The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-09-06
GODS WARNING CALL.
One Of the Prophets Of Old Voices
a Message for To-day.
sermon by the "Hishway and Byway"
Preacher Emphesising the Ger
tainty OF Meeting God, and
the Need Of Preparation.

paper Coz
Chicago. Aug. 81. 1902.
Text.-"Prepare to meet thy Cod
Amos 4:12
A Message for To-Day.-These
words are addressed to Israel by the
prophet Amos, after the nation has
persistently refused to hear and
heed the message which God has
sent unto them. The days of grace
are past and judgment has fallen.
No longer does God stand pleading
that Israel will repent and turn from
It's sin, but the thunder-tones OF His
wrath send forth the message:
prepare to- meet thy God" In these
Ave short, simple words flashes the
keen, two-edged sword OF Gods
Spirit, and, falling, pierces "even to
the dividing asunder of soul and
spirit" God has patiently borne
with His people. He has sought by
every circumstance of life to arouse
them to a sense of their obligation
to Him. He sent scarcity of food
and famine, "yet have ye not re-
turned unto Me-" saith the Lord. He
sent drought, and then let rain fall
on one city and not on another,
upon one piece of ground, and not
upon another section lying adjacent
thereto, so that two or three cities
were compelled to go unto one city
to drink water, "yet have We not re-
turned unto Me-" saith the Lord.
He sent the mildew and the blasting
upon the growing grain; and the
devouring worms ruined the gar
dens and vineyards and fig and olive
trees, "yet have we not returned
unto Me-" saith the Lord. The
pestilence of disease had swept over
their land, and in conflict with the
nations about the young men had
been slain with the sword, and the
scandals and evils growing up out
of the military camps had shocked
the whole nation, yet have We not
returned unto Me-" saith the Lord.
The iniauity of some in the nation
was so great that God had to de-
stroy them as He overthrow Sodom
and Gomorrah, and those who es-
capped the fire of Gods wrath were
as brands plucked out OF the burn
ing, 'yet have we not returned unto
Me-" saith the Lord.
therefore because all this is
| true) thus will I do unto thee, U
Israel: and because I will do this
unto thee, prepare to meet thy God
0, Israel"
"For, 10, He that formeth the noun
tains, and createth the wind, and de
clareth unto man what is Hi
thought, that maketh the morning
darkness, and treadeth upon the
high places of the earth, the Lord
the God of Hosts, is His name"
! This is the message which Coz
sent to His self-willed and self-seek
ing children by the hand of Hi
prophet Amos. We read 1t. w
readily see, the iniquity and sins o
the children of Israel. We marvel n
their indifference to the solemn
warning and pleading of God. w
see them rejecting the message
Gods prophets and doubling tn
truth of their words. While the ter
rible judgments of Gods wrath ar
hanging over them they refuse to be
i lieve anything but that they will con
tinue to eat, drink and be merry AM
weld to every desire in the days t.
come, as they have in the past. w
see the certain judgments of God fal
upon them after they have persist
emily and willfully refused to hea
Gods last call. We see the awful
scourge of war sweep over the land
we see the wives and children, tn
young men and maidens wearing tn
yoke of their conquerors and goinI
into captivity, all coming to pass jus
as God said it would. We see all this
We know that when God speaks !
shall surely come to pass, notwith
standing the ease and luxury OF ou
homes, and the in fiuence Of our friends
and the prominence of our position 1
society, and our business and PROBES
sional success, and the size of our ban
account; notwithstanding our vigo
of health, and our fullness of joy q
we delight ourselves in the attraction
and luxuries of the world. We kno'
that nothing we have or are, tina
, nothing which our friends have or are
. that not even the loved ones in Heave
who are awaiting our coming ca
change one jot or little of Gods wor
and prevent His judgment falling upo
/ us If we refuse to hear and heed. An
knowing this, let us stop in the ma
rush of life and reason together OF
of Gods Word, so that we shall not
caught as thief in the night when GU
! Lord comes and exacts final account
ing with us.
Face to Face with Eternity.-Do yo
}. realize that you are face to face wit
J. eternity, that but breath Is betwee
you and death? Not day goes by b'
some experience in our own lives, SON
!. item of news, brings this fact to OF
Y attention, and God would drive
home to our hearts II we would on
let Him. There is no period in the IL
upon earth when the soul can say th'
It is not face to face with eternit
Il t)As well might the tiny molecul
which has to be searched out with u
microscope to be seen, boast itself
= its size while the great earth supper
its teeming millions of people and Z
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