Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-07-27
NO. 80

many years maue II n practice to read
through the Bible once year NV Gus
tom Is to read four or 1--we chapters every
morning Immediately after rising from my
bed. 1t employs about an hour of my time,
and seems to me the most suitable manner
of beginning the day. In what light So
ever we regard the Bible whether with
reference to revelation, to history or to
morality, it is an invaluable and mex
haustible mine of knowledge and virtue"
chancellor Kent. what do you think Of
the Bible?" Answer: NO other book
ever addressed itself so authoritativcly
and pathetically to the judgment and
moral sense of mankind" Edmund
Burke, what do you think'of the Bible;'
Answer: 81 have read the Bible morning,
noon and night. and have ever since been
the happier and the better man for such
reading"
Young men of America, come out of the
circle of infdels-mOstly made up of
cranks and inbeciles-into the company Of
intellectual giants, and turn your back
on an infidelity which destroys body and
soul.
Ahl Inndelity, stand up and take thy
sentence! In the presence OF God, angels
and men, stand up, thou monster! Thy lin
blasted with basphemy, they check scarred
with uncleanness thy breath foul with the
corruption of the aSes Stand up. Satyr.
filthy goat, buZzard of the nations, leper of
the centuriesi Stand up, thou monster,
reptile, part dragOn, stand up and take
thy scntence Thy hands red with tho
blood In which thou hast washed, thy feet
crimson with the human gore through
which thou hast waded. stand up and take
thy sentence! Down with thee to the pit.
and sup on the sobs and grOaus OF those
thou hast destroyed and let thy music be
the everlasting miscrcrc Of those whom
thou hast damned! | brand the forehead
of infldclity with all tho crimes Of srlf-im-
notation for the last century on the part
of those who had their reason.
My friends, II ever your life, through it,
abrasiOns and its mOlcStatiOn5. should
seem to be unbcarable, and you are tempt
ed to quit 1t by your own behest, do not
consider yourself as worse than others.
Christ Himself was tempted to cast Him
self from the roof of the Temple, but n
He resisted, SO resist ye. Christ came to
medicine all wounds. In your trouble /
prescribe life instead of death. People who
have had it worse than you will ever have
it, have gone sOngfully on their way. Re
member that God keeps the chronology Of
your life with as much precision a. He
! keeps the chronology of nations, your
grave as well as your cradle. Why was il
that at midnight lust at midnight tn, de-
stroying angel struck the blow that set the
Israelites free from hOudagcy The four
hundred and thirty years We're mp at twelve
o'clock that night. The four hundred aud
thirty years were not up at eleven. aud one
o'clock would hav" been tarlv and too
late. The four hun lre1 aud thirty years
were up at twelve o'clock. and the de-
! stroying angel struck the blow. aui Israel
/ was free. And God knows just the
hour when it is time to lead You up from
| earthly bondage By His crare make not
the worst of things, hut best Of them. II
| you must take the pills. do not chew them.
Your everlasting reward will nccorl with
your earthly perturbations, just a- Cuius
/ gave to ASrippa chain of gold as heavy
/ as had been n chain Of iron. For the ask
/ ing you may have the same grace that was
given the italian martyr, Agrrus who.
| down in the darkest of dungeons dated his
/ letters from "the delrctabir orchard Of the
| Leonine prison. And remember that this
! brief life Is surrounded by "A rim. q very
thin, but rery important rim, and close NJ
to that rim is great eternity. and you had
| better keep out of it until God breaks that
rim and separates this from that. To- get
rid of the sOrrowS Of earth, do not rush
into greater sorrows. To got rid ola swarm
| of summer insects, leap not into Jungle
| of Bengal tigers.
There is sorrOwless world, and it is so
radiant that the nOOnday sun Is only the
! lowest doorstep, and the aurora that lights
up our northern Heavens, cOnf0undinE
astronomers rs to what IL can bc, Is tho
waving of the banners of the procession
| come to take the conquerors home from
| church militant to church triumphant, and
You and | have ten thousand reasons for
! wanting to 60 There, but We will never get
| there either by self-immolation or impoui-
tcncy. All our sins slain by Christ who
came to do that thing. we want to 20 In
at just the time divncly arranged, and
from n couch divinely spread, and then
the clang of the sepulchral gates behind
US will be overpowercd by the clang Of the
opening of the solid pearl before Us. o
Goll Whatever others may choose. civo
me n Christians life, Christians death,
| Christians burial, a Christians immor-
| talityl