Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-05-08
KEY. DR. TA11MAGE
q" 1ROOKLYN DIvYNIs'a sCx.
DAY RERNOX.
Subject: "Afs.r the Eattle."

row. Wnen us PhliiStineS came to strip thu
slain, that they found Saul and his three SOM
tallen in Mount Gilboa."-I Samuel XXI. 6
Some OF you were at South Mountain O,
Shiloh or Balls Bluff or GettysbuSg or
Northern or Southern side. and ask You i
there Is any sadder sight than q battlefield
after the guns have stopped firing? Iwalked
across the field Of Antietam Just after the
conflict. The scene was 50 sickening I shall
not describe It. Every valuable thing had
been taken from the bodies of the dead, 10!
there are always vulturc5 lowering over and
around about An army, and thay pick ur
the watches, and the memorandum books
and the letters, and the daSuerreo:ypes, and
the hats, and the coats, applying them tc
their own uses. The dead make no resis
tance. So there are always camp follower
going on and atter al army, ;is when Scott
went down into Mexico, as when Napoleon
marched up toward Moscow, US when yor
Moltke went to Sedan. There Is SINH
lar scene In my text.
Saul and his army had been horribly Gu. tc
pieces. Mount Gtlboa was Shastiy with tn,
dead. On the morrow the stragg,ers ga "A.
on to the field, and they lifted the il;chet OF
the helmet from under the chin of tho dead
they picked up the swords and bent them on
their knee to test the temper Of the metal
and they opened the wallets and counted the
coin. Saul lay dead along the grouud, eight
or nine feet in length, and l suppose the
cowardly Philissines, to show their bravery
teered at the fallen slain and whistled through
the mouth OF his helmet Before night those
cornoranis had taken everything valuable
from the field "And II came to pass ON ths
morrow, when the Philistines came to striy
. the slain, that they found Saul and his three
sons fallen In Mount Gilooa"
Before get through to-dayT Will show
you that the same process Is going on all til,
world over, and every day, and that w,eI
men have fallen satan and the world, so fai
from pitying them or helping then, 80 &c
work remorselessly to take what Little there
Is LEFT, thus stripping the slain.
There are tens Of thousands Of young mel
every year coming from the country to ouI
great cities They come with brave heart.
Nd grand expectations. The country lndi
ooWn IN .he village grocery, with theii
ret on the iron rod around the redhot
stove, In the evening, talking over ths
prospects OF the young man wlo hns gons
on to the city. Two or three OF them thinI
shat perhaps he may get along very well ani
eucceed, but the most OF them prophesy
failure, FOR II Is very hard to think thai
those whom we knew in boyhood will evei
make any great success in tho world
But our young man has a fine position in
dry goods store. The month Is over. H.
gets his wages. He is not accustomed ts
have so much money belonging TO himself
He is little excited and does not know
exactly what TO do with ii, and he spends
In some places where he ought not. SooI
there come up new companions and acuunint
ances from the barroo:ns and the saloons o
the city. Soon that young mal begins &
waver In the battle OF temptation, and 500.
his soul goes down. In a few months or few
years he has fallen. He Is morally dead II,
Is mere corpse OF what he once was. Tn,
harpies OF sin snuH up the taInt apc "ufn,
on the field. His garments Sraiually Civ,
out. He has pswned his watch. His health
Is failing him. His credit perishes. He L
too poor to stay In the city, and he Is toe
poor to pay his way home to the country
Down, down! Why do the low fellows
the city now stick TO him go closely2 Is II (,
help him back to moral and spiritual life
Oh, no. I will tell you why they stay. The,
are Philistines stripping the slain.
DO not look where l point, but yonde
stands a man who once had beautiful hom,
In this city. His house had elegant furnt
ture, his children were beautifully clad, hii
name was synonymous with honor and use
fulness, but evil habit knocked ct his from
door, knocked at his back door, knocked al
, his parlor door, knocked ut his bedroom
door. Where il the piano? Sold to pay tn.
rent. Where Is the hatrack? Sold to meet
the butchers bill. Where are the carpets!
