Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-06-27
NO. 20

-pedhs we'll IL YOU uTC dI peace WlIn III
the world and everybody likes you and
approves your work, it is because you are
an idler in the Lords vineyard and ara
aot dong your duty. All those ~ no have
/ served Christ, however eminent all have
/ been maltreated st some stage of their ex-
I perlence. You know 1T was in the time
! Of George Whitefeld when he stood and
invited men into the kingdom of God.
What did the learned DIR. johnson say of
limy He pronounced him miserable
nomntebank. How was it when Robert
Hall stood and spoke as scarcely any unin-
pired man ever did speak of the glories
If heavens And as he stood Sabbath at
er Sabbath preaching on these theme,
MS face kinded with the glory. 'ohn
.oSter. Christian man. said of this man,
Robert Hall is only acting. and the smile
IN his face Is reflection of his own van
ty." John Wesley turned all England
Upside down with Christian reform, and
Tet the punsters were after him. and the
neanest Jokes in England were perpetrated
ibout John Wesley. What is true of the
pulpit is true OF the pew; 1t Is true of the
street: it is true of the shop and the store.
All who live godly in Christ Jesus must
suffer persecution.
And | set it down as the very worst sign
n all vour Christian experience it you are
iny of Won at peace with all the world.
The religion of Christ is war. Ii is =
challenge to ''the world. the flesh and the
lrmor of God you viii find great host
iisputing your path between his and
heaven.
Again. I commend the behavior of the
disciples to all the bereaved. How many
n garb of mourning, How many emblems
las His own way of taking apar a fam
ly. We must get out of the way for COM
ng generations. We must get off the
stage that Others may come on: and for
his reason there is long procession reach
ng down all the time into the valley ot
shadows. This emigration rom ne into
eternity is so vast an enterprise thai we
,annot understand it. Every hour we hear
The clang of the sepulchral gate. The
sod must be broken The ground must be
0lowed for resurrectio harvest Eternity
must be peopled. The dust must press our
avelids. TT is appointed unto all men
once to die" This emigration from time
INTO eternity keeps three-fourths of the
families of the earth in desolation. The
air is rent with farewells. and the black
every street. The body of the child that
was folded so closely 10 the mothers heart
is put away in the cold and the darkness.
The laughter freezes to the girls lip. and
the rose scatters. The bov in the harvest
field of Shunem SAYS MY head my
the lap of his mother. Widowhood stands
with tragedies of struck into th~ pal
or of the check Orphanage cries in vain
or father and mother. Oh. the grave is
,rueli With teeth of stone it clutches for
IS prev. Between the closing gates of the
:epulcher our hearts are mangled and
rushed.
But Christ is always near-before you,
behind you. within YOU. No mother ever
hrew her arms around her child with such
warmth and ecstacy of affection as Christ
has shown toward YOU.
lose n hand than ha StoT
which yon lean, nearer than the cup you
1ut to your lip. nearer than the handker-
:hief with which You wipe away your tears,
| preach HIM an ever present. all sympa
.hizlng, compassionate Jesus. How can
5ou stay away one moment from Him with
7our griefs? Go now. Go and tell Jesus.
1t is often that friends have no power
% relieve us. They would very much like
% do 1T, but they cannot disentangle our
lnances, they cannot cure our sickness
md raise our dead. but glory be to God
hat He to whom the disciples went has all
)cwer in heaven and on earth. and at ouI
eali He will balk our calamities and at
ust the right time, in the presence of an
ipplaudlng earth and resoundin9 heaven,
will raise our dead. He is mightier than
Herod. He is swifter than the storm. He
grander than the sea. He is vaster than
eternity. And every sword of Gods ON
Impotence will leap from its scabbard and
he resources OF intinity be exhausted rath-
I Fl lfldn tndt pOu cnitu Snau not De Ue-
livered when he cries TO Him for rescrr.
suppose your child was in trouble How
much would YOU endure to get him out?
HOu would say. Il don't care what it will
cost. | must get him out of that trouble"
Do You think God is not SO good father
rs YOU? Seeing You are in trouble and
having all power. will He not stretch out
His arm and deliver you? He Will. He is
mighty to save. He can level the mount
ain and divide the sea, and can extinguish
the fire and save the soul. Not dim of
eve. not weak of arm not feeble of re-
sources. but with all eternity and the uni
verse at His feet. Go and tell Jesus. VIII
you:
! Ye whose cheeks are wet with the night
dew of the grave, We who cannot look up,
ye whose hearts are dried with the breath
of sirocco, in the name of the religion of
Jesus Christ, which lifts every burden and
wipes away every tear and delivers every
captive and lightens every darkness, | i'm
plore You now 90 and t. ! jesus.
A little child went with her father,
sea captain. to sea, and when the first
storm came the little child was very much
1 the cabin and said, Where is father,
where is father Then they told her.
| Father is on deck guiding the vessel and
watching the storm The little child i'm
mediately returned to her berth and said
! It's all right. for fathers on deck.
! O We who are tossed and driven in this
I world up by the mountains and down by
I the valleys and at your wits ends, | want
YOU to know the Lord God is guiding the
ship. Your Father is on deck. He will
fbring YOU through the darkness into the
/ harhor. Trust in the Lord. Go and tell
| Jesus.
| If You go TO Him for pardon and sym
! pathy all is well. Everything will bright
| en- up, and JOY will come to the heart and
sorrow will depart. your sins will be for
| given, and your foot viii touch the up
/ ward path, and the shining messengers
| that report above what Is done here will
| tell il until the Great arches of God re
/ sound with the glad tidings If now with
/ ,ontrition and full trustfulness of soul you
| will only go and tell Jesus.
| But ! am oppressed as | think of those
! who may not take this counsel and may
| remain unblessed | cannot help asking
what will be the destiny of these people
/ Xerxes looked off on his army. There were
4 1000 900, perhaps the finest army ever mar
/ shaled. XerXes rode along the lines. re
/ viewed them. came back, aud stood on
| some high point. looked off upon the 1000,
| 100 men and burst into tears. At that mo
| ment, when every one supposed he would
| he in the greatest eXultaiiOn, lie broke
down in grief They asked him why he
/ wept. All" he said, Il weep at the
/ thought that so soon all this host will be
/ dead SO ! think of these vast popula
| tions of immortal men and women and re
! aliZe the fact that soon the places which
! know them now will know them no more
! and they will he gonc-whither, whittier:
/ There is a stirring idea which the poet
I put in very peculiar verse when he said:
1 5Tis not for man to trine: life is brief,
! And san Is here;
| Our age is but the falling OF ( f.
4 dropping tear.
! Not many lives bat only one have We
One, only one: