Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-12-05

schools. meet them on the street going
the wrong way on Sunday morning and
evening, and I accost them in the words
IF the text, "Why gaddest thou about 30
much to change thy way"
My text also addresses those who in
search of happiness are going hither and
yonder looking for that which they find
not. Their time is all taken up with
"musicales" and progressive euchres" and
teas and yellow luncheons and "at homes"
and dances and operas and theatres, and
instead of finding happiness they get pale
cheeks and insomnia and indigestion and
neuralgia and exhaustion and an abbre-
waited lifetime.
There is more splendid womanhood sac
rifced in that way in our cities than in
any other way. The judgment day can
only reveal the awful holocaust of tangled
nerves and the suicidal habits of much of
our social life. The obituary of such reads
well, for the story is suppressed about how
they got their death while standing in at
tire of gauze waiting for the carriage on
q raw night on the front stems
While IN tnelr nfetime they possessed
all the ability for the relief of pain and
yet they have no time
for visitation of the poor or to win the
blessing of such as comes upon those VINO
administer to those who are ready to per-
ish Enough flowers in their dining halls
to bewitch a prince, but not one tuft or
heliotrope to perfume the room OF that
rheumatic on the back street, to whom
the breath of one flower would be ike
the opening of the front door OF heaven:
Find me one man or one woman VINO In
all the rounds of pleasure and selhshness
has found piece of happiness as large as
that half dollar which the benevolent and
Christlike soul puts into the palm OF the
hand of that mother whose children are
crying for bread. Queen Victoria, riding
in triumph through London at her Jubi-
lee, was not SO sublime figure as Sueen
Victoria in a hut near Balmoral Castle
reading the New Testament to poor dy-
ing man.
Let al the gadabounts for happiness
know that in kindness and usefulness and
self abnegation are to be found a satisfac,
ton which all the gayeties of the world
aggregated cannot afford.
Among the race of gadabouts are those
who neglect their homes in order that
they may attend to institutions that are
really excellent and do not SO much ask
for help as demand it.
l am acquainted, as you are, with WON.
en- who are members of so many boaI ds OF
direction of benevolent institutions and
have to stand at booth in SO many fairs
and must collect funds for SO many orphan
ages and preside at SO many philanthropy
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many different places at the same time
that their children are left to the care OF
irresponsible servants, and if the little
ones waited to say their prayers at their
mothers knee they would never say their
evening prayers at all. Such a woman
makes her own home so unattractive that
the husband spends his evening at the
clubhouse or the tavern. The children OF
that house are as thoroughly orphan as
Is %1a f,th and harleSc IIf-
tie ones gathered in the orphanage for
which that gadabout woman is toiling so
industriously.
By all means let Christian women fos-
ter charitable institutions and give them
as much of their time as they can spare,
but the first duty of that mother is the
duty she owes to her home.
The book of Samuel gives a photograph
of Mephibosheth lame in both feet. When
We see any one lame in one foot or lame
in both feet, we always wonder by what
accident he was lamed. Perhaps it may
have been in battle for his country, OF
he may have been run over by some reck.
less driver or some explosion did the dam.
age. So you wonder how Mephibosheth
became lame in both feet. The Bible for
a good reason gives us the particulars. II
tells us that when he was child his
nurse dropped him. She must have
got over the effect of that fall. Long af.
ter the accident we find him at + ns
David's table, but still our attention ia
called to the fact that his feet were Grip.
pied, though so long before his nurse
dropped him. And mark you that to-day
in all departments of life there are those
crippled in habits, crippled in morals, Grip.
pied for all time. The accident happened
in this way: Their mothers were gada'
bouts and neglected their homes, and the
work of training them was given over to
incompetent nurses, and the nurses let
them fall into bad habits, told them de-
prav:ng stories and gave them wrong no
tions of life and practically ruined them.
But Mephibosheth was taken by King
David into the palace and seated at the
royal table, so by the graz, of the heav
be seated at the Kings table in the Kings
palace, though the nurses did drop them
so that morally they were lame in bott
feet.
Now, what is the practical use of the
present discourse? This: Whereas sc
many have ruined themselves and ruined
others by becoming gadabouts among oc
cupations, among religious theories, among
churches, among neighborhoods, therefore
resolved. that we will concentrate upon
what is right thought and right behavior
and waste no time in vacillations and in.
decisions and uncertainties, running about
in places where we have no business tc
be. Life is so short we have no time to
play with it the spendthrift. Find out
whether the Bible is true and whether
your nature is immortal and whether
Christ is the divine and only Saviour, and
whether you must have Him or be dis
comfited and whether there will probably
ever be a more auspicious moment fol
your becoming His adherent, and ther
make this II o'clock at noon of November
%. the most illustrious minute that yor
will ever have passed since the day oi
your birth Until the ten millionth cycle oi
the coming eternity, because by complete
surrender of thought and will and affec
ton and life to God, through jesus
Christ you became a new man, a new
woman. a new soul, and God the Father
and God the Son and God the Holy
Ghost and all angeldom. Cherubim and
Seraphim and archangel became your al
lies
Found among the papers of the learned
Samuel johnson was a prayer inscribed
with the words, "When my eye was re
stored to its use," and it is a great mo
ment when we get over our moral blind
ness and gain sDiritual eyesight. That il
a moment from which we NAV well date
everything. All the glory of Henry H. ol
France vanished when in a tournament
lance extinguished his eye, and the worst
disaster that can happen to us is to have
the vision of our soul put out. If you
have gone wrong so far, now go right II
the morning and noon of your life have
been a moral defeat, make the evening oi
your life q victory. The battle of Maren
go, lost at o'clock in the afternoon, was
gloriously won at 8, and in your life and
mine it is not too late to achieve some
thing worthy of an immortal Start right
and keen on. Do not spend too much time
in tacking ship. David felt the impor
tance of fixedness' of purpose when he
cried out. ''Ihy heart is fixed, o God, my
heart is fixedi"
MOT only q it healthy to yawn
says a French physician. but yawr
| ing should be resorted to in cases
sore throat. buzzing Of the ears. catarr
/ and like troubles." 1t Is said to be 8
efficacious in its way as gargling Il
throat. with which process it should