.Ro * o;
Ages" and built by the Architect Of the
whole universe, spanning the dark gulf be-
tween sin and righteousness and all God asks
you Is to walk across 1t, and you start, ami
you come to IT, and you stop, and you go
a little way on, and you stop, and you fall
back, and you experiment. You say, SHOW
do know that bridge will hold me r. in
stead OF marching on with firm step, asking
no questions, but feeling that the strength
of the eternal Goi Is under you.
| Oh, was there ever a prize profYered SO
cheap as pardon and heaven are offered to
your For how much2 million dollars?
1t is certainly worth more than that. But
cheaper than that you can have 1t. Ten
thousand doIlars2 Less than that. One
dollar? Less than that. One farth-
! ing? Less than that. without money
and without price," No money to pay. No
journey TO take. No penance to suffer.
Only Just one decisive action OF the soul,
thou shalt be saved"
Shall I try to tell you what it is to be-
| saved2 I cannot tell you. No man, no
angel, can tell you. But can hint at it. for
my text brings me up to this point. "Thou
shalt be saved" 1t means n happy life here,
and peaceful death. and blissful eternity.
1t is a grand thing to go to sleep at night,
and to get up In the morning, and to do bus
iness all day feeling that all is right between
my heart and God. No accident, no sick
can do me any permanent damage:
I am forgiven child Of God. and
He is bound to see me through. He has
sworn He will see me through. The mount
aims may depart, the earth may burn, the
! light OF the stars may be blown out by the
/ blast Of the Judgment hurricane, but life and
death. things present and things to come,
sre mine. Yea, further than that, It means
peaceful death. Mrs. Hemans, Mrs. ST.
! courtney, DR.. Young and almost all the poets
! have said handsome things about death.
There is nothing beautiful about IT. When
We stand by the white and rigid features Of
those whom we love. and they give no an
swering pressure Of the hand AMI no re-
turning kiss OF the lip, We do not
! want anybody poetzing round about
us. Death Is loathsomeness and
midnight and the wrinsins of the heart un-
| til the tendrils snap and curl in the torture
unless Christ shall be with Us. l confess to
! you an infinite fear, q consuming horror OF
death unless Christ shall be with me. I
! would rather go down into a cave Of wild
beasts or jungle OF reptiles than into the
grave unless Christ goes with me. Will you
! tell me that am to be carried out from my
bright home and put away In the darkness?
! I cannot bear darkness. At the first coming
of the evening must have the gas lighted,
and the farther on in life get the more I like
| to have my friends round about me.
And am I to be put of for thousands Of
years In dark place, with no one to speak
to? When the holidays come and the gifts
nre distributed, shall add no Joy to tho
"Merry Christmas or the "Happy New
Year?' All, do not point down to the hole
in the ground, the grave, and call II a beau
q tiful place. Cnlessthere be some supernatu-
raj illumination shudder back from 1t. My
I whole nature revolts at 1t. But now this
glorious lamp Is lifted above ths grave, and
, all the darkness Is gone, and tie way ls
clear. look into 1t now without q single
shudder. Now my anxiety is not about
death my anxiety is that may live Alright.
! What power is there in anything to chill
0a in the last hour II Christ wraps around
me the skirt OF His own garment What
darkness can fall upon my eyelids then, amid
the heavenly daybreak? o death, will not
fear thee then. Back to thy cavern Of dark
despoier OF families. With this battleax I
hew thee in twain from helmet to sandal,
! the voice of Christ soun ling all over the
/ earth and through the heavens 80 death, l
viii be thy plague. o grave, will be tiny
! destruction"
OF Christ. You know when Jesus was upon
! the earth how happy He male every house
D He went into, and when He brings US up ia
| His house in heaven how great shall be our
gIeel His voice has more music in II than fs
to be heard in all the orator!os OF eternity.
Talk not about banks dashed with et1or.
escense. Jesus is he chief bloom OF heaven.
We shall see the very face that beamed sym.
pithy in.Dethanr aud take the very hand
that dropped its b'co from the short bean.
OF the cross. Oh, want to stanl in eternity
with Him. Toward that harbor 1 s,enr.
Toward that goal run. 1 shall be satisfied
when awake in His likeness.
Oh, broken hearted men and women, how
sweet II will pe in that goo land TO poir all
OF your hardships AMI beretvements AMI
losses into the loving ear of Christ AMI then
have Him explain why 1t was best for you
to be sick, and why it WIS best tor you to be
widowed, and why it was beat for you TO be
prosecuted, and why it was best for you to
be tried and have Him point to an elevation
proportIonate to your dsquetu 10 here, say.
ing, "You suffered with Ne on ear.h CON,
up now and be sloriied with Ne in heav u"
Some one went into a house where there
had been a good deal OF trouble an said to
the woman there, "You seem to be lonely"
tsYes." she said Il am lonely" "How
many in the familyf' "Only myself"
"Have you had any children?' i had seven
"An aone?" "Aii." "Aii deads' "Al."
Then she breathed long sigh into the Iona.
illness and said, "Oh, sir, have been good
! mother 10 the grave
And so there are hearts her, th9. arc W.
terIy broken down by the bereavement ot
lie. point you to- lay 10 the pterGil bilin
Of heaven. Oh, agei men anl women vino
have knelt at the throne OF grace for snree-
score years and ten will not your decrap:.
tude change for the leap OF q heart when
you come TO look face to face upon HIM
whom having not seen you love2 O1. that
will be the Good Shepherd, not out in
the night and watching tQ keep
| Off the wolves, but with the lamb r.
elining on the eunlit hill. That will be tho
Captain of our salvation, not amid the 70 &c
} and crash and boom OF battle, but amid His
} disbanded troops keeping victorious fes.iv-
ity. That will be the Bridegroom OF the
ehurch coming from afar. the bride leanlnS :
6pon His arm while De LOOKS down INTO hes
face and saws ssBehold, thou AIT fair, my
loyeI Behold, thou art fair"