Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-08-17

SENTENCED In the presence Of God an6
angels and men, stand up, thou mon
ster, thy lip blasted with blasphemy
thy cheek SCARED with lust, thy breatl
foul with the corruption Of the ages
Stand up, satyr, filthy goat, buzzard o
the nations, leper Of the centuries
Stand up, thou monster infdelity, par
man, part panther, part reptile, par
dragon, stand up and take thy sentence
Thy hand is red with the blood il
which thou hast washed, thy feet Grim
son with the human gore through which
thou hast waded. Stand up and take thy
sentenced Down with thee to the pit anC
sup on the sobs and groans of families
thou hast blasted, and roll on the bed o.
knives which thou hast sharpened fol
others, and let thy music be the everlast
ing miserere of those whom thou has
damned l brand the forehead Of infidel
ity with all the crimes Of self immola
ton for the last century on the part d
those who had their reason.
Ny friends, if ever your life through
its abrasions and its molestations should
seem to be unbearable, and you arr
tempted to quit it by your own behest,
do not consider yourselves as worse thar
others. Christ himself was tempted t
cast himself from the roof of the tenn
pie, but as he resisted so resist ye
Christ came to medicine all our wounds
In your trouble prescribe life instead
Of death. People who have had it worse
than you will ever have it have gone
songful on their way. Remember that
God keeps the chronology Of your life
with as much precision as he keeps the
chronology Of nations
A Christians Life and Death.
Why was it that at midnight, just a
midnight, the destroying angel strucl
the blow that set the Israelites free
from bondage? The 430 years were NJ
at ~ O'Clock that night The 490 years
were not up at II, and l o'clock would
have been tardy and too late. The 43C
years were up at 10 o'clock, and the de
stroying angel struck the blow, anC
Israel was free And God knows JUS
the hour when it is time to lead you NJ
from earthly bondage. By his grace
make not the worst of things, but the
best Of them. If you must take the pills,
do not chew them. Your everlasting re-
wards will accord with your earthly
perturbations, just as Caius gave tC
Agrippa a chain Of gold as heavy as
had been his chain Of iron. For you
asking you may have the same grace
that was given to the Italian martyr,
Algerius, who, down in the darkest Of
dungeons, dated his letter from "tht
delectable orchard of the Leonine pris
on. l."
There IS a sorrowless world, and it i:
so radiant that the MONDAY sun is only
the lowest doorstep, and the aurora that
lights up our northern heavens, con
founding astronomers as to what it car
be, is the waving Of the banners Of the
procession come to take the conqueror.
home from church militant to church
triumphant, and you and l have 10, 0OC
reasons for wanting to go there, but
we will never get there either by sell
immolation or impenitency. All our
sins slain by the Christ who came 10 dc
that thing, we want to go in at just the
time divinely arranged and from a
couch divinely spread, and then the
clang Of the sepulchral gates behind us
will be overpowered by the clang OF the
opening Of the solid pearl before us
o God, whatever others may choose,
give me a Christians life, a Christian s
death, a Christians burial. q Chris
tian 8 Immortality