Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-07-18

urthest gone IN SIN, fOc the murderer
standing on the dpsp of the gallows. 1t is
Asia, Africa. North and South America,
md all the islands of the sea went down
n it to-day they would have room enough
% wash and come up clean.
Let no man think that his case is too
:ough a one for God to act upon. Though
tell you that Gods grace is a bridge not
Quilt on earthly piers, but suspended and
spanning the awful chasm of your guilt,
one end resting upon the rock of eternal
promises and the other on the foundations
of heaven. Demetrius wore a robe so in
trusted with jewels that no one after him
.ver dared to wear it. But our King, Jesus.
axes off the robe of His righteousness, a
ODE blood dyed and heaven isnpearled,
md reaches it out to the worst wretch in
II the earth and says: Put that on! Wear
now! Wear it forever"
Again, the grace of God is hike salt in
he way we come at it. The salt on the
which incrusts the Rocky Mountains and
he South American pampas and in India
but the miners go down through the
hafts and through the dark labyriDths and
ilong by galleries of rock. and with
orches and pickaxes, find their way under
he very foundations of the earth to where
he salt lies that makes up the nations
"
IF the earth huge machinery goes down,
boring depth below depth, depth below
icpth, until from under the very roofs of
he mountains the saline water supplies
he aqueduct. This water is brought to
he surface and is exposed in tanks to the
sun for evaporation. or it is put in boilers
nightly heated and the water evaporates,
md the salt gathers at the bottom of the
;ank. The work is completed, and the for
;une is made.
Have you not been in enough trouble to
nave that work go on? / was reading of
Aristotle. who said there was a field Of
lowers in Sicily so sweet that once
hound, coming on the track of game, came
20 that field and was bewildered by the
perfumes and SO lost the track. Oh that
,ur souls might become like "a field which
he Lord hath blessed" and exhale SO much
hat the hounds of temptation, coming on
)ur- track, might lose it and go bowling
oack with disappointment,
But l remark again that the grace of
iod is like the salt in its preservative
quality. You know that salt absorbs the
moisture of articles of food and infuses
hem with brine. which preserves them for
long while. Salt is the great antiputre-
actor of the world. Experimenters, in
preserving wood, have tried sugar and
smoke and air-tight jars and everything
Else. but as long the world stands
Jhrist's words will be suggestive, and men
will admit that as great preservative
salt is good
But for the grace of God the earth would
have become a stale carcass long before
this. That grace is the only preservative
Of laws and constitutions and literatures.
Just as soon as government loses this
salt of divine grace it perishes. The philo-
sophy of this day, so far as it is antagonis-
:ic to this religion, putreies and stinks.
The great want of our schools of learning
and our institutions of science to-day ia
not moresLeyden jars and galvanic batter.
es and spectroscopes and philosophical ap-
paratus, but more of that grace that will
teach our men of science that the God OF
the universe is the God of the Bible.
How strange it is that in all their mag
nificent sweep of the telescope they have
not seen the morning star of Jesus, and
hat in all their experiments with light and
heat they have not seen the light and felt :
the warmth of the Sun of Righteousness,
We want more of the salt of Gods grace
in our homes, in our schools, in our col
leges, in our social life, in our Christianity.
And that which has it will live; that which
has it not will die. proclaim the tenden-
~ of everything earthly to putrefaction
and death, the religion of Christ the only
preservative.
My subject is one of great congratulaton
to those who have within their souls this
gospel antiseptic. This salt will preserve
Them through the temptations and sor
rows Of life and through the ages of eter
atty. L do not mean to say that you will
nave smooth time because you are 3
Christian. On the contrary, if you do youI
whole duty i will promise you a rough
time. You march through an enemy's
country, and they will try to double UP
both ianks and to cut you off from your
source OF supplies. The war you wage will
not be with toy arrows, but sword plunged
to the hilt, and squirting on your stecd
over heaps of the slain. But think that
God omnipotent will see you through. !
know He will. But why do l talk like an
atheist when / ought to say / know He
will? Kept by the power of God through
faith unto complete salvation"
When Governor Geary, of Pennsylvania,
died years ago | lost good friend. He
impressed me nightly with the horrors Of
war. In the eight hours that we rode to-
gether in the cars he recited to me the
scenes through which he had passed in the
civil war He said that there came one
battle upon which everything seemed to
pivot. kilograms from Washington said
that the life of the nation depended on
that struggle. He said to me: Il went into
that battle, sir, with my son. His mother
and thought everything of him. You
know how father will feel toward his
good. Well, the battle opened and con.
centered, and it was awful. Horses and
riders bent and twisted and piled up to.
gether. 1t was awful, sir. We quit firing
and took to the point of the bayonet.
Well. sir, didn't feel like myself that day
| had prayed to God for strength for that
particular battle. and | went into it feel.
ing that | had in my right arm the
strength of ten giants" and as the Gov
ernor brought his arm down on the back
Of the seat it fairly made the car tremble.
Wei" /" he said, ''the battle was desperate,
but after awhile we gained little, and we
marched on little. ] turned round to the
stepped across dead soldier, and 10, it
was my son! I at the first glance he
was dead, and yet did not dare to stop
minute. for the crisis had come in the bat.
tie, so i just got down on my knees. and
threw my arms around him, and l gave
him one good kiss and said, 'Good-by,
dear, and sprang up and shouted, Come
on, boysH" So it is in the Christian con.
hict. 1t is a fierce fight. Heaven is wait
ing for the bulletins to announce the ire
mendons issue. Hail of shot, cash of sa.
ore, fall of battlcax. groaning on every side.
or anything else. With one ardent EN-
brace and loving kiss we utter our fare
wells and then cry: Come on boysi"
There are other heights to be captured
there are other foes to be conquered, there
are other crowns to be won"
let as one OF the IofQ surgeons j
must bind up two or three wounds Just
lift them now, whatever they be. / have
been told there is nothing like salt TO stop
the bleeding of a wound, and so ! take this
salt Of Christ's gospel and put il on the
!acerated sonl. It smarts little at first.
but see, the bleeding stops, and 10 the flesh
comes again as the flesh of little child,
salt is good" Comfort one another
with these words"
Every time you turn your eyes On evil
its shadow falls on your heart.
Nothing is SO indicative OF deepest
culture as tender consideration of
he ignorant.
If you want knowledge you must toll
for ii: if food, you must toll for it. and
if pleasure, you must toll for 1t: toll is
the law.
The individual who climbs to fame
and fortune over the shoulders of 9TH
ers must look down on their hatred
Enthusiasm is the genius OF sincerity