The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-09-17

and women have been saved quicker
than | have been talking about IL.
What! Without prayer? Yes. What!
without time TO deliberately think 1t
over? Yes. What! Without tearp
Yes. Believe; that is all. Believe
what? That Jesus died to save you
from sin and death and hell. Will you?
Do you? You have. Something makes
me think you have. New light has
come into your countenance. We'll
come. welcome! Hail, hail! Saved
yourselves, how are you to save 9TH
ers? By testimony. Tell IL TO your
family. Tell it to your business asso.
ciates. Tell il everywhere. We will
successfully preach no more religion
and will successfully talk no more re-
ligion than we ourselves have. The
most of that which you do to benefit
the souls of this generation you will
effect through your own behavior. Go
wrong. and that will induce others to
go wrong. Go right, and that will in
duce others TO go right.
confess to you that my one wish Is
to serve this generation. not to antag-
onize II, not TO damage 1t, not TO rule
it, but to serve il. | would like to do
something toward helping unstrap its
load to stop its tears, to balsam its
wounds and to induce it to put foot on
the upward road that has at its termi-
nus reclamation rapturous, and gates
pearline, and garlands amaranthine.
and fountains rainbowed, and domin-
ions ehthroned and coroneted, for can
not forget that lullaby in the closing
words of my text: David, after he had
served his own generation, by the will
of God, fell on sleep" What a lovely
sleep il was! Unfilal Absalom did not
trouble it, Ambitious Adonijah did not
worry it. Prosecuting Saul did not har-
row it. Exile did not fill II with night
mare. Since red headed boy amid his
fathers flocks at night hg' had not had
such II good sleep. AZ 70 years Of age
he laid down to il. He had had many
troubled sleep, rs in the caverns of
Adullam or in the palace at the time
his enemies were attempting his cap
ture. But this was peaceful sleep.
calm sleep, a restful sleep. a glorious
sleep.
OAway with all your gloomy talk
about departing from this world! III
we have served our generation, it will
not be putting out into the breakers;
it will not be the fight with the king
Of terrors; it will be going to sleep.
A friend. writing me from Illinois, says
that Rev. DR.. Wingate, president OF
Wake Forest college, North Carolina.
after most useful life. found his last
day on earth his happiest day. and that
in his last moments he seemed to be
personally talking with Christ, as
friend with friend, saying: "Oh, how
delightful it is! / knew you would be
with me when the time came, and i
knew it would be sweet, but did
not know II would be as sweet as 1t is"
The fact was he had served his gen.
Grafton in the Gospel ministry, and
by the will of God he fell asleep. When
in Africa Mnjwara, the servant, looked
into the tent of David Livingstone and
found him on his knees, he stepped
back, not wishing to disturb him in
prayer. and some time after went in
and found him in the same posture and
stepped back again, but after awhile
went in and touched him, and, lol the
great traveller had finished his last
journey, and he had died in the grand
est and mightiest posture n man ever
takes-on his knees. He had served
his generation by unrolling the scroll
Of continent, and by the will OF God
fell on sleep.
And should not wonder il after we
have served our generation and by the
will Of God have fallen on sleep, the
deep sleep. the restful sleep, we should
awaken in blissfui bewilderment and
for little while say: Where am I?
What palace is this? Why, this looks
like Heaven. 1t is. 1t is. Why. tbereis
a building grander than all the castles
Of earth heaved into mountain Of
splendor- that must be the palace of
Jesus. And look there at those walks
lined with foliage more beautiful than
anything ] ever saw before, and see
those who are walking down those aisles
of verdure. From what have heard of
them those two arm in arm must be
Moses and Joshua, him of Mount Sinai
and him Of the hating sun over Gideon,
and these two walking arm in arm
must be John and Paul. the one so
gentle and the other so mighty.
But must not look any longer at
those gardens of beauty, but examine
this building in which l have just
awakened. | look out of the window
this way and that and up and down,
and find 1t is mansion of immense
size in which l am stopping. All its
windows of agate and its colonnades of
porphyry and alabaster. Why, won
der If this is not the house of many
mansiops,' of which | used to read?
1t Is. 1t Is. There must be many of
my kindred and friends in this very
mansion. IIark! Whose are those
voices? Whose are those bounding
feet? open the door and see, and. 10.
they are coming through all the cor
ridors and up and down all the stairs,
our long absent kindred. Why. there
is father, there is mother. there are
the children. All well again. All
young again. All of us together again.
And as we embrace each other with
the cry, Never more to part; never