The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-06-23


been ranking there, but by Divine
grace II is burned out through these
fires of conviction, "the flesh coming
again as the flesh of little child"
'where sin abounded grace much
more aboundeth." With the 10000
unpardoned sins of your life, go and
tell Jesus.
You will never get rid of your sins
in any other way. And remember
that the broad invitation which / ex-
tend to you will not always be ex-
tended. King Alfred, before modern
| timepieces were invented, used to di-
vide the day into three parts, eight
| hours each, and then had three wax
candles. BY the time the first candle
had gone, and when the second can
die had burned to the socket another
eight hours had gone, and when all
the three candles were gone out then
the day had passed. Oh, that some of
us, instead, of calculating our days
and nights and years by any earthly
timepiece, might calculate them by
the numbers of opportunities and mer-
cies which are burning down and
burning out, never to be relighted, lest
at last we be amid the foolish virgins
who cried: sour lamps have gone
out!"
| Again ] commend the behavior of
the disciples to all who are tempted.
l have heard men in midlife say they
| hid never been led into temptation.
If you have not felt temptation, it is
because you have not tried to do
right. A man hoppled and handcuffed,
as long as he lies quietly, does not test
the power of the chain, but when he
rises up and with determination re-
solves to snap the handouts or break
the hopple, then he finds the power of
! the iron. And there are men who have
| been for ten and twenty and thirty
| Years bound hand and foot by evil
habits who have never felt the power
of the chain because they have never
tried to break it. 1t is very easy to
go on down with the stream and with
the wind lying on your oars but just
turn around and try TO go against the
wind and the tide. and you will find 1t
is different matter. AS long as we
go down the current of our evil habit
we seem to get along quite smoothly,
but if after awhile we turn around
and head the other way, toward Christ
and pardon and Heaven, oh, then how
we have to lay to the oars! You will
have your temptation. You have one
kind, you another, you another, not
one person escaping.
1t is AL folly for you to say to some
one: II could not be tempted as you
are" The lion thinks it is so strange
that the fish should be caught with
hook The fish thinks it is so
strange that the lion should be caught
with a trap. You see some man with
cold, phlegmatic temperament, and
you say: IL suppose that man has not
any temptation" Yes, as much as you
have. In his phlegmatic nature he
| has n temptation to Incidence and
consciousness and overeating and
drinking, a temptation to ignore the
great work of life, temptation to lay
down an obstacle in the way of all
| good enterprises. The temperament
decides the styles of temptation, but
| sanguine or Emphatic, you will have
temptation. Satan has n graphing
hook just fitted for your soul. A man
never lives beyond the reach of temp
tation. You say when man gets TO
be 20 or so years of age he is safe
from satanic assault. You are very
much mistaken. A man at SIS years
of age has as many temptations as
man of 25. They are only different
styles of temptation. Ask the aged
Christian whether he is never assault
ed of the powers of darkness. If you
think you have conquered the power
of temptation, you are very much mis-
taken.
No man gets through life without
having pommeling Some SANDER
comes after you, horned and husked
and hoofed TO gore and trample you.
And what are you to do? ! tell you
plainly that all who serve Christ must
suffer persecution Ii is the worst
sign in the world for you to be able
to say: II have not an enemy in the
world" A woe is pronounced in the
Bible against the one of whom every
body speaks well. If you are at peace
with all the world and everybody likes
you and approves your work, it is be-
cause you are an idler in the Lords
vineyard and are not doing your duty.
All those who have served Christ,
however eminent, all have been NAL
treated at some stage of their expe-
rience. You know it was so in the
time of George Whitefield, when he
stood and invited men into the king
dom of God. What did the learned
DR.. johnson say of him? He pro-
nounced him a miserable mountebank
How was it when Robert Hall stood
and spoke as scarcely any unin-
spired man ever did speak of the
glories of Heaven? And as he stood
Sabbath after Sabbath preaching on
these themes his face lSindled with
glory. John Foster, a Christian man,
said of this man: Robert Hall is
only acting and the smile on his face
is reflection of his own vanity.
John Wesley turned all England up
side down with Christian reform, and
yet the punsters were after him, and
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