The Penn's Grove record., 1901-01-04
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many tears you could stop or, already
started, you could wipe away How much
like Jesus Christ you might get to be! So
sympathetic was He with beggary, SO
helpful was He for the fallen and so stirred
was He at the sight Of dropsy, epilepsy,
paralysis and ophthalmia that, whether
| He saw it by the roadside, or at the sea
| beach. or at the mineral baths Of Bethes-
| da. He offered relief. Cultivate genuine
sympathy, Christlike sympathy. You can
not successfully dramatize it. False SYM
pathy Alexander Pope sketches in two
| lines:
Before her face her handkerchief she
spread
To hide the food of tears she did not
she'd"
There ere four or FIVE words which fitly
| spoken might soothe and emancipate and
! rescue 60 to those from whose homes
| Christ has taken to Himself a loved one
and try the word reunion" not under
wintry sky, but in everlasting springtide;
not a land where they can be struck with
disease. but where the inhabitant never
says, II am sick; )" not reunion that can
be followed by separation, but in a place
from which they shall go no more out
forever" For emancipation and signing,
immortal health. Reunion, or if you like
the word better, anticipation. There 10
nothing left for them in this world. Try
them with heaven. With chapter from
the great book open one of the twelve
gates. Give them one note OF seraphlc
harp, one flash from the sea of glass, one
clatter of the hoofs of the horses on which
vietors ride That word reunion or antici-
patton ftly spoken Well, no fruit
heaped up in silver baskets could equal
it. OF the 2000 kinds of apples that have
blessed the world not one is so mellow or
so rich or so aromatic, but we take the
suggestion of the text and compare that
word Of comfort fitly spoken to apples OF
gold in baskets of silver
So also is a word of warning. ship
may sail out of harbor when the sea has
not so much as ripple, but what fool
hardy ship company would they be that
made no provision for high winds and
wrathful seas. However smoothly the voy-
age of life may begin we will get rough
weather before we harbor on the other
side, and we need ever and anon to save
some one uttering in most decided tones
the word "Beware!" There are all the
temptations to make this life everything,
and to forget that an inch of ground is
larger as compared with our eternal ex-
istence. There ap4 all the temptations of
the wine cup and the demijohn as this or
any other century has heard Of There
are ali Vic tellpNdliuils VI piiuc anu ava
ice and base indulgence and ungovernable
temper. There is no word we all need
oftener to hear than.the word beware"
The trouble is that the warning word is
apt to come too late. We allow our friends
to be overcome in fight with some evil
habit before we sound an alarm. After a
man is all on fire with evil habit your
word Of warning will have no more effect
than would an address to house on fire
asking it to stop burning, no more use
than a steam tug going out to help ship
after it has sunk to the bottom of the
ocean
What use in word of warning to that in
ebriate whose wife was dying from wounds
inflicted by his own hand As he held
the hand of his dying wife he made this
vow, Mary, l will never take another
glass of strong drink until / take
it from the hand which now hold"
In an awful way he kept the VOW, for
when the wife was in her coffin he filled a
glass with brandy, put the glass into the
dead hand, then took the glass out of her
hand and drank the liquid. Too late does
any warning come to such one.
Or the man astray may have an unhappy
home, and that is enough to wreck any
one We often speak of men who destroy
their homes, but do not say anything
about the fact that there are thousands of
wives in American who by petulance and
fretting and reconsideration and lack OF
economy and all manner of disagreeabe- :
ness drive their husbands into dissipation.
The reason that thousands of men spend
their evenings in clubhouses and taverns
is because they cannot stand it at home.
| know men who are thirty-year martyrs
in the fact that they are awfully married.
That marriage was not made in heaven.
Without asking divine guidance ther en-
tered into an alliance which ought yer
to have been made That is What the
matter with many men you and know.
They may be very brave and heroic and
say nothing about it, but all the neighbors
know.
Now, if the man going wrong has such
domestic misfortune be very lenient and
excusatory in your word of warning. The
difference between you and him may be
that you would have gone down faster
that he is going down if you had the same
kind OF conjugal wretchedness.
Besides that, you had better be merciful
in your word of warning, for the day may
come when you may need some one to be
lenient and excusatory to you. There
may be somewhere ahead of you tempta-
tion so mighty that unless you have sym
pathetic treatment you may go under.
"Oh, no" says some one; 81 am too old
IOf lIitt. llON Olu dlC yOus oHt you
say, II have been so long in active busi-
ness life that am clear past the latitude
OF danger" There is man in Sing Sing
penitentiary who was considered the soul
of honor until he was fifty years of age,
and then committed dishonesty that star
tied the entire commercial world.
An art to be studied as You study music,
for it is music in the fact that it drives
out moral discord and substitutes eternal
harmony. An art to be studied like sculp-
ture, for it is sculpture in the fact that it
builds a man not in cold statue, but in i'm
mortal shape that will last long after all
pentelican marble has crumbled.
An art to be studied as you study archi-
lecture, for it is architecture in the fact
that it builds for him house of God, eter.
nal in the heavens. But an art that we
cannot fully learn unless God helps us.
Ourselves saved by grace divine, we can
go forth to save others, and with tender
ness and compassion and a pity that we
could not otherwise exercise we can pro-
nounce the warning word with magniti-
cent result.
The Lord said unto the prophet Amos,
Amos what seest thou" and he an
swered, "a basket of summer fruit" But
| do not think Amos saw in that basket
OF summer fruit anything more inviting
and luscious than many saved man has
seen in the warning word of some hearty,
common sense Christian adviser, for a
word ftly spoken is ''like apples of gold
in baskets Of silver"
So also is word of invitation potent
aud beautiful. Who can describe the
drawing power of that word, so small and
yet so tremendous, "Come" 1t is a short
word, but its influence is as long as eter-
nifty; not a sesquipedalian word spreading
its energy over many syllables, but mono
syllable. Whether calling in wrong direc-
ton or right direction many have found
it irresistible. That one word has filed
all the places Of dissipation and dissolute-
ness. II is responsible for the abomina.
tions that curse the earth. Inquire at the
door OF prisons what brought the offender
there and at the door of alinshouses what
brought the pauper there, and at the door
Of the lost world what was the cause of
the incarceration, and il the inmates speak
the truth they will say, "The word come
brought us here" Come and drink Come
and gamble. Come and sin. Come and
die Pronounce that word with one kind
of infection, and you can hear in it the
tolling OF all the bells of confiagration and
woe.
The chief baker in prison in Pharaoh's
time saw in dream something quite differ
ept from apples of gold in baskets of sill.
yer, for he said to Joseph, Il was also in
dream, and, behold, | had three white
baskets on my head, and in the upper