Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-08-03

rumble and the sharp crack cannot over
power the voices of condemnation. Let
him whirl in the dancs of sin and temp
tation and death. All the brlliancy of the
scene cannot make him forget the last
look of his mother as he left home, when
she said to him: "Now, my son, you will
do right, L am sure you will do right; you
will, won't you?" That young man
happy? Why, across every night there
fits the shadows of eternal darkness
there are adders coiled up in every cup;
there vultures of despair striking
their iron beak into his heart; there are
skeleton fingers of grief pinching at the
throat. L come in amid the clicking of
the glasses, and under the flashing of the
chandeliers, and l cry. "Woel woel woel
The way of the ungodly shall perish.
There is no peace, saith my God, to the
wicked. The way of transgressors is
hard.'
Oh, do you know of anything, my hear
ers, that is more beautiful than to see a
young man start out for Christi Here IL
some one falling; he lifts him up Here is
| n vagabond boy; he introduces him to a
mission school. Here is family freezing
| to death, he carries them scuttle of coal
/ There are eight hundred millions perishing
in midnight heather darkness: by all posi-
! BILE means he tries to send them the Gospel
| He may be laughed at, and he may be
sneered at, and he may be caricatured; but
| he is not ashamed to go everywhere, say
ing, 81 am not ashamed of the Gospel Of
| Christ. 1t is the power of God and the wis
dom of God unto salvation" Such n young
man can go through everything. There is
| no force on earth orin hell that can resist
| him.
| show you three spectacles Spectacle
the first: Napoleon passes by with the host
| that went down with him to Egypt, and up
/ with him through Russia, and crossed the
/ continent on the bleeding henrt of which
| he set his iron heel, and across the quivrr-
/ ing flesh of which went grin ling the wheels
| of his gun carriages, in his dying moment
asking his attendants to put on his mill
| tary boot for him.
Spectacle the second: yoltaire, bright
and learned and witty and eloquent, with
| tongue and voice and stratagcm informal
warning against God and poisoning whole
| kingdoms with his inlidelty: vet appIauded
| by clapping hands Of thrones aud empires
and continents-his last words in delirium,
| supposinG Christ standing by his bedside
his last words. Crush that wretch"
Spectacle the third: Paul-Paul. the in
/ significant in person. thrust out from all
refined association, scourseI, spat on
/ bounded like wild beast from city to citv
| yet trying to make the world good and
| heaven full: announcing resurrection To
| those who mournrd at the barred gates of
| the dead; speaking consultations which
| light up the eyes of widowhool and or
! phanage and want with the glow OF GER
| those who could take his life his cheek
flushed with transport, and his eve on
/ heaven; with one hand shaking defiance at
| all of the foes of earth and all the prfuci-
palities of hell, and with the other hand
/ beckoning messenger angels to come and
| bear him away, rs he SAYS Il am now
ready to be offered. and the time of NV de-
| parture is Mt hand; | have fought the good
| fight; / have finished nv course: | have
| kept the faith: henceforth there l. laid up
! for me a crown of righteousness which the
Lord, the righteous judge, will give me-"
| Which of the three spectacles do Won
most admire? When the wind Of death
| struck the conqueror and the inillel they
| were tossed like sea-guls in Il tempest
/ drenched of the wave and torn OF the hur-
| ricane, their dismal voices heard through
! the everlasting storm but when the wave
and the wind Of death struck Paul. like an
| albatross he made a throne Of the tempest
and one day hoated away into the eniui
| clear summer VI heaven, brighter than the
/ dove, its wings covered with silver and its
| feathers with yellow gold. Oh. are You
not in love with such Religions rrlfg-
| ion that can do so much for a man while
| he lives, and so much for n man when he
| comes to die2 | suppose you may have
noticed the contrast between the de-
| parture of a Christian and the departure
/ of an iniidel. DeOdOrOus diving in a cha
| grin because he could not compose n Joke
| equal to the joke uttered at the other end
of the table. Zeuxis dying in a flt of laugh
ter at the sketch of an aged woman-a
sketch made by his own hands. Muzarin
dying playing cards, his friend holding
his hands because he was unable TO hold
them himself. All that on one side com
pared with the departure of the
Scotch minister, who said to his friends,
II have no interest rs to whether
l live or die; if l die I shall he
with the Lord and If live the Lord wilt
b.a ba Io1 l. w
ton, 1T IL Well" Or the last words Of
Mcintosh, the learned and the great.
Happy" Or the last words of Hannah
Moore, the Christian poetess, Joy" Or
those thousands of Christians who have
gone, saying, "LOr,. Jesus, receive my
spirit. Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly"
go death! where is thy sting? o gravel
where Is thy victory" Behold the con-
trast. Behold the charm of the one; be-
hold the darkness of the other. Now, I
know it is very popular in this day for
young men to think there is something
more charming in scepticism than in re-
ligiOn. They are ashamed of the old
fashioned religion of the cross, and they
pride themselves on their free thinking on
all these subjects. My young friends l
want to tell you what know from observa-
tion, that while skepticism is a beautiful
land at the start, it is the great Sahara
Desert at the last.
That 1 might WOO you to n better life.
and that | might show You the glories
with which God clothes His dear children
in heaven, / wish | could this morning
swing back one of the twelve gates thai
there might dash upon your ear one shout
of the triumph, that there might namS
upon your eye one blaze of all the splan-
dor Oh, when | speak Of that good land,
you involuntarily think of some ons there
that yOu loved father, mother. brother,
sister, or dear little child garnered al
ready. You want to know what they are
doing this morning. | will tell YOU what
they are doing. Singing. You want to
know what they wear. | will tell You
what they wear. Coronets or triumuh
"Oh," you say, "religion | am going In
have; it is only n question Of time" My
brother, ] am afraid that you may lose
heaven the way Louis Philippe lost his
empire. The Parisian mob came around
the Tuileries. The National Guard stood
in defense of the palaoc and the com.
mander said to Louis Philippe, shall /
fire nOw2 Shall | order the troops To- iire2
With one vOlley we can clear the plarcy'
'No," said Louis Philippe, mot yet"
few minutes passed on, and then Louis
Philippe, seeing the ease was hopeless, said
to the General, Now is the time to fire"
mo" said the General. lit is too Into now;
don't you see that the soldiers are cXchang-
ing arms with the ci.iZens2 lti- too late. D."
ID Down went the throne of Louis Philippe.
Away from the earth went the house Of
Orleans, and all because the King said
''Not yet not yet" May God forbid that
any OF you should adjourn this great sub
ject of religion, aud should postpone as
sailing your spiritual foes until it Is too
late-tOO late, you losing n throne in heaven
the way that Louis Philippe lost IA throne
on earth.
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