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

| Niagara, for the dash ana tho
plunge of these great torrents of life
dropping down into the fathomless
and laundering abyss of suffering and
woe. I sometimes think that just as
God blotted out the churches Of Thya-
tira and Corinth and Laodicea, because
of their sloth and stolidity, he will
blot out American and English Chris
tianity, and raise on the ruins stall
wart, wide-awake, missionary church,
that can take the full moaning Of that
command: go into all the world, and
preach the Gospel TO every creature"
I remark, further, II you want TO
suocsed In spiritual archery you must
have courage. II the hunter stand
with trembling hand or shoulder that
flinches with fear, instead Of taking
the catamount, the catamount takes
him What would become of the
Greenlander II, when out hunting for
the bear, he should stand shivering
with terror on an iceberg? What
would have become Of Du Chaillu and
Livingstone In the African thicket,
with q faint heart and weak knee3
When a panther comes within 90 PAGES
Of you and 1t has its eye on you and It
has squatted for the fearful spring.
'Steady thereI'
Courage, o ye spiritual archersi
There are great monsters in iniquity
prowling all around about the com.
munity. Shall we not of the strength
Of God 60 forth and combat them?.
We not only need more heart, but
more backbone. What Is the church
of God, that 1t should fear to look In
the eye Of any transgression? There L.
the Bengal tiger of drunkenness that
prowls around, and instead of attack
ing 1t, how many of US hide under
the church pow or the communion
tablet There Is 30 much invested In 10
we are afraid to assault II; millions of
dollars in barrels, In vats, in spigots,
in corkscrews, in gin palaces with mar.
BILE floors and Italian-top tables, and
chased ice-coolers, and in the strych-
nine. and the logwood, and the tar
taric acid, and the nux vomica, that
60 to to make up our pore" American
drinks. l looked with wondering
eyes on the heidelberg tun." 1t is
the great liquor vat Of Germany,
which is said co bold 800 hogsheads OF
wine, and only three times in n 100
years it has been filed. But, as I
ST God and looked at il, said to my
self: THAT is nothing 200 hog heads.
barrels Of strong drinks, and we keep
200, 900 men with nothing to do but to
see that 1t is filed
Oh, to attack this great monster Of
intemperance, and the kindred mon
sters of fraud and uncleanDess, re-
quires you TO rally all your Christian
courage. Through the press, through
the pulpit, through the platform, you
must assault it. Would to God that
all our American Christians would
band together, not for crack Drained
faDaticism, but for holy Christian re-
form l think 1t was In 1913
that there went out from Luck
now, India, under the sovereign,
the greatest hunting party that was
ever projected. There were 10, 900 men
In that hunting party. There were
camels and horses and elephants. On
some princes rode, and loyal ladies,
under exquisite housing. and 500 coolies
waited upon the train, and the desolate
places Of India were invaded by this ex-
cursion, and the rhinoceros, the deer
and elephant fell under the stroke Of
saber and bullet. After awhile the
party brought back trophies worth 5O,-
600 rupees, having left the wilderness Of
India CHASTITY with the slain bodies OF
wild beasts. Would to God that in.
stead of here and there u straggler go-
ing out 10 fight these great monsters
OF iniquity In our country, the million
membership OF our churches would
band together and hew in twain these
great crimes that make the land fright
ful with their roar, and are fattening
upon the bodies and souls Of immortal
menl Who is ready for such party az
that? Who will be mighty hunter
for the Lord?
Oh, for o closer walk with God,
A calm and heavenly frame,
light TO shine upon the road
That leads me TO the lamb.
am sure that there are some here
who at some time have been lit by the
Gospel arrow. You felt the wound Of
that conviction, and you plunged into
the world deeper, just as the stag.
when the hounds are after it, plunges
into Scroon lake, expecting in that
way to escape Jesus Christ is on
your track to-day, impenitent man! not
in wrath, but in mercy, o We chased
and painting souls! here is the stream
OF Gods mercy and salvation, where
you may cool your thirst! Stop that
chase OF sin to-day. By the red toun-
tain that leaped from the heart of my
Lord. l bid you stop. Is there in al. this
house anyone who can refuse the
offer that comes from the heart of the
dying Son of God? Why, do you know
that there are, in the banished world,
souls that, for that offer you get to-
day, would fling the crown of the uni
verse at your feet, If they possessed it9
But they went out on the mountains,
the storm took them, and they died.
There is in a forest in Germany q