The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-04-25

them.
Then the man says to satan: 'You have
deceived me. You told me that all would b.
well. You said there would be no trouble n,
tho last. You told me II did so and so you
would do so and so. Now you corner me
and hedge me up and submerge me in every.
thing evil. ."Ha, ha!" says satan. ~ was only
fooling you. Il is mirth for me to see YOU suf
fer. have been for thirty years plotting to
get you just where you are. II IL hard fof
you now; II will be worse for you after
awhile. II pleases me. Lie still, sir. Don't
finch or shudder. Come, now, I will tear
on from you the last rag Of expectation. I
Will rend away from your soul the last hope.
will leave you bare for the beating OF the
storm. IL Is my business to strip the slain"
You are fastening on toward the consum.
nation of all that is sad. To-day you stop and
think, but II Is only for n moment. and then
you will tramp on. and at the close OF this
service you will 20 out, and the question
will be, "How did you like the sernon?"
And one man will say, II liked II very well"
and another man will say. ~ didn't like IL
at al, but neither OF the answers will touch
the tremendous fact that II impenitent YOU
are going at thirty knots nm hour toward
shipwreck. Yea, you are In battle where
you Will fall and while your surviving rel-
atives will take your remaining estate and
the cemetery VIII take your body the messen.
gers OF darkness will take your soul aud
come and go about you. stripping the slain.
Many nre crying out. II admit am slain;
admitit.p On what battlefield. my broth
ers? by what weapon? polluted imagina-
tion." says one man: Intoxicating LIQUOR"
says another man; ''My own hard heart"
SAYS another man. Do Won realize this2
Then come to tclli YOU that tho omnino.
tent Christ Is ready TO walk across this bat
tlefeld and revive and resuscitate and resur-
rect your dead soul Let Him take your
hand and rub away the numbness. your head
and bathe of the aching, your heart and
stop its wild throb. He brought Lazarus 10
life. lie brought Jairus's daughter to life. He
brought the young man OF Main 10 life and
these are three proofs anyhow that He can
bring you to life.
When the Philistnes came down on the
field, they steppcd between the cornsea and
they rolled over the dead, and they tool,
away everything that was valuable. And 40
II was with the people that followed after the
armies at Charlottesville and at plttsbury
Landing and Mt Stone River and at Atlanta.
stripping the slain. but the Northern and
Southern women-God bless them!--cnme on
the field with basins and pads and towels
and lint aud cordials and Christian on
couragement, and the poor fellows that law
there lifted up their arms and said, "Oh.
how good that does feel since you dressed
it!' And Others looked up and said. "Oh
how YOU make me think OF my motherr'
And Others said, "Tell the folks nt home I
died thinking about them" And another
looked up and said, "ATiss. won't YOU sing
ma n verse of Home. Sweet Home before
die2" And then the tattoo was sounded, and
tho hats were of. and the service was read
II am the resurrection and the life" And
in honor OF the departed the muskets were
loaded and the command given, "present-
flre!' Aud there was n shiugle set up nj the
head OF the grave. with the epitaph Of
. al8NN L..
chusetts regulars" or Captain = In the
Fifteenth regiment of South Carolina volun-
teers." And 50 now, across this great field
of moral aud spiritual battle, the angels OF
God come walking among the slain. and
there was voices OF comfort and voices OF
hope and voices Of resurrection and voices of
heaven.
one night / saw tragedy on the corner
OF Broadway and Houston street. A Young
man, evidently doubling as to which direc-
tlon he had better take, his hat lifted high
enough so that you could see he had an in
telllgent forehead, stout chest; he had a
robust development. Splendid young man.
Cultured young man. Honorcd young man,
Why did he stop there while so many were
going up and down? The fact is that every
man has good angel and bad angel con-
tending for the mastery OF his spirit, and
there were a good angel and a bad angel
struggling with that young mans soul at
the corner OF Broadway and Houston street,
Come with me" said the good angel; II
will take you home; l will spread my wings
over your pillow; | will lovingly escort you
al! through life under supernatural protec-
ton; | will bless every cup you drink out OF,
every couch you rest on, every doorway YOU
enter; will consecrate your tears when you
weep. your sweat when you toll. and at the
last | will hand over your grave into the
hand OF the bright angel OF Christian re-
surrection. In answer to your fathers petit
tion and your mothers prayer / have been
sent of the Lord out of heaven to be your
guardian spirit. Come with me-" said tho
good angolin voice OF unearthly symphony.
1t was music like that which drops from a
lutte OF heaven when a se.aph breathes on IL.
mo, no." said the bad angel; "come with
me; have something better to Offer The
wines pour are from chalices OF bewitching
carousal the dancef lead is over floor tes-
sellated with unrestrained indulgences; there
is no God to frown on tho temples of sin
where l worship. The skies are Italian The
paths tread are through meadows, daisied
and primrosed. Come with me-"
The young man hesitated at u time when
hesitation was ruin and the bad anpel