Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-04-13
NO. lS.

,ected, and he makes another Investment,
md strange to say, at the same time all
lis other affairs get entangled, and all his
other resources fail and his hands are tied.
Eow he wants to extricate himself. He
goes little further on in the wrong in
vestment. He takes a plunge further
ahead, for he wants to save his wife and
shildren; he wants to save his home; he
wants to save his membership in the church.
He takes one more plunge and all Is lost.
In the study of society have come TO
;his conclusion, that the most of the people
want to be good, but they do not exactly
know how to make it out. They make
enough good resolutions to lift them into
ingelhood. The vast maj ority OF the pep
pie who fall are the victims OF cir:um-
stances. They are captured by anbuScaie.
II tt cir temptations should come out in
regiment and fight them in a fair field they
would go out In the strength and triumph
of David and Goliath. But they do notsts
the giants aud they do not see the reSi-
nents. Temptation comes and says:
Take these bitters, take this nervine,
take this aid to digestion. take this night
,ap." The vast majority of men and
women who are destroyed by opium and
oy rum first take them as medicines. In
making up your dish OF criticism in regard
20 them, take from the caster ami the cruet
If sweet oil and not the cruet of cayenne
pepper.
Do you know how that physician, that
lawyer, that journalist, became the victim
of dissipation Why, the physician was
kept up night by night on professional
1uty. Life and death lowered in the ball
ance. His nervous system was exhausted.
There came a time of epidemics and whole
families were prostrated and his nervous
strength was gone. He was all worn out
In the service of the public. Now he must
brace himself up. Now he stimulates. The
dfe of bis mother the life OF this child, the
life OF this father, the life OF this whole
family, must be saved, and he stimulates.
and he does 1t again and again. You may
.riticise his judgment, but remember the
process. It was not a selfish purpose by
which he went down. 1t WAS magnificent
generosity through which he fell.
My friends, this text will come to full
dllment In some cases in this world. The
huntsman in Farmsteen was shot by
some unknown person. Twenty years
later after the son OF the huntsm N was
n the same forest, and he accidentally
,hot a man, and the man in dying said:
God Is just; / shot your father Just here
twenty years ago" A bishop sail to
Louis Xf. of France: Make an iron
cage for all those who do not think as We
loan iron cage in which the captive can
neither lie down nor stand straight up" 1t
was fashioned-the awful instrument of
punishment. After while the bishop Of
tended Louis XI., and for fourteen years
he was in that cage, and could neither lie
will not work both ways. "With what
measure ye mete, 1t shall be measured to
gou again"
Oh my friends let US be resolved to scoId
tess and pray more.
What heaiway will we make in the ju1s-
nent il In this world we have been hard on
those who have gone astray? What head
wav will you and L make in the last great
Judgment, when We must have mercy or
perish2 The Bible says: They shall have
Judgment without mercy that showed no
Mercy"
see the scribes of heaven looking up in
20 the face Of such a man, saying, WHAT
you plead for mercy, you, who in all your
life never had any mercy on your fellows2
Don't you remember how hard you were in
your opinions of those who were nstray2
Don't you remember when you ought to
have given a helping hand you employed n
hard heel? Mercy! You must mis-speak
Yourself when you plead for mercy here.
Mercy for others, but no mercy for you.
Look say the scribes of heaven, ''iook
1t that inscription over the throne OF iudg-
nent, the throne OF Gods Judgment" See
It coming out letter by letter, word by
word, sentence by sentence, until your
startled vision reads it and your remorse-
tul spirit appropriates it: ''With what
measure ye mete, it shall be measured to
you again. Depart, ye cursedl'