Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-03-16
FFINN,wN NJUNnTAo Y.pENN~ WEDNESDAY, MAMHww NO.

,arIon OF this world is n stupendour under-
taking. 1t takes more power to make this
world over again than II took 10 make Il at
first. A word was only necessary for the
first creation, but for the new creation the
unsleeved and unhindered forearm OF the
Almighty. The reason OF that / can under.
stand. In the shipyards OF Liverpool. or
Glasgow, or New York, great vessel IL
constructed The architect draws out this
plan, the length Of the beam, the capacity
of tonnage, the rotation Of wheel or screw,
the cabin the masts and all the appoint
ments of this great palace OF the deep. The
! architect finishes his work without any
perplexity, ana the carpenters and artisans
toll on the craft so many hours day, each
one doing his part, until, with hags lying
and thousands of people cheering on the
docks, the vessel is launched. But out on
the sea that vessel breaks her shaft and is
limping slowly along toward harbOr, when
Caribbean whirlwinds, those mighty hunt
| ers of the deep, looking out for prey Of
| ships, surround that wounded vessel and
pitch it on a rocky coast, and she lifts and
falls in the breakers until every joint is
! loose and every spar Is down, and every
wave sweeps over the hurricane deck as
she parts amidship. Would it not require
! more skill and power to get that splintcred
vessels of the rocks and reconstruct it than
! 1t required originally 20 build herY Ayei
"Our world, which started out with all
| the flags of Edenic foliage aud with the
! chant of Paradisaical bowers has been six
! ty centuries pounding in the skerries of sin
and sorrow and to get her out and on and
| to get her on the right way again, will re-
! quire more Of omnipotence than 1t required
| to build her and launch her. So 1 am not
surprised that, though in the drydock of
one word our world was made, il will take
the unsleeved arm Of God to lift her from
the rocks and put her on the right course
again. 1t Is evident from my text, and its
comparison with other texts that il would
not be so great an undertaking to make
whole constellation of worlds aud a whole
galaxy of worlds, and a whole astronomy
of worlds, and swing them in their right
orbits, as to take this wounded world, this
stranded world, this bankrupt world, this
destroyed world, and make it as good as
when it started.
But L have no time to specify the mani
fold evils that challenge Christianity And
think have seen in some Christians, and
read in some newspapers, and heard from
some pulpits, a disheartenment, as though
Christianity were so worsted tnat it is
hardly worth while to attempt to win this
world of God, and that all Christian work
would collapse, and that it is no use foryou
to teach a Sabbath class, to distribute tracts
or exhort in prayer meeting, or preach in
pulpit, as Satan is gaining ground.
To rebuke that pessimism, the Gospel of
Smash-up, l preach this sermon, showing
that you are on the winning side. Go
out to-day is that our ammunition is not
exhausted; that all which has been ac-
complished has been only the skrmishing
before the great Armageddon; that not
more than one of the thousand fountains
of beauty in the Kings Park has begun to
play; that not more than one brigade of
the innumerable hosts to be marshaled by
the Rider on the White Horse has yet taken
the field; that what God has done vet has
been with arm folded in flowing robe but
that the time is coming when he will rise
from his throne, and throw OFF that robe,
and come out of the palaces OF eternity,
and come down the stairs of heaven with
all-conquering step, and halt in the pres
ence OF expectant nations, and flashing
his omniscient eyes across the work to be
done will put back the sleeve OF his right
arm to the shoulder and roll it up there,
and for the worlds final and complete
rescue make bare his his arm. Who can
doubt the result when according to my
text Jehovah does his best; when the last
reserve force of Omnipotence takes the
field; when the last swotd of Eternal Might
leaps from it's scabbard!
DO you know what decided the battle
OF Sedan? The hills Il thousand feet high.
Eleven hundred cannon on the hills. Ar
tillery on the heights of Giyonne, and
twelve German batteries on the heights Of
La Moncello. The Crown Prince of Sax
ony watched the scene from the heights
of Marry. Between "a quarter to O'Clock
IN tl6 morning ana L o CLOCK IN the after
noon of September ?. 1870, the hills
dropped the shells that shattered the
French host in the valley. The French
Emperor and the $1,000 of his army cap
tured by the hills. At the close Of that
battle of Sedan the Emperor sat broken
hearted in poor wOman's cottage. aud
when she said in sympathy, what can l
do for you2 he replied, Nothing. except
pull down those blinds so that they can
not stare at mel Sedan decided by tbs
hills. So in this conflict now raging be-
tween holiness and sin our eyes are unto
the hills Down here in the valleys of
earth we must be valiant soldiers of the
cross, but the Commander of our host
walks the heights, and views the scene
FAR better than we can in the valleys
and at the right day and the right hour
all heaven will open its batteries on our
side, and the commander of the hosts of
sin, with all his followers. viii surren-
Ter, and it will take eternity to fully
celebrate the universal victory through
,ur Lord Jesus Christ. our eyes are unto
he hills 1t is certain to be accom-
Dlished that Isaiah, in my text, looks down
through the field-Glass of prophecy and
speaks of It as already accomplished and
take my stand where the prophet took
Ms stand, and look at it as all done. Seei
Those cities without tear? Looki Those
continents without pangl Behold Those
without a sinl Why those
leserts-Arabian desert. American desert
md Great Sahara desert-are all irrigated
ntO gardens where God walks in the cool
# the day. The atmosphere that encircIes
'ur globe floating not one groan. All the
ivers and lakes and oceans dfmpled with
lot one falling tear. The climates OF the
arth have dropped out of them the rigors
# the cold and the blasts of the heat aud
[ is universal spring. Let Us change the
Id worlds name. Let it no more be called
he earth, as when it was reekiug with
pestiferous and maleyOIent.
carleted with battle-1eids and gashed
With graves, but nov so changed 50 aro-
natic with gardens, and so resonant with
ong, and so rubesccnt with beauty. let US
all it Immanuel's Land, or let US cali it
'eulah, or AIillennial Gardens, or Paradise
or Heavenl Halleluiah for the
,ord God OmnipOtent reigueth Hallelu-
All, for the Kingdoms of this world have
ecoms the kingdoms of Christi