Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-05-30
Jesus. lover Of nv SOIL.
Jesus, lover of my SOU,
Let me 10 Thy bosom fiy
While the billOws near m roll,
While the tempest st II Is high
Hide me, o my 5 tviou r, hide,
Till the storm OF life : rl-t.
Safe into the heaven guide
On, rece We my soul at last.

Ons rece We my sOul AT last
And Jesus says to her, "Mother. are yo,
Gearyf" And she says, ayes, Jesus, an
very tired" Jesus says, "Mother, are you
poor?" And she says. ayes, 1 am very
poor. I cannot sew any more. 1 cannot
knit any more. am very poor" Jesus
says to her, Mother, would you like &c
test2" She says, ''Yes, Lord; that is what
Jesus. "I will see thee through"
She goes home. The next morning In the
enement house some one dwelling on
another floor comes to her room and knocks
No answer. The door is opened. She is
deadl The night before the chariots of God
halted at that pillow OF straw. and Jesus
Kept His promise. He said that He would
give her rest, and He has given her rest.
Glory be to God for the height, the depth,
the length and the breadth of such Christian
comfort oh, that we might have such Joy
as that which inspired the men at the battle
of Leuthen! They were singing a Christian
song they went into battle. A general
said to the king, "Shall stop those people
sinSingY" NO." said the king. "Men that
sing Ike that can fight" l would that we
had a singing church, joyful church, a ju-
bilant church, comforting church, for then
We would have n triumphant church.
l remark, further, that we have here tried
TO build q church abreast of the times. 1t I.
all folly for us to try to do things the way
they did fifty or 100 years ago. We might as
or go into battle with SauPs armor, or prefer
a canalboat TO an express train, as to be
clinging to old things. What We most need
now is a wide awake church. People who
are out in the world all the week, jostlinz
against this lightning footed century, come
into the church on the Sabbath and go right
to sleep unless they have a spirited service.
Men engaged in literary oallings all the
week, reading pungent, sharp writings, can
not be expected to come and hear our eccle-
siastical humdrum.
II a man stay at home on Sundays and
reads the newspapers, 1t Is because the news
papers are more interesting. We need, my
brethren, to rouse up and stop hunting with
blank cartridges. The church OF God ought
to be the leader, the interpreter, the ins pirer
of the age. 1t is all folly for us to be dis
cussing old issues-arratgnng Nero, hang
ing Absalom, striking the Philistines with
Shamgar's OK goad-when all around about
US are iniquities to be slain.
Did say that the church ought to ba
abreast of the times2 Itake that back. TIE
church OF God ought TO be ahead OF the times
as far in advance as the cross OF Christ is
ahead OF all human invention. Paul was
1000 years ahead of the day in which he
lived. The swift footed years that have
passed since Luther died have not yet come
up to Luther's grave. Give iniquity 1900
years the start. and the feet OF Christianity
are so nimble that II you will but give ii iuil
swing 1t will catch up and pass It in two
bounds. The church OF God ought to b"
ahead OF the times.
remark, further, that we have tried here.
in the love and fear OF God, to build n church
that would be characterized by conversions.
I have heard of very good people who could
preach on for fifteen or twenty years and see
no conversions, but yet have faith. 1t takes
a very good man TO do that. L do not know
how a man can keep his faith up If souls are
not brought to the Lord Jesus Christ. That
. &butl l1a, mot hgsffa nd
to the feet OF the Saviour is a failure. care
not how fine the building, or how sweet the
music or how eloquent the preaching, or
how elegant the surroundinss-it Is a failure.
The church of God was made for just one
thing-to get men out OF the world into the
kingdom OF heaven.
3 The tendency in churches is to spend their
time in giving fine touches to Christians
already polished. We keep our religion too
much indoors and under shelter, when il
ought to be climbing the rocks or hewtng In
the forests. Then II would be sta!wIrt re-
ligion, robust religion, religion able 10
digest the strong meat OF the word, insteac
of being kept on the pap and grue! OF splr-
itual invalidism. 1t Is high time tnat W
threw off the Sunday clothes of sickly srnti-
mentality and put on the WORKING dress
an earnest, active Christianity.
Here is Brooklyn, here is New York, her
crs the United States. here is the whol
world TO he converted. II is 1S9S yean
since Christ came. and yet Europe, Asia,
Africa, North and South America are still
uneyangelized. More people born every yeai
into tho world than are born into the king
dom of God. At that rate l ask any one who
can do a simple sum in arithmetic to calcu-
late when this world will be brought to
Jesus. At that rate never, never, never
And vet we know that II is to be brought to
Christ But the church will have to change
Its tact and take a wider sweep with the gos-
mel net than II has yet taken. / believe that
the great mass of the people are now ready
TO receive the gospel If We give them
chance.
A bov goes along the street at night and
ea.s n f1ne house beautifully lighted up and
hears music. and he says, 81 wish l was in
there. Int I have not been invited" and so
he masses on. Here Is the church OF Goit
ligbted up with festivity and holy mirth, and
The world passes along outside, hears tne
music and sometimes wishes II was INSIDE,
INT saws that II is not invited. on, invite the
world 10 come in Go out into the highways
md hedges. Send n ticket OF lnvItatlon
printed in these words. "Come, for all things
Some wears ago 200 men were buried IN hths
Hartley colliery OF England. Inc queer, ,gt =,
ENGLAND from her throne telegrapned, Is is
there any hope for the menV After awnlIe
the answer came over the wires: mo nope;
They are dead" Here is a whole race pur,eo
In sin and darkness and woe. The question