The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-02-15

oh, how often is Il that men with great
physical endurance are not as great In
moral and spiritual staturel While there
are achievements for those who are bent
oil their days with sickness achievements
OF patience, achievements Of Christian GU
durance-I call upon men OF health, men
OF muscle, men OF nerve, mon OF physical
power, to devote themselves to the Lord.
Behold also, in the story OF my text, H.
lustration OF the fact OF the damage that
strength can do II It be misguided. 1t
seems to me that this man spent n great
deal Of his time in doing evil, this Samson
OF my text. To pay a bet which he had
lost by the guessing OF his riddle no robs
and Kills thirty people. He was not only
gigantic In strength, but gigantic ia mis-
chief and type OF those men In all ages
OF the world who, powerful Ia body or mind
or any faculty OF social position or wealth,
have used their strength for inlquitous
purposes.
1t is not the small, weak men of the day
who do the damage. These small men who
go swearing and loahng about your stores
and shops and banking houses. assailing
Christ and the Bible and tho church--they
do not do the damage. They have no In
huence. They are vermin that you crush
with your foot. But It is the giants OF the
day, the misguided giants, giants in phys
ical power, or giants In mental acumen,
or giants in social position, or giants
in wealth, who do the damage. The
mon With SHARP pens that stab re-
ligion and throw poison all through
our literature, tue men who use the power
OF wealth to sanction iniouity and brIbe
justice and make truth aud honor bow to
their golden scepter. Misguided giants
look out for theml In the middle and lat
ter part OF the last century no doubt there
were thousands OF mon In Paris and Edin-
burgh and London who hated God and
blasphemed tho name OF the Almighty. but
hAu IL hni sAIa
small men, insignificant men. Yet there
were giants In those days. Who can cal
culate the soul havoc of Rous seau Ro-
Ing on with a very enthusiasm OF In
iquity, with fiery Imagination selling
upon all the impulsive natures OF his
day? Or David Hume, who employed
his lifo us spider employs its sum.
mer, In spinning out siken webs to trap
the unwRry2 Or Voltuire, the most learned
man OF his day, marshaling II great host OF
skeptics and leading them out in tho dark
land ofinndelityP Or Gibbon, who showed
an uncontrollabe grudge against religion
In his history OF one OF the most fasclnat.
ing periods OF the worlds oxistence--the
decline and Fall OF the Roman Empire
IA book In which, with all the splendors
OF his genius, he magnilled the errors OF
Christian disciples, while with a sparse.
moss OF notice that never can be forgiven
he treated OF the Christian heroes OF whom
the world was not worthy?
On. men OF stout physical health, men ot
great mental stature, men OF high social
position, men OF great power OF any sort
want you to understand your power and
want you to know that that power devoted
to God will be n crown on earth, to you
typical OF n crown In heaven, but nisguld.
ed, bedrnggled 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 judg.
men and money bags and judicial crime
and royal robe shall be riven with the
llghtnings.
Behold also how a giant may be slain OF
a woman. Deilah started the train OF cir.
cumstances that pulled down the temple OF
Dagon about Samsons ears. And tens OF
thousand Is OF giants have gone down to
death and hell through the same fascina.
tions. 1t seems to me that 1t Is high time
that pulpit and platform and printing
press speak out against tho impurities OF
MODERN society. Fastidlousness and prud
cry say, Better not speak; you will rouse
up adverse criticism; you will make worse
what you want to make better; better deal
In glittering generalities; the subject Is too
delicate for polite ears" But there comes
o voice from heaven overpowerng the
mincing sentimentalities of the day. say.
Ing, "Cry aloud, spare NOT, lift up thy voice
like trumpet, and show My people their
SINS"
The trouble is that when people write or
speak upon this theme they are apt to cover
It up with the graces OF bellies lettres, so
that the crime Is made attractive instead
OF repulsive. Lord Byron, In Don Juan,
adorns this crime until 1t smiles like IL May
queen. Michelet, the great French writer,
covers 1t up with bewitching rhetoric until
It glows like the rising sun, when 1t ought
to be made loathsome as smallpox hos
pital. There are to-day Influences abroad
which, II unresisted by the pulpit and the
printing press, will turn our modern cities
into Sodoms and Gomorrahs, nt only for
the storm OF lire and birthstone that
whelmed the cities OF the plain.
II, then, We are to be com pelled to go
out OF the world, where are we to go to2
This body and soul must soon part. What
shall be the destiny OF the former know
dust to dust. But what shall be the des-
tiny OF the latter2 Shall 1t rise into the
companionship OF the white robbed, whose
sins Christ has slain. or Will 1t go down
among the unbelieving, who tried to gain
the world and save their souls, but were
swindled out OF both2 Blessed be Godl
We have a Championl He Is so styled In
the Bible: Champion who has conquered
death and hell, and He Is ready to fight all
our battles from the first to the last.
"Who Is this that cometh up from Edom
with dyed garments from Bozrah, mighty
to save?'
In the light OF this subject want to call
your attention to fact which may not
have been rightly considered, and that IL
the fact that we must be brought into
judgment for the mployment of our physl-
cal organism. Shoulder. brain, hand, foot
we must answer In judgment for the use
we have made of them. Have they been
used for the elevation OF society or for it's
depression? In proportion as our arm is
strong and our step elastic will our account
at last be intensified Thousands of SER
mons are preached TO invalids. preach
this sermon to stout men and healthful
women. We must give to God an account
for the right use OF this physical organism.
These invalids havo comparatively little to
account for perhaps. They could not lift
twenty pounds. They could not walk half
u mile without sitting down TO rest. Yet
how much many OF them accomplished
Rising up In judgment, standing beside the
men and women who had only little physi-
cal energc and yet consumed that energy
In conliagration OF religious enthusiasm,
how will we feel abasbed o men of the
strong arm and the stout heart, what use
are you making OF your physical forces?
Will you be able to stand the test OF that
lay when We must answer for the use OF
svery talent, whether 1t where physical
energy or mental acumen or u spirituas