Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-02-27

teal counsel, but your ffst and most imp6f.
tunate cry must be to God. II the f1ends
will drag you to the slaughter, make them
do 1t on your knees. o God, now that the
Paroxysm Of thirst Is coming again upon
that man, help him Fling back into the pit
Of hell the fiend that assaults his soul this
moment. Oh, my heart aches to see men 60
on in this fearful struggle without Christ.
| There are in this house those whose hands
30 tremble from dissipation that they can
hardly hold book, and yet have to tell
you that they will yet preach the gospel, and
on communion days carry around oonse-
Grated bread, acceptable to everybody, be-
cause Of their holy life and their consecrated
behavior. The Lord Is going to save you.
Your home has got to be rebuilt. Your physt.
cal health has got to be restored. Your
worldly business has got to be reconstructed.
The church Of God is going to rejoice over
which are not of this fold.'
While have hope for all prodigals, there
are some people In this house whom give
up. mean those who have been church.
goers all their life, who have maintained out
ward morality, but who, notwithstanding
twenty, thirty, forty years of Christian ad-
vantagee, have never yielded their heart to
Christ. They are gospel hardened. could
call their names now, and il they would rise
up they would rise up in SCORES. Gospel
hardenedl A sermon has no more effect up
on them than the shining moon on the
city pavement. As Christ says, 'The publ
cans and harlots will go into the kingdom Of
God before them" They have resisted all
the importantly Of divine mercy and have
gone during these thirty years through most
powerful earthquakes Of religious feeling,
and they are farther away from God than
ever. After awhile they will lie down sick,
and some day it will be told that they are
dead. No hope!
But turn to outsiders with hope that
thrill la h1J,
sheep I have which are not Of this fold"
You are not gospel hardened. You have not
heard or read many sermons during the last
Few years. As you came in to-day everything
was novel, and ali the services are suggestive
Of your early day. How sweet the opening
hymn sounded in your eREsa and how blessed
Is this hour! everything suggestive OF
heaven. You do not weep, but the shower Is
not far of. You sigh, and you have noticed
that there is always sigh in the wind before
the rain falls. There are those here who
would give anything il they could find re-
lief in tears. They say: "Oh, my wasted
life! Oh, the hitter past! Oh, the graves over
which have stumbled Whittier shall
fly? Alas for the future! Everything ~
dark-so dark, so darkI God help me! God
pity mem Thank the Lord for that last ut.
terance. You have begun to pray, and when
D man begins to petition that sets all heaven
flying this way, and God steps in and beats
back the hounds Of temptation to their ken
nels, and around about the poor wounded
soul puts the cover Of His pardoning mercy.
Hark, I hear something-something fall
What was that? It Is the bars Of the fence
around the sheepfold. The shepherd lets
them down, and the hunted sheep Of the
fleece torn with the, brambles, some Of them
their feet lame with the dogs, but bounding
IN. Thank God! "Other sheep have which
hre not OF this fold"