Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-01-03
Copyright. Louis Klopsch. lssa.l

catholicism, as well as Prorestantism
has had its martyrs. 1t does seem as IL
when any one sect got complete dominancy
in any land the devil of persecution and
cruelty took possession of that sect. Then
see the Catholics after the Huguenots. See
the gentiies after the Jews in Touraine,
where IA great pit was dug and fire lighted
at the bottom nfthe pit, and l6O Jewish vic
tins were consumed. See the Presbyterian
parliament of Epgland, more tyranuical
in their treatment of opponents than had
been the criminal courts. Persecution
against the Baptists by PRdo-Ba ptists. per-
secution of the Established Church against
the Methodist Church, persecution against
the Quakers, persecution against the Pres
byterians. Under Emperor Diocletian
IA 900 Christians were massacred, and
700, 900 more of them died from Punishment
and exposure.
Witness the sufferings of the Waldenses,
of the Albigenses, of the HISTORIANS. Wit
ness st. Bartholomew massacre. witness
the Duke of Alva driving out of life $4,000
Christians Witness Herod ani Nero and
Decius and Hildebrand and Torquemada
and Earl of Montfort and Lord Ciaver-
house, who, when told that he must give
account for his crueties, said, Il have no
need 10 account to man, and as for GOD L
will take Him in my own hands" red
line runs through the church history OF
1900 wears, line of blood. Not by the
hundreds of thousands but by the millions,
must we count those slain for Christ's sake.
No wonder John Milton put the groans oi
the martyrs to an immortal tune, writing:
Avenge. o Lord, Thy slaughtered saints
whose bones
Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains
cold.
The smoke Of martyrs homes and
martyrs bodies If rolling up all at once
would have eclipsed the monday sun and
turned the brightest day the world ever saw
into midnight. "Who is this that
cometh up out of the wilderness Ike pill
lars OF smoker"
Has persecution ceased2 Ask that young
man who is trying to be Christian in n
store or factory, where from morning to
night he is the butt of all the mean wit
ticisms of unbeieving employees. Ask that
wife whose husband makes her fondnesS
for the house OF God and even he kneei-
ing prayer by the bedside derision and
is no more fit for her holy companionshtp
than filthy crow would be fit companion
for robin or a golden oriole. Compro-
mise with the world and surrender to its
conyentionalities and it may let you alone,
but all who will live godly in Christ Jesus
must suffer persecution. Be theatre Soing
card playing, wine drinking, round dancing
Christian and you may escape criticism
and social pressure. But be an mp am
down, out and out follower of Christ, ant
worldling will wink to wOrldling as ht
speaks your name, and you will be put IL
many a doggerel and snuboei by those
not worthy to blacken your oldest shoes.
When the bridge at Ashtabula broke an
let down the most OF the carload of pas
sengers to instant death, Mr.. p. z. Biis'
was seated on one side of the aisle OF The
car writing down n Christian song which
he was composing, and on the other sldt
a group of men We're playing cards
Whose landing place in eternity would you
prefer-that of p. 7, Bliss, the gospel sing
er, or of the card players?
great complaint comes from the thel-
cres about the ladies' high hats because
they obstruct the view of the stage. aud n
lady reporter asked me what L thought
about it, and told her that il the indecent
pictures OF actresses in the show win iow-
were accurate pictures of what goes on in
many of the theatres night by night, then
It would be well II the ladies' hats were q
mile high, so as to completely obstruct the
vision. II professed Christians go TO such
places during the week, no one Will evei
prosecute them for their religion, for they
have none, and they are the joke or hell
But let them live a consecrated and Chris
tian life and they Will soon run aSain>t
sneering opposition.
For compromise Christian character
an easy time now, but for consecrated be
havior, grimace and caricature. For til,
body. thanks to the God OF free America
tnere are now no SWORDS or merry STAKES
but for the souls of thousands OF the good
in tlgurative sense, rack and giDoet an
Toruuemada. The symbol of the domesti
and social and private and public suherin
Of great multitude of Gods dear chil
dren pillars of smoke. What an eXcitin
! scene in India when, during the sepoy re
beilion, a regiment of highlanders cameu
and found the dead body of one of Genera
Wheeler's daughters. who had been Insult