The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-08-29

this Christian man, you must take
all with much allowance, remember
J ing that they will keep the old grudg'
good. o World of the greedy eye ant
hard heart, that will do; you may si
down.
The second witness I call In thi,
case Is Conscience. Who art thou, {
Conscience? What is your business
Where were you born? What are you
doing here? ''Oh," says Conscience
II was born in Heaven. 1 came down
to befriend this man. have lived
with him. / have instructed him.
have warned him. / showed him the
right and the worng, advising him to
take the one and eschew the other.
have kindled great light in his soul.
With a whip of scorpions i have
scourged his wickedness, and have
tried to cheer him when doing right;
and yet l am compelled to testify on
the stand to-day that he has some
times rejected my mission. Oh, how
many cups Of life have pressed to his
lips that he dashed down, and how
often has he stood with his hard heel
On the bleeding heart OF the Son of God!
1t pains me very much that have to
testify against this Christian man, and
| yet must, in behalf Of Him who will
In no wise clear the guilty, say that
this Christian man has done wrong.
He has been worldly. He has been
neglectful. He has done thousand
things he ought not to have done, and
left undone thousand things he
ought to have done" That will do,
Conscience. You can sit down.
The third witness call in the case
Is an angel of God. Bright and shin
ing one, what doest thou here? What
hast thou to say against this man on
trial7 "Oh," says tho angel, Il have
been a messenger to him. / have
guarded him. have watched him.
With this wing l have defended him,
and oftimes, when he knew it not, l
led him into green pastures and be-
side the still waters. l snatched
from him the poisoned chalicea
When bad spirits came upon him
to destroy him, l fought them back
with infinite tierceness, and yet have
to testify to-day that he has rejected
my mission. He has not done as he
ought to have done. Though came
from the sky, he drove me back.
Though with this wing / defended
him, and though with this voice l
wcoed him, i have to announce his
multiplied imperfections. dare not
keep back the testimony. for then l
should not dare to appear again
amongst the sinless ones before the
great white throne"
There is only one more witness to
be called on behalf of the prosecution,
and that Is the great, the holy, the
august, the omnipotent Spirit of God.
We bow down before Him. Holy
Spirit, knowest Thou this man? "Oh,
yes" says the Holy Gne, II know him.
have striven with him 10000 times,
and though sometimes he did seem to
repent, he Cell back again as often from
his drst estate. Ten thousand times
ten thousand has he grieved me, al
though tho Bible warned him, saying:
'Grieve not the Holy Ghost. Quench
not the Spirit Yes, he has driven me
back. Though am the third person
Of the Trinity, he has trampled on my
mission, and the blood of the atone
ment that l brought with which to
cleanse his soul he sometimes despised.
came from the throne of God to con-
vert and comfort and sanctify, and yet
look at that man and see what he is
compared with wnat, unresisted,
would have made him."
The evidence on the part of the pros
ecution has closed. Now let the de-
fense bring on the rebuttal testimony.
What have you, o Christian soul, to
bring in reply to this evidence of the
world, of the conscience, of the angel
and of the Holy Ghost? No evidence?
Are all these things true? "Yes. I'm
clean, unclean,' says every Christian
soul. What? Do you not begin to
tremble at the thought of condemna-
ton?
We have come now to the most inter
esting part of this great trial. The
evidence all in. The advocates speak.
The profession of an advocate is full
of responsibility. In England and the
United States there have arisen men
who in the calling have been honored
by their race and thrown contempt
upon those who in the profession
have been guilty of great many
meannesses. That profession will be
honorable as long as it has attached to
1t such names as Mansfield, and Mar
shall, and Story, and Kent, and South
ard, and William Writ. The court
room has sometimes been the scene of
very marvellous and thrilling things.
Some of you remember the famous
Girard will case, where one of our adj
vocates pleaded the cause of the Bible
and Christianity in mastery Anglo
Saxon, every paragraph a thunder
bolt.
Some of you have read of the ia
nous trial in Westminster Hall of
Warren Hastings, the despoiler Of In
dia. That great man had conquered
India by splendid talents, by courage,
by brides. by gigantic dishonesty. The
whole world had rung with applause
or condemnation. Gathered in Vest
minister Hall. a place in which 80 kings
had been inaugurated, was one of the
most famous audiences ever gath
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