The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-04-18

prove II In two ways, and you may
have your choice. can prove II
either by the statements of men or BY
the statement of God. Which shall II
be? You say: LET us have the state
n,ent of God" Well, He says In one
place: "The heart is deceitful above all
things and desperately wicked.
He saws in another place: "What Is
man that he should be clean?
and he which is born of woman,
that he should be righteous?" He
says In another place. There is none
that doeth good-no not one" He
says In another place. ''as by one man
sin entered into the world, and death
by sin, and so death passed upon all
men, for that all had sinned." "Well,
you say, II am willing to acknowledge
that, but why should take the partic-
ular rescue that you propose?" This
il the reason. Except man be born
again he can not see the kingdom OF
, God" This Is the reason: There Is
one name given under Heaven among
men whereby they may be saved" Then
there are thousand voices here ready
to say: "Well, am ready to accept
this help of the Gospel. l would like
to have this Divine cure; how shall l
go to work" Let me say that q mere
within, an underlined LONGING amounts
to nothing. You must have stout, a
tremendous resolution like this young
man in the text when he said: II will
arise and go TO my father" "Oh, "
says some man, "how do l
know my father wants me? how
do 1 know II go back, l would
be received?" "Oh,.' says some man,
''you don't know where have been;
you don't know how far 1 have wan
dered, you wouldn't talk that way to
me II you knew all the iniquities
have committed" What Is that fiut-
ter among the angels of GodP What is
that horseman running with quick dis
patch. 1t is news! 1t is newsl Christ
has found the lost.
Nor angels con their Joy contain,
But kindle with new fire.
The sinner lost is found. they sing,
And strike the sounding Tyre.
When Napoleon talked of going into
If you knew what the Alps were you
wouldn't talk about it or think about
1t. You can't get your ammunition
wagons over the Alps" Then Napoleon
rose in his stirrups, and, waving his
hand toward the mountains, he said:
There shall be no Alps" That Won
derful pass was laid out which has
been the wonder of all the years since
the wonderment of all engineers.
tains of sin, between your soul and
God, there is no mercy. Then see
Christ waving His hand toward the
l hear Him say: Il will
come over the mountains of thy sin
and the hills of thine iniquity." There
shall be no Pyrenees; there shall be no
Alps.
Again: l notice that this resolution
Of the young man of my text was
founded in sorrow at his misbehavior.
1t was not mere physical plight. 1t
was grief that he had so maltreated
his father. 1t is n sad thing after IA
ther has done everything for child to
have that child ungrateful.
How sharper than serpent's tooth II is,
To have thankless child.
That Is Shakespeare. "A foolish son
Is the heaviness of his mother" That
is the Bible. Well, my friends, have
Have we not maltreated our Fa-
Their? And such n Father!
Three times day has He fed thee. He
has poured sunlight into thy day and
1T night kindled up all the street lights
Of Heaven. With what varieties of
apparel He hath clothed thee for the
season. Whose eye watches thee?
Whose hand defends thee? Whose
heart sympathizes with thee? Who
gave you your children? Who Is guard
ing your loved ones departed? Such
a Father! So loving, so kind. II He
had been n stranger; II He had for
saken us; if he had hagellated us. if
He had pounded us and turned us out
Of doors on the commons. it would not
have been so wonderful-our treat
ment of Him; but He is Father, SO
loving, SO kind. and yet how many of
US for our wandering have never
IL VIC SdN any
that hurts our friends feel
ngs, II we do anything that
hurts the feelings of those in whom we
are interested how quickly we
apologize. We can scarcely wait until
we get pen and paper to write a letter
Of apology. How easy it is for anyone
who is intelligent, right-hearted, to
write an apology, or make an apology.
We apologize for wrongs done to our
fellows, but some Of us perhaps have
ten thousand times ten
thousand wrongs against God and
never apologized
The year 1896 has come. January,
February. March, April--a fourth Of
the year gone. Where is your broken
vow? oh" says some man, IN at
tend to that when get my character
flxed up, when 1 get over my evil
habits; 1 am now given to strong
drink" or, says the man: Il
am given to uncleanness;" or,
says the man: II am given to dis
honesty. When get over my present
N hits then I'll he n thoro,,oh Chris