Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-08-18
NO. 36.

,.ieI. Aia spoke the kinguoni neAvou
as n net? We spend three years In college
studying ancient mythology, and three
years I'm the theological seminary learn
Ing how to make n sermon, and then we
go out to save the world. and II we can
not do it according to Claude's "Sermon-
izing," or Blair's "Rhetorio." or Kames'
CRITICISM" we will let the world go
to perdition. II we save nothing
sar s'sG We ssa w snTs wIss. n nnass sss 1Rs %s
must go out and save the crew and pas
sengers. We wait until we get on our fine
cap and coat and find our shining oars, and
then we push out methodically and
scientifically, while some plain shoresman,
in rough fishing smack and with broken
oar lock goes out and gets tho crew and
passengers and brings them ashore In
safety. We throw down our delicate oars
and say: "What ridiculous thing to save
men In that way! You ought to have done
1t scientifically and beautifully" "Ah."
says the shOreSman, "if those sufferers had
waited until you got out your fine boat
they would have gone to the bottom"
The work OF a religious teacher is to
save men, and though every law OF gram
mar should be snapped in the undertaking.
and there be nothing but awk wardRess and
laundering in the mode, all hall to the
man who saves a soul.
Christ, in His preaching, was plain.
earnest and wonderfully sympathetic. We
cannot dragoon men into heaven. We
cannot drive them In with the butt end ofa
catechism. We waste our time I'm trying
TO catch flies with acids instead OF tho
sweet honeycomh of the gospel. We try
TO make crab apples do the work of pome-
granates.
Again Jesus was wonderful In His sor-
rows. Tho sun smote Him and the cold
chilled Him, the rain pelted Him, thirst
parched Him and hunger exhausted Him.
Shall compare His sorrow to the scar No,
FOR that is something hushed into a calm.
Shall compare it with the night2 No, for
that sometimes CLEANS with Orion or kin
iles with Aurora. If one thorn should be
thrust through your temple you would
faint. But here Is whole crown made
from the rhamnus or spina Christ-small,
sharp, stinging thorns. The mob make a
cross. They put down the long beam, and
On it they fasten n shorter beam. Got Him
1t last. Those hands that have been doing
kindnesses and wiping away tears-hear
:he hammer driving the spikes through
shem. Those feet that have been going
about on ministrations of mercy-battered
against the cross. Then they lift It up.
Look. look, looki Who will help Him now7
Come, men OF Jerusalem-ye whose dead
He brought to life, ye whose sick He healed
who will help Him? Who will seize the
weapons of the soldiers2 None to help.
Having carried such cross for us, shall We
refuse to take our cross for Him2
Shall Jesus bear the cross alone
And all the world go free3
No; there's a cross for every one,
And there's n cross for me.
You know the process Of migrating. You
tore q hole into a tree and put in the
branch OF another tree. This tree OF the
,ross was hard and rough but into the
holes where the nails went there had been
grated branches OF the tree of life that now
,ear fruit for all nations, The original tree
vas bitter, but the branches ingrafted were
yweet, and now all the nations pluck the
| ,ruit and live forever.
Again, Christ was wonderful in His VIC
| tories.
First, over the forces of nature. The sea
8 n crystal sepulcher. 1t swallowed the
Central America, the President and the
Spanish Armada as easily as any fly that
sver floated on 1t. The inland lakes are
tully as terrible in their wrath. Gallee,
when aroused in n storm, Is overwhelming.
and yet that sea crouched in His presence