The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-07-14

sweetness OF Christian cf.syarter that
the hounds of temptation, coming on
our track, might lose it ana 50 lowing
back with disappointment!
But, | remark again, that the grace OF
God is like the salt in its preservative
quality. You know that salt absorbs
the moisture of articles of food and in
fuses them with brine, which preserves
them for long while. Salt is the
great antiputrefactor of the world.
Experimenters, in preserving FOOD,
have tried sugar and smoke and air.
tight jars and everything else, but as
long as the worlGl stands Christ S words
will be suggestive, and men will admit
that as Il great preventative salt is
good" But for the grace OF God the
earth would have become stale car
cass long before this. That grace is the
only preservative of laws and consttu-
tions and literatures. Just as soon as
a government loses this sait. OF divine
grace it perishes. The phi, osophy OF
this day, SO far as II is antaeonistic TO
this religion, putreties and stinks. The
great want of our schools of learning
and our institutions of science to-day
is, not more Leyden jars and galvanic
batteries and spectroscopes and phil-
osophical apparatus, 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 magnificent sweep of
the telescope they have not seen the
morning star of Jesus and that IL all
their experiments with light and heat
they have not. seen the light and felt
the warmth of the Sun of Righteous
ness We want more of the salt OF
Gods grace in our homes, in Our
schools, in our colleges, in our social
life, in our Christianity, And that
which has it will live: that which las
it not will die. ! proclaim the tendHn-
cy of everything earthly to putrefac-
ton and death--the religion of Christ
the only preservative.
My subject is one of great ccngratu-
lation to those who have within their
souls this gospel antiseptc. This salt
will preserve them through the tempta-
tions and sorrows of life and through
the ages of eternity. do not mean to
say that YOU will have smooth time
because YOU are Christian. On the
contrary. if you do your whole duty l
will promise you rough time. leu
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 hilt and squirting on
your steed over heaps of the slain. But
| think that God omnipotent will see
YOU through. think He will. But why
do | talk like an atheist when ought
to say | know He will? kept by the
power of God through faith unto CON-
plete salvation
When Gov. 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 together in. the cars he
recited to me the scenes through
which he had passed in the civil war.
upon which everything seemed to
pivot. kilograms from Washington
said that the life of the nation de-
pended on that struggle He said to
me: ~ went into that battle, sir,
with my son. His mother and l
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 concentered, and it was
awful. Horses and riders bent and
twisted and piled up together. 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 feeling that | had in my right arm
the strength of ten giants" And as
the governor brought his arm down
on the back of the seat it fairly made
the car tremble. well" he said, 1.-THE
battle was desperate. but after awhile
we gained n little. and we marched
OH little. / turned round to the
lTOODS anu Suoulths NolhC vi,
boys!' and / stepped across n dead
soldier, and, 10, it was my son! |
saw at the first glance he was dead,
and yet did not dare to stop min
ute. for the crisis had come in the
battle. 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 confetti is
a fierce fight Eternal ages seem de-
pending on the strife. Heaven is
waiting for the bulletins to announce
the tremendous issue. Hail of shot,
cash of saber, fall of battle AK. groan-
ing on every side. We cannot stop
for loss or bereavement or anything
else. With one ardent embrace and
one loving kiss we utter our fare
wells and then cry: ''Come on, boys!
There are other heights to be cap
tured; there are other foes to be con-
quered; there are other crowns to be
won"
Yet, as one of the Lords surgeons,
must bind up two or three wounds.
just lift them now, whatever they be.
| have been told there is nothing like