Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-02-13

up bet tween the AlleghanIes and the Rookie
or In the institutions Of mercy and grandeu
Set mp by His ransomed people. Discourage
| work will meet with defeat. Expectant an
buoyant work will gain the victory. 6taI
out with the idea that all men are liars an
scoundre!s, and that everybody Is as bad a
he can be, and that society, and the church
| and the world are on the way to demolition
and the only use you will ever be to tn
world Will be to increase the value Q
cheerful front in all our religious work
People have enough trouble already an,
do not want to ship another cargo of ftroubl
In the shape OF reiigiosity. II religion ha
been to you peace, a defense. an inspira
| ton nnIa jov, say so. Say it by word o
mouth, by pen in your hand, by face illu
mined with divine satisfaction. II thi
world Il ever to be taken for Col. II will NO
be by groans, but by halleluiahs. II "
sould nrs,senk the Christian reli9ion a. !
really Is, Ill its true attractiveness, all tn
people would accept II, and accept 1t ri2h
away. The cities, the nations would or
,ut: "Give us that. give it to US In all II
holy magnetism and gracious powerl Pu
hat saive on our woun IS! Throw back tn
lhntters for that morning light. Knock oi
lhese chains with that silver hammer! Civ
As Christ-His pardon, His peace. His com
lort, His heavenl Give Us Christ in song
Dhrist In sermon, Christ in book, Christ Il
living example"
As a system OF didactics religion has neve
gained one inch OF progress. As a tech.
aica!ity 1t befogs m r. than 1t irradiates. Al
6oSmatisn it is an awful failure. But as
act, as a re-enforcement, as a transagura
doa. II is the mightl.st thing that evel
descended from the heavans or touched thu
Aarsh- Exempliiy it In the life Of q zoos
man or good woman, ana no one can help
but like 1t. A city missionary visited a house
In London and founi a sick and dying boy.
There was an orange lying on his bed, and
the missionary said, "Where did you ge,
that orange2' He said "a man brought it
to me. he comes here often and reads the
Bible to me and prays with me and brings
me- Mica things to eat." "What ID bis
name2' said the city missionary. 81
forget his nrne," said the sick boy,
"but he maSs great speeches over in
That great building" pointing to the
81 his Ssms Mn aas.
.tone?" ''Oh, yes" said the boy, ''that ID
his name--Mr. Gladstone Do you tell me
msn can see religion like that AMI not like
L? There is an Oil fashioned mother In a
arm house. Perhaps she Is somewhere in
The seventies, perhaps seventy-dve or sew.
Fhrough spectacles No. 8 she Is reading
newspaper until towari beittme, when sh,
lakes up well-worn book, called the Bible
| know from the illumination in her face
she Is reading one OF the thanks giving
psalms, or in Revelation the story Of the
Twelve pearly gates. After awhile she closes
tue book and folds her hands and thinks over
tn" past and seems whispering the names o.
her children, some OF them on earth an
ZONE OF them in heaven. Now u smile Is o
her face, and now a tear, and sometimes tn
Bnile catches the tear. the scenes of lon
life come back to her. One minute sh
sees all the children smiling around hel
,. /, IT, 4
tonings. Then she remembers several o
them down sick with infan,ile disorders
Then she sees a short grave, but over 1t Gu
In marble, "Suffer them to come to Me-
Than there Is the wedding hour and tn
heichbors IN. and the promise OF 81 will,
inf the departure from the old homestead
then a scene Of hard times, an l soant brcae
and struggle. Then she thinks of few
rear with gush OF sunshine and fittings o
lark shadows and vicissituies.
Then she kneels down slowly, for many
rears have stiffened the joints, and the III
aesses of n lifetime have made her less sup
ple. Her prayer Is n mixture OF thanks fol-
sustaining grace during all those years, ant
hanks for children good and Christian
md kind, and a prayer for the wandering
boy, whom she hopes to see come home be
lore her departure. And then her trembling
lips speak OF the Ian OF reunion, where she
expects to meet her loved ones already
and after telling the Lord In very
Iimple language how much she loves Him
md trusts Him, and hopes to see Him soon
hear her pronounce the quiet Armenian
The rises up-a little more difficult efror
han kneeling down. And then she puts heI
head on the pillow for the night, and ths
.ngels OF safety and peace stand sen.
incl about that couch in the farm.
.,o~s and ns he. =, face arss sve. .sa and
The heaven she read OF before retiring. IL
he morning the day s work has begun dowr
Itairs, and seated at the table the remark 1.
made, "Mother must have oversight her =.
'elf." And the grandchildren also notic'
hat grandmother IS absent from her usua
place at the table. One OF the grandchildren
Grandmother But there is no answer
Fearing something is the matter, they 90 VI
o see, and all seems right. The spectacle
md Bible on the stand, and the covers O
he bed are smooth, and the face is calm
Ter white hair on the white pillow case lilo
now on snow already fallen. But her soul
5 gone up to look upon tho things that the
light before she had been reading OF in the
Scriptures. What a transporting look on her
lear old wrinkled face! She has Sc N the
King in His beanty." She has been well
.omed BY the 'Lamb who was slain" And
Ter two oldest sons, having hurriel up
;airs, look AMI whisper, Henry to George,
hat Is religioni ~
There is a New York merchant who ha.
,een in bus ness should say forty or fifty
Tears. During an old-fashioned revival OF
'eligion in boyhood he gave his heart to
God. He did not make the ghastly and in.
Unite and everlasting mistake Of sowing
wild oats" with the expectation Of sowing
good wheat later on. He realized the fact
hat the most of those who SOW "wild OATS
never reap any other crop. He started right
md has kept right. He went down In 1857,
when the banks failed, but he failed honestly
md never lost his faith in God. Ups and
lowns-he sometimes laughs over them
,ut whether losing or gaining he was grow
ng better all the time. He has been in many
business ventures, but he never ventured the
experiment. OF gaining the world and los
ng his soul. His name was power
both in the church and In the business
world. He has drawn more checks for contri-
buttons to asylums and churches and schools
han any one. except God, knows. He has
lept many business man from failing bv
ending his name On the back of a note til;
he crisis was past. All heaven knows about
,in, for the DOOR woman whose rent he paid
q her last days, and the man with consump-
ION In the hospital to whom he sent flowers
lnd the cortta!s just before ascention, and
ne people he encouraged in many ways, af.
or they entered heaven kept talking about
{, Tor the immortals are neither deaf nor
iumb. Well, it is about time for the old
merchant himself to quit earthly residence.
As Il 10 toward evening. he shuts the safe,
puts the roll of newspapers in bis pocket.
hinkins that the family may like to read
hem after he gets home. He folds up $s
'iil and gives 1t to the boy to carry to on'
u the car men who got his leg broken ant
ma! be in need of q little money; puts
tamp on letter to his grandson at college
letter with good advice, and an inclosur
o make the holidays happy, then look
the store or omce am says to rne
clerks. "Good evening"" and starts for
home. stopping on the way Mt a door to ask
how his old friend, a deacon In the same
church, 10 getting on since his last bal at
tack OF vertigo. He enters his own home,
and that Is his last evening on earth. He
does not say much. No last words ars
HIS whole life has been
a testimony for God and righteous
nss. More people would like to attend
hi, obsequies than any house or church
wsuld hold. The officiating clergyman be-
gins his remarks BY quoting from the psalm.
is, '.Help, Lord, for the godIy man ceaseth,
fcr the faithful fail from among the children