The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-07-11

together. II was that arrow that stuck
in Luther's heart when he cried oat
''Oh, my sinsl Oh, my sinsi" II II strike
q man In the head, Il kills his skepti.
cism; II II strike man In the heel, II
will turn his stop; II IL strike him In
the heart, he throws mp his hands, ~
did the Emperor Julian Of old when
wounded In the battle, crying; 20,
Galilean, thou has conquered"
In the armorv of the earl Of Penn.
broke there are old corselets which
show that the arrow of the English
used to go through the breastplate,
through the body Of the warrior and
out through the backplate. What q
symbol of that Gospel which Is sharper
than two-egded sword, piercing 10
the dividing asunder of body and soul,
and Of the joints and marrowi Would
TO God we had moro faith In that Cos
pell The humblest man, II he had
enough faith In II, could bring hum
dred souls to Jesus-perhaps 900. just
in proportion az this ago seems to be-
lieve less and less In IL, belive more
and more In it What are men about
that they will not accept their own de-
liveranc? There Is nothing proposed
by men that can do any thing like
this Gospel. The religion of Ralph
Waldo Emerson was the philosophy
Of icicles; the religion Of Theo-
dore Parker was sirocca Of the des-
ert covering up the sold with dry
sand; the religion Of Renan was the
romano of believing nothing; the re-
ligion of the Huxleys and the Spencers
merely pedestal on which human
philosophy sits shivering in the night
of the soul, looking up TO the stars,
Offering no help to the nations that
crouch and groan at the base. Tell
me where there is one man who has
rejected that Gospel for another, who
is thoroughly satisfied, and helped,
nd contented in his skepticism, and /
will take the car tomorrow and ride
500 miles to see him. The full power
OF the Gospel has not yet been
touched. AS sportsman throws up
his head and catches the ball fy-
ing through the air, just SO easily
will this Gospel after awhile catch
this round world flying from its orbit
and bring 1t back TO the heart of
Christ. Give 1t full swing, and it will
pardon every sin, heal every wound,
cure every trouble, emancipate every
slave, and ransom every nation. Ye
Christian men and women who go out
this afternoon to do Christian work,
as you go into the Sunday schools, the
lay preaching stations and the peni-
and the asylums, / want
you to feel that you bear in your nand
a weapon, compared with which the
has no speed, and avalanches
have no heft, and the thu nderbolts OF
Heaven have no power; 1t is the arrow
If the omnipotent Gospel. Take care
tul aim. Pull the arrow clear back
until the head strikes the bowl Then
let IL fly! And may the slain OF the
Lord be many!
Again, II you want to be skillful in
spiritual archery, you must hunt in
lnfrequented and secluded places.
Why does the hunter go three or four
lays in the Pennsylvania forests or
over Raquette lake into the wilds of
The Adirondack It is the only why
10 do The deer are shy, and one
-bang" of the gun clears the forest.
From the California stage you see, as
you go over the plains, here and there,
. coyote trotting along, almost with
in range of the gun-sometimes
quite within range of 1t. No one
cares for that; it Is worthless. The
good game is hidden and secluded.
Every hunter kno ws that So, many
Of the souls that will be of most worth
for Christ and of most value to the
church are secluded. They do not
come in your way. You will have to
go where they are. Yonder they are
down in that cellar; yonder they are
up in that garrett Far away from the
door Of any church, the Gospel arrow
has not been pointed at them. The
tract distributor and city missionary
catch glimpse of them,
as hunter through the trees gets q
sight OF partridge or
a roebuck. The trouble is, we are
for the game to come to us.
We are not good hunters. We are
in some street or highway
c4pcStihR tndt VIC biihiu buIclOpc Will
come up and eat out Of our hands.
We are expecting that the prairie
fowl will light on our church stceple
1t is not their habit. If the church
should wait 100000 of years
for the world to come in and be
saved, 1t will wait in vain. The
world will not come. What the church
wants now is to lift its feet from dam
ask ottomans, and put them in the
stirrups. We want pulpit on wheelA
The church wants not so much cush-
ions as it wants saddle-bags and ar
rows. We have got to put aside the
gown and kid gloves, and put on the
hunting shirt. We have been fishing
SO long in the brooks that run under
the shadow of the church that the fish
know us, that they avoid the hook, and
escape as soon as we come to the bank,
while yonder is Upper Saranae and
Big Tupper's lake, where the first
swing of the gospel net would break
1t for the multitude of the fishes.
There is outside work to be done.
What is that see in the backwoods?
1t is tent. The hunters have made a
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