The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-12-12

ne RbJob Oh MI uetioub WHO oPoh AOE
the Gospel entrances when the church
shall give up its intellectual dandy
ism, and quit fooling with higher
criticism. and plunge into the work,
as at q life-saving station the Grey
pull out with q lifeboat to take the
sailors OF ship going to pieces In the
Skerries. thank you, old and dying
century; all Heaven thanks you, and
surely all the nations Of the earth
ought to thank you. l put before
your eyes, soon to be dim for the last
sleep, the facts tremendous. / take
your wrinkled old hand and shake IL
congratulation. battle your fevered
brow, and freshen your parched lips
from the fountains of eternal victory.
But my text suggests that there are
sQDne things that this century ought to
do before he leaves us. "Thus saith
the Lord. Set thine house in order;
for thou shalt die, and not live" We
ought not to let this century 60 before
two or three things are set in order.
For one thing, this quarrel between
labor and capital. Tho nineteenth
century inherited it from the cigh-
tenth century, but do not let this
nineteenth century bequeath it to the
twentieth. "What we want" says
labor, ito set us right is moro strikes,
and more vigorous work with torch
and dynamite. What we wans,"
says capital, "is a tighter grip on the
working classes and compulsion to
take what wages we chose to pay,
without reference to their needs"
Both wrong as sin. Both defiant
Until the day Of Judgment no settle
ment of the quarrel If you leave it to
British, Russian or American politics.
The religion of Jesus Christ ought to
come in within the pext four years
and take the hand of capital and en-
ploye and say: you have tried every
thing else, and failed; now try the
Gospel ct kindness" No more oppres-
sion and no more strikes. The Gospel
of Jesus Christ will sweeten this acer-
bity, or 1t will go on to the end of
time, and the fires that burn the world
up will crackle in the ears of wrath
full prosperity and indignant toll while
their hands are still clutching at each
Others Threats. Before this century
sighs its last breath 1 would that
swarthy labor and easy opulence
would come up and let the Carpenter
of Nazareth JOIN their hands in
pledge of everlasting kindness
and peace. When men and women
are dying they are apt to divide among
their children mementoes, and one is
given a watch, and another a vase, and
another n picture, and another a robe.
Let this veteran century before it dies
hand over to the human race, with an
that shall last forever,
that old family keepsake, the golden
keepsake, which nearly 1000 years ago
was handed down from the black rock
of the Mount of Beatitudes: There
fore all things whatsoever We would
that men should do to y on, do we even
SO to them; for this is the law and the
prophets" {
Another thing that needs to be set
in order before the veteran century
quits us is more thorough and all
plan for the worlds garden
ization. We have been trying to save
the world from the top, and it can not
be done that way. 1t has got to be
saved from the bottom. The church
ought to be only West Point to drill
soldiers for outside battle. What If a
academy should keep it's stu
tents from age to age in the mess
.oom and the barracks? No, no!
They are wanted at Montezuma, and
and South untain,
Ind Missionary Ridge, and tho
church is no place for a Christian to
stay very long. He is wanted
1T the front. He is needed in the des.
oerate charge of taking the parapeta
The last great battle for God is not to
Do fought on the campus OF a college
Dr. the lawn of church. 1t is to ba
fought at Missionary Ridge. Before
his century quits us let us establish
The habit of giving the forenoon of
the Sabbath to the churches and the
afternoon and the eve ming of the Sab
bath to Gospel work in the halls,
md theaters, and streets, and fields,
md slums, and wilderness of sin and
sorrow. Why do Christians who have
stuffed themselves with 'the strong
neat of the world" and all gospel vi
lnds on Sabbath forenoons want to
come up to second service and stuff
again? These old german
1izers at the Gospel feast need to get
INTO outdoor work with the outdoor
Gospel that was preached on the banks
Of the Jordan, and on the fishing
'macks of Lake Galilee, and in the
bleak air OF Assyrian mountains. 1
am told that throughout all our Amer
can cities the second Sabbath service
IN the majority of churches is sparse
", nay, disgracefully, attended, and
IS the distress of the consecrated and
eloquent pastors who bring their learn
ing and their piety befor pews ghast-
" for their unoccupancy. What is the
meaning? The greatest
Of all evangclists since Bible times
suggested that the evening
services in all the churches be turned
into tho most popular style of
evangelistic meetings for outsiders.
Surely that is sn experiment worth
II that does not succeed,
then it does seem to me all the