Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-11-14

science stings. ana hopeless Tuih mus '"evA
up to hurl them down, will they laugh
| then?
I learn also from my subject that men
| may take religion into their worldly busi-
| ness This is most appropriate Thought
at this season of the year. when SO many
| men are starting out in new enterprises.
Daniel had enough work to do to occupy
| six men, All the affairs of state were IN
his hands-questiOns OF finance. questions
| of war. of peace: all international Gues-
tions were for his settlement or ADJUST
ment. He must have had correspond
ence vast beyond all computation. There
was not a man in all the earth who had
more to do than Daniel, the secretary OF
state. and vet we find him three times
day bowling before God in prayer.
But to have religion go right along oy
| them all through life. to have religion
| looking over their shoulder when they are
making a bargain, to have religion take
up a bag of dishonest gold and shake 1t
and say "Where did you get that?"-
ihov think that Is an impertinent re-
| lirinn.
| helm thew, when thev are sick and wheh
| the shadow of death comes over them.
| they would like to have religion as sort
| of night kew with which to open fhe
door of heaven but religion under other
| circumstances they take to be impert-
nence.
Now, nv friends, religion never robbed
i a man of a dollar. Other things beng
equal. a mason will build better wall,
cabinet maker will make a better char,
plumber will make better pipe. lawyer
| will make better plea, a merchant WIN
sell better bill of goods. l say. other
things being equal. Of course when re-
ligion gives a man a new heart, 1T does
not propose to give him a new head or to
intellectualize him or to change mans
| condition when his ordinary state is an
overthrow of the philosonhical theory that
total vacuum is impossible. but the more
letters You have to write, the more pur-
| dens YOU have to carry. the more miles
YOU have to travel. the more burdens you
have to lift. the more engagements YOU
have to meet, the more disputes you have
| to settle. the more opportunity you have
of being a Christian. If you have
thousand irons in the fire. you have a
thousand more opportunities of serving
God than if you only had one iron IN the
fire. Who so busy Christ? And vet
| who a '1ilionth part as holy? The busi-
est men the best men. All the persons
J converted in Scripture busy at the time
| of their being converted. Matthew at
tending to his custom house duties, the
prodigal son feeding swine, Lydia sell
/ ing purple Simon Peter hauling in the
net from the sea. Saul squirting his horse
toward Damascus. going down on his law
business Busy, busy Daniel with all the
affairs of state weighing down upon his
soul and vet three times day worship
ing the God of heaven.
i Again, learn from this subject that a
man NAV take religion into his politics.
:, Daniel had all the affairs of state on
hand. yet servant of God. He could
not have kept his elevated position un-
less he had been a thorough politician.
and vet all the thrusts of officials and all
the danger of disgrace did not make him
yield one iota of his high toned religious
o;,la IL hafa hat no
stands before all ages. specimen of
godly politician. So there have been in
our day and in the days of our fathers
men eminent in the service of God as
! they have been eminent in the service OF
the state. Such was Benjamin F. Butler,
attorney general of New York in the
time of your fathers; such was John Nc
Lean, of the supreme court of the United
States; such was George Briggs. of Massa-
chusetts; such was Theodore Frelinghuy-
sen, of New Jersey-men faithful to the
state, at the same time faithful to God.
. 1t is absurd to expect that men who have
been immersed in political wickedness for
, thirty or forty years shall come to refor-
, nation. and our hope is in the young men
; who are coming up, that they have patri-
. otic principle and Christian principle side
by side when they come to the ballot
box and cast their first vote and that they
swear allegiance to the government of
! heaven as well as to the government of
, ker Hill mean less to them than Calvary,
! and Lexington mean less to them than
! Bethlehem. But because there are bad
> men around the ballot box is no reason
, why Christian men should retreat from
. the arena. The last time you ought to
give up your child or forsake your child
is when it is surrounded by a company
/. of Choctaws, and the last time to sur
render the ballot box is when it is sur
/, rounded by impurity and dishonesty and
! IL sorts of wickedness.
Daniel stood on a most unpopular plat
, form. He stood firmly, though the dema-
gogues of the day Missed at him and tried
to overthrow him. We must carry our
religion into our politics.
/, But there great many men who
are in favor of taking it into national
politics who do not see the Importance
. of taking it into city politics, though
a man were intelligent about the welfare
!. of his neighborhood and had no concern
: about his own home.
My subject also Impresses me with the
, fact that lions cannot hurt a good man.
, No man ever got INTO worse company than
! Daniel got into when he was thrown into
the den. What rare morsel that fair
young IN: would have been for the hun
, cry monsters, If they had plunged at
him, he could not have climbed into a
. niche beyond the reach of their paw or
= the snatch of their tooth. They came
!, pleased all around about him, hunters
=, hounds at the well known whistle come
e bounding to his feet. You need not go to
q Numidia to get many lions. You all have
n had them after you-the lion of financial
Il distress, the lion of sickness, the lion
n of persecution. You saw that lion of
!. financial panic putting his mouth down
. o the earth, and he roared until all the
!, banks and all the insurance companies
y huaked. With his nostril he scattered the
. ashes on the domestic hearth. You have
!. had trial after trial, misfortune after
4 misfortune, lion after lion, and yet they
n have never hurt you if you put your trust
in God, and they never will hurt you.
/, they uid not hurt Daniel and they cannot
y hurt you. The Persians used to think
!. that spring rain falling into seashells
@ would turn into pearls, and L have to tell
you that the tears OF sorrow turn into
i precious gems when they drop into Gods
= bottle. You need be afraid of nothing
n putting your trust in God Even death
s that monster lion whose den is the
> worlds sepulcher and who puts his paw
"a down amid thousands of millions of the
e -ad, cannot alright you. When in old
r In tunes man was to get the honors OF
r knighthood, he was compelled to go iul
II Iy armed the night before among the
"a tombs OF the dead carrying sort OF
n spear, and then when the day broke he
+. would come forth, and amid the sound OF
= cornet and great parade he would get ehe
, honors of knighthood And so it will he
r. with the Christian in the night before
r. heaven as fully armed with spear and
a helmet of salvation he will wait and watch
+ through the darkness until the morning
i dawns, and then he will take the honors
,. OF heaven amid that great throng with
7 snowy robes streaming over seas of sap
"a pnirc.
d
.s A more glorious victory cannot
If gained than this; that when the injur
d begins on his part, the kindness shou!
r. begin on ours.
!, From a mere sense of consistency,
IL prosecutor is bound to show that til
n fallen man is a villain. otherwise he th