The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-05-16

the fearful spring, STEADY thore" Cour-
age, o ye spiritual archers! There are
great monsters OF iniquity. prowlling all
around about the community Shall we
not in the strength Of God go forth and
combat themy We not only need more
heart, but more backbone What is the
church of God that il should fear TO look
IN the eye any transgressiony There is the
Bengal tiger of drunkenness that prowls
around, and instead of attacking it how
many of us hide under the church pew or
the communion table, There is so much
invested IN it we are afraid to assault it
millions of dollars in barrels, in watts. in
spigots, in corkscrews in gin palaces with
marble floors and Italian top tables. and
chased ice coolers, and in the strychnine,
and the logwood, and the tartaric acid,
and the nux vomica that go TO make up
our pure" American drinks. / looked
with wondering eyes on the Heidelberg
tun." 1t is the great liquor vat of Ger
many, which is said to hold 800 hogsheads
of wine and only three times in hundred
years II has been filed. But as / stood
and looked at it ! said to myself: That is
nothing-S00 hogsheads. Why. our Ameri-
can vat holds l0,200,000 barrels, of strong
drink, and we keep 100000 men with moth.
ing to do but to see that it is filed" Oh.
to attack this great monster of intemper-
ance and the kindred monsters of fraud
and uncleanness requires YOU to rally all
your Christian courage, Through the
press. through the pulpit, through the
platform, you must assault it,
Would to God that all our American
Christians would band together, not for
crackbrained fanaticism. but for holy
Christian reform ] think it was in 1903
that there went out from Lucknow. India,
under the sovereign, the greatest hunting
party that was ever projected. There were
10000 armed men in that hunting party.
There were camels and horses and ele-
phants. On some princes rode, and royal
ladies under exquisite housings, and 500
coolies waited upon the train, and the des-
olate places of India were invaded by this
excursion. and the rhinoceros and deer and
elephant fell under the stroke of the sabre
and bullet. After awhile the party brought
back trophies worth $4,000 rupees having
left the wilderness of India CHASTITY with
the slain bodies of wild beasts. Would TO
| God that instead of here and there 4 strag
| gler going out to fight these great monsters
| OF iniquity in our country the millions of
members of our churches would band to-
| gether and hew in twain these great crimes
that make the land frightful with their
| roar, and are fattening upon the bodies
and souls of immortal men! Who is ready
for such party as that? Who will be
mighty hunter for the Lord!
| / remark, again. If you want TO be sue
cessful in spiritual archery you need not
| only to bring down the game, but bring it
| in l think one of the most beautiful pic
lures of Thorwaldsen is his Autumn" 1t
represents sportsman coming home and
standing under. grapevine. He has a
| staff over his shoulder, and on the other
end of that staff are hung rabbit and a
brace of birds. Every hunter brings home
the game. No one would think OF bring.
ing down a roebuck or whipping up a
stream for trout and letting them lie in
the woods. At eventide the camp is
adorned with the treasures OF the forest
beak and fin and antler.
1 If you go out to hunt for immortal souls,
not only bring them down under the ar.
row OF the gospel, but bring them into the
church of God, the grand home and en-.
campment we have pitched this side of the
skies. Fetch them in. Do not let them lie
out in the open field. They need our pray.
| ers and sympathies and help. That is the
meaning of the church of God--help. O
We hunters for the LORD, not only bring
| down the game. but bring it in
III Mithrdates liked hunting so well that
for seven years he never went indoors,
what enthusiasm ought we to have who
are hunting for immortal souls! If Domi
tian practiced archery until he could stand
| n boy down in the Roman amphtheatTe
with hand out, the fingers spread apart
and then the king could shoot an arrow
between the fingers without woundinl
them, to what drill and what practice
ought we to subject ourselves in order to
become spiritual srchers and mighty
hunters before the Lordl'
But, let me say, you will never work any
better than you pray. The old archer.
| took the bow, put one end of it down beside
the foot, elevated the other end, and it
was the rule that the bow should be just
the size of the archer. If it were Just hi,
size, then he would go into the battle with
confidence. Let me say that your power
to project good in the world will CORE.
spond exactly to your own spiritual stat
ure. In other words, the first thing in
| preparation for Christian work is personal
| conservation.
| ooh, for a closer walk with God
| A calm and heavenly frame,
| A light to shine upon the road
| That leads me to the lamb
l am sure that there are some men who
| at some time have been hit by the gospel
| arrow. You felt the wound of that con.
| viction, and you plunged into the world
| deeper, just as the stag, when the hounds
are after it, plunges into Schroon Lake,
| expecting in that way to escape. Jesus
| Christ is on your track to-day. o impeni'
| tent man, not in wrath, but in mercy .
| ye chased and painting souls, here is the
stream of Gods mercy and salvation,
where you may cool your thirst
Stop that chase OF sin to-day. BY the
red fountain that leaped from the heart
of my Lord / bid you stop! There is
mercy for you-mercy that pardons, mercy
that heals, everlasting mercy. The twelve
| gates of Gods love stand open. Enter and
| be forever safe.
There is in forest in Germany a place
| they call the deer leap"-two crags, about
eighteen yards apart, between them fear
| full chasm. This is called the deer leap"
because once hunter was on the track of
deer. 1t came TO one of these crags.
There was no escape for it from the pur-
suit of the hunter, and in utter despair it
| gathered itself up and in the death agony
| attempted to jump across. OF course it
| fell and was dashed on the rocks far be-
neath Here is path TO heaven. 1t is
| plain; it is safe. Jesus marks it out for
| every man to walk in. But here is man
| who says, 81 won't walk in that path; l
| will take my own way" He comes on up
until he confronts the chasm that divides
his soul from heaven. Now his last hour
has come, and he resolves that he will leap
that chasm from the heights OF earth to
the heights of heaven. Stand back now
and give him full swing, for no soul ever
did that successfully. Let him try. Jump!
He misses the mark, and he goes down,
depth below depth, destroyed without
remedy" Men, angels, devils, what shall