The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-11-23

eloquence, but 1t must speak In our
senates. Hol to the national banquet,
reaching from mountain to noun
tain. and from sea to seal To prepare
that banquet. the sheep-folds and the
sviaries of the country sent their best
treasures The orchards piled up on
the table their sweet fruits. The
presses burst out with new wines. To
sit at the table came the yeomanry of
New Hampshire, and the lumbermen
of Maine, and the Carolinian from the
rice plantation, and the western emf
grant from the pines of Oregon,
and we were all ENTHUSIASTICALLY
ers at n banquet. Suddenly the
feast ended. What meant those
mounds thrown up at Chickamauga,
Shiloh, Atlanta, Gettysburg, South
Mountain What meant those golden
grain fields, turned into n pasturing
ground for cavalry horses? What
meant the corn fields quilted with
the wheels of the heavy supply train?
Why those rivers of tears, those lakes
of blood? God was angryl Justice
must come. A handwriting on the
wall. The nation had been weighed
and found wanting. Darknessl Dark
ness! Woe to the north! Woe to the
south! Woe to the easti Woe to the
westi Death at the banquet.
have also to learn from the subject
that the destruction of the vicious,
and of those who despise God will be
very sudden. The wave of mirth had
dashed to the highest point when the
invading army broke through. 1t was
unexpected. Suddenly, almost always,
comes the doom of those who despise
| God, and defy the laws of men.
How was it at the deluge? Do
you suppose it came through n long
northeast storm, so that people for
| days before were sure it was coming?
No; suppose the morning was bright;
| that calmness brooded on the waters;
| that beauty sat enthroned on the hills;
| when suddenly the heavens burst, and
the mountains sank like anchors into
the seq that dashed clear over the
Andes and the Himalayas.
The Red sea was divided. The
Egyptians tried to cross it. There
could be no danger. The Israelites
had just gone through; where they
had gone, why not the Egyptians? Oil
it was such beautiful walking place?
A pavement of tinged shells and pearls,
and on either side two great walls of
water-solid. There can be no dam
ger. Forward, great host Of tho
Egyptians! Clap the cymbals, and
blow the trumpets of victoryl
After them! We will catch them
yet, and they shall be destroyed. But
the walls begin to tremble! They rockl
They fall! The rushing waters! The
shrek of drowning men! The swim
ming of the war horses in vain for the
shore! The strewing of the great host
on the bottom of the sea, or pitched by
the angry wave on the beach, bat
tered, bruised and loathsome wreck!
Suddenly destruction came. One half
hour before they could not have be-
lieved it. Destroyed; and without
remedy.
am just setting forth n fact, which
you have noticed as well as l. Ana
MAS comes to the apostle. The apos-
tie says: did you sell the land for so
much?" He says: Eyes" 1t was n
lie. Dead! as quick as that! Sapphire,
his wife, comes in. did you sell the
land for so much?" yes" 1t was a
lie; and quick rs that she was dead!
Gods Judgments are upon those who
dcspise Him and defy Him. They come
suddenly
The destroying angel went through
Egypt! Do you suppose that any of
the people knew that he was coming?
Did you hear of the flap of his great
living? No! No! Suddenly, unexpected
ly, he came.
Skilled sportsmen do not like to
shoot bird standing on sprig near
by. If they are skilled, they pride
themselves on taking it on the wing;
and they wait till it starts. Death
is an old sportsman; and he loves to
take men dying under the very sun.
He loves to take them on the wing.
Oh! flee to God this night! If there be
one in this presence who has wandered
far away from Christ, though he may
not have heard the call of the Gospel
for many year. invite him now to
come and be saved. Flee from thy
sin! Flee to the stronghold Of the
Gospel! Now is the accepted time;
now is the day of salvation.
poou-uiRHb, my young irieuuSI may
you have rosy sleep, guarded by Him
who never slumbers! May you awake
in the morning strong and well. But
oh! art thou despiser of God? Is this
thy last night on earth! Should'st
thou be awakened in the night
10y something, thou knowest not what,
and there be shadows floating in the
room, and a handwriting on the wall,
and you feel that your last hour is
come, and there be fainting at the
heart, and trcmor in the limb, and
catching of the breath-then thy doom
would be but an echo of the words of
the text: sin that night was Belshaz-
Ear, the king of the Chaldeans, slain"
Oh! that my Lord Jesus would now
make Himself SO attractive to your
souls that you can not resist Him; and
you have never prayed before or
ihave never prayed since those days
when you knelt down at your mothers
knee, then that tonight you might
pray, saying:
Just rs am, without one plea
But that Thy blood was shed for me,
And that thou bidst me come to Thee,
o Lamb Of God. I come;
But IL you can not think OF SO long a