Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-04-05
SERMONS OF THE DAY,
Subject, "Rsr1ls Of the stropolis's.The
Luxury and the squslor Of Great Cities
Thrown Into Violent Contrast-Ohjscs
Lessons Drawn FfeA Bxporaence.

Thrown Into Violent Contfast-OhJec1
Lessons Drawn Fron Experience.
TEXT: ''wisdom crietb without; she ut
L.. 20.
We are all ready to listen to the voices OF
nature-the voices Of the mountain, the
voices Of the sec, the voices of the storm,
tho voices OF the star. Az in some Of the
eathedrals In Europe there is an organ ct
either end Of the building, and the ono In.
strument responds musically to the other,
30 in the great cathedral of nature day rs.
sponds to day and night to night and
flower to flower and star to star In the
great harmonies Of the universe. The
Spfingtime Il an evangelist In blossoms
preaching Of Gods love, and the winter if
. prophet-white bearded-symbolizina
woe against our sins. We are all ready te
listen to the voices Of nature, but how few
Of US learn anything from the voices OF the
noisy aud dusty street, You go to youi
mechanism and to your work and to your
and often with how different q heart you
pass through the streets. Are there nc
things for us to learn from these pave
ments over which we pass? Are there nc
tufts Of truth growing up between these
cobblestones. beaten with the feet OF toll
and pain and pleasure. the slow tread o.
old age and the quick step OF childhoodi
Ave, there are great harvests to be reaped,
and now I thrust In tho sickle because the
harvest is ripe. "Wisdom crieth without:
she uttereth her voice In the Streets"
In the first place, the street impresses
me- with tho fact that this lie is a scene OF
toll and struggle. BY ten o'clock every dav
the citv Is jarring with wheels, and shufY-
ling with feet, and bumming with voices,
and covered with the breath OF smoke
stacks. and rush with traff1ckers. Once
in awhile you find a man going along with
81 - Late rvalx, for
though he had nothing to do: but for the
most part. as you find men going dowr
these streets on the way to business. there
Is anxiety in their faces, as though they
| had some errand which must be executed
| at the first possible moment. You are
jostied by those who have bargains tc
| make and notes to sell. Up this ladde,
| with a hod of bricks, out of this bank with
| roll Of bills, on this dray with load oil
| goods, digging cellar, or shtngling root.
| or shoeing a horse, or building wall, or
mending a watch. or binding a book. In
dustry, with her thousand arms and thou-
| sand eyes and thousand feet goes on sing
| ing her song OF work. work, work, while
| the mills drum 1t and the steam whistles
| fife II. All this not because men love toll
Some one remarked, Every man H. as lazy
As he can afford to be- But II 1, because
necessity with stern brow and with uptifted
Woip stand over you ready whenever you
rs,ax your toll to make your shoulder
| sting with the Lash.
Dan It be that passing up and dowr
business that You do not learn anything
of the worlds toll and anxiety ant
struggle? Oh, how many dropping hearts
how many ewes on the watch, how man,
miles travelled, how MANY burdens carried
how many losses suffered. how man!
how many defeats suffered, how many ex
aspefations endured; what losses, wha
hunger. what wretchedness, what pallor
what disease, what agony, what despair
Sometimes have stopped at the corner o
tns street as tia multitudes went hithe
pantomime, and Is looked upon Il m
; heart broke. This great tide OF human lif
that goes down the street IS rapid, tosse
and turned aside. and Dashed ahead. an
driven back-beautiful in its confusion
and confused in its beauty. In the carpete
which the eternal shadow Is never lifted
on the shore OF the sea over which tro
coast tosses the tangled foam sprinklin:
the cracked cliffs with baptism of whirl
wind aud tempest, is the best place t.
study God. but in the rushing. swarminS
raving street Is the best place Is stud.
man.
| Going down to your place Of business
| and coming nome again, I charge you t
look about--see these signs Of poverty, o
wretchedness, OF hunger, OF sin. OF bereave
ment-and as you go through the streets
and come back through the streets, gather
up in the arms OF your prayer all the sor
row, all the losses. all the sufferings, al
the bereavemeuts of those whom you pass
and present them in PRAYER before an all
sympathetic God. In the great day
eterni " there will be thousands OF person
with whom you in this world nevec ex
changed one word, will rise up and cal
you blessed, and there will be THOUSAND
fingers pointed at you in heaven, sayine
"That is the man. that IS the woman. VIII
helped me when was hungry and sick AM
wandering aud lost and heartbroken. Tha
is the man, that is the woman," and th
blessing will come down upon you n
Christ shall say: Il was hungry. and y
fed Me; ! was naked, and We clothed Me;
was sick and in prison. and ye visited Nc
inasmuch as ye did It to these poor waits o
the streets, ye did it to Me-"
Again. the street impresses me with tb
fact that all classes and conditions OF so
ciety must commingle. We sometimes cul
ture q wicked exclusiveness. Intellect de
spises ignorance. Refinement will hav
hate the sunburned hand, and the big
forehead despises the fiat head, and tn
trim hedgerow will have nothing to 4
with the wild copsewood, and Athens haze
Nazareth. This ought not so to be. Til
astronomer must come down from th
starry revelry and help US in our naviga
tion. The surgeon must come away froT
his study OF the human organism and sc
our broken bones. The chemist must CON
away from his laboratory, where he ha
help us to understand the nature of th
soils, bless God that all classes OF pee
pie are compelled to meet on the street
The elittering couch wheels clashes agains
the scavenger's cart. Fine robes ru
/ against thr peddler's pack. Robust healt
meets wan sickness. Honesty confront
fraud. Every class OF people meets ever
other class. Impudence and modest!
pride and humility. purity and beastlines.
, frankness and hypocrisy, meeting on tn
i | same block, in the same street, in the sam
: city. Oh, that Is what Solomon mear
! when he said. "The rich and the poor met
! together; the Lord is the Maker OF the'
: I like this democratic principle Of tn
gospel OF Jesus Christ which recognize
the fact that we stand before God one an
the same platform. Do not take on an
> airs. Whatever position you have game
in society you are nothing but MAJ
born of the same parent, regeneratei
the same spirit, cleansed by the san
E blood. to lie down in the same dust, to s.
up in the same resurrection. 1t is hig
time that we all acknowledged not onl
: hood Of man.
Again. the street impresses me with Il
fact that it is q very hard thing for a mc
: to keep his heart right anil get to heave
n Infinite temptations spring upon US fro
these places Of public concourse. Am
e 90 much sffluence, how much temptatit
!. to covetousness and to be discontent
o With our humble lott Amid so many o
d portunities for overreaching, what tempt
t tion to extortioni Amid so much dispia
what temptation to vanityi Amid so maj
saloons OF strong drink. what alureme
i, to dissipation! In the maelstroms al
e hell gates of the street hsw many ma
quick and eternal shipwreckl II.
.. man-of-war comes back from q b,
IS tie and Is towed into the ma
yard. We 20 down TO locS a.
:pIjntered spars and count the bullet ho
ind look with patriotic admiration on
at lag that hoated in victory from the ma
N read. But that man is more Of curios
to Who has gone through thirty years OF I
,harpshootinP Of business life and yet sa
n 0ffOnS n