Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-11-14

the story of the wrongs, outrages and
defamations that have come upon you as
result of your success. The warm sun
OF prosperity brings into life swamp full
OF annoying insects. On the other hand,
the unfortunate classes have their strug.
giles for maintenance. To achieve liveli
hood by one who had nothing to start
with and after awhile for family as well
and carry this on until children are reared
and educated and fairly started in the
world and to do this amid all the rival
ries of business and the uncertainty of
crops and the fickleness of tariff legisa-
tion, with an occasional labor strike and
here and there a financial panic thrown
in, is mighty thing to do. and there are
hundreds and thousands of such heroes
and heroines who live unsung and die un-
honored
What we all need, whether up or down
in life or half way between. is the infinite
solace of the Christian religion. And so
all eternity to find out the number of
business men who have been strength
ened by the promises of God and the peo-
pie who. have been fed by the ravens
when other resources gave out and the
men and women who going into this bat
tie armed only with needle or saw or axe
or yardst,ck or pen or type or shovel or
shoeiast, have gained victory that made
the heaven resound. With all the re-
sources of God promised for every ext
l like the faith displayed years ago in
Drury lane, London. in an humble home
where every particle of food had given
out and kindly soul entered with tea
and other table supplies and found ket-
tie on the fire ready for the tea. The
have, the kettle ready for the tea when
you had no tea in the house," And the
daughter in the home said: Mother
would have me put the kettle on the fire.
and and when ! said, What is the use of
house?' she said NY child, God will pro-
vide, Thirty years He has already pro-
vided for me through all pain and help
lessness, and He will not leave me to
starve at last. He will send us help
though we do not see how. We have been
waiting all day for something to come,
but until we saw you we knew not how
1t was to come" Such things the world
may call condolences, but I call them
Almighty delverances, and, though you
do not hear of them. they are occurring
every hour of every day and in all parts
of Christendom.
Those who follow the advice of this
world in time of perplexity are in fear
tul round, for it is one bewildered soul
following another bewldered soul, and
only those who. have in such time got
Ii 1nelr eye on the morning. star of our
Christian faith can find their way out or
be; strong enough to lead others with an
all persuasive invitation.
But, says some one, you Christian
people keep. telling US to come, yet YOU
90 DO not tell us how to come" That
Come believing! Come repenting! Come
praying! After all that God has been
doing for 6000 years, sometimes through
patrlarchs and sometimes through pro-
phets and at last through the cumina-
ton of all the tragedies on Golgotha, can
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your coming? Will father at vast out
lay construct mansion for his son and
lay out parks white with statues and
green with foliage and all a-sparke with
fountains, and then not allow his son to
nve in the house or walk in the parks?
| and will He then refuse entrance to His
children! Will a Government at great
| expense build life-saving stations all
along the coast, and boats that can hover
nnhurt like petrol over the widest
reached the wreck of ship in the ofing,
not allow the drowning to seize the life
line or take the boat for the shore in
safety: Shall God provide at the cost of
his only Sons assassination escape for
sinking world and then turn a deaf ear to
the sD cry that comes up from the breakers?
things 1 have, to believe and so many
things in the shape of creed that I have
to adopt that l am kept back" No. no!
You need believe but two things-name-
| ly, that Jesus Christ came into the world
to save sinners and that you are one of
them. But" you say, II do believe both
OF those things" Do you really believe
them with all your heart? Eyes" Why,
then, you have passed from death into
life. Why, then. You are son or a
daughter OF the Lord Almighty. Why,
then, you are an heir or an heiress of an
| inheritance that will declare dividends
from now until long after the stars are
| dead. Halleluiah! Prince of God, why
do you not scome and take your coronet9
Princess of the Lord Almighty, why do
into the light. Your boat is anchored,
why do you not go ashore? Just plant
your feet hard down, and you will feel
under them the Rock of Ages.
challenge the universe for one in
stance In which man in the right spirit
| and did not get it. Man alive, are you
| going to let all the years of your life go
away with you without your having this
| great peace, this glorious hope, this bright
expectancy?
Are you going to let the pearl OF great
| price lie in the dust at your feet because
! You are too indolent or too proud to
wear the chain of evil habit when near
by you is the hammer that could with
one stroke snap the shackle? Will you
stay in the prison of sin when here is
gospel key that could unlock your incar.
ceration? No, no.
| As the one word come has some.
| times brought many souls to Christ, I
will try the experiment of piling up into
! mountain and then send down in an
avalanche of power many of these gospel
comes" Come thou and all thy house
| into the ark" "Come unto Me, all ye
who labor and are heavy laden. and I
will give you, rest, -, Come, for all things
are now ready" Come with us, and we
will do you good:" "Come and see;"
| ''The Spirit and the bride say come
and let him that heareth say come and
| let him that is athirst come" The
stroke of one bell in a tower may be
sweet, but score of bells we'll tuned
and rightly lifted and skillfully swung in
one great chime fill the heavens with
music almost celestial And no one who
has heard the mighty chimes in the tow
ers of Amsterdam or Ghent or Copenha-
gen can forget them. Now, it seems to
me that in this Sabbath hour all heaven
| is Ginning, and the voices of departed
| friends and kindred ring down the sky,