Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-01-10
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| tale that Is told" 1t Is an interest
| 1t is the story Of an immortal,
makes It interesting. He Is launc
| ocean Of eternal years, In a VIC
| will never terminate. He fs~striA,., .ut
keynote Of an anthem Or dirge that will
never come to its last bar. That Is what
makes the devotional meetings of modern
times so much more interesting than they
used to be. They are filed not with dis
courses py laymen on the subject uf justi-
| acation and sanctifcation, which lay dis
courses administer more to the facetious
than to the edifying, but with stories oil
what God has done for the soul-how every
thing suddenly changed; how the promises
became balsamic in times of laceration;
how he was personally helped out and
helped up and helped on. Nothing can
stand before such story Of personal res.
cue, personal transformation. personal
illumination. The mightiest and most
skillful argument against Christianity col
lapses under the ungrammatical but sin
cere statement. The atheisttc professor OF
J, natural philosophy goes down under the
story Of that backwoodsman's conversion.
All that elaborate persuasion OF the old
folks OF the folly Of giving up active life
too soon means nothing as compared with
the simple incident you may relate to
them Of the fact that Benjamin Franklin
was Governor OF Pennsylvania at eighty
TWO years Oh age anu tuhI VI DduuOlO, Oh Sen-
! ice, at ninety years Of age, although his
eyesight had been destroyed through be-
ing compelled by his enemies to look into
polished metal basin under the full blaze
OF the sun until totally blind, yet this sight
less nonagenarian leading an army to the
| successful besiegement Of Constantinoplel
When an old man hears Of such incidents
| starts anew.
The New Testament suggests the powe.
Of the "tale that Is told" Christ was the
| most effective story teller OF all the ages.
The parallels are only tales well told:
up by the thieves and the Samaritan pay
ing his board bill at the tavern; that Of the
big dinner, to which the invited guests
| sent in fictitious regrets; that of the shep-
herd answering the bleat Of the lost sheep
: and all the rural neighbors that night help,
, ing him celebrate the fact that It was safe In
| the barnyard; that OF the bad boy, reduced
| to the swines' trough. greeted home with
| such banqueting and jewelry that It etuffed
| the older son with jealousy and dis9runtle-
ment; that Of the Pharisee full OF bragga.
| with stroke that brought down the heav.
eIs in commiseration; stories about lep-
rosy, about paralysis, about catalepsy
about dropsy, about OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
that He so we'll told that they have rolled
| down to the present and will roll down
through the entire future.
| I heard Daniel Baker. the wonderful
| evangelist Of his time, preach what l sup
! posed was q great sermon, but I remem
| Der nothing Of 1t except story that he
told, and that. 1 judge from the seeming
| effect, may that afternoon have brought
hundreds Into the Kingdom OF GOD.
heard Truman Osborne preach several SER
mons, but remember nothing OF what he
sale in public or private except a story
that he told, and that was, among other
| things, the means OF my salvation. The
| lifelong work Of John B. Cough, the great
the victory Of anecdote, and who can ever
| forget his story Of Joel Straton touching
him ON the shoulder or Of Deacon Moses
! Grant at Hopkinson, or Of the outcast
/ woman nicknamed Hell Fire." but re-
deemed by the thought that she "was one
| Of worldwide fame and usefulness, who re-
| Gently passed to his great reward on high
during his valuable labors In the pulpit
| welded the anecdote for God and HEAVIER
until all nations have been moved by 1t.
| II you have had experiences OF pardon
Il. Tell 1t In the most pointed and dra-
matte way you can manage. Tell 1t soon
| or You may never tell It at all. Oh, the
/ power Of "the tale that is toldi' An hour.
discourse about the fact that blasphemou.
| behavior is sometimes punished In thi
| WOIlO WOQlO hot lmpI0SS US - muCu d6 Tux
simple story that In q town Of New Yorl
state Mt the close OF the last century thirty.
liz profane men formed themselves into a
Stub, calling themselves ''Society OF the
i Oruids." They met regularly to deride
md damage Christianity. One night Ia
Il heir awful meeting they burned Bible
and administered the sacrament to dog
i rwo of them died that night. Within three
II laws three were drowned. In Ave years al
he thirty-six came to q bad end. Before