The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-10-19


foulers of an immortal naturei
Turn out the beasts and let Christ
come in! A heather came to an early
Christian, who had the reputation OF
curing diseases. The Christian said'
"You must have all your idols de-
stroyed." The heather gave to the
Christian the key to his house, that he
might go in and destroy the idols. He
battered to pieces all he saw, but still
the man did not get well. The Chris
tian said to him: There must be some
idol in your house not yet destroyed"
The heather confessed that there was
one idol of beaten gold that he could
not bear to give up. After awhile,
when that was destroyed. in answer to
the prayer of the Christian, the sick
man got well.
Many man has awakened in his dy-
ing hour to find his sins all about him
They clambered up on the right side of
the bed; and on the left side, and over
the headboard and over the footboard,
and horribly devoured the soul.
Rcpentl the voice celestial cries,
Nor longer dare delay:
The wretch that scorns the mandate dies
And meets fiery day.
Again, we need believing heart. A
good many years ago n weary one
went up one of the hills of Asia Minor,
and with two logs on His back cried
out to all the world, Offering to carry
their sins and sorrows. They pursued
Him. They. slapped Him in the face.
They moclsed Him. When lie groaned
they groaned. They shook their fists
Mt Him. They spat on Him. They
bounded Him as though He were n
wild beast. His healing of the sick,
His sight-giving to the blind, His
revenge of the world. His prayers
and bencdictions were lost in that
whirlwind of execration: away with
Him! Away with Hint"
All! it was not merely the two pieces
of wood that He carried; it was the
transgressions of the race, the an
guish of the ages, the wrath of God,
the sorrows of hell, the stupendous in
terests of an amending eternity. No
wonder His back bent. No wonder
the blood started from every pore. No
wonder that lie crouched under a tor
tire that made the sun faint, and the
everlasting hills trernblc, and the dead
rnsh up in their winding sheets us lie
cried: IF it be possible, let this
cup pass from me" But the cup did
not pass. None To comfort.
Again, to have "A right heart it must
be q forgiving heart. An old writer
co, s., is ~ n1-
like; good for good is man-lilsc; evil
for good devil-lilie." Which of these
natures have we? Christ will have
nothing to do with us rs long ~ we
keep any old grudge. We have all
been cheated and lied about, There are
people who dislike us so much that il
we should come down to poverty and
disgrace, they would say: Good for
him! Didn't tell you SOP" They do
not understand US. Unsanctified HUI
man nature says: "Wait till you get n
good crack ut him, and when at last
you find him in n tight place, give it to
him. Flay him alive. Noquarter. Leave
not rag of reputation. Jump on him
with. both feet. Pay him in his own
coin-sarcasm for sarcasm, scorn for
scorn, abuse for abuse" But, my
friends, that is not the right kind of
heart. No man ever did so mean a
thing toward us as we have done to-
ward God. And il we can not forgive
others, how can we expect God to for
give us? Thousands of men have been
kept out of Heaven oy an unforgivipg
heart
Here is some one who says: II will
forgive that man the wrong he did me
about that house aud lot; l will for
give that man who overreached Inc in
a bargain; 1 will forgive that man
who sold me a shoddy overcoat; for
give them-all but one. That man
hardly keep my hands Off him. Ii
my going to Heaven depends on
my forgiving him, then will
stay out" Wrong feeling. If IA
man lie to me once, / am not
called to trust him again. If u man
betray me once l am not called to put
confidence in him again. But would
have no rest if l could not offer n sin
cere prayer for the immortal and ever
ihSIiHB WellaTc VI Ill hel, WudIcVeE
meanness and outrage they have in
ficted upon me. If you want to get
your heart right, strike n match and
burn up all your old grudges, and
blow the ashes away. IF you forgive
not men their trespasses, neither will
your Heavenly Father forgive you
your trcspasses.
Again, a right heart is an expcctant
heart 1t is a poor business to be
building castles in the air. Enjoy
what you have now. Don't spoil your
comfort in the small house because
you expect a larger one. Don't fret
abou. your income when 1t is three or
four dollars per day because you ex-
pect to have, after awhile, ten dollars
per day; or ten thousand dollars a
year; because you expect it to be
twenty thousand dollars year. But
about heavenly things, the more we
think the better. Those castles are
not in the air. but on the hills, and we
have a deed to them in our possession.
like to see man all full of Heaven.
He talks Heaven. He sings Heaven.
He prays Heaven. lie breads Heaven.
Some of us in our sleep have had the
good place open to us. We saw the
pinnacles in the sky. We heard the clicl.
of the hoofs of the white horses on
which victors rode, and the clapping OF
the cymbals of eternal triumph. And,
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