The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-02-07

ana lHey IOOk every lullS Out Il HE. Ou,
that is the way sin works; it grabs every
thing. 1t begins with robbery and ends
with robbery. 1t despoils this faculty
and that faculty and keeps on until the
whole nature is gone. Was the man elo-
quent before, it generally thickens his
tongue. Was he fine in personal appear
ance, it mars his visage. Was he att1u-
ent, it sends the sheriff to sell him out.
Was he influential, it destroys his popu-
larity. Was he placid and genial and
loving, it makes him splenetic and cross,
and so utterly is he changed that you
can see he is sarcastic and rasping and
that the Philistines have left him moth
ing but file.
Oh, ''the way Of the transgressor is
hard" His cup is bitter. His night is
dark. His pangs are deep. His end is
terrific Philistine iniQuity says to that
man: Now, surrender to me and | will
give you all you want-music for the
dance, swift steeds for the race, imperial
couch to slumber on, and you shall be re-
freshed with the rarest fruits, in baskets
of golden fligree." He lies. The music
turns out to be groan. The fruits burst
the rind with rank poison. The filigree is
made up of twisted reptiles. The couch is
grave. Small allowance of rest, small
comfort. Cold, hard, rough-nothing but
a file. SO it was with Voltaire, the most
,applauded man of his day.
The Scripture was his textbook, whence
he drew
Bonmots to gall the Christian and the
Jew.
An infidel when well, but what when
sick?
Oh, then text would touch him to the
quick
Seized with hemorrhage Of the lungs in
Paris, where he had gone to be crowned
as the idol Of France, he sends mes
senger to get d priest, that he may be
reconciled to the church before he dies.
\ great terror falls upon him. Philistine
iniquity had promised him all the worlds
garlands, but in the last hour of his life,
when he needed a solacing sent tearing
across his conscience and his nerves file,
file.
Only Cheerful Life.
A Christian life is the only cheerful life
while q life of wicked surrender is re-
morse, ruin and death. Its painted glee
is sepulchral ghastliness. In the bright
est days of the Mexican empire Monte
yuma said he felt gnawing at his heart
something like canker. Sin, like a
monster wild beast of the forest, some
times Hicks all over it's victim in order
that the victim may be more easily swal
lowed, but generally sin rasps, and gals,
and tears, and upbraids, and files. Is it
not so, Herod? Is it not so, Hildebrand?
Is it not so, Robespierre? Aye, aye! 1t
is so, it is so. THE way of the wicked
he turneth upside down.
History tells us that when Rome was
founded on that day there were twelve
vultures flying through the air, but when
a transgressor dies the sky is black with
whole t1Ocks of them. Vultures. vul-
lures! When [ see sin robbing SO many,
and l see them going down day by day
and week by week, l must give a plain
warning. | dare not keep it back, lest
risk the salvation of my own soul. Rover,
the pirate, pulled down the warning bell
on Inchcape rock, thinking that he would
have chance to despoil vessels that were
crushed on the rocks, but one night
his own ship crashed down with all his
cargo. God declares, when say to the
givest him not warning, that same man
shall die in his iniquity, but his blood
will l require at thy hands"
Do Your Whole Duty.
Go forth in the service Of Christ and do
your whole duty. You have one sphere
l have another sphere. 1.-The Lord Of
Hosts is with us, and the God of Jacob is
our refuge. Selah." We want more of
the determination of Jonathan. l do not
suppose he was q very wonderful man,
but he got on his knees and cIambered
up the rock, and with the help Of his ar
NOR bearer he hewed down the Philis-
tines, and Il man of very ordinary intel
lectual attainments on his knees can
storm anything for God and for the
truth. We want something of the de-
termination Of the general who went into
the war and as he entered his first battle
his knees knocked together, his physical
courage not quite up to his moral cour-
age, and he looked down at his knees
and said ''Ah, if you knew where l am
going to take you you would shake worse
than that
There is only one question for you to
ask and for me to ask, What does God
want me to do? Where is the field?
Where is the work? Where is the anvil?
Where is the prayer meeting? Where is
the pulpit? And finding out what God
wants us to do, go ahead and do it, all
the energies of our body, mind and soul
enlisted in the undertaking. Oh, my
brethren, we have but little time in which
to tight for God! You will be dead soon
Put i'll the Christian cause every energy
that God gives you. What thy hand
findeth to do do it with all thy might, for
there is neither wisdom nor device in the
grave" whittier we are all fastening.
Opportunities of usefulness gone forever,
souls that might have been benefited
three months ago never again coming
under our Christian influence Oh, is it
not high time that we awake out Of
sleep?
Church of God, lift up your head at
the coming victory. The Philistines will
go down, and the Israelites will go up.
We are on the winning side. l think Just
now the kings horses are being hooked
up to the chariot, and when he does ride
down the sky there will be such hosan-
ma among his friends and such a wailing
among his enemies as will make the earth
iron, bln and tho baovanc cinU coo ,,o.,.