Sold to get bread. Where Is the warIrobei
Bold to get rum. Where are the dsu yhtarsi
Working their fingers OF il trying to keet
the family together. Worse and worse unit
everything "a gone. Who Is that going up the
front steps OF that house? That is creiitor
hoping to find some chair or bed that has moi
been levied upon. Vino are those two gen.
tlemen now going up the front steps2 The
one fs constable; the other is the sheriff
Why do they go there? The unfortunate /.
| morally dead, socially dead, financially dead
Why do they go there! will tell you why
| the creditors and the constables and the
I, shertffs go there. They are, some on thell
own account and some on account OF the law
| stripping the slain.
An ex-member Of Congress, one Of tn,
elOUnppf IN ip n.
House OF Representatives,, said in his las
moments: "This Is the end. / am dying
dying on borrowed bed, covered by bor
rowed sheet, in a houSD built by public
charity: Bury me under that tree in the mid.
die OF tho field, where l shall not be crowded
| for have been crowded all my life." Where
| were the jolly politicians and the disstpatins
comrades who had been with him, laughing
at his Jokes, spplauding his eloquence and
| plunging him into sin2 They have left. Whyi
bis wit Is gone, bis clothes are gone-every.
thing Is gone. Why should they stay any
longer7 They have completed their work
They have stripped the slain.
] There ts another way, however OF doins
the same work. Here is man who, through
his sin, Is prostrate. He acknowledges that
| he has done wrong. Now Is the time for you
to go to that man and say, Thousands OF
people have been as far astray as YOU are
| and got back" Now Is the time for you tc
| go to that man and tell him OF the omnipo.
tent grace of God, that Is sufficient for any
poor soul. Now Is the time to go and tell
how swearing John Bunyan, through the
grace OF God, ,afterward came to the Celestial
City. Nov Is the time to 90 to that man and
tell him how pre- disate Newton came
through conversion. 90 be a world renowned
| preacher OF Righteousness. Now is the time
totell that man that multitudes whs have been
pounded with all the fails Of sin and dragged
through all the sewers of pollution at last
have risen to positive dominion OF mora
powers
You do not tell him that, do you? No.
fou say to him, "Loan you money? No
You are down. You Will have to 20 TO the
dogs. Lend you q dollar? would not lend
you five cents to keep you from the galows.
Yod are debauched! Get out Of my sight,
now! Down! You will have to stsv DOWN.
And thus those bruised and battered men are
sometimes accosted by those who ought to
lift them up. Thus the last vestigs of hope
Is taken from them. Thus those who ought
to go and lift and save them ars guilty OF
stripping the slain.
the point want to make is this: Sin Ia
hard, cruel and merciIess. Instead of help
ing man up II helps him down, and when,
ike Saul and his comrades, you lie on the
field, 1t will come and steal your sword ami
helmet and shield, leaving you to the jackal
and tho oFS1~.
work with the outcast and Abandoned. A
respectable impenitent man comes to die.
He is fiat on his back. He could not get up
il the house was on fire. Adroitest medical
skill and gentle nursing have been failure.
He has come to his last hour. What does
satan do for such q manf Why, he fstches
up all the inapt, disagreeable and narrowing
things in his life. He says: ''Do you remem-
ber those chances you had for heaven and
missed2 Do you remember all those iapses
In conduct? Do you remember all those op.
probrious words and thoughts and actionsl
,ont remember them, eh? IN make you re-
member them" And then he takes all the
nnilbaes are emptied on the postoface floor.
The man is sick. He cannot ger away Irow
hem.
Then che man says to satan: 'sfou have
iecoiyed me. You told me that all wonid %
well. Yon said there would be no trouble at
he last. You told me IL l did so and 30 you