The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-09-30

God. when they came from your own
folly!
What right has any man or woman tc
deface the temple of the Holy Ghost
What is the ear? 1t is the whispering
gallery OF the soul. What is the eye? 1,
is the observatory God constructed, its
telescope sweeping the heavens. What
is the hand? An instrument so wonder
full that. when the earl of Bridgewater
bequeathed in his will $4,000 for
treatises to be written on the wisdom
power and goodness Of God, Sir Charles
Bell. the great English anatomist and
surgeon, found his greatest illustration
in the construction OF the human hand,
devoting his whole book to that subject,
So wonderful are these bodies that God
names his own attributes after different
parts of them. His omniscience--it is
Gods eye; His omnipresence-it is
Gods ear; His omnipotence = II is
Gods arm; the upholstery of the mid
night heavcns-it is the work of Cod
fingers; His life-giving power-it is
the breath of the Almighty; his domin-
ion-"the government shall be upon his
shoulder"
But" you say, professors of religion
have fallen, professors OF religion have
got drunk. professors of religion have
misappropriated trust funds, professors
of religion have absconded." Yes, but
they threw away their religion before
they did their morality. II man on a
efa
Liverpool in mid Atlantic jumps over
board and is drowned, is that anything
against the White Star line s. capacity
to take the man across the ocean? And
il man jumps over the gunwale OF his
religion and goes down never to rise,
is that any reason for your believing
that religion has no capacity to take
the man clear through? In the one
case, if he had kept to the steamer,
his body would have been saved; in
the other case, If he had kept to his re-
ligion, his morals would have been
saved.
There are aged people who would
have been dead 25 years ago but for the
defcnses and the equipoise of religion.
You have no more natural resistance
than hundreds of people who lie in
the cemeteries to-day slain by their own
vices. The doctors made their case as
kind and pleasant as they could, and it
was called congestion of the brain or
something else, but the snakes and the
bluetlies that seemed to crawl over the
pillow in the sight of the delirious pa
tent showed what was the matter with
him. You, the aged Christian. man,
walked along by that unhappy one I'M
til you came to the golden pillar of a
Christian life. You went TO the right,
he went to the left. That is all the
difference between you. If this reli-
gion is protest against all forms of
dissipation, then it is an illustrious
friend of longevity. with long life
will | satisfy Him.'j
Suppose you had n supernatural
ncighbor who came in and said: "Sir,
| want you to call on me in every ext
Ecncy. | am your fast friend. could
fall back on $2O,OO0,O0O. l can foresee
panic ten years. l hold the controll-
ing stock in 80 of the best monetary in
situations of New York. Whenever you
are in trouble call on me, and / will
help you. You can have my money,
and you can have my influence. Here
is my hand in pledge for it," How
much would you worry about business
Why, you would say: I'll do the best
can, and then I'll depend Sn my
friends generosity for the rest"
Now, more than that is promised to
every Christian business man. God
says to him: 81 own New York and
London and st. Petersburg and Peking
and Australia and California are mine
! can foresee panic a hundred years
| have all the resources of the universe
and | am your fast friend. When you
get in business trouble or any other
trouble, call on me, and / will
help. Here is my hand in pledge Of
\ omnipotent deliverance." How much
should that man worry? Not much
What lion will dare to put his paw OF
| that Daniel? Is there not rest in this
Is there not an eternal vacation in this
| "Oh," you say, here is a man who
asked God for n blessing in n certain
enterprise, and he lost $4,000 in it. Elk
plain that"
i will. Yonder is factory, and on,
wheel is going north, and the othe
wheel is going south, and one whee
plays literally, and the other plays yer
tically. l go to the manufacturer an,
| say: 20 manufacturer, your ma
chinery is n contradiction! Why d
you not make all the wheels go on
way?" WELL" he says, 81 made ther
go in opposite directions on purpos,
and they produce the right result. 70
go downstairs and examine the cal
pets we are turning out in this estat
lishment, and you will see." go dow
on the other floor, and / see the cal
pets, and | am obliged to confess tina
though the wheels in that factory go |
opposite directions, they turn out
beautiful result, and while am stant
ing there looking at the exquisite fal
ric an old Scripture passage comes int
my mind: "All things work togetht
for good to them who love Cod"
there not tonic in that? Is there NJ
longevity in that?
Suppose n man Is all the time wo
| ried nbout hia repufotiono Ono rnn