Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-04-06
TYPENNA APRIL6l

iepcrs cured, and so they were always say
ing to Him, master, show US sign
Others thought He was going to found an
earthly kingdom, and wanted to get into
Office when He founded it. Others Thought
that they might entangle Him into saying
something against the Mosaic or Roman
laws which would lead to His condemna-
tion and death. Others followed just from
morbid curiosity to see the crowd and
hear something new. Others He Himself
accused of being after the fishes and the
loaves. They did not care about His mes
sage.
'sAll these people soon got tired Of fol-
lowing Christ; but l can vouch Tor one
thing-that no man for eighteen hundred
wears who has followed Jesus Christ for
what He is has ever been disappointed.
He is all that you make Him to be. Some
make little Saviour, because they think
little of Him.
"What seek We, you that are here to-nightF
Come, tell me. I could go through the
crowd and find Just the same motives
actuatinc YOU as those who followed the
Lord in Palestine. There are some men
back there who came to see the crowd
Another has come because his wife has
been nagging at him for the last three
weeks, and he promised to come. An
other man is here because he has nowhere
else to go. He says that IL he had good
comfortable home you would not find him
here. Another one comes to hear the
singing I'm glad he wanted to hear
something, anyway. Although some OF
you have come with low motives, thank
God you have come at all, and you may
change your mind before you're through.
I'm glad to have chance at you what
ever your motives for being here may be.
"Here is another text l want to read;
Seek We first the Kingdom of God and His
righteousness, and all these things shail be
added unto YOU SO many people think
that they will attend to temporal things
first, and after they have made comtorta-
BILE fortune and settled down they will at.
tend to eternal things. God says, No.
You must first seek the Kingdom Of God.
l think II this were really done you would
never come to want.
81 have been besought on all sides to
preach sermons on capital and labor and
similar subjects. My friends, believe as
Aong as you start right and follow that text
you will turn out right in the end. be.
lieve so many don't get on because the
Kingdom of God comes last, not first, with
them. You can't tell what may happen be-
fore the morning. Christ would not even
allow a man who followed Him to bury his
dead father before he had obtained the
Kingdom of God. Ibelieve there are thou
sands and tens of thousands of young peo'
pie who have written on the hyleaves o,
their Bibles by some loving father ot
mother the text have quoted, from Mat
thew vi, 80.
"If Moses should suddenly appear here
what do you suppose would be the first
words he would say to you? If you asked
him to come to the platform and take my
place he would say: The choice is be-
tween life and death, Choose life II
Hezekiah were to come here what would he
say? 1 think he would ask you. How
long halt We between two opinionsF
Solomon should appear he would say
Whatever thy hand lindeth to dc, do II
with thy might Suppose that little tent
maker, Paul of Tarsus, were here. He would
shout, Now is the accepted time, now /.
the day of salvation And il Jesus Chris
were to appear among us He would say
Seek We first the kingdom of God and Hi,
righteousness and ali these things shall b.,
added unto you.'"