The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-07-24

4 erosion he can not afford to sscr.sN
. Oh. my brethren, appeal for ent!s
d conservation! Some of the PresbJ
K terians call 1t the higher life" Tn
; Methodists. l believe. call 1t ''perfec
, tion." 1 do not care what you call II
4 without holiness no man shall see tn
Lord" / know men who arc uvinl
, with their souls in perpetual .om
. munion with Christ, and day BY
D day are walking within sigh
, OF Heaven. How do know
, They tell me so. believe them. They
would not lie about it. Why can no
: we all have this conservation? VIII,
Stay some Of the sins in our soul, ant
: leave others 20 bleat and below To-
; our exposure and condemnation? Chris
will not stay in the same house with
J Agag. You must give up Agag, or give
up Christ. Jesus says: "All Of thai
heart or none" Saul slew the poorest
OF the sheep and the meanest of the
oxen, and kept some of the finest and
the latest, and there are Christians
who have slain the most unpopular OF
their transgressions, ann saved those
which are most respectable. It will
not do. Eternal war against all the
Amalekites; no mercy for Agagl
| learn further from the subject that
it is vain to try to defraud God. Here
+, Saul thought he hid cheated God out
OF tn ose sheep and oxen; but he lost
his crown, he lost his empire. You can
not cheat God out of single cent.
Here is man who has made $40, 900 in
fraud. Before he dies every dollar of
it will be gone, or it will give him vio-
lent unrest. Here is a Christian who
has been largely prospered. He has
not given to God the proportion that
is due in charities and benevolences.
God comes to the reckoning, and
He takes it all away from you.
How often it has been that
Christian men have had large estate,
and it is gone. The Lord God come
into the counting room and said: II
have allowed you to have all this prop
erty for 10, Is or 20 years, and you have
not done justice to my poor children.
When the beggar called upon you, you
bounded him off you steps; when my
suffering children appealed to you for
help, you had no mercy. l only asked
for SO much, or SO much, but you did
not give it to me, and now will take
it all"
God asks of us one-seventh of our
time in the way of Sabbath. Do YOU
suppose we can get an hour of that
time successfully away from its true
object? No, no. God has demanded
one-seventh of your time. If you take
one hour of that time that is to be de-
voted to Gods service, and instead of |
keeping His sabbath, use it for the pur-
pose of writing up your accounts or
worldly gains, God will get
That hour from you in some unex-
oected way. God says to Jonah:
'Yo go to Nineveh." He says:
No, l won't I'll go to Tarsh-
sh." He starts for Tarshish. The
Yea raves, the winds blow, and the
hip rocks. Come, We whales, and take
his passenger for Tarshish! No man
,ver gets to Tarshish whom God Tells
20 go to Nineveh. The sea would not
larry him; it is Gods sea. The winds
would not watt him; they are DDS
Winds. Let man attempt to do that
which God forbids him to do, or to go
INTO place where God tells him
lot to go, the natural world as
veil as God is against him. The
ightnings are ready to strike
i'm, the fires to burn him, the sun to
mite him, the waters to drown him,
nd the earth to swallow him. Those
whose princely robes are woven out of
carts strings; those whose fine houses
re built out Of skulls; those whose
bringing fountains are tears of op-
ressed nations have they successfully
heated God2 The last day will dem
will be found out on that
ay that God indicated not only His
GOODNESS and mercy, but His power
D take care of His own rights
nd the rights of His church, and
ne rights of his oppressed children.
ONE, We martyred dead, awake.
nd come up from the dungeons where
olded darkness hearsed you, and the
hains like cankers peeled loose the
kin, and wore off the flesh, and rat
led on the marrowless bones. Come,
C martyred dead, from the stakes
here you were burned. where the arm
PiAAeSN Ava AhSiSJ leil lutO the dSneS,
nd the cry of pain was drowned In
ne snappings of the flame and the
owing of the mob; from valleys of 7
iedmont and Smithfield Market,
nd London Tower, and the High
inds of Scotland. Gather in great !
recession, and together clap your !
ony hands, and together stamp your
loldy feet, and let the chains that
ound you to dungeons all clank at
nee, and gather all the flames that
urned you in one uplifted arm of e
re, and plead for Judgment. I
ather all the tears We ever a
ept into lake, and gather all i
lie signs we ever breathed into
'mpest until the heaven piercing
nain-clank, and the tempest-sigh, and ,
he thunder-groan, announce to earth !.
nd hell and Heaven judgment! Oh. !,
a that day God will vindicate the
iuse OF the troubled and the OBJ
1t will be seen in that day q
lat though we may have robbed our
slows, we never have successfully =