Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-07-25

by which beautiful rooms are set apart
OF our Young Mems Christian associa-
items, and pray God to prosper them
IN all things. But tell you there is
something back of that and before
that: We need more happy. conse-
Grated, cheerful Christian homes every
where
Again. / remark, that great many
OF our business men are tempted TO put
the attainment of money above the
value Of the soul 1t is grand thing
70 have plenty Of money. The more
you get OF it, the better. If it come hon
estly and go asefully For the lack OF
it, sickness dies without medicine, and
hunger finds its coffin in the empty
bread tray, and nakedness shiyers for
lack Of clothes and fire. When hear
man in canting TRADE against money
"a Christian man-as though it had no
| possible use on earth and he had no
interest IN it at all, come almost to
think that the heaven that would
be appropriate for him would be
! an everlasting poorhouse- While, my
fricndA we do admit there y such s
thing as the lawful use Of mmey-a
profitable use Of money-let us recog-
nize also the fact that it cannot glitter
In the dark valley, that it cannot pay
our fare across the Jordan of death.
that il cannot unlock the gate of
Heaven. There are men in all occupa-
lions who seem to act as though they
thought that q pack of bonds and
mortgages could be traded of for .
title to Heaven. and as though gold
would be lawful tender in that place
where il IS 50 common that they make
pavements out of IL Salvation by
Christ is the only salvation Treasures
in Heaven are the only incorruptible
treasures.
Have you ever eiphered out IN the
rule Of loss and gain the sum: what
shall it profit man II he gain the
whole world and lose his own soul?'
However 6ne your apparel. the winds
Of death will dntter il like rags. Home
spun and threadbare coat have some
times been the shadow Of coming robes
made white in the blood Of the Lamb.
The pearl of great price is worth more
than any gem you can bring from the
ocean. than Australian or Brazilian
mines strung in one carcanet. Seek
after God: find His righteousness, and
all shall be well here; al shall be well
hereafter
Some Of you remember the shipwreck
Of the Central America That noble
steamer had. think, about five hum
ired passengers aboard Suddenly the
storm came, and the surges t-ampled
the decks and swung into the matches,
and there went up hundred-voiced
ieath-shrielz- The foam ON the jaw of
the wave. The pitching Of the steamer
Is though it were leaping mountain
The dismal fare Of the signal rockets.
The long cough Of the steam pipes
The hiss Of extinguished furnaces. The
walking Of God on the wave! The
steamer went not down without strug-
lie. As the passengers stationed them
selves liz rows, to bale out the vessel
bark TO the thnmp Of the buckets as
men unused to toll, with blistered
hands and strained muscle, tug for
their lives There is sail seen against
the sky The flash Of the distress gun
i noticed Its voice heard not, for it IS
choked III the louder booming Of the
sea. A few passengers escaped. but the
steamer gave one great lurch and was
rome. SO there are some men who sail
On prosperonsIy in life. AIS well; ais |
well But at last, some financial dis |
aster comes; euroclydon. Down they /
70. the bottom of the commercial sea
Is strewn with shattered hulks But /
because your property goes do not let /
your soul GO Though all else perish.
save that: for / have to tel you of /
a more stupendous shipwreek than |
that which / Just mentioned God /
launched this world six thousand \
Years ago. 1t has been going on IN
der freight of mountains and immor-
tails: but one day it viii stagger at
the cry of fire. The timbers Of rock
will burn, the mountains fame like !
masts, and the clouds like sails IN the \
Judgment hurricane Then God shall I
take the passengers OF the deck, and
from the berths those who have long I
been asleep in Jesus, and He viii set
them far beyond the reach OF storm
and peril But how many shall go down
viii never be known, until it shall be
announced one day in Heaven; the ship I
wreck OF a world. 50 many millions 4
saved So many millions drowned.
on, nv dear hearers. whatever you 4
lose. though your houses go, though
vour lands go, though all your earthly
possessions perish, may God Almight-,
through the blood Of the everlasting 4
save all your souls