The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-04-15

for every time he struck an enemy will
one end of the sword the other END
of the sword wounded him.
Oh we have found an enemy who can
not be conquered by rosewater and soft
speeches. II must be sharp stroke and
straight thrust. There is intemper
nncc, and there is fraud and there is
gambling, and there is lust, and there
are 10000 battalions of iniquity
armed Philistine iniquity. How are
they to be captured and overthrow?
Soft sermons in morocco cases laid
down in front of an exquisite audience
will not do il. You have got to call
things by their right name. You have
got to cXpel from our churches Chris
tians who eat the sacrament on Sunday
and devour widows houses all the week.
We have got to stop our Indignation
against the Utilities and the Jebusitcs
and the Girgashites and let those poor
wretches go and apply our Indignation
to the modern transgressions which
| need to be dragged out and slain. Ahabs
here. Hcrods here. Jczcbels here. The
massacre of the infants here. Strike for
God so hard that while you STAY the sin
the sword will adhere to your own
hand. / tell you, my friends, we want
q few John Knoxcs and John Wesleys
| in the Christian church to-day.
| The whole tendency is to refine on
| Christian work. We keep on refining
on il until we send apologize word to
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And we must go with sword, silver
| chased and presented by the ladies, and
we must ride on white palfrcy under
| embroidered housing, putting the
spurs in only just enough 10 make the
charger dance gracefully, and then we
must send missivc, delicate rs a we'd
ding card to ask the old black giant
of sin If he will not surrender. Women
saved by the grace of God and on glori-
GUS mission sent, detained from the
Sabbath classes because their new hat
is not done. Churches that shook our
cities with great rcvivals sending
around To ask some dcmonstrativc wor-
shipper if he will not please to say
amen" and "hallcluiah" Il little softer.
ed Il Baptism of cologne and balm of
thousand flowers when we actually
need Il baptism of fire from the Lord
! God OF Pcntrcost But we are so afraid
somebody will criticisc our sermons
or crilicisc our prayers or criticisc our
religious work that our anxiety for the
worlds redemption is lost in the fear
| we will get our hand hurt, while Flea
zar went into the conflict. land his hand
clavc unto the sword
/ But | see in the next place what Il
! hard thing ii was for ElcaZar TO get his
! hand and his sword parted. The mus
/ clcs and the sincws had been 50 long
! grasped around the sword he could not
| drop it, and his three comrades, sup
! pose came up and tried TO help him,
and they bathed the bacl: part OF the
hand. hoping the sincwS and muscles
/ would relax. But no. Ills hand clave
unto the sword" Then they tried to
/ pun open the fingers and TO pull back
/ the thumb. but no sooner were they
! pulled back than they closed again.
! "and his hand clave unto the sword. '
! But after awhile they were successful
and then they noticed that the curve
in the palm of the hand corrcsponded
! exactly with the curve tho hilt, His
| hand clayc unto the sword.
! You and I have seen il many n time
! There are in the United States to-day
many aged ministers Of the Gospel
They are too feeble now 10 preach, In
| the church records the word standing
| opposite their name is emeritus" or
! the words are, ~ minister without
charge" They were heroic race.
| They had small salaries and but few
books, and they swan spring frcshcts
to meet their appointments. But thel.
did in their day a mighty work for God.
They took off more of the heads of
Phiistinc iniqnity than yon could
count from noon 20 SHUTDOWN. You put
that old minister of the Gospel now into
n prayer meeting or occasional pulpit
or a sickroom where there is some one
to be comfortcd, and it is the same old
ring to his voice, and the same old stor,
Of pardon and peace and Christ and
Heaven. His hand has SO long clutchcd
the sword in Christian conflict he can
not drop it. His hand clavc unto the
sword"
had in my parish in Phi'adel-
phia Il very aged man who in his early
life had been the companion and adv
wiser of the early presidents, Madison
and Monroe. He had welded vast in
flucncc. but ! only knew him as u very
aged man. The most remarkable thing
about him was his ardor for Christ.
When he could not stand up i'm the
meetings without propping, he would
throw his arm around pillar of the
church, and, though his mind was par
tally gone, his love for Christ was so
great that all were in deep respect and
profound admiration, and were moved
when he spoke. i was called to see
him die. | entered the room, and he
said: MIR. Talmagr, cannot speak
to you now" lie was in n very pleas
ant dclirium, as he imagined he had an
audience before him. He said: IL must
tell these people to come to Christ and
prepare for Heaven" And then III this
pleasant dclirium, both arms lifted. this
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