The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-02-17

| WHO uTt tue SuuJects VI lileloHB liHIHi
tiles.
How often IL Is that you do not fine
physical energy indicative of spiritua
power! If clear head is worth more
than one dizzy with perpetual vertigo
IL muscles with the play of health II
them are worth more than those drawn
up in chronic "rheumatics." il an eye
quick to catch passing objects is better
than one with vision DIN and uncertain
then God will require OF us efficiency
| just in proportion to what He has giver
MS. Physical energy ought to be a
type of moral power. We ought to have
as good digestion of truth as we have
capacity to assimilate food. Our spir-
itual hearing ought to be as good as
our physical hearing. Our spiritual
taste ought TO be rs clear as our tongue.
Samsons in body, we ought to be giants
in moral power.
II is most shameful fact that much
| of the business of the church and OF the
world must be done by those compara-
| lively invalid. Richard Baxter, by rea-
son of his diseases, all his days sitting
more than 100 volumes and sending out
an influence for God that will endure
as longas the Saints Everlasting Rest"
Edward Payson, never knowing a well
day. yet how he preached and how he
wrote. helping thousands Of dying
souls like himself to swim in the sea of
glory. And Robert McCheyne, n walk
ing skeleton, yet you know what he did
in Dundee and how he shook Scotland
with zeal for God. Philip Doddridge,
advised by his friends because of his Ill
ness not TO enter the ministry, yet you
know what he did for the "Rise and
Progress Of Religion" in the church of
the world. ~
II is not the small. weak mep Of the
day who DO the damage. These small
men who go swearing and loafing about
your stores and shops and banking
houses. assailing Christ and the Bible
and the church-they DO not do the
damage. They have no influence. They
are vermin that you crush with your
foot. But it is the giants Of the day,
the misguided giants. giants in physic-
al power. or giants in mental acumen,
or giants in social position. or giants in
wealth, who do the damage-the men
with sharp pens that stab religion and
throw their poison all through our lit
crature. the men who use the power of
wealth to sanction iniquity and bride
justice. and make truth and honor bow
to their golden scepter. Misguided gil
ants-look out for them. In the middle
and latter part of the last century no
doubt there were thousands of men in
Paris and Edinburgh and London who
hated God and blasphemed the name Of
the Almighty; but they did but little
mischief-they were small men. insig
nficant men. Yet there were giants in
those days. Who can calculate the soul
havoc of Rousseau, going on with
very enthusiasm of iniquity, with fiery
Imagination Selling upon all the impul-
sive natures Of his day. or David Hume.
who employed his life as a spider en-
Sploys It's summer in spinning out silk
an webs o trap the unwary, or Voltaire.
the most learned man of his day. mar
Tshaling n great host of skcptics and
leading them out in the dark lard of in
fidelity. or Gibbon. who showed an I'M
comfortable grudge against religion in
his history Of one of the most fascinat-
ing periods of the worlds existence
THE Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empirc"-a book in which, with all the
splcrdor Of his genius. he magr fled the
errors Of Christian disciples, while with
a sparseness Of notice that never can be
forgiven he treated of the Christian he
roes Of whom the world was not
worthy?
Oh, men of stout physical health,
men of great mental stature. men Of
high social position, men of great pow
or Of any sort. | want YOU to under
stand your power, and | want you to
know that that power devoted to God
will be Il crown on earth, to you typical
Of a crown in Heaven, but misguided,
bedraggled in sin, administrative of
evil. God will thunder against you
with His condemnation in the day when
millionaire and pauper, master and
| slave. king and subject. shall stand
side by side in the judgment and
money bags and judicial ermine and
royal robe shall be riven with the light
nings.
You who are seated in your Christian
homes. comprised by moral and reli-
| gious restraints, do not realize the
gulf Of iniquity that bounds you on the
north and the south and the east and
the west. While | speak there are
tens OF thousands of men and wom-
en- going over the awful plunge OF an
impure life, and while cry TO God for
mercy upon their souls | cry 10 you TO
marshal in the defense OF your homes,
your church and your nation. There is
a banqueting hall that you have never
heard described. Youknow all about the
feast OF Ahasuerus, where 1000 lords
sat. You know all about Belshazzar's
carousal, where the blood Of the muir
dered king spurted into the faces OF
the banqueters. You know of the scene
of riot and wassail where there was
set before Aesopus one dish Of food that
cost 100000. But speak now Of a
different banqueting hall. It's roof is
frctted with fire. Its floor is tessel-
lated with fire. It's chalices are chased
with fire. It's song Is song OF fire.