The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-07-12

cVuhleu Nllh JcWels tnHt no one alter nm
ever dared to wear it, But our King. Jesus
| takes off the robe of His righteousness. a
| robe blood dyed and heaven impearled
! and reaches it out to the worst wretch in
| all the earth and says Put that ON! Wear
| 1t now Wear it forever"
Again. the grace of God is like salt in
| the way we come at it. The salt on the
surface is almost always impure-that
which incrusts the Rocky Mountains and
the South American pampas and in inuia
but the miners 20 down through the
shafts and through the dark labyrinths and
| along by galleries of rock. and with
torches and pickaxes, find their way under
the very foundations of the earth TO where
the salt lies that makes up the nations
wealth. 10 get to the best saline springs
OF the earth huge machinery goes down.
boring depth below depth, depth below
depth, until from under the very roofs of
the mountains the saline water supplies
the aqueduct. This water is brought to
1he surface and is exposed in tanks TO the
sun ior evaporation, or it is put in boilers
nightly heated and the water evaporates
and the salt gathers at the bottom of the
tank. The work is completed, and the for
tune is made.
Have you not been in enough trouble to
have that work go on? | was reading OF
Aristotle, who said there was field of
flowers in Sicily 50 sweet that once a
''"i,hs 'pullUE w ilt Udck oi game. came
10 that held and was bewildered bv the
perfumes and so lost the track Oh. that
our souls might become like "a field which
the Lord hath blessed and eNhale so much
OF the sweetness ol Christian character
that the hounds of temptation. coming on
our, track. might lose it and 90 howling
back with disappointment!
But ! remark again that the o1ace Of
God is like the salt in its rreservative
quality. You know that salt absorbs the
moisture OF articles of food aud infuses
them with brine, which preserves them for
long while. Salt is the great antiputre-
factor OF the world Experimenters. in
preserving, wood. have tried sugar and
smoke and air-tght lars and everything
else. but as long as the world stands
Christs words will be suggestive. and men
VIII admit that as a great preservative
salt is good"
But Tor the grace Of God the earth would
have become stale carcass long before
this. That grace is the only preservatve
OF laws and constitutions and iteratures
just AZ soon as Il government loses this
salt OF divine grace it perishes The philo-
sophN OF tins day, so tar as it is antagonis.
TIC to this religion. putreiies and stinks
The great want of our schools of learning
and our institutions of science to-day is
not more Leyden jars and galvanic batter
res ana 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 II is that in all their mag
nlioent sweep of the telescope they have
not seen the morning star of Jesus. and
that 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-
cy OF everything earthly to putrefaction
and death, the religion OF Christ the only
prcservatvc.
My subject is one OF great congratulation
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-
nifty. ] do not mean to say that YOU will
have smooth time because YOU are a
Christian. On the contrary. if you do your
whole duty / will promise you rough
time. You march through an enemy's
country, and they will try to double up
both tanks 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 hit, and squirting on your steed
over heaps of the slain. But | think that
God omnipotent will see YOU through. |
know He will But why do ] talk like an
atheist when | ought to say ] know He
vii? Kept by the power OF God through
faith unto complete salvation
When Governor Geary of PENNSYLVANIA,
died years ago lost a 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
tNsNf al \
that the life OF the nation depended on
that struggle. He said to me- II went into
that battle, sir, with my son. His mother
and ! thought everything of him. You
know how father will feel toward his
son who is coming up manly and brave and
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
well, he said, "the battle was desperate,
but after awhile we gained a little, and we
marched on a little. / turned round TO the
troops and shouted, Come on, boys!' and
| stepped across a dead soldier. and To- it
was my son. | saw at the first glance he
was dead, and yet i did not dare to stop
minute, for the crisis had come in the bat
tie, so | just got down on my knees. and
threw my arms around him. and | gave
him one good kiss and said 'Good.by,
dear, and sprang up and shouted. Come
on. boys!'" SO it is in the Christian con-
tlict. 1t is fierce fight Heaven is wait
ing for the bulletins to announce the tre-
mendous issue. Hail OF shot, cash of sa-
bre, fall of battleaX, groaning on every side.
We cannot stop for loss or bereavement
or anything else. With one ardent em-
brace and loving kiss we utter our fare
wells and then cry: Come on, hoys"
There are other heights to be captured,
there are other foes to be conquered, there
are other crowns to be Won"
Yet as one OF the Lords surgeons I
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 wound, and so | take this
salt OF Christ's gospel and put it on the
lacerated soul. 1t smarts little at first,
but see, the bleeding stops, and 10 the flesh
comes again as the flesh of a little chld
salt is good. Comfort one another
with these words.'
NEWSY CLEANlNCS.
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