The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-05-14

gage can lie quiet for ten years, but al
soon as he gets the mortgage he
records il and begins foreclosure suit,
and the sheriff's writ comes down, and
the day of sale arrives, and aw ny goes
the homestead, and creditor buys it In
at half price" Honest? When he
loaned the money he knew that he
would get the homestead at half price
Honest? But he goes to the insurance
Office to get a policy on his life, and
tells the doctor that he is well, when
he knows that for ten years he had had
but one lung. Honest? though he sells
property by the map, forgetting to tell
the purchaser that the ground is all
under. water; but it lis generous in him
to do that, for he throws the water
into the bargain.
All! my friends, there is but one
standard of the everlasting right and
of the everlasting wrong, and that is
the Bible; and when that principle
shall get its pry under our commercial
houses, believe that one-half of them
will go over. The ruin will begin at
one end of the street, and it will be
crash! crash! crash! all the way down
to the docks, "What is the matter?
Has there been fall in gold?" "Oh,
no." HAS there been new tariff"
mo" HAS there been a failure in
crops?' No" Has there been an un-
accountable panic?" mo" This is
the secret: The Lord God has set up
His throne of judgment in the ex-
change. He has summoned the right
eous and the wicked to come befor e
Him. What was 1892, A day of judg-
ment! What was 1857? A day of
Judgment! What was the extreme de-
preston of two years ago? A day of
Judgment! Do you think that God is
going to wait until He has burned the
world up before He rights these
wrongs? l tell you, nay! Every day
is day of Judgment.
The fraudulent man piles up his
gains, bond above bond, United States
security above United States security,
emolument above emolument, until his
property has become great pyramid;
and as he stands looking at it, he
thinks it never can be destroyed, but
the Lord God comes and with his little
niger pushes IL all over.
You build house, and you put
into it rotten beam. A mechanic
standing by says: at will never do to
put that beam in; it will ruin your
whole building" But You put it in.
The house is completed. Soon it be-
gins to rock. You call in the me-
chanic and ask: "What is the matter
with this door? What is the matter
with this wall? Everything seems to
be giving out" Says the mechanic:
You put rotten beam into that
structures and the whole thing has got
to come down" Here is an estate that
seems to be all right now. 1t has been
building great many years. But Is
years ago there was dishonest trans
action in that commercial house. That
one dishonest transaction will keep on
working ruin in the whole structure,
until down the estate will come in
wreck and ruin about the possessor's
ears--one dishonest dollar in the es-
tate demolishing all his possessions. l
have seen it again and again; and so
have you.
Here is your money-safe. The manu-
facturer and yourself only know how
it can be opened. You have the key.
You touch the lock, and the ponderous
door swings back. But let me tell you
that, however firmly barred and bolted
your money-safe may be, you can not
keep God out. He will come, some day,
into your countlng-room, and He will
demand: where did that note of
hand come from? How do you account
for this security? Where did you
get that mortgaged from? What does
this mean?" If it is all right, God will
say: "Well done, good and faithful
servant. Be prospered in this world.
Be happy in the world to come If it
is all wrong He will say: Depart, we
cursed. Be miserable for your iniqui-
ties in this life, and then go down and
spend your eternity with thieves, and
horse jockeys and pickpockets.
You have an old photograph of the
signs on your street. Why have those
signs nearly all changed within the
last 20 years? Does the passing away
of a generation account for it? Oh, no.
Does the fact that there are hundreds
of honest men who go down every year
account for it? Oh, no. This is the
secret The Lord God has been walk
ing through the commercial streets of
our great cities; and He has been ad-
justing things according to the prin-
ciples of eternal rectitue.
The time will come when, through
the revolutionary power of this Gospel,
falsehood, instead of being called ex-
aggeration, equivocation, or evasion,
will be branded lie! And stealings,
that now sometimes go under the head
of percentages and commissions and
bonuses, will be put into the catalogue
of state prison ofienses. Society will
be turned inside out and upside down,
and ransacked of Gods truth, until
business dishonesties shall come to an
end, and all double dealing; and God
will overtnrn, and overturn, and over
turn; and commercial men in all cities
throw up their hands, crying out:
"These that have turned the world up
side down are come hither."
The religion of Jesus Christ will pro-
ddce revolution in our churches. The
non-committal, do-nothing policy of
the Church of God will give way to a
spirit of bravest conquest. Piety in
this day seems to me to be sailed down
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