Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-07-17

have been so ungratefuII I find have a
great many things left. God forgive mel"
Again, remark that many Of our business
men are tempted to neglect their home
duties. How often it Is that the store and
home clash. but there ought not to be any
collision. 1t is often the case that the father
sthe mere treasurer OF the family, a sort OF
agent to see that they have dry goods and
groceries. The work Of family government
he does not touch. Once or twice in year
he calls the children up on . Sabbath after
noon, when he has a half hour he does not
exactly know what to do with, and in that
half hour be disciplines the children and
chides them and corrects their faults and
gives them a great deal of good advice. and
then wonders all the rest Of the year that his
children do not do better when they have
the wonderful advantage of that semi-annual
castigation.
The family table, which ought to be the
place for pleasant discussion and cheerful-
ness, often becomes the place OF perilous
expedition. II there be any blessing asked
at all, it is cut off at both ends and with the
sand on the carving knife. He counts on
his fingers, making estimates in the inter-
stices OF the repast. The work done, the hat
goes to the head, and he starts down the
street, and before the family have arisen
from tEt IdDi6 no HIS up dhothCE
bundle OF goods and says to the customer,
"Anything more I can do for you to-day,
sir?" A man has more responsibilities than
those which are discharged by putting COM
petent instructors over his children and CIV
ing them a drawing master and music
teacher. The physical culture OF tine child
will not be attended to unless the
father looks to it. He must some
times lose his dignity. He must unlim-
ber his joints. He must sometimes lead
~" their sports and games. The
parent who cannot forget the severe duties
of life sometimes, to fly the kite and trundle
the hoop and chase the ball and jump the
rope with his children, ought never to have
been tempted out of a crusty and unredeem-
able solitariness. If you want to keep your
children away from places OF sin you can
only do it by making your home attractive.
You may preach sermons and advocate re-
forms and denounce wickedness, and yet
your children will be captivated by the gilt
tering saloon OF sin unless you can make
your home brighter place than any
other place on earth to them. Oh.
gather all charms into your house. II
you can afford it, bring books and pic
lures and cheerful entertainments to the
household. But above all teach those
children, not by half an hour twice
year on the Sabbath day, but day after day
and every day teach them that religion is
great gladness; that it throws chains of gold
the foot, no blitheness from the heart, no
sparkle from the eye, no ring from the laugh
ter, but that cher ways are ways of pleasant
ness. and all her paths are peace" sympa-
thize with the work being done in many OF
our cities by which beautiful rooms are set
apart by our Young Mems Christian Associa-
tions, and pray God to prosper them in all
things. BIT tell you there is something
back Of that and before that. We need moro
Happy, consecrated, cheerful Christian
homes everywhere.
Again remark that n great many OF our
business men are tempted to put the attain
ment of money above the value of the soul.
1t Is a grand thing to have plenty of money.
The more you get Of it the better, if it come
honesty and 90 usefuliy. For the lack OF it
sickness dies without medicine, and hunger
finds it. coffin in the empty bread tray, and
nakedness shivers for lack of clothes and fire.
When ear man in canting trade against
money-a Christian man-a5 though 1t had
no possible use on earth and he had no in
terest in it ut all, 1 come almost to think
that the heaven that would be appropriate
for him would be an everlasting poorhouse.
While. my friends, we do admit there is
such q thing as the lawful use OF money
"a profitable use OF money-let US rec
Dgnize also the fact that money cannot satis-
fy a mans soul; that it cannot glitter in the
dark valley; that it cannot pay our fare
across the Jordan of death; that 1t cannot
unlock the gate of heaven. There are men
in all occupations who seem to act as though
they thought that pack of bonds and mort
cages could be traded off for title to
heaven and as though gold would be law
full tender in that place where it is so COM
mon that they make pavement5 out of 1t.
by Christ Is the only salvation.
Treasures in heaven are the only incorrupti.
bic treasures.
Have you ever cipherei out in the rule OF
loss and gain the sum, .What shall 1t profit
"a m IL ba ha ri nrlJ nd Insa ia
own soul?" However fine your apparel, the
winds of death will futter ii like rags. Home.
spun and u threaibare coat have sometimes
been the shallow 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
mines strung in one carcanet. Seek |
after God, find His righteousness, and all
shall be well here-all shall be we'll here |
after.
Some OF you remember the shipwreck o. |
the Central America. That noble ship had,
think. about 500 passengers aboard. Sud- !,
denly the storm came, and the surge5 /!
tramped the decks and swung into the |
matches, and there went up hundred voiced |
death shrek. The foam on the jaw of the |
wave. The pitching Of the steamer as though |
It were leapinS a 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 a strug- |
,le. As the passengers stationed themselves |
N rows to bail out the vessel, hark to the |,
hump Of the buckets, as men unused to toll, !
with blistersi hands and strained muscle, I,
ug for their lives. There is a sail seen |
against the sky. The flash of the distress !
gun Is noticed; its voice heard not for it is !
'hoksd in the louder booming of the sea. |
few passengers escaped, but the steamer |
ave one great lurch and was gone! So !
here are some men who sail on prosperously |
n life. Al'5 well, all'5 we'll. But at last |
ONE financial disaster comes-a euroclydon. |
)own they go! The bottom of the CONNER
ial s,I is strewn with shattered hulks. But
,ecauss your property goes do not let your |
oul go. Though all else perish, save that,
or have to tell you Of a more stupendous
hipwrecS than that which Just mentioned.
rod laun, ,hed this world 5000 years ago, 1t |
las been going on under freight of noun.
aims AMI immortals, but ons day 1t will |
ock will burn, the mountains flame |
ike masts, and the clouds like sails in the
hurricane. Then God shall take
he passengers OH tho deck, and from the
erths those who have long been asleep in
esus, anil He will set them far beyond the
each OF storm and peril. But how many
hall go down will never be known until it
hall be announced one day in heaven. The
hipwrecS OF a world! So many millions
aved! so many millions drownedl Oh, my
ear hearers, whatever you lose, though
our houses go, though your lands go,
houSh all your earthly possessions perish.
nay God Almighty, through the blood of the
verlastinS covenant, save all your soulsl