The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-21

| Of heaven And Ms he stood Sabbath af.
Ter Sabbath preaching or these themes
his face kindlcd with the glory. 'ohn
roster. Chrstien man said Of this man
Robert Hall is only acting. and the smile
on ms lace is q reflection Of his own van.
| lty. John Wesley turned all England
upside down with Christian reform. and
yet the punsters were after him. and the
meanest Jokes in England were perpetrated
about John Wesley What is true of the
pulpit is true of the pew: it is true g the
street: it is true of the shop and the store
All who live cody in Christ Jesus must
suffer persecution.
And ] set II down as the very worst sign
IN all your Christian expCri""ce i you are
any of YOU at pence with all tho world.
The religion of Christ is war II is \
challenge TO ''the world. ihc flesh and the
devil" and ii YOU will buckle on tho whole
armor Of God YOU will find n great host
disputing your path between tHis and
heaven.
Again. ] commend the bcha'-icr Of tho
disciples to all the bereaved. How many
in garb of mourning! How many cmblems
OF sorrow YOU behold everywhere! God
has Ills own way of taking apar a fam.
iy. We must get ont Of the way fot com
ing generations. We must get off the
stage that others may come on and for
this reason there is long procession reach.
ing down al the time into the valley r.,
shadows. This emigration from ne into
eternity Is so vas an enterprise that we
cannot understand it. Every hour we hear
the clanG, Of the sen",'chral gate. Tho
sod must nc broken. Tie rro1ud itus, he
plowcd for resJrrCo'it it harvest Eternity
must be pooplcd. The dust must press our
eyehds. If J. appointed unto all rnen
once TO die This emigration from time
into eternity. keeps threcfourths Of the
families OF the earth in desolaton. The
air Is rent with farewells, and the black
tasseled vehicles of death rumble through
every stree. The body of the child that
was folded so closely TO the mothers heart
Is, put away in the cold and the darkness
The laughter freezes TO the girls lin. and
the rose seatters. The boy in the harvest
field of Shunem says. "NIy head. my
head!' and they ,rry him home to die on
the lap OF his mother. Widowhood stands
with tragedies of woe struck into tho pal
lor of the cheek. Ordnance cries in vain
Tor father and mother. Oh. the grave is
cruel! With teeth of stone it clutches for
its prev. Between the closing gates of the
sepulcher our hearts are manged and
crushed.
But Christ is always ncar-b.forc YOU
behind you, within you. No mother ever
threw her arms around her child with such
warmth and ecstacy of affection as Christ
has shown toward YOU
Close at hand, nearer than the staff upor
which you lean, nearer than the cup you
put to your lip, nearer than the handker.
chlef with which you wipe away your tears
| preach Him an ever present, all sympg-
thizing, compassionate Jesus. How can
you stay away one moment from Him with
your griefs! Go now. Go and tell Jesus
1t is often that friends have no power
to relieve us. They would very much like
to do 1t, but they cannot dlsentangle our
finances, they cannot cure our sickness
and raise our dead, hut Llory be to God
that He to whom the disciples went has all
rah hAnN~ IL Al
call He will balk our calamities and al
Just the right time, in the presence of an
applauding earth and resounding heaven
| will raise our dead. He is mightier than
| Herod. He is swifter than the storm. He
is grander than the sea. He is vaster than
! eternity. And every sword of Gods ON
impotence will leap from its scabbard and
the resources of inhnity be exhausted rath-
| er than that Gods child shall not be de-
llvered when he cries to Him for rescu..
| Suppose your child was in trouble. How
much would you endure to get him out?
| You would say, II don't care what it will
cost. l must get him out of that trouble"
Do you, think God is not so good father
| as YOU! Seeing YOU are in trouble and
having all power. will He not stretch out
His arm and deliver you? lie will. He is
mighty, to save. He can level the mount
| am and divide the sea, and can eNtingush
the fire and save the soul. Not dim of
| eye, not weak of arm. not feeble of re-
sources. but with all eternity and the uni.
verse at His feet Go and tell Jesus Will
| you?
| He whose cheeks are wet with the night
| dew OF the grave, ye who cannot look ur,
| ye whose hearts are dried with the breath
of sirocco in the name of the religion of
| Jesus Christ, which hits every burden and
wipes away every tear and delivers every
captive and lightens every darkness, | i'm.
| plore you now 20 and tel Jesus.
A little child went with her father,
! sea captain, to sea, and when the first
storm came the little child was very much
! frightened, and in the night rushed out of
| 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 inn
mediately returned to her berth and said,
It's all right for fathers on deck"
o We who are tossed and driven in this
world, up by the mountains and down by
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
| bring you through the darkness into the
! harbor. Trust in the Lord Go and tell
Jesus.
If you go to Him for pardon and sym
pathy, all is we'll 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 will touch the up
| Wufu puln, ana lne SHlullB lneSSenReTS
that report above what is done here will
tell it until the great arches of God re-
sound with the glad tidings ii now with
contrition and fun 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 unbessed. | cannot help asking
what will be the destiny of these people
Xerxes looked off on his army. There were
1000, 600, perhaps the finest army ever mar
shaled Nerxes rode along the lines re-
viewed them, came back, and stood on
some high point, looked off upon the 2,000,
600 men and burst into tears. At that mo-
mert, when every one supposed he would
be in the greatest exultation. he broSo
down in grief They asked him why he
wept All" he said, II 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 be gone-whither, whittier?
There is = stirring idea which the poet
put in very peculiar verse when he said;
'Tis not for man to triae; life is brief,
And sin is here;
Our age is but the falling of ,o-f,
A dropping tear,
Not many lives, but only one have We
One, only one: