Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-04-21
NO. 10


Just as devout prayers answered south OF
Mason and Dixon's line as north of 1t. and
GOD gave what was asked for, or something
as much more valuable as Il house and lot
are worth more than sheet of music. There
Is not good an intelligent man etween the
Gulf OF Mexico and the st. Lawrence River
VINO does not believe that God did the hest
thfng possible when He s,ood this Nation
down in 1865 glorious unity, never TO be-
rent until the waters of the Ohio aud the Sa-
vannah. the Hudson and the Alabama, are
licked up by the long, red tongues of world
On hre. Yea, God sometimes answers pray
BIS on large SCALE
In worse Dredcament nation never was
han the Israelitish nation on the banks of
ne Red Sea, the rafting shields ana the
'lattering hoofs of an overwhelming host
close after them. An army could JUS. as
EASILY wade through the Atlantic Ocean from
SeW York to Liverpool the IsraeliteJ
'ould have waded through the Red Sea. You
iced to sail on its water to realize how big
I Is. How was the crossing effected? By
5rayer. Exodus xiv. Is: 'And the Lord
'aid unto Moses: Wherefore criest thou
into Me? Speak unto the children OF Israel
hat they go fOrward"-that is stop pray
nS and take the answer" Aud then the
water began TO be agitatei and swung this
way and that way, and the ripple became a
pillow, and the billow climbed other billows,
ind now they rise into walls of sapphire. and
Invisible trow6ls mason them into firmness,
md the walls become like mountains, topped
and turreted and domed with crags of crys-
al. and God throws an invisible chain
around the feet of those mountains so that
hey are obliged to stand still. and there
light before the Israelitish army, is n turn
pike road, with all the emerald gates swung
vide open. The passing host did not even
get ther feet wet. Tney passed dry shot,
he bottom OF the sea as hard as the pave
men. OF Pennsy!vania avenue TO New York's
Broadway or London's Strand. Oh, what
Sod they had! Or l think will change that
and say, "What God we have"
What power puts il hands upon astron-
omy in Joshua's time AM made the sun and
noon stand still? Joshua X. ~, "rhen spoke
Joshua unto the Lord" Prayer? As giant
will take two or four great globes, an in as
founding way swing them this way that,
Or hold two of them at arms length so the
Omnipotent does as He will with the great
orbs OF worlds. with wheeling consultations
and cireling galaxies, swinging easily star
around star, star tossed after star. or sun
and moon held out at arms length and per-
fectly still, as in answer to JOshua5 prayer.
To God the largest world is a pebble.
Another reason why We should obey the
Pauline injunction of the text and pray for
all that are in authority is that SO very
much of our own prosperity and happiness
are involved in their doings. A selfish rea-
son, you say. Yes, but righteous selfish
ness, like that which leads you to take care
Of your own health and preserve your
own life. Prosperous government means
prosperous people. Damaged government
means "A damaged people. We all 90 up
together, or we all 90 down together.
When we pray for our rulers, we pray for
ourselves, for our homes. for the easier gain
nG of livelihood, for better prospects for
Dur children, for the hurting of these hard
lines so far down the embankment they can
iever climb up again. Do net look at any
NO hat nj IN rnh If6. int h.xy-
nS no relation to yourself. We are touched
)y all the events in our national history, by
he signing of the compact in the cabin of
he MayflOwer. by the small ship the Halt
Noon. sailing up the Hudson; by the treaty
Df William Penn. by the hand that made the
Liberty beli' sound its first stroke. by Old
Ironsides piowing the high seas. and. If
touched hy all the events cf past America, ,cer-
ainly by all the events OF the present day.
Every prayer you make for our rulers, ii the
prayer be of the right stamp and worth any,
hing, has rebound of benedictiOn for your
)wn body, mind and soul.
Another reason for obedience to my text
s that the prosperity of yhis country is COM
ng, and we want hand in helping on its
,orLing. At any rate do. 1t is a matter of
honest satisfaction to a soldier, after some
great battle has been fought and some great
victory won. to be able to say: Yes. was
here. | was in the brigade that stOrmed
hose heights. | was in that bavOnpt charge
hat put the enemy to flight" Well.the day
will come when all the financial, political
and moral foes OF this republic will be driven
back and driven down by the prosperities
hat are now on their way, but which come
With SLOW tread and in "fatigue dress" when
We want them to take "the double quick"
By our prayers we may stand on the noun
ain top and beckon them on and show them
4 shorter cut. Yea. in answer to oar pray
ers the Lord God of Hosts may from the high
han mounted troops ever took the field at
Eylau or Austerliz.
That was beautiful ana appropriate at the
aying of the cornerstone of the extension OF
he Capitol fifty-eight years after the corner
stone of the old Capitol had been laid. Yet
he cornerstone of our Republic was first
aid in 1776 and at the re-estabishment Of
our National Government was laid again in
1865. But are we not ready for the laying
)f the cornerstone of n broader and higher
National life? We have as q Nation received
30 much from God. Do W. not owe new
conservation? Are We not really to become
better Sabbath-keeping, peace-loving vir-
ue-honoring, God worshiping Nation? Are
We not ready for such n cornerstone laying?
Whynot now let 1t take place? With long
procession of prayers, moving from the north
and the south, the eat and the west, let the
scene be made august beyond comparison.
The God OF nations, who hath dealt with
is as with no other people. will preside at the
so.emnization. BY tho square and tbs level
and the plumb Of the everlasting right let
he corner stone bs adjusted. Let that cor
lerstone be the masoninS together OF tue
wo granite tables on which the law WAS
written when Sinai shook with the earth
,uake, and inside that cornerstone put thp
sermon on the mount and a scroll containing
he names OF all the men AMI women VINO
nave fought and prayed an toilet for the
good of this nation, fro II the first martyr OF
tho American Revolution down to the last
woman who bound up a soldiers wounds in
the field hospital. AMI let some one worthy
10 do so strike the stone three times with the
gospel hammer in the name OF God the
Father, God the Son aad God the Holy
GGost. Then let the building rise, one wall
laved by the Pacific ocean aud the other
washed of the Atlantic, until its capStone
shall be laid amid the shouting OF
all nations, by that time as tree as our own
divinely founded. divinely constructed, and
divInely protecte republic, the last throne
of oppression having fallen tint into the dust
and the last shackle oftyranny been hung up
in museum as relic OF barbnric ages.
The prayer that the great eXpounier wrote
20 be put in the cornerstone at ths extension
OF the Capitol | calculate as our own suppl
cation God save the United States of
Arherica," :" only adding the words with which
Robert South was apt to Close his sermons,
whether delivered before the Court at
Christ Church chapel or in Westminster
Abbey, at anniversary OF restoration OF OH
yer Cromwell amid the worst tempest that
ever swept over Eagland: TO God be rem
derei and ascribed. as is most due, all praise
might. ma jesty and dominion, both now ana
forever. Amen"
Every man is serving some kind o
a master.