Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-11-01

| school, wh.. some OF
fathers house; some of you since you came
| to manhood or womanhood, while sum-
\ mering on the beach of the sea. 1t Is a
good thing to know how to swim, not only
for yourself, but because you will after
awhile perhaps have to help others.
do not know anything more stirring or
sublime than to see some man like Norman
| Mckenzie leaping from the ship Madras
| into the sea to save Charles Turner, who
| had dropped from the royal yard while
| trying to loosen the SAIL bringing him back
| to the deck amid the huzz..s of the passen-
gers and crew. II man has not enthusi-
| asm enough to cheer in such circum-
| stances, he deserves himself to drop into
| the sea and have no one help him. The
Royal Humane Society of England was eS-
| tablished in 1774. its object to applaud and
| reward those " ho shou III pluck up life from
the deep. Any one who has performed
such a deed of daring has all the particu-
| lars OF that bravery recorded in a public
record and on his breast a medal done in
| blue and gold and bronze, anchor and mon
| ogram and Inscription, telling to future
| generations the bravery OF the man or
| woman who saved some one from drown
| ing. But IL it is such worthy thing to
save a body from the deep 1 ask you II it is
not . worthier thing to save an immortal
| soul. And you shall see this hour the Son
"
''He shall spread forth his hands in the
midst of them, as he that swmmeth
spreadeth forth his hands to SWIM"
In order to understand the full force Of
| this figure, you need to realize that our
race is in a sinking condition. You some
times hear people talking Of what they
consider the most beautiful words In all
our language. One man says 1t is "home,' -
| another says 1t Is the word "mother," an
other says it the word Jesus" but 1 tell
you the bitterest word in all our language,
| the word most angry and ba)eful, the word
| saturated with the most trouble, the word
| that accounts for all the loathsomeness
| and the pang and the outrage and the har-
rowing, and that word is "sin." You spell
! 1t with three letters and yet those three
: letters describe the circumference and
| pierce the diameter Of everything bad in
| the universe. Sin Is n sibllant word. You
| cannot pronounce 1t without giving the
| siss of the flame or the hiss OF the serpent.
Sin! And then IL you add three letters to
that VOID it describes every one OF US by
| nature-sinner. We have outraged the
law of God, not occasionally, or now and
then. but perpetually. The Bible declares
It. Hark! 1t thunders two claps: "The
heart is deceitful above all things and des-
perately wicked" "TDe sonl that slnneth,
] II shall die" What the Bible says our
| own conscience afarms.
| After Judge Morgan had sentenced Lady
1
him so much for the deed that he became
insane, and all through his insanity he
| kept saying: "Take her away from me!
I Lady Jane Grey! Take her awayi Lady
Jane Greyl' 1t was the voice of conscience.
| And no man ever does anything wrong,
however great or small, but the conscience
brings that matter before him, and at
every step OF his misbehavior 1t says,
"Wrong, wrong!' Sin Is a leprosy; sin is a
paralysis; sin is a consumption, sin is pollu-
| ton; sin Is death. Give 1t n fair chance,
and it will swamp you and me. body. mind
| and soul, forever. In this world it only
gives a faint intimation of its virulence.
/ You see patient in the first stages of ty-
| phoid fever. The Cheek is somewhat
| flushed, the hands somewhat hot, preceded
by "a slight chill. ''Why," you say, ety.
Of a disease" But wait until the patient
has been six weeks under it. and all his
| energies have been wrung out, and he Is
| too weak to lift his little finger, and his
intellect gone, then you see the full havoc
| Of the disease. Now, sin In this world Is
| an ailment which is only in its first stages
| but let II get under full sway, and 1t Is an
all consuming typhoid. oh, II we could
| see our unpardoned sins as God sees them,
our teeth would chatter and our knees
| would knock together, and our respiration
| would be choked. and our heart would
| break. II your sins are unforgiven. they
| sinking-sinking away from happiness
sinking away from God, sinking away from
everything that is good and blessed.
| Then what do We want? swimmer-a
| strong swimmer, n swift swimmer! And
| blessed be God, In my text we have him
announced. "He shall spread forth his
hands In the midst OF them 90 ." ~