Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-09-16
NO. 40

wants to fin1 the light OF the Gospel. Hs
feels like shipwrecked mariner looking
out over the beach. watching for sail
against the sky o. bar down on him.
Tel him that the Lord waits to be gracious
to him, that though he has been great sin
Der. there is a great Saviour provi led. Tell
him that though his sins are as scarlet. they
shall he rs snow; though they are red iks
crimson. they shall be as wool. That man
ia diving forever for the lack OF one kind
. word.
o. that we might in our families and In
| our churches try the forca OF Kindness. You
can never drive men, women or children into
| the kingdom OF God. March northeastern
will bring out more honeysuckles than fret
fulness and scotding will bring ont Christian
| grace. / wish that In ali our religious work
| We might be saturated with the spirit or
kindness. Missing that. We miss a great
coming out before men and laundering to
them the law unless at the same time you
| preach to them the Gospel. The world Is
dying for lack of kindness.
These young people want II just much
as the old. The old people sometimes seem
to think they have Il monopoly Of the rheu-
matisms, and the neuralgias. and the head
aches, and the physical disorders of the
world; but 1 tell you there are no WORSE
heartaches than felt by some of these
young people. Do YOU know that much of
the work Is done by the Young? Raphael
died at thirty-seven, Richelieu at thrtv-one;
Gustavus Aholphus died at thirty-eight; In
nocent Ill. came TO his miGhtiest influence
Mt thirtv-seven: Cortez conquered Mexico nj
thirty: Don John won Lepanto at twenty
five; Grotius was Acknowledgement at tweu-
ty-four; and have noticed amid all classes
of men that some Of the severest battles and
the toughest work come before thirty.
Therefore We must have our sermons and
our eNhoriations in prayer Meeting all sym-
pathetic with the young. And so with these
npnvla if Ii 10 hut a th.aa.,
doctors and lawyers AMI merchants and me.
chanics care about the distractions of re-
iigion? What they want is help to bear the
whimsi"alties OF patients, the browbeating
of legal opponents. the unfairness Of Gus.
toners, who have plenty of fautfindiny for
every imperfection OF haniiwork. but 10
praise for twenty excellences. What does
that brain-racked. hand-blistered man care
for Swingles 'Doctrine OF Original Sin." or
Augustine's "Anthropology2" You might as
well go TO man who has the pleurisy and
put on his side plaster made out of DIR.
PARIS Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence"
In all our sermons there must be heIo for
every one somewhere. You go into an apo-
thecary store; you see others being waited
on; we do not complain because we do not
Immediately get the medicine; we know our
turn will come after whi Q. Aud so, whils
all parts of the sermon may not be appro-
pirate to our ease, If We went prayerfully
before the sermon is through we shall have
the divine prescription. say 20 these young
men who are going to prench the Gospel,
these theological 81 ients-Is say TO them, We
want in our sermonsSnot more metaphysics,
nor more imagination, nor more logic, nor
more profundity. What We want in our ssr-
mons and Christian exhorlatioDs Is moro
sympathy. When Father Taylor preached In
the Sailors Bethel AZ Boston, the Jack tars
felt that they had help for their duties amor G
the ratlineS and the forecastles. When
Richard Weaver preachel to the operatives
In Oldham. Englani, all the working men
felt that they had more grace for the spin
dies. When DR.. South preached to Kings
and Princes and Princesses, all the mighty
men and women who heard him felt prepara-
tion for their high station.
you not know that this simple story OF
a Saviours kindness is to redeem all Ma
tionsp The hard heart of t5s ~ orid's OBJ
duracy is to be broken before that story
There is in Antwerp, Belgium, one of the
most ramarkabla pioturss 1 svar 1t -
"The Descent of Christ from the Cross"
1t is one OF Rubens's pictures. No man can
stand and look at that descent from the
Cross" as Rubens pictured it, without hav-
ing his eyes flooded with tears, if he have any
sensibility at all. 1t Is an overmastering
picture-one that stuns you aud staggers
you and haunts your dreams. One afternoon
IA man stood in that cathedral looking at Ru-
bens's Descent from the Gross" He was
all absorbed in that scene Of q Saviours suf-
ferings, when the janitor came in aud said:
ut is time to close up the cathedral for the
night. l wish you would depart" The
pilgrim, looking at that descent from the
Cross" turned around to the janitor and
said: "No, no; not yet. Wait un.S they get
Him DOWN" Oh. it is the story of Saviour's
suffering kindness thar is to capture the
world. When the bones of that great behe-
moth of antiquity which has trampled all
Nations shall be- broken and shattered, it
will be found out that tho work was not
nv IA han ms of fha iapp "A, h,,
the sword of the conquerer, or by the torch
Of persecution, but by the pain, simple,
overwhelming force of "the soft tongue that
breaketh the bone"
Kindness! We all need more of it in our
hearts, our words and our behavior The
chief characteristic of our Lord was kind
ness. A gentleman in England died. leaving
his fortune by will 10 two sons. The son
that stayed at home destroyed the fathers
will aud pretended that the brother who was
absent was dead and buried. The absent
brother, after awhile, returned and claimei
his part of the property. Judges and Jurors
were to be bribed to say that the returned
brother and son vas no son at all, but an
impostor. The trial came on. Sir Matthew
Hale, the pride OF the English court room
and for twenty years the pride OF jurispru-
dence, heard that that injustice was about
to be practiced. He put off his official robe
He put on the garb OF miller. He went to
the village where that trial was to take
place. he entered the court room. He
somehow got impaneed as one OF the Jurors.
The bribes came around and the man gave
ten pieces of gold to the other jurors. bi. as
this was only poor miller, the briber gave
to him only five pieces of gold. vecJict
was brought in rejecting the right OF this re-
turned brother. He WAS to have no share in
the inheritance. "Hold nv lord" said the
miller. "Hold! we are not all agreed on this
verdict. These other men have received ten
pieces of gold in bribery and have received
only five. ""Who are you2 Where do you come
from?' said the judge on the bench. The re-
sponse was: "l am from Westminster Hail;
my name is Matthew Hale, Lord Chief JUS
tice Of the Kings bench. OF OF that place,
thou William And 50 the Injustice was
balksd. and so the young man got his in
heritance.
1t was all for another that Sir Matthew
Hale took of his robe and put cn the garb
OF a miller. And so Christ took off His robe
OF royalty and put on the attire of our hu-
manity, and In that disguise He won our
eternal portion. Now are the sons of
God. Joint heirs. We went off from home
sure enough, but we got back in time to re-
ceive our eternal inheritance. And il Christ
was SO kind to us, surely We can afford to be
kind to each other