The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-12-01

tune, waded many years chin deep
through the worlds scorn and was
thrust in debtors prison and came
with his family to the verge of star
walton, but continued his experiments
with vulcanized rubber until he added
more than can be estimated to the
worlds health and comfort, as well as
to his own advantage. Columbus and
John Fitch, ard Stephenson and Rob-
ert Bruce, and Cyrus w. Field and 500
others were illustrations of what te-
nacity and pluck can do. Hard pound
ing" said Wellington at Waterloo,
"hard pounding, gentlemen, but we
will see who can pound the longest"
Yes, my friends, that is the secret,
not fight from obstacles in the way.
but "who can pound the longest"
The child had it right when attempt
ing to carry II ton of coal, shovelful
at time, from the sidewalk to the
cellar, and some one asked her: do
you expect to get all that coal in with
that little shovel? And she replied:
"Yes, sir, IL work long enough" BY
the help of God choose your calling
and stick to it. The gadabouts are
failures for this life, to say nothing
of the next.
There are many who exhibit this
frailty i'm matters of religion. They are
not sure about anything that pertains
to their soul or their eternal destiny.
Now they are Unitarians, and now they
are Universalists, and now they are
Methodists, and now they are Presby-
terians, and now they are nothing at
all. They are not quite sure that the
Bible was inspired or, il inspired,
whether the words or the ideas were
inspired or whether only part of the
Book was inspired. They think at one
time that the story in Genesis about
the garden of Eden is history, and the
month after they think it is an ale
CORY. At one time they think the book
of Job describes what really occurred,
but the next time they speak OF it they
call it n drama. Now they believe all
the miracles, but at your next inter
view they try to show how these
! scenes had nothing in them supernat-
ural, but can be accounted for by nat
ural causes. Gadding about among re-
| ligious theories and never satisfied. All
the evidence is put before them, and
why do they not render verdict? II
they cannot make up their mind with
all the data put before them, they
never will There are all the archaeo-
logical combinations of the Bible
brought to view by the Palestine En-
ploration society,"" there are the bricks
of Babylon, the letter IN" impressed
upon them-"N" for Nebuchadnezzar.
showing that he was not myth--and
the farther the shovel of the antigua
rian goes down the more is revealed of
that most wonderful city of all time.
Prof. Heilprecht, of the University of
! Pennsylvania, presents us tablets found
in the far east ratifying and explain
ing Scriptural passages which were be-
fore in mystery. AS the builders in
Jerusalem to-day dig for the founda-
ton of new houses they turn up with
their pickaxes the ashes of the ami
mails that were used for burnt offer
ings in the temple ages ago, demonstrate
ing the truth of the Bible story about
the sacrifices of lambs and heifers and
pigeons. There is the history by 10,
sephus, described on uninspiring pages
scenes which the Bible depicts. On the
banks of the Dead sea there are pieces
of the very birthstone that fell in the
sulphurous storm that destroyed Sodon
and Gomorrah. Make up your mind
whether the Bible is glorious reyela
ton of God or the worst imposition OF
the centuries. Why go gadding aboai
among inidels, atheists and deists ask
ing questions and surmsing and guess
ing about the authority and value of =
book which involves the infnitics? Ii
is either n good book or n bad book
If it be n bad book, you do not want
il in your house nor have your children
contaminated with its teachings. Il
il is good book, your eternal happ
ness depends upon the adoption of it,
teachings. Once and forever make NJ
your mind whether it is the book 81
God or the book of yillainous pretend
ers.
My text also addresses those VIII,
in search of happiness are goinl
hither and yonder looking for tina
which they find not. Their time is al
taken up with ''musicales," and pro
gressiye euchres." and teas, and vel
low luncheons, and "at homes" an,
dances, and operas, and theaters; and
instead of finding happiness, they ge
pale cheeks, and insomnia, and indi
gestion, and neuralgia, and exhaus
ton, and an abbreviated lifetime
There is more splendid womanhoot
sacrificed in that way in our cite,
than in any other way The judg
ment day only can reveal the awfu
holocaust of tangled nerves and tn,
suicidal habits of much of our socia
life. The obituary of such reads well
for the story is suppressed about how
they got their death while standing
in attire of gauze, waiting for tn,
carriage on raw night, on the from
steps. While in their lifetime they
possessed all the ability for the rcliet
of pain and impoverishment, yet they
have no time for visitation of the
poor, or to win the blessing of such
as comes upon those who administer
to those who are ready to perish