The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-09-10
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you yourself were in tight business pass,
| and the Lord delivered you. Tell him 10 put
| his trust in Christ. Tell him that Jesus
Christ stands beside cvery business man In
his perplexities. Tell him OF tho sweet
| promises of Gods comforting grace. That
man is dying for the lack OF Just one kind
word. Go tomorrow and utter that ono
/ saving. omnipotent, kind word, Here Is n
| soul that has been swamped in sin. He
wants to aud the light OF the Gospel. He
| feels like shipwrecked mariner looking
out over the beach. watching for n sail
against the sky. o. bear down on him.
Tel him that tho Lord waits to be gracious
to him, that though he has been u great sim
ner. there ia n great Saviour provided. Tell
| him that though his sins are as scarlet, they
| shall be as snow; though they are rcd like
crimson. they shall be as wool. That man
| IS dying forever for the lack OF ono kind
word.
o. that we might In our families and in
our churches try the force OF Kindness. You
can never drive men, women or children into
the kingdom Of God. A March northeaster
will bring ont moro honevsuckles than fret
fulness and scolding will brlng out Christian
| grace. / wish that In all our religious work
| we might he saturated with tho spirit OF
kindness. Missing that. we miss great
| deal of usefulness. There IS no need Of
coming out before mon and laundering to
them the law unless NJ tho same time you
| preach to them the Gospel. The world Is
| dying for lack of kindness.
These young people want Il Just as much
as the old. The old people sometimes seem
| 20 think thcy have n monopoly Of the rhcu-
/ matisms. and the neuralgias. and tho head
Gches, and the physical disorders OF tho
| world; but | tell you there are no worse
| hcartachcs than are felt bv some Of these
! young people. Do you know that much Of
/ the work is done bv the young? Rqphncl
| died NJ thirty-gevcn Richelicu ~ thirty-one;
| Gustnvus Adolphus died nt thirty-pight: In
/ nocent III. came TO hts mightic4t influence
| nj thirty-seven; Cortez conquered Mexico NJ
/ thirty: Don John won Lcpanto at twcnty-
| I've; Grotlus was Attorney General at twcn-
/ ty-iour; and have noticed amid all classes
| of men that some Of the scvercst battles and
| the toughest work como before thirty.
/ Therefore WE must have our sermons aud
| our eNhoriations IN prayer meeting all SYM
| pathetic with the young. And so with thpsc
people further on in life. What do these
doctors anl lawyers AMI merchants and mo.
/ chnnics care about tho distractions Of re-.
! ligion2 What they want T. help 10 bear the
whimsicalities Of patients, the browhna,inr
ot legal opponents, the unfnirne-s OF Gus
toners. who have plenty OF inultnnling Tor
every imperiection Of haniiwork. but 70
praise FOR twenty eNcellcncos. What does
that braln-rncked. haud.blistcrel man caro-
Tor Swingle's Doctrine of Original Sim" or
well 20 to n man who has the pleursy and
put on his side a plaster made out Of Dr.
PARIS Treatise on Medical Jurlsprulpncc.n
In all our sermons there must be nelp for
every one somewhere. You 20 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 while. And so, white
all parts OF the sermon may not bc appro-
printo 20 our case, II we went pruycrIullv
before the sermon Is through we shalt have
tho divine prescription. / say 90 these young
men who are going to preach the Gospel,
these theological students 81 say TO then. Wa
want In our setmonsinot more metaphysics,
nor more Imagination, nor more logic, nor
moro profundity. What we want In our ser.
mons and Christian cXhortations Is moro
sympathy. When Father Taylor preached in
the Sailors' Bethel ~ Boston, the lack tars
ielt that they had help for their duties amoi g
the ratlines aud the forecastles. When
Richard Weaver preached TO tho operatives
In Oldham, Engllnl, all tho working mon
felt that they had more grace for the spin
dies. When Dr. South preached 10 Kings
ana Princes aud prlncCgsps, Ult the mighty
men and women who heard him felt prepara.
tion for their high station.
Do YOU not know that this simple story OF
a Sav!ours kindness Is to redeem all Na-
tions? The hard heart OF this worlds OBJ
durGcy is to be broken before that story,
There Is in Antwerp, Belgium. one OF tho
most remarkable pictures | ever saw. IL IL
The Descent OF Christ from the Cross"
II Is one OF Rubens's pictures. No man can
stand and look NJ that Descent from tho
Cross rs Eubens pictured IL. without hay-
inc hts eyes flooded with tear,, il he have auy
sensibiity ~ all. II Is IN oycrmastcrin.
picture--one that stuus you AMI stagyer5
you and haunts your dreams. Onenlternnon
a man stood in that cathedral looking at Ru-
bens' descent from the Cross lIo was
all absorbed in that scene OF Slviour's suf-
ierings, when the janitor came in aud said:
1T Is tlmct 10 close up the cathedral for tho
night. | wish you would DEPART Tho
pilgrim, looking at that descent from tue
Cross turned around 10 tho janit0r aud
slldi mo, no; not yet. Wait until they ppt
Him down. On. II IL the story of n Slyiour's
suffering kindness that Is 70 capture tho
world. When the bones OF that great bchc-
moth Of antiquity which has trampled all
Nations shall be broken ana shattered, il
will be found out that the work was not
done by the hammer OF the icon1clnst, or by
the sword Of the conquerer, or by the torch
Of persecution, but by tho plain. simple,
force of "the soft tongue that
breaketh the bone"
kindnessl We all need more Of Il in our
hearts, our words and our behavior. The
CHIEF characteristic of our Lord was kind
ness. gentleman in England died. leaving
nus fortune by Will 10 two sons. The son
that stayed ~ home destroyed tho fathers
viii and pretended that the brother who was
Ibsent was dead aud buried. Tho absent /
brother, after awhile returned and claimed /
bis part OF the property Judges and Jurors |
were to DO bribed TO say that the returned
brother and son vas no son at all, but an I
mpOstor. The trial came on. Sir Matthew
Hale. the pride of tho English court room
md for twenty years the pride OF jurlspru-
ience, heard that that injustice was about
% be practlced. He put of his official robe
lie put on tho garb OF a miller. lie went to
he village where that trial was to tnko
liace. He entered the court room. He
somehow got impnnelei as one Of the Jurors.
The Drbes came around, aud tho man gave
en- pieces OF gold 10 the other jurors but as
his was only poor miller the briber gave
o him only ilve pieces OF gold. A verdict
vas brought In reIectin. the right OF this re-
urned brother He was TO hayo no share In
40 Inheritance, "llod! my lord" said tho
miller. "Hold! We are not all agreed on this
'rrdict. These oihermcn have received ten
'ieces of gold in bribery and have received