The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-03-13
calamities they would have led

An old gentleman told me
a few years ago that whom he was
a young man he wanted to go to
Peoria, ILL., This was before the
days of railroads, and when peo-
pie went west they had to travel
by private conveyance or take
steamboat at Pittsburg and go
down the river. He and a com.
panion concluded they would take
the boat. They went to Pitts
burg. And his companion had
some business TO attend to in the
city and was so detained that
they missed the boat. That meant
to lie over several days before an
other could be had He had been
so anxious to get on his way that
when he found they were left he
was so worried and so impatient
over it that he almost concluded
to return home. But they finally
concluded to wait for the next
boat. I think it was the first
boat, he said, thIt came up the
river brought back the news that
the steamer which they intended
to take and missed, was blown up
and $50 lives lost. He said he had
thanked God all his life that he
did not let him have his own way.
Similar instances could be cited
without number. o how confus.
ed, how perverted, how darkened,
how blinded are human desires!
This view Of their nature and un-
governable character should i'm
press us all with the imperative
necessity of their thorough cor
rection, or as we shall see, of their
remoulding.
This brings us to the consider
alton of our second thought, The
Remedy.
Howcan they be brought back to
their normal state, and the conse-
quent realization of their satisfac-
tion?
Many seeing the deeply disor.
dered condition Of these powers,
and being desirous of correcting
them, have undertaken a process
Of education or dicipline to bring
them into subordination, and sub
ject them to selfcontrol. But their
efforts have been no more sue
cessful than those of a man seiz-
ing himself by his own hair to
pull himself out Of a mire. While
wrestling with some particular
desire to make it the servant of
his will, a dozen or more others
sally forth in a wild rampage un-
| ill he finds himself in the midst
of a whole hurricane, and carried
along whithersoever he would not
Our apostle says in the preced.
ing chapter, every kind OF
beasts and birds, and of serpents,
and things in the sea is tanned,
and hath been tanned by man
kind. But the tongue can no man
tame; it is an unruly evil, full OF
deadly poison" This is equally
true Of depraved desires that SO
commonly find expires ssio L
through the tongue. Others with
as little success have sought tC
crush them out by penances, mac
/ erations, sackcloth and ashes,
and, all kinds OF punitive intlic'
tions, all of which has proven as
futile as it would be fatal, if the
attainment were possible. "Can
the Ethiopian change his skin, OF
the leopard his spots? then may
ye also do good that are accustom-
ed TO do evil. "Who can bring
a clean thing out of an unclean:
Not one" For the solution OF
the problem, we must look else
where. If you will turn to the
seventh verse Of the chapter, you
will find it very simply but very
comprehensively stated in few
words: "Submityourselves there
fore to Cod" This is the whole Of
the gospel in a nutshell. Submit
yourselves. That is it. Abandon
yourselves wholly to him. This
is Gods gracious call, many times
repeated, and in many different
forms expressed, but all embrac
ing this one essential condition.
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