Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-06-27

place OF burial, even Independence Hall, in
| Philadelphia, asked that his remains stop
| there on their way to Boston. The flags were
| Rt half mast and the minute guns on Boston
\ Common throbbed after his heart had ceased
to beat. Was it always so? While he lived
how censured oflegislatiye resolutions how
caricatured of the pictorials how charged
| with every motive mean and ridiculous :,
| how all the urn5 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 =
how he had TO put the ocean between him
| and his malignerS that he might have lit
| tie peace, and kow, when he went or sick,
| they said he was broken hearted because he
could nst get to be President or Secretary OF
| STATED
| o, Commonwealth OF Massachusetts,, who
| is that man that sleeps in your public hall
covered with SarlantS and wrapped in the
I stars and stripes? Is that the man who, only
| few months before, you denounced as the
| foe of republican and democratic institu-
| tions? Is that the same man? Ye American
[ people. We could not by one week OF funeral
| euIOgiUm and newspaper leaders, which the
| dead senator could neither read nor hear,
atone for twenty-five years Of maltreatment
AMI caricature.
| When see 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 the lamentations
| of a whole nation, say TO myself What an
| unutteraoly hypocritical thing is all human
applause nad sii human favori You tooS
! twenty-five years in trying to pull down his
| fame and then take twenty five years in try-
! ing to build his monument. My friends was
| there ever n better commentary on the hol-
| lowness of all earthly favor? If there are
| young men who read this who are postpon-
| ing religion in order that they may have the
favors of this world. let me persuade them
| Irft I,,f- .1,ta F,1G
| forward to gubernatorial, senatorial or pres
idential chair, let me show you your great
mistake.
! Can it be that there is now any young
man saying: "Let me have political Office
| let me have some of the high positions of
religion, but notnow. Go thy way for this
| time. When I have a convenient season, L
| will call for theer"
And now my subject takes deeper tone,
and it shows what dangerous thing is this
| deierring OF religion. When Paul's chain
rattlei down the marble stairs OF Felix, that
was Felix's last chance for heaven. Judging
| from his character aiterward, he was re-
| probate and abar dOned. And so was Dru-
sila.
One day in the southern Italy there was a
| trembling of the earth, and the air got black
| with smoke intershOt with liquid rocks. and
| Vesuyius rained upon Drusilla and upon her
| son a horrible tempest of ashes and fire.
| n.
/ It OF. They did not understand that that
| day, that that hour when Paul stood before
| them. was the pivotal hour upon which eyery-
| thing Was poised, and that it tipped the
| wrong way. Their convenient season came
| when Paul and his guarlsman entered the
| palace. 1t went away when Paul and his
! gunrdsman left. Have you never seen men
waiting for convenient season? There is
| such 4 great fascination about il that though
| you may have great respect to the truth of
| Christ, yet somehow there is in your soul
/ the thought mot quite vet 1t is
not time for me to become Christian" I
| say to boy, "Seek Christ" He says. ''No.
| Wait until get to be young man." say
| TO the young man, ''Seek Christ" He says,
| swat until come to midlife." I meet the
same person in mIilIfc, and ] say, "SeeI
| Christ" He says, "Wat until 1 get old"
| l meet the same person in old aGs and sayto
| him, 'Seek Christ" lie says, "Wait until
am on my dying bed" I am called to his
| dying couch. His last moments have come.
! bend over the couch and listen for his last
words. 1 have partially TO guess what they
are by the motion of his lips, he is so feeble,
but rallying himself he whispers until 1 can
hear him say, m-waitinE-for-a-
| -convenient-season," and he is gone
l can tell you when your convenient season
| will come. 1 can tell YOU the ye-- 1t will
| be 1891. can tell you what kind of . day
| it will be. 1t will be the Sabbath day.
! can tell you what hour it Will be. 1t will
| be between and 10 o clock. In other words,
it is now. Do you ask me how know this
is your convenient season? L know it be-
| cause you are here, and BECAUSE the elect
! sons and daughters of God are praying for
| your redemption. All, l know ii is your
| convenient season because some OF you, like
| Felix, tremble as all your past life comes
| upon you with its sin, and all the future life
J comes upon you with its terror. This night
| air is aClare with torches to show you up or
| to show yOu down. 1t is rustling with wings
, 10 lift You into light or smite yOI into de-
! spair. and there is a rushing to and fro, and
| u beating against the door of your souls with
| a great thunder of emphasis. telling YOU,
| "Now, now is the best time, as il may be the
only time"
May God Almighty fotbd that any OF YOU,
| my brethren or sisters, act the part OF Felix
| and Drusilla and put away this great sub
iect. II you are going TO be saved ever,
| why not begin tonight Throw down your
sins and take the Lords pardon. Christ has
been tramping after you many day. An
| Indian and white man became Christians.
The Indian, almost rs soon as he heard tho
| gospel, believed AMI was savel, but tho
| white man struggled on in darkness for
| long while before he found light.
| After their peace in Christ tEc white
| man said to tno Indian, ''Y'hy was it that
| was kept so long in the darkness and you
| Immediately found peace" The Indian re-
| piled: Il will tell you. A p-incs comes
1 hiOilS5, dlu nc OlIerS you i con- lou 'SOs~
| at your coat, and you say, Ny coat IS
| good enough and YOU refuse his
offer, but the prince comes along,
and he offers mo tho coat. and 1
| look at my old blanket. and l throw that
away and take his offer. You. SIR coutin-
ued the Indian, ARE clinging to your own
| righteousness you think you good
enough, and you keep your own righteous
| ness but have nothing, nothing, and 50
when Jesus offers me pardon and peace L
simply take it."
Ny reader, why not now throw away the
wornout blanket OF your sin and take the
| robe of a SavioUr's righteousncss--a robe 50
| white, so fair. SO lustrouS. that no fuller on
! earth can Whten it! . shepherd. to-ntZnt
bring home the lost sheep Father. to-
night give welcoming kiss to tho wan
| prodiGal! o friend OF Lazarus, to-nighi
break down the door of the sepulcher and
say 10 all these dead souls rs by irresistible
| fiat 'Livei Liver