Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-08-19

Minnesota, or from New York. There was
woun:e soldier. and the only question was
now TO take on the rags the most gently,
ami put on the handage. ana administer the
cordia,. And when u soul comes to God. He
does not ask where you cane from, or what
your ancestry was. Healing for all your
woun's. Pardon for all your guilt. Com
fort for all yonr troubles.
Then. also, counsel you IL you want to
ret back to quit all your bad associations.
Oae unho!y intimacy viii, iill your soul with
moral distemper. In all the ages of the
church there has not been an instance wher3
nan kept one evil associate and was re-
formed.
When u man deliberately chooses bad as
sOciat on because he likes 1t. that man has
started on the road down. Oh, do not care
what you call it, that association will des-
poll your soul. After You nre destroyed,
body, mind AMI soul. what will they do for
you? what will they do for your family? They
will not give one cent to support your chill
lren after you are dead. Thy will not weep
one tear at your burial. They will chuczle
over your damnation.
Ihad rare friend at the West. He was
full OF welcome when l vent there to live.
He hal splen Ill personal appearance. There
is not Sransler looking person in this house
Today than he was; AMI to this grand per-
sonal appearances he added all geniality and
al Kindness of soul-tender "a n child,
I brautiful and loving nature, and / loved
him rs a brother; but saw evil people COIN
ing up around him, evil man coming up
from bad places of amusement. and they
seizeI hold OF his social and genial nature
and they b,gan to drag him down, and no
went further and further.
| used to say to him. Snow. why don't you
stop these bad habits AMI become IL Chris
tian?" for talked with him Just as l would
talk with brother. aud he understood me,
and understood him. 1 said. "Why don't
you give up these things and become Chris
iiani" "Oh." he said to me one day, lean
ing over his counter-just after l had asked
him for a hundred dollars to help educate a
young man for the ministry, and ne had
given me the money before i had the story
half told-"if it will do tho young man any
good, here is hundred dollars" Right
after that conversation 1 said, Nov, YOU
are splendid fellow; why don't you Civ.
up your bai habits and be Il Christian
"Oh," he said, as the tears ran down his
cheeks, Il can't. l should like to be a Chris.
tian. You See, have gos these habits on ma
so. sir. can't get rid Of them. 1 have been
going wrong longer than you would think
for, and l can't stop"
Sometimes. in the moments OF repentance,
ne woudgo to his home and embrace his,
little girl OF eight years convulsively to his
heart. aud he would cover her with adorn-
inents and strow toys and pictures all about
her, and then from her beautiful presence
tho beautiful presence Of his little chiid-hs
house of sham me- as a fool to the correction
stocks; and there these ba men k ,pt pus h.
ing hun on, ship, full-winged, crashing
into the breakers.
I was called to his deathbed. ] hastencd,
and when / got into the room l was sur
prised to find him In full everyday dress, ly-
ing on the top of the couch. l put out my
hand and he greeted me very cordially. He
said: Now, Mr.. Taimage, sit down right
there" l sat down and he said: Last
night, just where you sit now. l saw my
mother, though she has been dead twenty
years-yes, sir; just whore you sit now she
sat. l couldn't have been mi,takeD. was
as wide awake rs l am now. She sat Just
-hers YOU sit. Wife, wish vou would take
these strings of that they are weaving
around mei wish you would take them of !;
they annoy me very mucn In this conversa-
tion." saw he was in delirium. His wife
said: "There is nothing there, my dear; there
Is nothing there"
Then he resumed the conversation, and
said: Eyes, my mother sat just where you
spectacles and the same cap and the same
apron. and the same dress. 1t must have
been her, jast as she looked twenty years
ago--she has been dead now twenty ears.
And sitting there she said TO me, Roswell, l
wish you would do Letter;' and got up out
of bed, and l knslt beside her and said,
Mother. wish l could-I wish I could do
better; 1 would like to do better. Won't you
help me? You used to help me. Why can't
you help me now, mother?'" But soon 1
said. snow We will pray" knelt to pray.
I He did not realize anything | said, sup
pose. Then L got up and said "Good by
good-oyT" That night he went to God.
Arrangements for the obsequies were be-
ing made, and they said, 'On. it won't do to
bring him TO the church; he has been so dis
soute." 1 said, Bring him, bring him; he
stood by me wnen he was alive. and III
ufa txh NH ha ia iaaH Rrin i'm,
intothe church." The Sabbath came. As
stood In the pulpit and saw his body coming
up the aisle, 1 felt as il l could weep tears of
blood. stood there that day and said,
"This man had his Virtues, and good many
ofthem; he had his faults and good many
of them; but let that man In this assembly
who Is without sin cast the first stone on this
coffin lid"
On the one side of the pulpit sat the beau
tiful child, as radiant and sweet faced as any
child that sat at your table this morning
She knew not the sorrows OF an orphan
child; she was not old enough to realize
them. Sometimes when think ofthat awful
scene. her face haunts me like beautiful
face through horrid dream. On the other
side OF the pulpit sat the man who had de-
stroyed him. They had put the wormwool /
and the gall into that orphans cup. They
pushed him off the precIpce. Istood there
and told them that there was God and a
Judgment and hell for those who destroyed
their fellows. Did they weep? Oh. no. moi
one tear. Did thev sigh reDentingly? Not one
DESTROYED him2" Oh, no. They sat and
gazed at the coffin as vultures ut the carcass
of a lamb whose heart they had ripped out.
| That NIGH, though my friend lay in Oaswood
Cemetery. heard afterward that these mep
| went right on with their iniquties, destroy
| ing themselves and destroying others.
Gather up all the energies of body, min
and soul. and appealing to God for success,
declare this day everlasting war against al!
drinking habits, all gaming practices, all
houses Of sin. Half-and-halt work will
amount to nothing. 1t must bs a Waterloo.
| on, and you are saved A Spartan General
! fell at the very moment of victory, but a.
dipped his finger in his blood and wrote on
rock, near which he was dying, Sparta
has conquered" Though your struggle to
get rid Of sin may seem to be almost death
struggle, you can dip your finger in
your own blood and write on the Rock OF
Ages 'Viotory through our Lord Jesu;
| Christr'
Oh, what glorious news it would be FOL
some OF these young men to send home to
| heir parents in the country! They go to
! he p0stofice every day or to see II there
trs any letters from you. How anx Gus
hey are to heari Nothing would pleas
! them half so much IA the news you nigh
send home tomorrow that you had givIi
,our heart to God. l know how it is in thu
country. The night comes on. Tue cattle
tand under the rack through which burs
he tru sses of hay. The horsrs, Just hayin!
risked up through the meadow at the nigh.
all, stand knee deep in the briSne s,rd"
| hat invites them to lie down and rest. III
porch of the hovel is full OF iowi. In III
! Did farm house at night no candte
/ lighted, for the fiam's cap hands abou, III
great iackiog, and shake the sha9"w q
ho ,xo,n IN cnd down fta wall Fnfhe
lnd mother sit there for half an hour. say
ng nothing I won Ter what they are think
ng of After a while the father breaks tn
ilence and says: ''Wel'. 1 W 'nder wher
,ur bov Is in town Tonight" And tn
mother answers: SIN no bad place. wa,
ant you; we always could trust him vine
,e was home, and sinca he has been aw,
hara have been so many praveIs Offered 70