The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-10-10

tuberance on one side of His nature, but
makes that love in harmony with His jus
tice--a love that will accept all those who
come to Him and justice that will by
no means clear the guilty. Beautiful rel-
Rion in the sentiment IL implantsl Beau
tiful religion in the hope IL kindlcs! Beau
tiful religion in the fact that it proposes
to garland and enthrone and emparadisc
an immortal spirit! Solomon says it is a
lily. Paul says it is O crown. The Apo
calypso says it is fountain kissed Of the
sun. Ezekiel says il. is a foliaged cedar.
Christ says it is a bridegroom come to
fetch home bride. While Job in the
text takes up whole vase of precious
stones--the topaz and the sapphire and
the chrysoprasus-he takes out of this
beautiful vase just one crystal and holds
it up until it CLEANS in the warm light of
the eastern slSy, and he cxclaims, "The
crystal cannot equal It'll"
Oh, it is not stale religion, it is not
stupid religion, it is not toothless hag, as
some seem to have represented it; it is
not Meg Merrilies with shriveled arm
come to scare the world. It is the fairest
daughter of God, heiress OF all His wealth,
her cheeks the morning sky, her voice the
music Of the south wind, her step the
dance of the sea. Come and WOO her.
The Spirit and the Bride say come, and
whosoever will let him come. Do you
agree with Solomon and say it is q lily?
Then pluck it and wear il over your heart.
Do you agree with Paul and say it is
crown? Then let this hour be your coro-
nation. Do you agree with the Apoca-
lypse and say it is springing fountain?
Then come and slake the thirst of your
soul. Do YOU believe with Ezekiel and
say it is foiaeed cedar? Then come un-
der its shadow. Do you believe with
Christ and say it is bridegroom come to
fetch home a bride? Then strike hands
with your Lord and King while pro-
nounce you -eyerlastingly one. Or if you
think with Job that it is jewel, then put
u on your hand like q ring, on your neck
like. bead, on your forehead like star,
while, looking into the mirror Of Gods
word, you acknowledge "The crystal can
not equal it,"
what" say you. 'will God wear Jew
elry?" II He wanted it He could make
the stars Of heaven His belt. and have the
evening cloud for The sandals of His feet.
But Hc does not want that adornment.
He will not have that jewelry. When
God wants jewelry He comes down and
digs it out of the depths and darkness of
sin. These souls are all crystallizations of
mercy. He puts them on, and He wears
them in the presence of the whole uni
verse. He wears them on the hand that
was nailed, over the heart that was
pierced, on the temples that were stung.
They shall be Mine" saith the Lord. "in
the day when ] make up Nv jewels.
Wonderful transformation Where sin
abounded grace shall much more abound.
The carbon becomes the solitaire. "The
crystal cannot equal it."
Three crystals John says crystal at
mosphere. That means health. Balm of
eternal June. What weather after the
worlds east wind! No rack Of storm
clouds. One breath OF that air will cure
the worst tuberele. Crystal light on all
the leaves; crystal light shimmering on
the topaz Of the temples; crystal light
Of heaven on white horses. But "the
crystal cannot equal it," John says crys-
tai river. That means joy. Deep and
ever rolling. Not one drop OF the Potomac
or the Hudson or the Rhine to soil it; not
one tear of human sorrow to imbitter it.
Crystal the rain out of which it was made;
crystal, the bed over which it shall roll
and ripple; crystal, its infinite surface.
But ''the crystal cannot equal it." John
says crystal sen. That means multitude
nously vast, vast in rapture, rapture vast
as the sea, deep as the sea, strong as the
sea, ever changing as the sea; pillows Of
light, pillows of beauty. blue with skies
that were never clouded and green with
depths that were never fathomed; Arctics
and Autarctics and Mediterraneans and
Atlantics and Pacifcs in crystalline mag
nificence. Three crystals : crystal light
falling on a crystal river, crystal river
rolling into crystal sea- But "the crys-
tai cannot equal it"
"Oh," says some one putting his hand
over his eyes, "can it be that | who have
been in 80 much sin and trouble will ever
come to those crystals" Yes, it may be-
it will be- Heaven We must have, what
ever we have or have not, and we come
here to get il. How much must l pay
for it?, you say. You will pay for it Just
as much as the coal pays to become the
diamond. In other words, nothing. The
same Almighty power that makes the erys-
tai in the mountain will change your heart,
which is harder than stone, for the prom
ise is, 81 will take away your stony heart
and | will give you heart Of flesh"
oh says some one, "it is just. the
doctrine want. God is to do everything
and am to do nothing" My brother, i
is not the doctrine you want. The coal
makes no resistance. 1t hears the resur-
rection voice in the mountain, and it
comes to crystslization, but your heart re-
sists. The trouble with you. my brother,
is the coal wants to stay coal.
do not ask you to throw open the door
and let Christ in. / only ask that you
we will have to get rid Of our sins. I will
have to get rid of my sins, and you will
have TO get rid of your sins. What will
we do with our sins among the three
crystals! The crystal atmosphere would
display. our pollution. The crystal river
would be befouled with our touch Trans-
formation must take place now or no
transformation at all. Give sin full chance
in your heart, and the transformation will
be downward instead OF upward. Instead
OF crystal it will be cinder.
In the days of Carthage a Christian girl
was condemned to die for her faith, and
boat was bedaubed with tar and pitch and
filed with combustibies and set on fire,
and the Christian girl was placed in the
boat, and the wind was offshore, and the
boat hoated away with its precious treas
ure. No one can doubt that boat landed
at the shore Of heaven. Sin wants to put
L you in fiery boat and shove you off in an
opposite direction-off from peace, of
from God, off from heaven, everlastingly
off, and the port toward which you would
sail would be port Of darkness, and the
guns that would greet you would be the
guns Of despair, and the flags that would
wave at your arrival would be the black
flags OF death. Oh, rnr brother, you must
either kill ain or sin will kill you II is no
exaggeration when l say that any ls-n or
woman that wants to be saved may be
saved Tremendous choicei A thousand
people are choosing this moment between
salvation and destruction, between light
and darkness, between charred ruin and
glorious capitalization.
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Seven Vienna ladies, weary of Eu-