The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04

| sons IN our midst called skeptcs. and he
who goes to wort here will not BE- build.
| ing upon another mans foundation. There
is large number OF them. They are
afraid of us and our churches. for tho rea.
| son we do not know how to treat them
One Of this class met Christ and heard
| with what tenderness and pathos and
| beauty and success Christ dealt with him:
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with
| all thy heart. aud with all thv soul. and
with all thv mind, ard with all thy
strength. This IS the first and great
| commandment, and the second IL like unto
| it-namelv, 1nou shalt love thy neighbor
as thysef. There is none other com
mandment greater than these And the
| scribe said TO Him, "Wcll Muster. Thou
hast said the truth. for there is one God.
| and TO love Him with all the heart. and
| all the understanding. and all the soul.
| and all the strength is more than whole
| burnt offerings and sacrifices" And when
| Jenis saw that he answered discreetlv He
| said unto Him. ''rhou art not far from
the kingdom of God" So a slieptic was
| saved in one interview. But few Chris.
| tian people treat the skepuc in that way.
| Instead of taking hold of him with the
gentle hand of love we are ant TO take
him with the pinchers of occlesiasteism.
You would not he so rough on that man
il you knew how he lost his faith in Chris.
tlanlty. ! have known men skeptcal from
religion IS overdone. Sunday was the
most awful day in the week They had
religion driven into them with a trip ham
mer; they we're suricitcd with prayer
meetings; they were stuffed and cholied
with catechisms; they were often told
that they were the worst bows the parents
ever knew because they liked to ride down
hill better than to read Bunyan's "Pil
grim's Progress"
Whenever father and mother talked Of
religion they drew down the corners of
their mouth and rolled up their eyes. If
any one thing will send boy or girl to
rum sooner than another that is IT, IT
had such father aud mother | fear |
shonld have been an infdel
Ihc first word that children learn is
generally papa or mamma. | think the
first word ! ever uttered was why |
know what it is To have hundred mid
nights pour their darkness into one hour
Oh skepticism is darl; landl There
are men who would give a thousand
worlds, if they possessed them. to get
back to the placid faith of their fathers
and mothers, and it is our place to help
them. and we may help them, never
through their heads, but always through
their hearts.
These skeptics when brought to Jesus,
Will be nightly effective, far more 50 than
those who never examined the evidences
of Christianity Thomas Chalmers was
once skeptic, Robert Hall n skcptic.
Robert Newton skeptic, Christian Evans
y sI.cptic But when once with strong
hand they took hold of the chariot OF the
gospel they rolled il ON with what mo.
mcntum
If | address such men and women to-day
] throw out no scoif. ! implead them by
the memory OF the good old days when at
their mothers knee they said. Low 7
lay me down to sleep" and by those days
pn1 NIGHTS of cporlat favap in ,vbtgl, sbn
watched you, giving You the medicine in
just the right time, and turning your pill
low when 1t was hot and with hands that
many years ago turned TO dust soothed
away your pain and with voice that You
will never hear again, unless you join her
IN the better country told you TO never
mind, for you would feel better by and
by, and by that dying couch where she
looked so pale and talked so slowly. catch
ing her breath between the words, and you
felt an awful loneliness coming over your
soul-by all that | beg YOU to come back
and take the same religion
1t was good enough for her. it is good
enough for you. Nay. | have a better plan
than that. ! plead by all the wounds and
tears and blood and groans and agonies
and death throes of the Son of God who
approaches you this moment with torn
brow and lacerated hands and whipped
back and saying, Come unto Me all We
''F W. 'N'i ''iA iAN"'N h'hNhf NiiN WI
give you rest"
Again, there is a field OF usefulness hut
little touched, occupied by those who are
0stray in their habits. All northern ma.
tons, like those of North American and
England and Scotland - that is, in the
colder cllmates-are devastated by alco-
holism. They take the fire to keep up
the warmth, In southern countries like
Arabia and Spain, the blood is so warm
they are not tempted to fiery liquids. The
great Roman armies never drank any.
thing stronger than water tingCd with
vinegar, but under our northern climate
the temptations to heating stmulants is
most mighty and millions succumb. When
. man 5 habits go wrong, the church drops
him, the social circle drops him. good in.
lluences drop hm-we all drop him. OF
all the men who get off the track but few
even get on again.
Destitute children of the street offer a
field OF work comparatively unoccupied.
The ncared for children are in the ma.
lority in most OF our cities When they
grow up, ii unreiormed, they will outvote
your children, and they viii govern your
children.
The whisky ring will hatch out other
whisky rings, and grog shops will kill
with their hortid stencil public sobriety
unless the church of God rises up with out
stretched arms and intods this dying pop.
ulaton in her bosom
Public schools cannot do it. Art CALLER.
les cannot do it. Blacllwels Island can.
not do it. Almshouses cannot no il
Jails cannot do it. Church of God, wake
up 70 your magnificent mission! You can
do it! Get somewhere, somehow to work!
The Prussan cavalry mount by putting
their right foot in the stirrup, while th2 :
American cavalry mount by putting then
left foot into the stirrup ! do not caro- |
how You mount your war charger if you |
only get into this battle for God and get
there soon, right stirrp or left strrup
or no stirrup at all. The unocoupied fields |
are all around us and why should wa
build on another mans foundation? ! |
have heard of what was called the "thun
dering LEGION 1t was in 10 part Of tho ,
Roman army to which some Christians |
belonged, and their prayers, it was said |
were answered by thunder and lightning |
and hail and tempest which overthrew |
an invading army and saved the empire |
And | would to God that our churchea |
might be so mighty in prayer and work |
that they would become a laundering le. |
gion before which the forces of sin might |
be routed and the gates of hell might |
tremble. Launch the gospel ship for an |
other voyage. Heave away now, lads |
Shake out the reefs in the foretopsail |
Come, o heavenly wind and fill the can.
vas! Jesus aboard will assure our safety |
Jesus on the sea will beckon us forward |
Jesus on the shore will welcome us into
harbor.
Monument Like Ills Desk.
In the cemetery at Nebraska City |
the other day saw n peculiar monu-