The Penn's Grove record., 1896-02-21
REV. DR.. IaLqaGE.
The Eminent Divine's Sunday
Sermon.
subject-"Bringing in the sheaves."

Text, ''Put We in the sickle, for the bar
vest is ripe."--Joel III. IS.
The sword has been poeti7si, ant tbs
world has celebrated the sword OF Bolivar,
the sword Of Cortes and the swori Of Lafav.
cite. The pen has been properly euiog,zad,
and the world has celebrated the pen Of Az
Olson, the pen OF Southey and the pen OF
Irving. The painters pencil has beer ION
ored, and the world has celebrated the pen-
oil of Murillo. the pencil OF Rnhens and tho
pencil OF Bierstadt. The scuiptor's chisel
has come in for high encomium. and the
world has celebrated Chantrev's chisel aud
Crawford's chisel and G~reenough's chisel. But
there is one instrument about which I sing
the first canto that was ever sung-ths sickle,
the sickle of the Bible, the sickle that has
reaped the harvest OF many centuries. SHARP
and bent into a semicircle and Rlitteriug, this
reapinR hook, no longer than your arm. has
furnished the bread for thousands oil YEAR.
Its success has produced the wealth OF Ma
tions. 1t has had todo with the worlds
progress than sword and pen and pencil anil
chisel all put together. Christ putsthe siukle
Into exquisite sermonic simIle, and you ses
that instrument flash all up AMI down the
Apocalypse as 81. John swings it. while
through Joel in my text God commands the
people, as through His servants now He ON
:nands them, Put We in the sickle, for til,
harvest Is ripe"
Last November there was great rejoicins
all over the land. With trumpet AMI cornet
and organ and thousand voiced psalm we
praised The Lord for the temporal harvests.
We praised God for the wheat, the rye, the
oats, the cotton. the rice, all the fruits OF
the orchard and all the grains Of the field,
aud the Nation never does u better thing
than when in the autumn it gathers 10 fes-
tivity and thanks God for the greatness OF
the harvest. But l come to-day to speak to
you of richer harvests, even the spiritual.
How shall we estimate the value of Il man?
We say he is worth SO many dollars. or hs
has achieved such and such a position, but
We know very well there are some men at
the top of the ladder who ought to be at the
bottom and some at the bottom who ought
to be at the top, and the only WAY to esti.
mate a man is by his soul. We all knowthai
we shall live forever. Death cannot kill us.
Other crafts may be drawn into the whirt-
pool or shivered on the rocks, but the life
within US will weather all storms and drop no
anchor, and 10, 900. 900 years after death will
shake out signals on the high seas OF eterni-
ty. You put the mendicant of your loo
step and say he is only a beggar, but he is
worth all tho gold OF the mountains, worth
all the pears Of the sea, worth the solid
earth. worth sun and moon and stars, worth
the entire material universe. Take all the
poPe -, ne q ! enln S. h nni ~ paper iii.
nd II, ran a,ith $1,000 nara maLo' an,,ra,
On that nanar to- IN nm vaars mi thaS will
only havebegun to express the value of the
soul. Suppose / owned Colorado and Me-
vada and Australia. of how much value
wouid they be to me one moment after l de-
goas stanhan eirord nrvn to-ianp How
rnmeh ~ Rnsta, nrnnart, 5aas AhSo,. -.
ranoa - $500 M 49, IT. go
bnth a aha IN %;s racts.t hath n,ors ,r,rIj'
Iv astata tban tha n,fIi;onaire rrhn Sisd 1as,
vaar Haw A. yon smnnnsa + Sasi standina
Rera y M ppouI ~ so,is
each ono wortb mora than the matari.i mi.
yerse2 "'i'
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barvss d .iohar H. .hs tana5ara1 haruests
7 mnst tiobten tba airaIa r mnst sbornan the
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instrumant sor oetbering tba oroin iasf ons
stait ha Inst Ore nf the ronat noyarfni
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have q rosausood bandis and a. he adorna1
with nracions stones and yst II osonot hrina
down tbe grain n is not mncb Of n sickle
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raina farth a. aa.nost arouas ma Sniatd;na
sh,s s;aIia - he nosnai p,.ghyou' ana ~ har
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eanaa ptahar "a peo, aun ootI en sa z
az RGdds.a Ser DaAsea Swung sna1 sisse
y nnl ahu euooneyne ut Dunaee.
s9u sas. muhituoes same INFO the ingdom
~ uutou -
~, ,ais y = mignty gospep ~ eapturoo
~ oniy Sonn tue iamp. put raul tne non.
Men may gnasn their teeth at It. n ciinch
.noiI nsts, ~. y y ,ne p9Werol o9a anu tne
wisuHna y uou unso salvation. but, a,as,
III. - ou,s RLescueu N pu.Pits anu on saD-
JAIN uaysi we mus. 20 iortn Into our STORES
our snops, our pankiny HOUSES, our iactoIies
ana me streets. ana eYeryWnere preacn
Shrls'. ~ stanu IN our puIplts Ior tWo
nours on ths oappatn ana commendC prisi 10
tne Peopie' put tnere are 100 nours IN tne
m1oh, anu WnAt a,o ne tw0 hours on the
saooain against tne 1907 on, there comes
ooWn the oraination OF toa TINS Jay upon
Al me people, men VINO toll with head and
nana ana loot tine ordination comes upon
VI. mercnants, upon al mechanics, upon All
tolers, anu uoa says 70 you as ne says 10
me: 30, teacn az Na1ons' he ma pe,
nevetn ana Is Y sna,i pc saved, ana
ne tnat DelieVetn NOT snaii Do Tanned.
mlgnty Gospel let tne Wnoie earth neal ~
Inc story OF onrlst rs TO regensrate me
NATIONS, II Is 40 eradicate an wrong II Is TO
turn the EARN into aradlse An Old artist
Eaintea me LORD Supper, n ne wanted
Christ when he inyIted his friends in to
-criticisa ,ba r,ctnra tbav adnnirsd Ans
cbaltces mora fhan tbav IA tha faes and
ire ola artist said ..This nictnre isa %fsIl,re !"
and he dashed out the picture Of the cups,
said; II shall have nothing to detraet
nom the face Of the Lord. Christ is the all
ef this picture.
Another powerful sickle for the reaping OF
TINS harvest Is Christian song. know IN
to 4 lev neonle standinS IN the or1sn loft
But. NV friends. a. others cannot renent for
rs and others cannot die for us. Wa cannot
delerate 10 others the WORK ~ singing fof
ma Whila a iew drilled artists shaiI fsEs In
ohants and execute the more skiiiful mnsic.
whan tha hvmnis given ont LEI thars he nm