Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-29

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seated on one side of the aisle of the
! car writing down a Christian song
which he was composing. and on the
other side a group OF men were play
ing cards. Whose landing place in
eternity would you prefer-that of F.
p. Bliss. the Gospel singer. or OF the
card-players?
| great complaint comes from the
! theaters about The ladies high hats,
! because they obstruct the view of the
/ stage, and a lady reporter asked me
! what | thought about it. and | told
| her that if the indecent pictures OF ac-
tresses in the show windows were ac-
/ curate pictures of what goes on IN
many OF the theaters. night by night
! then il would be we'll if the ladies hats
were mile high. 50 as to completely
obstruct the vision. If protested
! Christians go to such places during the
week, no one will ever prosecute them
| for their religion. for they have none.
| and they are the joke of hell. But let
| them live a consecratei and Christian
! life and they Will soon run against
sneern6 opposition.
For a compromise Christian char
| acter an easy time now. but for conse-
Grated behavior. grimace and carica-
/ ture. For the body. thanks TO the God
| of free America. there are now no
| swords or fiery stakes. but for the souls
| of thousands of the good. in q figura-
! tive sense. rack and gibbet and Tor
| quemada. The symbol OF the domestic
/ and social and private and public SUI
/ fering OF q great multitude OF God
/ dear children. pillars of smoke. What
! an exciting scene in India. when. dur
| ing the Sepoy rebellion. a regiment OF
! Highlanders came up and found the
dead body of one OF General Wheeler's
| daughter who had been insulted and
mauled and slain by the Sepoys So
great was the wrath against these
murderers that the Scotch regiment
sat down and. cutting of the hair OF
! this dead daughter OF Gen. Wheeler.
| they divided il among them. and each
one counted the number Of hairs given
him, and each one took an oath. which
was executed, that for each hair Of
the murdered daughter they would
/ dash out the life of a bestial Sepoy.
/ But as We look over the story of those
who in all ages have suffered for the
truth, while Ne leave vengeance TO
the Lord. let US band together in one
| solemn vow, one tremendous oath,
after having counted the host OF the
| martyrs. that for each one of those
glorious men and women who died for
/ ~ al ch10 fizR--tiVQ with
God anc live forever.
But as already limited in the first
sentence of this sermon. nothing can
be more beautiful than the figures OF
smoke on a clear sky. You can see
what you will in the contour OF this
volatile yapor, now enchanted castles.
! now troops Of hOrscmen, now hammered
! procession. now winged couriers, now a
black angel OF wrath under Il spear Of
the sunshine turned 10 an angel of
! light, and now from horizon TO hori-
zOn the air is picture gallery filled
with masterpieces of which God Is the
artist, morning clouds of smoke born
in the sunrise. and evening clouds OF
smoke laid in the FURNISHED sepuichres
OF the sunset.
The beauty of the t:ansfigured smoke
is a divine symbol OF the beauty OF
the church. The fairest of ali the fair
is she. Do not call those prosecutors
of whom spoke the church. They are
the parasites OF the church, not the
church itself. Her mission is to cover
the earth With supernatural gladness,
to open all the prison doors TO balsam
all the wounds. 70 moss all the graves.
70 burn up the night in the fireplace
Of great morning. to change iron
handouts into diamonded wristlets, to
turn the whole race around and where
as il faced death. commanding il,
Right about face for heaven!" Ac-
cording to the number OF the spires OF
/ the churches in all our cities, towns
and neighborhoods. are the good
homes, the world pros perities. and the
pure morals and the happy souls.
1t is demonstrated to all honest men
that it is not so certain that William
Cullen Bryant wrote "Thanatopsis." d
I.ongfellow wrote "Hiawatha" as ;ha;
God, by the hand OF prophet and apps
tie, wrote the Bible. All the wise mel
in science and law and medicine ant
literature and merchandise are gtad
ually coming to believe ia Christianity
and soon there will he no people whC
disbelieye in IL except those copspicu
Gus for lack OF brain or men with two
families, who do not like the Bible be
cause II Tebukes their sw.Gish prOpen
stiles
The time is Fastening when Their
will be no iniidels left except iibertire.
, and barlots and murderers. Million.
of Christians where once there Vert
thousands, and thousands where one
, there We're hundreds. What a brigh
evening this, the evening of the nine
;eenth century, And the twentieth
, century, which Is about to dawn, will
, in nay opinion, bring universal victor.
for Christ and the church. that now il
marching on with step doubie-quick
or, il you prefer the figure OF the text
, is being swept OIL in the mighty gale
of blessing imposing and grand ant
, majestic and swift like pillars @
smoke.
Oh. come into the church through
Christ the door-a door more g!oriou
than that Il the temple of Hercules
O which had two pillars. and one wa
gold, and the other emerald, Come IL
today! The world You leave behind i