The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-09-20

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thank all the doctors and quarantines. but
more than q and first of all and last of
! VI and all the time I thank God. In all
ne 5000 years Of the worlds existence
there has not one thing merely "hapnened
Father. ''e'
When little Tad tine son of President
Lincoln. died all Amcricn svnpathizod
with the sorrow in the White House. He
used to rush into the room where the
| labinet was in session and while the most
| eminent men of the land were discussing
the questions of national existence. But
| the child had no care about those pues.
| tons. No, God the Father and God the
SON and God the Holy Ghost are i'm per.
petnal session in regard to this world
and kindred worlds. Shall YOU. His child.
| t,lsh IN to critcise or arraipu or condemn
| the DIVINE government No. The cab.
met OF the eternal three can govern and
WI, govern in the wisest and best way.
and there never will he a mistake and
like razor sllillfully swung. shall cut that
| which ought to be avoided Precision to
| the very hairbrealth Earthly time.
| pieces may 20 ont of order and strike
wrong, saying it is ] o'clock when il is 2
| or = when it is 3. Gods clock is always
rght' and when it is ] It strikes l. and
| When 1t is II 1T strikes -, and the second
| hand - as accurate rs the minute hand
| Further. my text tells us that God
| sometimes shaves nations: "In the same
| day shall the Lord shave with n razor
! that is hired" With one sharp sweep
| lie went across Judea, aud down went it,
| pride and us power. In 1861 God shaved
the American nation. We had allowed TO
| grow sabbath desecration and oppression
and blasphemy and fraud and impurity
| and all sorts of turpitudc. The South had
| ITS sins and tho North had its sins aud
| the East its sins and the West its Sins
| We had been warned again and again, and
we did not heed. At length the sword of
war cut from the st. Lawrence to the Gulf
| and from Atlantic seat oard to Pacific sea.
board. The pride of the land. not the
towards. but the heroes. on both sides
! went down. And that which we took for
| Tie sword OF war was the Lord razor In
| lS62 again 1t went across the land: in
| 1863 again in 1864 again. Then the sharp
instrument was ncased and put away.
| One would think that our national SYM
Dol OF the eagle might sometimes suggest
another eagle. that which ancient Rome
carried. In the talons of that eagle were
| c!utched at one time Britain France
| Spain, Italy. Damatia Rhaetia. Noricum.
| Pannonia, Moesia, Dacia, Thrace. Mace.
| donia. Greece, Asia Minor. Syria. Phoeni.
| cla, Palestine Egypt and all northern
| Africa and all the islands of the Medter.
raDean-ndeed all the world that was
worth having l20,OOO0OO of people under
| the wings OF that one eagle, Where is
! she now! Ask Gibbon, the historian, in
his prose poem, the Decline and Fail of
| the Roman Empire Ask her gigantic
! ruins, bemoanng their sadness through
the ages, the screcch owl at windows out
of which worldwide conquerers looked
Ask the day of Judgment, when her
| crowned debauchces, Commodus and Per.
| tinaS and Calgula and Diocletian, shall
answer for their ntamy. As man and as
nations let us repent and have our trust
| in pardoning God rather than depend
| on former successes for immunity. Out
| of thirteen Of the greatest battles of the
world Napoleon had lost but one before
Waterloo Pride and destruction often
| rode in the same saddle.
| But notice once more and more than
] all in my text that God is so kind and
| loving that when it is necessary for Him
to cut He has TO go to others for the
| sharp edged weapon. In the same day
| shall the Lord shave with a razor that is
| hired God is love. God is pity. God
is help God is shelter. God is rescue.
| There are no sharp edges about Him, no
| thrusting points, no Instruments of lacera
| ton. If YOU want balm for wounds, He
| has that. II you want divine salye for
| eyesight. He has that But if there is
| sharp and cutting work to do which re.
| quires Il razor, that He hires. God has
nothing about Him that hurts save when
| dire necessity demands, and then lie has
| to go Gear off to some one else to get the
instrument. This divine clemcncy will be
| no novelty - those who have pOndercd
| the Ca,varean massacre, where God sub
| merged Himself in human tears and Grim
| soned Himself from punctured arteries
| and let the terrestrial and internal worlds
maul Him until the chandeliers OF the
| sky had to be turned out because the uni
verse could not endure the outrage, Illus
| trious Tor love He must have been to take
| all that as our substitute, paying out OF
| His own heart the price OF our admission
at the gates of heaven.
King Henry II. of England crowned his
son as king, and on the day OF coronation
put on a servants garb and waited, he,
the king, ut the sons table, TO the aston
ishment OF all the princes But we know
OF a more wOndrous scene, the King OF
heaven and earth offering to put on you,
His child, the crown of life and in the
form of a servant waiting on you with
blessing. EXtol that love, all painting, all
sculpture, all music, all architecture, all
Worship In Dresdenian gallery let RAJ
phael hold Him up as "A child and in Ant
werp cathedral let Rubens hand Him
down from the cross as martyr and Han,
del make all his oratorlo vibrate around
that one chord-"He was wounded for our
transgressions, bruised for our iniquties."
But not until all the redeemed get home
and from the countenances in all the gal
eries of the ransomed shall be revealed
the wonders of redemption shall either
man or seraph or archangel know the
height and depth and breadth of the love
of God.
At our national capital monument in
honor of him who did more than any one
to achieve our American independence
was for scores OF years IN building, and
most of us were discouraged and said it
never would be completed. And how glad
we all were when in the presence of the
highest officials of the nation the work
was done! But will the monument to Him
who died for the eternal liberation of the
human race ever be completed! For ages
the work has been going up. Evangelists
and apostles and martyrs have been add
ing to the heavenly pile, and every one OF
the millions of redeemed going up from
earth has made to it contribution OF glad
ness, and weight of glory is swung to the
top of other weight of glory, higher and
higher as the whole mllenniums roll, sap
phre on the top Of jasper, sardonyx on
the top of chalcedony and chrysoprasus
above topaz, until far beneath shall be the
walls and towers and domes OF our earth
~ capitol a monument forever and for
over rising and yet never done! Unto
Him who has loved us and washed us
from our sins in His own blood and made
us kings and priests forever" Allelua,
amen.
Wire Nail Caused Appendicitis.
A 9-year-old boy named Isaac Lip.
son who lives in Chelsea Mass. was