Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-06-23

i'-'AVSilN tIs witotr realm on
French novels. to see whether they xro
really as bad as mora!ists have pronounced
them. They come near the verge Of the
precipice just to look of. They want to
zee how far it really il down. but they lose
their balance while they look and fall into
remediless ruin or. catching themselves
chamber up, blesding aud ghastly, on the
rock. gibbering with curses or groaning in
eiIeetual prayer. By all means encourage
healthful inquisitiyeness, by all means dis.
courage ill regulated curiosity
That one Edenic transgression did not
seem to be much, but it struck a blow
which to this day makes the earth staeeer.
To lind out the consequences OF that one
sin you would have to compel the world 10
throw open all its prison doors and display
the crime, and throw open all its hospitals
aud display the disease. and tn. ow open all
the insane asyiums and show :he wretoh-
ednes-, and open all the sspuichers and
show the dead, and open all the doors of
the lost world and show the damned. That
one Edenic transgression stretched chords
OF misery across the heart OF the world and
struck them with dOlorous waiiing, and II
has seated the plaques upon the air and the
shipWrecks upon the tempest and fastened.
like a ieech famine to the heart of the sick
and diving nations. Beautiful at the start
horrible at the last. Oh, how many have
eyDerisnced it,
Are there here those who are votaries OF
your pleasure boat is far fro.n shore and
your summer day Is ending roughly.
for the winds and the waves are loud
voiced, and the overcoming clouds are all
awrithe and agleam with terror. You are
past the Narrows aud almost outside the
Hook, and if the Atlantic take thee, frail
mortal, thou shalt never get to shore
again. Put back: row swiftly, swifter
swifterl Jesus from the shore casteth a
rope. Clasp it quickly, now or never. Oh,
are there not some of you who are freight
ing all your loves and joys and hopes upon
Il vessel which shall never reach the port
of heavenf Thou nearest the breakers one
heave upon the rocks. oh, what an awful
crash was thati Another lunge may crush
thee beneath the spars or grind thy bones
to powder amid the torn timbers Over
board for your life, overboardl Trust not
that loose plank nor attempt the wave, but
quickly clasp the feet of Jesus walking on
the watery pavement shouting until he
hear thee, Lord, save me or I perishi'
sin beautiful at the start-oh, how sad
how distressful, at the last The ground
over which it leads you Is hollow. The
fruit it offers to your taste is poison. The
promise it makes to you Is Il lie. Over that
nngodly banquet the keen sword Of Gods
Judgment hangs, and there are ominous
on the walls.
Observe also in this subject how repellinR
ain Is when appended to great at ftractiyo-
ness. Since Ewes death there has been no
such perfection Of womanhood. You could
not suggest an attractiveness to the BODY
or suggest any refinement to the manner.
You could add no gracefulness to the gait.
no luster to the eye, no sweetness to the
voice. A perfect God made her a perfect
TO be the companion of a perfect
man in perfect home and her entire ma.
ture vibrated in accord with the beauty and
song of paradise. But she rebelled against
Gods government, and with the same hand
with which she piucked the fruit she
launched upon .he world the crimes, the
wars, the tumults that have set the universe
4 iwailing.
A terrible offset to all her attractiveness.
We are Mt surprised when we find men
and wo9en naturally vulgar going into
We expect that people who
i've in II shall have the manners Of
he di' now shocking when we ind
in superior edueation and to
ksifs cf Eas5' 7ees j sof scof7 Ssk4S
patronage OF Darnley, the pronf8ste,
ne II. of Russia only sets forth in moro
powerful contrast her unappeasable ambi-
ion The translations fromthe Greek and
:he Latin by Elizabeth, and her wonderful
qualifications for a queen, make the more
disgusting her capriciousness Of affection
aud her holiness of temper. The greatness
IF Byron's mind makes the more alarming
Byrons sensuality.
Let no one think that refinement Of man
aer or exquisiteness of taste or superiority
of education can in any wise apologize for
III temper, for an oppressive spirit, for un-
snce Godward and transgression manward
,an give no excuse. Accomplishment
heaven high is no apology for vice hell deep.
My subject also Impresses me with the
regal influence of woman. When l see Eve
With this powerful influence over Adam
x-,l ha
owed, 1t suggests to me the great power all
women have for good or for evil I have
40 sympathy, nor have you, with the hol.
.ow batteries showered upon women from
he platform and the stage. They mean
aothing; they are accepted as nothing.
Womans nobility consists in the exercise
of Christian influence. and when see
this powerful influence Of Eve upon her
husband and upon the whole human race
make up my mind that the frail arm OF
woman can strike blow which will resound
through all eternity, down among the dun.
geons or up among the thrones.
OF course / am not speaking of represen-
tative women-of Eve, who ruined the raoo
by one fruit picking; of Jael, who drove
spike through the head of Sisera, the war
rior; of Esther, who oyercame royalty; OF
Abigail who stopped II host by her own
beautiful prowess; of Mary, who nursed
the world Saviour; OF Grandmother Lois,
immortalized in her grandson Timothy; OF
Charlotte Corday, who drove the dagger
through the heart of the assas sin Of her
lover or of Marie Antoinette, who by one
look from the balcony Of her castle quieted
a mob. her own scaffold tue throne OF for
giveness and womanly courage. l speak
not of these extraordinary persons, but OF
those who, unambitious for political
power, as wives and mothers and sisters and
daughters, attend to the thousand sweet
offices OF home.
When at last we come to calculate the
forces that decided the destiny Of nations,
it will be found that the mightiest and
grandest influence came from home, where
the wife cheered up dependency and IA
tigue and sorrow by her own sympathy.
and the mother trained her child for hea-
ven starting the little feet on the path to
the celestial city, and the sisters by their
gentleness refined the manners of the
brother, and the daughters were diligent In
their kindness to the aged, throwing
wreaths of blessing On the road that led
father and mother down the steep Of years.
God bless our homes. And may the home
on earth be the vestibule of our home
in heaven, in which place We may all
meet-father, mother, son, daughter,
brother, sister, grandfather and grand
mother and grandchild, and the entire
group of precious ones, OF whom we must
say, in the words of transporting Charles
Wesley:
One family, we dwell In HIM;
One church above, beneath.
Though now divided by the stream
The narrow stream of death
One army of the living God,
To His command we bow.
Part of the host have crossed the food
And part are crossing now.
According to the deductions of a vel
/ known astronomer, We receive as muc
light from the sun as could be emitted b
| $50 600 full moons.
A recent census of Buenos Ayres, Al
eentenia, shows a population of 663, ,s5
which makes it larger by 100, 900 than Ri
de Janeiro, and the metropolis of Sout
America.
According to the most delicate exper
ments or the most famous scientists th
heat OF the lunar rays which reach Ii
earth is scarcely the twelve-m illionth
a degree.
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