The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-10-01
N. TAuMAGE'S SUNDAY SERkGGss
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE.
:,tlect, "The Day is at Hand"

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rack from the mountains and the seaside.
AMI the springs, and tne Iarmnouse, your
.Seots bronzed and your spirits lighted, 1
uu von home again with the words OF
nam 10 the Shunammite. as II we'll with
.raaS is n we'll with thy husband2 Is IL
w, Wy, 18th the child?" On some faces / see
w. W." mark OF recen. grief but all along the
..scs oi tears see the story OF resurrection
| snd reunion when oil tears are donei the
ss..k ~ the phosphorescence. Now that
h"ye sskei you IN regard to your welfare,
NV @ naturally ask how l am. Very well,
49, yon. whether II was the Tracing air
~ me mountains, or q bath In the surf OF
| Eng Island beach, or whether 1t IL the Joy
| - standing in this great group OF warm
| sao,tea friends, or whether IL Is new ap-
nreciation OF the goodness OF God, can not
,sll simply know 1 am happy.
n ,ras said that John Moffatt, tho great
| ,ts,bodist preacher, occasionally got fast In
~. ,o,r,on and 10 extricate himself would
n,y aiIalelnIahl" am in no such predlca-
,rent to-day, but am full OF the same rhap-
sodlc ejaculation. Starting out this morn
,ns on n new ecclesiastical year, / want to
Give YOU the keynote OF my next twelve
months ministry. l want to set II 20 the
,,nss Of "Antioch," ariel" and "Corona-
,ion | want 20 put a new trumpet stop
into my sermons. We do wrong II we allow
orr nersopal sorrows to interfere with the
glorious fact that the Kingdom Is coming
We are wicked II we allow apprehension of
National disaster 20 put down our faith in
crJ md the mission OF our American peo-
rie The God who hath been on the side of
this Nation since the Ath OF July. 1776, will
see to II that this Nation shall not commit
.ulclie on November ., 1886. by the timc
Inc UNPARALLELED harvests OF this summer got
down to the sea-board, We shall be standing
In a sunburst OF National prosperity that will
paralvze the pcssimis.s. who by their evil
rrophesies are disappearing the God who
hath blest this Nation rs He hath blost no
other
In oil our Christian work you and / want
more Of the clement OF gladness. No man
had a right TO say that Christ never laughed.
Do you suppose that He was glum ut tho
wedding in Cana OF Galilee? Do you sup
pose that Christ was unresponsive when the
children ciambered over His knee and
shoulder az His own invitation? Do you
suppose that the Evangelist meant nothing
when he said OF Christ: "Ho rejoiced In
spidl2' Do you believe that the Divine
Christ who pours all the waters over tho
rocks at vcrnal Falls, Yosemite, does not
believe in the sparkle and gallop and tumul-
tuous Joy and rushing raptures Of human
lifel believe not only that the morning
laughs, and that the mountains laugh, and
tha, the seas laugh. and that the cascades
laugh, but that Christ laughed. Moreover.
the outlook Of the world ought to stir us to
gladness.
Astronomers disturbed'many people by tell
ing them that there was danger OF stellar
collision. We were told by these astrono.
mers that there are worlds coming very near
together, and that we shall have plaques aud
wars and tumults and perhaps the worlds
destruction. Do not be scared. II you have
ever stood at q railroad centre, where ten or
twenty or thirty rail tracks cross each other,
and seen that by the movement OF the switch
one or two inches, the train shoots this way
aud that, without colliding, then you may
understand how 1fly worlds may come with
In an inch Of disaster, and that inch be
rs good as q million miles. II
human switch-tender oan shoot the trains
this way and that without harm, cannot the
hand that for thousands of years has upheld
the universe, keep our little world out Of
harms way2 Christian geologists tell US
that this world was millions Of years in
building. Well, now, l do not think God
would take millions of years to build n house
which was TO last only six thousand years.
There is nothing in the world or outside the
world, terrestrial or astronomical, to ex-
cite dlsmay l wish that somo stout
Gospel breeze might scatter all the malaria
Of human foreboding.
The sun rose this morning at about G
o'clock, and thinl. that Is Just about the
hour In the worlds history "The day Is NJ
hand The first ray of the dawn SEQ in
the gradual substitution OF diplomatic skill
Tor human buichery. Within the last twenty
I'VE years there have been international diff
lerences which would have brought shock
o. arms In any other day, bu. which were
peacefully adjusted. the pen taking the place
Of the sword. The Venezuelan controversy
~ any other age OF the world would have
brought shock Of arms, but now is being 50
quietly adjusted that no Que knows just how
II IS being settled.
The Alabama question in any other age OF
the world would have caused war between
the United States and England. How was
seluedt BY men-of-war of the Narrows,
oron the Mersey? No. few wise men got
into quiet room at Geneva, talked the
matter over, and telegiaphed 20 Washington
and London, "All settled" Pencei Peacel
im0unt awarded-pays really more than she
9ught 70 nave paid. But still all that Ala.
Dama broil Is sett!ed-settled for forever
arbitration instead OF battle.
90 the quarrel about the Canadian fish
euts In any other age would have caused
war between the United States and England.
30 she samoan controversy In any other age
would nave brought Germany and the
United States into bloody collision. But
A'I Is settled. Arbitration instead of battle.
4, france VIII never again. l think, through
ne peccadillo OF an Ambassador bring on q
pau!e with other Nations. She sees that
uou' In punishment at Sedan, blotted out
tne French Empire, and the only aspirant
.ot that throne who had any right OF ex-
Iectation dies in war that has not even he
ulsnity OF being respectable. What Is the
.eal that England would like 10 tear ont
~ her history2 The Zulu war. Down with
'uv sword and up with the treaty.
we IN this country might better have set.
ieu our sectional difficulties by arbitration
man by the trial OF the sword. Philan-
,nropy said 10 the North "Pay down n GER
,aih amount OF money for the purchase OF
,nn slaves, and let all those born after a GER
alI ume be born free" Philanthropy said
" y, me sQuth' You sell your slaves, aud get
40 Iu 9I % THIS great National contest and trou-
ole The North replied; ~ won't pny n
wv ihe South replied; ~ won't sell. "
""ar. war! million dead men, and a Ma
So SSoual debt which might have ground this
NM,sh ,oh 10 powder. Why did we not lei
",illam 'n.m H. Seward, OF New York, and Alex
sn anue, H. stephens, OF Georgia, 90 out and
Psnu lew days under the trees on the
oaa osnAs OF the Potomac and talk the matter
Sryr yo,h ana settle 1t, as settle II they could,