The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-09-16

Christ; there is n man who will contra
diet II. may stand here and say Their,
will be Judgment day after awhile
| yonder is some one who will dispute il
? But Christian woman in Christian
, household, living in the faith and con
sistency of Christ's Gospel-nobody car
refute that. The greatest sermons ar,
not preached on celebrated platforms
They are preached with an audience o.
two or three, and In private home life
A consistent, consecrated Christian
service is an unanswerablc demonstra
ton of Gods truth.
speak to women who have the eter.
nal salvation of their husbands in
their right hand. On the marriage day
you took an oath before men and an
gels that you would be faithful and
kind until death did you part, and be-
lieve you are going to keep that oath,
but after that parting at the grave will
it be eternal separation? Is there any
such thing as an immortal marriage,
making the flowers that grow on the
top of the sepulcher brighter than the
garlands which at the marriage ban
quet flooded the air with aroma? Yes,
/ stand here an ambassador of the most
/ high God to proclaim the bapns of an
immortal union for all those who join
hands in the grace of Christ. Owoman,
is your husband, your father, your son,
away from God? The Lord demands
| their redemption at your hands. There
are prayers for you to Offer there are
| celebrations for you to give, there are
examples for you to set,>and say now,
as Paul said to the Corinthan woman:
| 'What knowest thou but thou shalt
save thy husbands" A man was dy-
| ing, and he said to his wife: "Rebecca,
you wouldn't let me have family pray
ers; you laughed about all that, and
you got me away into worldlness, and
now I'm going to die, and my fate is
sealed, and you are the cause of my
, ruin!" o woman, what knowest thou
but thou canst destroy thy husband?
Are there not some of you who have
| kindly influences ut home? Are there
not some who have wandered far away
| from God who can remember the Chris
| tan influences in their early home?
| Do not despise those influences, my
| brother. If YOU die without Christ.
what will you do with your mothers
| prayers, with your wifc's importuni-
| ties, with your sisters entreaties?
What will you do with the letters they
used to write to you, with the memory
of those days when they attended you
so kindly in times of sickness? Oh, if
there be just one strand holding you
from floating off upon that dark sea. |
would just like to take hold of that
strand now and pull you to the beach!
For the sake of your wife's God. for the
sake of your mothers God, for the sake
! of your daughters God, for the sake OF
your sisters God, come this day and be
| saved.
| Lastly, / wish to say that one of the
specific rights of woman is, through the
grace of Christ finally to reach Heaven.
Oh, what II multitude of women in
| Heaven! Mary, Christ's mother, in
Heaven; Elizabeth Fry in Heaven;
Charlotte Elizabeth in Heaven; the
mother of Augustine in Heaven; the
countess of Huntington. who sold her
splendid jewels to build chapels, in
Heaven, while great many others, who
have never been heard of on earth or
known but little. have gone into the
| rest and peace of Heaven. What rest!
What a change il was from the small
room. with no fire and one window (the
glass broken OUT and the aching side
and wornout eyes, to the ''house of
many mansons." No more stitching
until IL o'clock at night, no more
thrusting of the thumb by the employer
through the work, to show it was not
done quite right. Plenty of bread ut
last! Heaven for aching heads, Heaven
for broken hearts, Heaven for anguish
bitten frames! No more sitting until
midnight for the coming of staggering
steps, No more rough blows across the
temples! No more sharp, keen, bitter
curses!
Some Of you will have no rest in this
world. 1t will be toll and struggle and
suffering all the way up. You will have
to stand at your door fightiang back the
wolf with your own hand, red with car
mage. But God has crown for you.
want you to realize this morning that
lie is now making it, and whenever you
weep tear He sets another gem in that
| crown. neneNcT you nave IL puuS VI
body or soul He puts another gem in
that crown, until after awhile in al
the tiara there will be no room for an.
other splcndor, and God will say to His
angel: 1.-THE crown is done. Let3heI
up. that she may wear it," And as the
Lord of righteousness puts the crown
upon your brow angel will cry to angel:
"Who is she?" And Christ will say: "a
will tell you who she is. She is the ont
: that came up out of great tribulatioI
and had her robe washed and made
, white in the blood of the Lamb" AND
then God will spread banquet, and liz
will invite all the principalities o.
/, Heaven to sit at the feast, and tn,
, tables will blush with the best cluster,
from the vineyards of God and crimson
with the IL manner of fruits from tn,
tree of life, and waters from the foun
tains of the rock will flash from tn,
.. golden tankards, and the old harpers O.
Heaven will sit there, making musi,
/; with their harps, and Christ will poin
you out amid the celebrities of Heaven