The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-03-02

law and exposure of rime save thu
world. and from Portland. Me-, across
to San Francisco, and back again Il
New Orleans and Savannah, many o.
the ministers have gone into the de
tective business. Worldly reform, BY
all means; but Unless 1t be also Gospel
reform, 1t will be a dead failure. In
New York its chief work has been tc
give us change of bosses. We had a
Democratic boss, and now it is to be q
Republican boss, but the quarrel is,
who shall be the Republican? Politics
will have the cities the same day that
satan evapgelizes perdition. Here
comes another class of people who in
pulpit and outside of it cover up the
Gospel with the theory that it makes
no final difference what you believe,
or how you act-you are bound for
Heaven, anyhow. There they sit, side
by side, in Heaven; Garfield, and Gui-
teau. who shot him; Lincoln, and John
Wilkes Booth, who assassinated him;
Washington, and Thomas Paine, who
slandered him: Mana Sahib, and the
missionaries, whom he dubbed to
death at Cawnpore; Hercd, and the
children whom he massacred; Paul,
and Nero, who beheaded him. As q
result of the PRONUNCIATION of such q
mongrel and conglomerate doctrine
there are millions of people in Chris
tendon who expect to go straight to
Heaven from their seraglios, and their
inebriation, and their suicides, when
among the loudest thunders that
break over the basaltic island to which
st. John was expatriated, was the one
in which God announced that 1.-THE
abominable, and the murderers, and
whorcmongers, and sorcerers, and
idolaters, and all liars, shall have
their place in the lake which burneth
with fire and birthstone, which is the
second DEATH" correct what l said
when declared the Gospel was buried
fifty feet deep; it is buried one thou
sand feet deep. Had the glorious Gospel
been given full opportunity, l think
before this the world would have
had no need of pulpit, or sermon, or
prayer, or church, but thanksgiving
and hosannahs would have resounded
in the temple to which the mountains
would have been pillars, and the blue
skies the dome, and the river the bap-
tistery, and all nations the worshipers
world. But so far from that, as re-
marked in the opening sentence of this
sermon, the greatest novelty of our
time is the Gospel. And let me say
to the hundreds and thousands
of educated and splendid young
men about to enter the Gospel min
istry from the theological seminaries
of all denominations, on this and the
other side of the seas, that there is no
drawing power like the glorious Cos
pei. Him bath God lifted up to draw
all men unto Him." Get your souls
charged and surcharged with this Cos
pei, and yop will have large audiences,
and will not have to announce in order
to assemble auch audiences, Sunday
night sacred concert, with a brief adj
dress by the pastor; or the presence of
"Black PATHS" or Creole minstrels, or
some new exposure of Tammany, or
sermon accompanied by magic
or stereopticon views.
The glorious Gospel of the blessed
God as spoken of in my text will have
more drawing power, and when the
Gospel gets full swing it will have
momentum and power mightier than
that of the Atlantic Ocean, when under
the force of the September equinox it
strikes the Highlands of Navesink.
The meaning of the word Gospel" is
good news" and my text says it is glo-
rious good news, and we must tell it in
our churches and over our dry goods
counters, and in our factories, and
over our threshing machines, and
behind our plows. and on our
ship decks, and in our parlors, our
and kitchens, as though it
were glorious good news, and not with |
a dismal drawl in our voice, and a dis
NAL look on our faces, as though re-
ligion were rheumatic twinge, or a |
dyspeptic pang, or a malarial chill, or |
an attack of nervous prostration.
With nine "blesseds" or ''happys,"
Christ began His sermon on the mount:
the poor; blessed the mourner;
blessed the meek; blessed the hungry;
blessed the merciful; blessed the pure;
blessed the peacemalSer; blessed the |
prosecuted; blessed the reviled; blessed,
blessed, blessed; happy, happy, hap
py. Glorious good news for the young,
as through Christ they have their com
ing years ennobled, and for lifetime |
all the angels of God their coadjutors
and all the armies of Heaven their |
allies. Glorious good news for the |
las through Christ they may |
have their perplexities disentangled,
and their courage rallied, and their |!
victory over all obstacles and him |
ORANGES made forever sure. Glorious |
good news for the aged, as they may |
have the sympathy of Him of whom |
st. John wrote: Ellis head and his |
hairs were white like wool, as white |
as snow" and the defense of the ever
lasting arms. Glorious good news for
the dying, as they may have minister
ing spirits to escort them, ard opening
gates to receive them. and sweep of |
eternal glories TO encircle them, and |
the welcome of loving God to en-
bOs ON them.
Oh, my text is right when it speaks |
Of the glorious Gospel. 1t is an invita-
ton from the most radiant being that |
ever trod the earth, or assembled the |
heavens, to you and me to come and be |
made happy, and then take after that |