The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-07-19

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ten days the officers of the law had
put them behind the walls again and
stopped up the tunnel. Their temporary
freedom did not last. But the man
who has been freed by Jesus Christ
shall never be brought into condemna.
ton. His guilt has been annihilated.
He stands before God as if he had
never sinned
"Oh, for such grace let rocks and hills
Their lasting silence break.
And all harmonious human tongues
The Fathers praises speakw
Again. the truth frees us from the
law. Lazarus is liberated from his
grave-clothcs. Love takes the place OF
law. a home governed by rules is
apt to be Il prison. \ school where no.
body is put on his honor, but every
body must work by rule, is not apt 10
be well governed Some boys have no
honor to be put upon, so that they
must be treated as convicts But when
the scholars love the truth and the
teacher it is safer to let love and
honor rule. l read the other day of a
man and his wife in Iowa. who dis
covered after they were married that
they were not happy; so they drew up
n matrimonial contract in which the
wife promised not TO scold or quarrel
and to perform all her duties. on cond-
tion that the husband would give her
for all needs 500 a month. They were
soon in court, the husband protesting
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dition, and the wife charging that the
husband had failed to fulfill his The
result was suit for divorce. But YOU
know of homes where love Is law: the
father rules by love; the wife is the
queen of love. No law is needed, for
love is the fulfilling of law. Such
home is an anthem of harmony day
by day.
We are freed from ceremonial law.
Men who are the slaves of sin are
sometimes bound by ceremonial law.
Two burglars were heard convcrSing
during Lent. one said to the other:
Jack, | know where there is safe
with one hundred thousand dollars in
it; let's crack it tonight" 81 am not
!
! during Lent. We should practise self
denial" After Lent was over he was
| ready for the Safe-cracking, and with
no qualm of conscience. The truth as
it is in Jesus frees us from the law,
and yet leads us lovingly to obey the
law without feeling its restraint.
We are freed from habit-bad habit.
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of drink and tobacco. Now, let us be
careful. We may hurt some tender
conscience. There is difference,
| think, between tobacco and alcohol.
though not so much as Iuany suppose,
for much tobacco is at least one-tcnth
| alcohol. But when man becomes the
slave of tobacco he is not very differ
ent from the slave of drink. 1t may
not lead him to abuse his wife and
| children, but he Is not II free man.
Now, if you have ever said, Il cannot
| quit tobacco" make up your mind to
do it or die. Say as Mr.. Henson, of
Chicago, when he found he was Il slave
to the weed, laying his cigar on the
table, said: you black rascal, I'll not
serve you any longer The truth as it
is in Jesus can free any sort of slave
i from any sort of habit.
Even from good habit we some
\ times need to be freed. Men may per-
4 form religious duties by routine until
they become mere machines. They act
I not from principle. | have heard of Il
dog belonging to Il Presbyterian elder
which went to church every Sunday,
slept in front of the pClpit during the
sermon, shook himself during the doX-
ology, and walked out with Il joyful
expression The old Presbyterian elder
died, and II Baptist deacon bought his
| farm. The dog remained on the farm,
went with the Baptist family to the
| village the next Sunday, and on arrly-
ing at the Presbyterian church lie was
surprised that the family did not turn
in as usual but he went ill., lay down
before the pulpit, slept through the ser
| mon, went home after the service, and
for five or six years, aS long as his
dogship lived, he kept up the habit OF
attending his own chnrch. He could
not be induced TO change his dcnOmina-
tional relation There was no princi-
pie involved; il was simply the force
| of habit. Just as that dog went to
| church by force of habit we often go
through family prayers, readlng the
| Bible, and other religious duties, in the
most mechanical way. If we truly be-
lieve in Christ continue in His Word,
| and know the Truth, we shall be freed
4 from mechanism. The life principle
within us will work And that brings
me TO say lastly, that all this freedom
| must come from within, not from
! without Men are to be saved by the
Gospel rather than by law. The sher-
if and the peniteTJiary can never re-
deem the soul. Now | believe in pun
ishing criminals; men that break the
law ought TO be put behind iron bars
Christian sentiment should demand
! ii; but Ire old warden of the Ohio pen
itcntiury was right when he called his
! institution the impcni itentialy, for he
! said he rarely ever tul1 ed out any
penltents The rrecd,hu of the soul we
seek must com. through an inward
knowing of the tru a.. II must be ms
fruit upon the tree,Of faith and'knowl-
edge.
One Of the master painters has let'
striking picture. 1t represents The
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