Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-10-13

hey were delivered. The millionaire IL
iteracy OF this country is beyond measure-
nent.
Not a word have to saw against accur-
icy Of speech or fine elocution or high men
al culture. Get all these Won can. But L
10 saw to those who were brought up In the
lay of poor school-houses and ignorant
ichoolmasters and no Opportunity: You
nay have so much OF good in your soul and
10 much OF heaven In your everyday life
hat you will be miGhtier for good than any
Who went through the curriculum OF Har-
rard or Yale or Oxford, yet never graduated
n the school Of Christ. When YOU get up
% the gate of heaven. no one will ask you
whether you can parse the first chapter OF
3enesis but whether YOU have learned the
ear of the Lord. which is the beginning OF
WISDOM nor whether You know how to
'1uare the circle but whether YOU have
ived square life in a round world. Mount
Zion is higher than Mount Parnassus.
But what other multitudes there are un-
Ter other disadvantages Here Is a Chris
ian woman whose husband thinks religion
I sham, and while the wife prays the chill
lren one way the husband swears them an
,ther. Or here is "A Christian man who is
:rying to do his best for God and the
church. and his wife holds him back and
Iays on the way home from prayer meet
lnC. where he gave testimony for Christ:
What a fool you made of Yourself! IhoI-,
hereafter you will keep still" And when
he would be benevolent and give $50 she
,riticises him for not giving nftv cents. I
must do justice and publicly thank God
that l never proposed ut home to give any
thing for any cause of humanity or religion
but the other partner in the domestic firm
approved II. and when it seemed beyond
my ability and faith in God was necessary
she had three-fourths the faith. But I
know men who, when thev contribute to
charitable objects, ara afraid that the wife
shall find 1t out. What a whitening curse
such woman must be to good mani
Then there are others under the great
disadvantage of poverty. Who ought to
get things cheapest2 You say those who
have little means. But they pay more. You
buy coal by the ton; they buy it by the
bucket. You buy -four by the barrel; they
buy it by the pound. You get apparel cheap
because you paw cash: they paw dear be-
cause they have to get trusted. And the
Bible was right when it said. "The destruc-
tion of the poor is their poverty
Then, there are those who made mis-
take in early life, and that overshadows all
their days. 'Do you not know that that
man was once In prison?'' is whispered. Or.
"Do you know that that man once attempted
suicide?" Or. DO you know that that man
once absconded?" Or, DO you know that
that man was once discharged for dis
honestly" Perhaps there was only one
wrong deed in the mans life and that one
act haunts the subsequent half century OF
his existence.
Others have unfortunate predominance
of some mental faculty. and their rashness
throws them into will enterprises. or their
trepidation makes them decline great op-
portunity or there Is n vein of melancholy
In their disposition that defeats them, or
they have an endowment of overmirth that
causes the impression of insincerity.
Others have mighty obstacle in their
personal appearance. for which they are
not responsible. They forget that God
fashioned their features and their COM
plexion and their stature, the size OF
their nose and mouth and hands and
feet. and gave them their gait and
their general appearance. and they forget
that much of the worlds best work and
the church's best work has been done by
homely people, and that Paul the Apostle
is said to have been hump-backed and his
eyesieht weakened by ophthalmia while
many of the finest in appearance have
passed their time before ffattArinS looking
glasses or in studying killing attitudes
and in displaying the richness of ward
robes-not one ribbon or vest or sack or
glove or shoestrinS OF which they have
had brains to earn for themselves.
Others had wrong proclivities from th'
start. They were born wrong, and that
sticks to one even after he is born again.
They have natural crankincss that is 275
years old. 1t came over with their great
France. 1t was born on the banks of the
Thames, or the Clyde, or the Tiber, or the
Rhine and has survived all the plaques
and epidemics of many generations, and Is
living to-day on the banks OF the Potomac,
or the Hudson, or the Androscoggin, or
the Savannah, or the La Plata. And when
a man tries to stop this evil ancestral
proclivity he is like man on = rock in the
rapids OF Niagara, holding on with grip
from which the swift currents are trying
to sweep him into the abyss beyond.
Oh, this world is an overburleDed world,
and overworked world. 1t is An awfully tired
world. 1t is a dreadfully unfortunate
world. Scientists are trying to find out
the cause of these earthquakes in all lands,
cisatlantic and transatlantic. Some say
this and some say that. have taken the
diagnosis of what Is the matter with the
earth. 1t has so many burdens on it aud
30 many fires within it, 1t has a fit. 1t can.
not stand such a circumference and such a
diameter. Some new Cotoxpaxi or Strom-
boil or Vesuvius will open, and then all will
be at peace for the natural world. But
what about the moral woes of the world
that have racked all Nations and for 600(
years science proposes nothing but knowl-
edge, and many people who know the most
are the most uncontrolled?
In the way of practical relief for al
disadvantages and all woes the only voice
that Is worth listening to on this subject il
tue VOICE OF christianity, WHICH II Int voice
of Almighty God. Whether | have men
toned the particular disadvantage under
which you labor or not, l distinctly de-
clare, In the name of my God, that here i.
a way out and a way up for all Of you. Nou
cannot be any worse off than that Christia,
young woman who was in the PembertoI
mills when they fell some years ago, anC
from under the fallen timbers she was heart
singing, Il am going home to die ne
more"
Take good courage from that Bible al
| of whose promises are for those in bad pre-
! dicament There are better days for you
either ON earth or in heaven. | put IN,
| hand under your chin and lift your fac'
into the coming dawn. Have God on you
side, and then you have for reserve troop
| all the armies Of heaven, the smallest com
pany Of which is 20, 600 chariots and th
smallest brigade 14i 600, the lightnings o
| heaven their drawn sword.
An nancient warrior saw an overpowerin,
host come down upon his small compan.
OF armed men, and mounting his horse h
threw a handful OF sand in the air crying
LET their faces be covered with confu
sion" And both armies heard His voice
and history says it seemed as though tn
dust thrown in the air had become 3
many angels of supernatural deliyerance
and the weak overcame the mighty, an
the immense host fell back and the sma
number matched on. Have faith
God, and, though all the allied forces {
encouragement seem to come again:
you in battle array and their laugh {
defiance and contempt reSoundS throug
all the valleys and mountains, you migi
by faith in God and importunate pray'
pick up n handful of the very dust of yo,
humiliation and throw it into the air al
it shall become angels OF victory over d
; the armies OF earth and hell. The voic
of your adversaries, human and satani
shall be covered with confusion, while "
shall be not only conqueror, but more thu
conqueror, through that grace which h
: so often made the fallen helmet of an owe
thrown antagonist the footstool of Chr
: tian victorY.
8 \ hundred men may make an euca1
u ment, but it takes woman to max
Il home.
II To Judge anybody by his personal
u pearance stamps You as not only ignol