Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-03-20

throes OF the Son OF God, WHO approaches
you this moment with torn brow, aud lacer-
tied hand, and whipped back, and saying,
"Come unto Me, all ye who are weary and
,eavy laden, and I will give you rest -
Again, there is . field Of usefulness but liz
! tie touched occupied by those who are astray
| in their habits. All northern Nations, like
hose of North America and England and
!cotland.that Is, in the colder olimates-are
devastated by alcoholism. They take the
nre to keep up the warmth. In southern
countries, like Arabia and Spain, the blood
ls 50 warm they are not tempted to fiery
| liquids. Tho great Roman armies never
frank anything stronger than water tinged
| with vinegar, but under our northern climate
the temptation to heating stimulants Is most
mighty, and millions succumb. When a
| mans habits 60 wrong, the church drops
him; the social circle drops him; good In
nuence drops him; we all drop him. OF all
| the men who get OF track, but few ever get
3 . life saving station ON the beach.
There are all the ropes and rockets, the
| boats, the machinery Tor getting people OF
| ,hipwrecks. One summerI saw there fifteen
or twenty men who were breakfasting after
| having just escaped with their lives and
| nothing more. Up and down our coasts are
built these useful structures, and the mari
ners know 1t, and they feel that II they are
1rven into the breakers there will be apt
from shore to come a rescue. The
churches Of God ought to be 80 many life
saving stations, not so much to help those
who are In smooth waters, but those who
have been shipwrecked. Come, let US run
out the lifeboatsl And who will man them2
We do not preach enough to such men.
We have not enough faith in their release
Alas, II when they come to hear US We are la
ooriously trying to show the difference be-
tween sublapsaranism and supralapsarian-
ism, while they have q thousand vipers of re-
morse and despair cotling around their inn
Mortal spirits!
The church Is not chiefly for goodish sort
81 men whose proclivities are all right, and
who could get to heaven praying and sing
ing In their own homes. Il e 81 tho beach
20 help the drowning. those u.u cases are
the Gases that God likes to take hold of. He
san save big sinner as well as q small sim
aer, and when man calls earnestly to God
Tor help He will go out to deliver such a one.
II 1t were necessary, God would come down
from the sky. followed by all the artillery Of
heaven and million angels with drawn
words Get 100 such redeemed men In each
of your churches, and nothing could stand
before them, for such men are generally
varm-hearted and enthusiastic.
Furthermore, the destitute children o. the
streets offer q field of work comparatively
1noccupied. The uncared for children are
In the majonty In most Of our cities. Their
condition was we'll illustrated by what a boy
In this city said when he was found under q
chrt HuaWluS q Done anu SONS one Sa1Q TO
him, "Where do you Ive?" and he answered,
"Don't live nowhere, sir!" Seventy thousand
of the children Of New York City can neither
read nor write. When they grow up, If un-
reformed, they will outvote your children,
and they will govern your children. The
whisky ring will hatch out other whisky
rings, and grogshops will kill with their hor-
rid stencil public sobriety, unless the church
Of God rises up with outstretched arms and
nfolds this dying population In her bosom.
Public schools cannot do 1t. Art galleries
,annot do It. Blackwells Island cannot do
Tombs cannot do it. Sing Sing cannot do it.
People Of God, wake up to your magnificent
mission! You can do it. Get som ewhere
somehow, to work!
The Prussian cavalry mount by putting
;heir right foot into the stirrup. while the
American cavalry mount by putting their left
foot into the stirrup. don't care how you
mount your war charger II you only get into
this battle for God, and get there soon, right
,tirrup, or left stirrup, or no stirrup at all.
The unoccupied fields are all around US, and
why should we build on another mans foun.
tation?
I have heard of what was called the
thunder legion" 1t was in 179, part Of
the Roman army to which some Christians
belonged, and their prayers, it was said, were
answered by thunder and lightning and ha
and tempest, which overthrow an invadin I;
Attny anu saved tne Empire. ANA would -
God that you could be so mighty In prayer
and work that you would become a thunder
ing legion before which the forces Of sin
might be routed and the gates Of hell made
to tremble. All aboard now on the gospel
shipl II you cannot be a captain or a first
mate, be stoker or a deckhaud, or ready at
command to climb the ratlines. Heave away
now, lads! Shake out the reefs in the fore
topsail! Come, o heavenly wind, and I'LL
the canvas! Jesus aboard will assure our
safety. Jesus on the sea will beckon US for
ward. Jesus on the shining shore will well
come as into harbor. 'And SO it came to
pass that they all escaped safe to land"