Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1897-08-27

1imed pike at their heart, but they
{ had mental fortunes compared with
which ali physical consuming is as the
breath Of spring morning.
Shaken faith.
find in TIE community a large class
Of men who have been SO cheated, so
lied about. 80 1.ragccusly wronged,
that they l.go Jest their faith Ia every
itiuq. In @ world where everything
.-cins so TOP turvv they 80 not see how
there can d. any God. They are con
founded ana freuziea an. misanthropic
Elaborate arguments 90 TlCye to them
the truth Of Christianity or the truth
Of anything else touch them nowhere.
Hear me, ali such men. / preach 10 you
no rounded periods, no ornamental dis
course. but put my hand on your shout
der and invite you into the peace Of the
gospel. Here is rock on which you
may stand finn, though the waves dash
against it harder than the Atlantic,
pitching its surf clear above Eddystone
lighthouse. Do not charge upon God all
these troubles Of the world. As long as
the world stuck to God God stuck to the
world, but the earth seeded from his
government, and hence all these out
RACES and all these woes. God is good
For many hundreds Of years he has been
coaxing the world to come back to him,
but the more he has ooazed the more
violent have men been in their resist
ance, and they have stepped back and
stepped back until they have dropped
into ruin
Try this God, ye who have had the
bloodhouuds after you, and who have
thought TIA, God had forgotten you. Try
him and see If he viii aot help. Try
him and SIC II lie will not pardon Try
him and See il he Will not save The
flowers Of spring have no bloom so
sweet as the Towering Of Christ's affec-
ticns. The sun hath no warmth COM
pared with TIE glow Of his heart The
waters have no refTeshment like the
fountain that viii Stake the thirst Of
thy soul At the moment the reindeer
stands with his lip and nostril thrust in
the cool mountain torrent, the hunter
may be coming through the thicket
Without cracking stick under his
foot be comes close by the stag, aims
bis gun, draws the trigger, and tst poor
thing Iears in It's death agony and falls
backward, lis antleIs crashing on the
rocks. But the painting bart that drinks
from the water brooks Of Gods promise
shall never be fatally wounded and shall
never Gle
Tic Worlds Anathema.
This world is a poor portion for your
soul, O bu ness man! IN eastern
kin had craven on bis tomb two fingers
represented as sounding on each other
with a snap, and under them the motto
All is lot worth that Apicius Cg
lios banged himself because bis stew
AID informed him that he had only
eS0,OO0 sterling left All Of this worlds
riches make but small inheritance for
soul Rolesricre attempted to win
the apI.c us3 Oh tic world. but when lie
was dying a woman came rushing
through the crowd, crying to him,
Murderer Of my kindred, descend 10
hell, covered with the curses Of every
mother in FranceW Many who have
expected the plaudits Of the world have
died under its anathema maranatha.
Oh, find your peace in Godl Make
one strong pull for heaven. No half
way wor'. viii do it, There sometimes
comes q time On shiploard when every
thing ml.t he sacrificed 20 save the
passengers. The cargo is nothing, the
rigging nothing. The captain puts the
trumpet TO bis lip and shouts, "Cut
away The mastn Some OF you have
been tossed AID driven, and yen have,
in your effort TO keep the world, well
nigh lost your soul Until you have de-
cidod this matter everything else 90.
Overheard with all those other anxieties
and burdens You will have to drop the
sails Of your pride and cut away the
mast. With one earnest cry for help put
your cause into the hand Of him who
helped Paul out Of tie breakers Of Me-
lita, and who, above the shrill blast Of
the wrathiest tempest that ever black
ened the SKY on shook the ocean, can
hear the faintcst imploration for mercy.
shall Close this sermon feeling that
some Of yOu who have considered youI
case as hopeless viii take heart again,
ana that with blood red earuestness,
such as you have never experienced be-
fore, you viii start for the good land
ci tie eosrel-at last 20 look back, say
ing. "Nlot o. erar. risk r.nl Almost
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