Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-11-30
cided and tremendous purpose. saying. Ito
this end was born"

this end was born.'
But my subject now mounts into the
Inomentous. Let me say that you are
made for usefulness and heaven.
judge this from the way you arc built.
You go into shop where there is only
one wheel turning and that by work.
mans foot on a treadle, and you say to
yourself, "Here is something good being
done, yet on a small scale" but IL you go
into a factory covering many acres and you
find thousands of bands pulling on thou
sands of wheels and shuttles flying and
the whole scene bewildering with activi-
ties, driven by water or steam or electric
power, you conclude that the factory was
put up to do great work and on a vast
scale. Now, look at you, and IL / should
find that you bad only one faculty of body.
only one muscle. only one nerve, IL you
could see but not hear or could hear and
not see, If you had the use OF only one foot
or one hand, and, as to your higher nature,
IL you had only one mental faculty and you
had memory but no judgment or Judgment
but no will, and il you had a soul with
only one capacity, 1 would say not much
i. expected of you. But stand up. . man,
and let me iooK you squarely in the
face! Eyes capable of seeing everything.
Ears capable of hearing everything.
Hands capable of grasping everything.
Minds with more wheels than any fac
tory ever turned, more power than any
Corliss engine ever moved. 4 soul that will
outlive all the universe except heaven, and
would outlive all heaven il the life of the
other immortals were a moment short Ct
the eternal. Now, what has the world a
right to expect of you? What has God q
right to demand OF you? God Is the great
est of economists In the universe, and He
makes nothing uselessly, and for what pur-
pose did He build your body, mind and soul
as they are built? There are only two be-
ings in the universe who can answer that
question. The angels do not know. The
schools do not know. Your kindred cannot
certainly know. God knows, and you ought
to know. Afactory running at an expense
OF $500 900 year and turning out goods
worth seventy cents year would not be
such an incongruity as you. man, with
such semf-fnf!nite equipment doing moth
ing, or next to nothing, in the way OF USE
lulnessl ''What shall dor" you ask. My
brethren, my sisters, do not ask me. Ask
God. There's some path of Christian use
tulness open. 1t may be a rough path or
I may be smooth path, u long path or q
short path. 1t may be on a mount of con-
,picuity or in a valley unobserved, but it is
path on which you can start with such
!aith and such satisfaction and such GER
afnty that you can cry out in the face of
earth and hell and heaven, "To this end I
vas born.
You have examined the family Bible and
explored the family records and you may
lave seen daguerreotypes of some OF the
Kindred of previous generations, you have
lad photographs taken of what you were
N boyhood or girlhood, and what you were
:en years later, and it is very Interestingly to
my one to be able to look back upon pic
:ures of what he was ten or twenty or
thirty years ago. But have you ever mad q
picture taken of what you may be and
what you will be II you seek after God and
eel the spirits regenerating power? Where
ihall l plant the camera to take the pic
:ure? plant 1t on this platform. Idirect
toward you. Sit still or stand still while
. take the picture. 1t shall he an instan-
aneous picture. There! 1 have it. 1t Is
lone. You can see the picture in its i'm
perfect state and get some idea of what it
will be when thoroughly developed. There
your resurrected body, so brilliant that
he MONDAY sun is patch of midnight
compared with it. There is your soul, SO
pure that all the forces OF diabolism could
lot spot It with I'm imperfectior rhare
your being, SO mighty and sv,-5wift
hat flight from heaven to Mercury or
dars or Jupiter and back again to heaven
would not weary you, and a world on each
ihculder would not crush you. An eye
hat shall never shed tear. An energy
hat shall never feel fatigue. A brow
hat shall never throb with pain. You are
7oung again, though you died of decrepi-
:ude. Iou are well again though YOU
:oughed or shivered yourself into tho tomb.
FOUR everyday associates are the apostles
and prophets and martyrs, and the most
EXALTED souls, masculine and feminine, of
all the centuries. The archangel to you no
God Himself your present
and everlasting joy. That is an instan-
;aneous picture of what you may. be and
What am sure some of you will be.
If you realize that it is an imperfect pic
.ure my apology is what the apostle John
'aid, ut doth not yet appear what We
.hall be-" ITO this end was 1 bonn"
Il did not think so 1 would be over
aH yUft naln ha
ioes very we'll for little while, eighty
,r 100 or $50 years, and l think that
human longevity may yet be improved
Up to that prolongation, for now there
& so little room between our cradle and
'ur grave we cannot accomplish much;
,ut who would want to dwell in this
world 70: all eternity? Some think this
'arth will finally be turned into "a heaven.
Perhaps it may. but it would have to
Undergo radical repairs and thorough
and evolutions and revolu-
ions and transformations infinite to
make it desirable for eternal residence.
III the east winds would have to become
vest winds, and all the winters changed to
and all the volcanoes extin-
,uished, and the oceans chained to their
,eds, and the epidemics forbidden entrance,
md the world so fixed up that think it
would take more to repair this old world
han to make an entirely new one.
In the seventeenth century all Europe
vas threatened with wave of Asiatic bar
,arism and Vienna was especially be-
ieged. The king and his court had fed
md nothing could save the city from be-
ng overwhelmed unless the king OF Po-
and, John Sobieski, to whom they had
ent for help. should with his army come
lown for the relief, and from every roof
md tower the Inhabitants of Vienna
watched and waited and hoped until on
he morning of September IL the rising
n arall laIa
1t was the reflection of the
un ON the swords and shields aud helmets
If John Sobiesi and his army coming
lown over the hills to the rescue, and that
lay not only Vienna, but Europe, was
aved. And see you not, o ye souls be-
legged with sin and sorrow, that light
freaks In, the swords and the shields and
he helmets of divine rescue bathed in the
Using sun of heavenly deliveraucep
Let everything else go rather than let
heaven go.
What strange thing 1t must be to feel
oneself born to an earthly crown, but you
iave been born for n throne on which you
nay reign after the last monarch of all the
,arth shall have gone to dust. L invite
'ou to start now for your own coronation,
o come in and take the title deeds to your
Inheritance. Through an I'M
)assioned prayer, take heaven and all Of
is raptures.
What a poor farthing is all that this
world can offer you compared with pardon
lere and life immortal beyond the stars
inless this side of them there be place
arge enough and beautiful enough and
grand enough for all the raDso hedl Wher-
aver 1t be- in what world, whether near by
,r far away, in this some other con-
;tellation. hail, home oflight, and love and
Dlessednessl Through the atoniug mercy
Of Christ. may we all get therel
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