The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-01-31

and getting worse. rs the pesaimists repre-
sent, 1 would think II WAS hardly worth
saving. II after hundreds OF years OF gos-
pelization no Improvement has been made,
let us give Il up and 70 at something else
besides praying aud preaching.
nv opinion Is that II we had enough faith
in quick results and could go forth rightly
equipped with the gospel call the battle for
God and Righteousness would eud with this
nineteenth century, and the twentieth
century, only five or six yeats of, would be-
gin the millennium, AMI Christ would
reign, either in person on some throne set
up between tho Aueghanics and the Rockies
or I'm tho institutions OF mercy and grandeur
set up by His ransompd people. Discouraged
work will meet with defeat. Expec,ant and
buoyant work will gain the victory. Start
out with the idea that all men are liars and
scoundrels, and that everybody IL as bad as
he can be. AMI that society, aud tho church,
and tho world are on the way TO demolition,
and the only Use you will ever DO TO the
world will be to Increase the value OF
lots In "a cemetery. We necl moro
cheerful front in an our RELIGIOUS work
People haye enough trouble already and
do not want 20 ship another cargo 0itroublo
IN tho shape oi releiosliy. Il religion has
le'n 90 you q peace. q defense, au insp,ra-
ton ana q loy, say SD. Say Il oy word Of
mouth, ly pen IN your hun1. by face illu-
miucl VITA divine satisfaction. n this
world Is oyer 20 be taken for G1l, 4 will not
la ly gr1lIs. Tut lv hallCluiahs It We
could present the Christian religion as IL
really g. IN its true ut,rnc,tyeuass. all tho
people would accept it, and accept Il right
away. Tho cities, the nations would cry
out "Giy' us that, give IL to US IN all its
holy magnetism ana gracious powerl Put
that sate GA our wounds IIrJw back the
shutters for that morning light. kuocS OH
these chains with tuat silver hammer! Give
VA Christ-liis pardon, His peace. Ills COM
Tort, His heaven Give u Christ In song.
Christ In sermon. Christ In book. Christ IL
living example"
As system OF d.laciics religion has never
gained Que inch OF progress. As n tech
nlcality q lclDr- more than II irrldlates. As
a dosmat.smit h. an awful failure. But as q
TACT, rs re-eniOr'eu'ut, Os n trInslgura-
tion, IL IS tho mishtiest thing that ever
descended irol the heavens or touched the
earth. ENcWphiy II IN tho life OF % good
man or COOL woman. AMI no one can help
but like IL. = city missionary visited n house
in London aud found u sick and dying boy
There was an orange lying ou his bed, AMI
the missionary said, "Wlcrs did YOU get
that orangct' He said "a man brought il
10 me. Ic comes hero often and reads the
Bible TO ne and prays with me aud brings
rc nic3 things TO eU.' "Wnat is has
n1mc?' said the city missionary. "I
forget his name stid tho sick boy
"but he makes great speeches over In
that great building pointing TO tho
Parliament House OF London. The mis-.
sionarv as sol. "Was bis uama Mr.. Glad
stonCV "Oh, vrs,' said the boy, Chat IS
his nlmo-Mr. Gltistonew Do YOU tell me
q man can sees religion like that and nos like
II? There is gu Old fashioned mother IN a
iarm house. Perhaps she Is somewhere IN
the seventies, perhaps s1vanty-dvs or soy
enty-.iN. IL is the early evening hour
% fFFfa|H1 ell e. HtN.
newspaper until toward heitimp. wnen sae
takes NJ well-w3rn looi:. called the Bible.
| know lrOm the illumination In her face
she is reading ono o. the thanks ,ivins <
psalms. or IN Revelation the story OF the
twelve ponriy gates. After awhile she closes
tue book aud io,ds her hands aud thinks over
tn" past and So ms whisparin; tho names OF
her children, some OF them on earth and
some OF them In heaven. Now smile Is on
her face, and now ntear and sometimes the
smile catches tho tear. Tne scenes OF o long
lie come back to her one minute she
sees all the children smiling around her,
With their TOYS and spor.g aG1 stsasgT a.!ls
tlonings. Then she remembers several OF
them down sick with inlantile disorders.
Then she sees short grave. but over 1t cut
In marble, "SuN'r them to come to Ne. 4"
Then there IS the wedding hour. AMI the
neishlofs IN, and the promise OF 'I viii. "
and the departure from the old homestead
then sceuo OF harl times. ant sclnt b-ral
and struggle. Then she thinks o. few
years with guSh oi sunshine and n.;tiu.s OF
dark shadows aal v.c!ssitu les.
Then She kncols down slowly. for many
years have stll ueI the joints. aud the III
ue-ses oi a lifetime have made her less sIl-
pie. Her prayer = % miStur' OF tuauks for
sustaining grace during all those wears. and
thanks Tor children good aal Chris.iln-
1nl kind, and prayer for the wUndpr,ns
hoy, whom she hopes % -He come home bee
fore her departure. AM thCu her tremh,Ine
lqs speak OF tho Ian OF reunion. where sh,
expects 70 meet her loved one, already
translated, anl after telling the Lori In YER;
simple language ao" musl sac loves Him.
and trusts HIN. ami hopes 10 see HIN soon.
hear her prpnouuoetAe quiet "Awcu, Vud
she rises up-H little moro ainlcult effort
than kner'iu: down. Aud then sac puts her
head on the pillow for the night. and the
anca.s oi safety and peace stand sem
tinel gb1u, that couch IN tho farm
house, AMI her face ever and,
anon shows sisns o. dreams about
the heaven she reud OF before retiring. In
the mOrnin. the day work has begun down
stairs, ami seated M the table tho remgr.; is
made, mother must have oycrslcpt her
self And the gran lchildron also notice
thar gran ImOther - absent iron her usull
place at the table. One o! the grandchildren
50
"Grandmotherw But there Is no answer.
Fearing something Is the matter. they 20 up
to see, and all seems right. The spectacie-
and Bible on the stand. and tine covers OF
the bed are smooth, and the face is calm /,
her white hair on the white pillow case Ike
snow on snow already fallen. but her soul
is gone up 10 look upon tho things that the
night before she hat been reading OF in the
Scriptures. What transporting look on her
dear old wrinkied inoe She has seen the
"king IN His heanty." Sho has been wei
coined hy the "LamD who was slain" Aud
her two Oldest SONS. hayiag hurried up
s,aHs. look and Whisper, Henry 10 George,
"rhgt is religion - Georscto Henry, eyes.
that is religion ,'
There is New York merchant who has
been in bus ness | shoIli say forty or Atty
yeats. During an ol fashioned revival OF
religion IN hoyhooI b. gave his heart to
God. He did not make the chastity and in
mite and everlasting mistake Of sowing
wild oats, with the expectation OF sowing
good wheat later on. Ha realized the fact
thar the most OF thoss VITO sow wild oats"
never reap any other crop. He started right
ami has kept right. He went down in 1857.
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