The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-02


hadad's armyi What shipwrecks on the
sea, what disasters on the land caused by
| inhaming liquids put upon the tongue to
| set seethng the brain How many kings
| of thought and influence, with crowns
| brighter than the one Benhadad wore,
have by strong drink been put into fight
| as base as that in which Benhadad rodel
| Give them to me, says the demon Of in
| ebriacy. Give them to me; hand them
| down-the brightest legislators of the land.
| will thiclen their tongue; ] viii bloat
their cheek; / will stagger their step; /
| will damn their soul. Hand them down
| to me--tbe physician out Of his laboratory,
! the attorney from the courtroom, the min
| ister Of the gospel from the altars of God.
| Hand them down to me, the queens of the
drawing room, and / will disgrace their
names and blast their homes and throw
them down farther than Jezebel fell to the
dogs that crunched her carcass"
We hold our breath in horror as once in
awhile we hear of some one, either by ac-
cident or suicide, going over Niagara
Falls, but the tides, the depths, the awful
surges Of intemperance are every hour Of
every day rushing scores Of immortals
down into unfathomed abysm. Suicides
by the hundreds of thousands Suicides
by the million Beware Of the cup out Of
which Benhadad drank personal and ma
tional demolitionl
Yes, you must have full armor There
are JCHlDNdblOHS 10 an impure nIc all Inc
time multiplying and intensifying. Read
in private and discussed afterward by the
refined and elegant in parlors are books
poisoned from lid to lid with impurities.
Loose characters 'in the novel applauded
by rhetorical pens and propreties of life
caricatured as prudery and inidelity of be-
havior put IN way to excite sympathy
and half approval. My wonder is not that
so many go astray, but my wonder is that
ten times as many are not debauched.
Oh, yes, you need the harness on until
God tells you to take it off In olden time
it was leathern armor or chain armor or
ribbed armor, fashioned in ancient foun-
dry, but no one can give you the outfit
you need except God, who is Master of
this world, and the internal world, from
which ascend the mightiest hostilities.
Lay hold of God. Nothing but the arm of
Omnipotence is strong enough for the
tempted.
Young man, put on the entire gospel out
fit. If you have come from the country to
live in the city, initiate the example of
young man who arrived in New York on
Saturday night, intending the following
Monday to enter his pace OF employment.
On Sunday morning, carrying out the good
advice before leaving his country home, he
went to church. Standing at the door he
was abashed as the beauty and fashion
and wealth swept through the doors of
the sanctuary, and he dared not go in. AS
he was about turning to go away gentle.
man said. Have you seat, young man"
No, sir DO you belong in the city,"
No, sir" Where is your home" I'm
the country" How long have you been
in the city," ~ came in last night"
What are you going to do here?" IT
hope to go into business tomorrow"
''That is right You have begun well,
young man. Never forsake the God of
your fathers. Come, / viii give you seat
in my pew" The next morning the young
man presented his letter in business cir
cles. What do you want, young man"
said the Scotch merchant. Il want to get
sTfS He On s0%s ssss bn and fOe
get references. My father has friends
here" Young man, did l not see you yes
terday in Mr.. Lenox's pewW II do not
know, sir. / was at church. and q kind
gentleman asked me to sit in his pew"
Yes, young man, that was Robert Lenox.
| will trust any one that Mr.. Lenox invites
into his pew. You need not trouble your
self about references. When these goods
are gone come and get more" That young
man became an eminent merchant, and
more than that, Christian merchant, and
he, attributed all his success to that first
Sabbath in the city. Young man just ar
rived, put yourself under good influences
your first day in town. There hangs your
helmet. Take it down There is your
breastplate. Adjust it. There is all the
harness for safety and triumph. Put it on.
If we secure the victory, it will be a
struggle as fierce as when Darius and
Alexander grappled each other at Arbela.
as when Joan of Arc rode triumphant at
Orleans, as when the Russians met the
Swedes at Poltava, as when Marlborough
commanded the allied armies at Blen-
helm. Those were fights for earthly
now goes on between all the allied armies
of heaven and all the allied armies of hell
is to settle whether God or Satan is to
have possession of this planet.
[ congratulate all those who are now in
the thlckest OF life's battles that the time
is coming when the struggle will end and
you will put the harness off, helmet and
greaves and breastplate having fulfilled
their mission. You cannot in one visit to
London Tower see all. You must go again
and again to that place, which is associated
with the story of Lady Jane Grey and
Anne Boleyn and Walter Raleigh and Sir
Thomas More. Iou will see the crowns
of kings and queens, the robe worn by the
Black Prince, and silver baptismal fonts
from which royal fants were christened
and the block on which Lord Lovat was
beheaded But no part of London Tower
will more interest you than the armory,
in which is ekillfully and impressvely ar
ranged collection of all styles of armor
worn between the thirteenth and eigh-
teepth centuries, suggesting 500 years of
conflict --cuirass and neck guard and chin
piece and lance rest and gauntlet and girdle
and mailed apron. You see just how from
head to heel those old time warriors were
defended against sharp weapons.
We soldiers of Jesus Christ when the
war of life is over and the victors rest in
the soldiers home on the heavenly heights
perhaps there may be in the city of the
sun tower of spiritual armor such as in
cased the warriors for Christ in earthly
combat! Some day we may be in that ar
mory and hear the heroes talk of how they
fought the good fight of faith and see them
with the scars OF wounds forever healed
and look at the weapons of offense and de-
Tense with which they became more than
conquerors. In that tower of heaven as
the weapons of the spiritual conflict are ex-
amined st. Paul may point out to us the
armor with which he advised the Ephe.
slams to, equip themselves and say: '"That
is the shield Of faith. That is the helmet
Of salvation. That is the girdle of truth.
That is the breastplate Of rishteousness.
Those are the mailed shoes in which they
were shod with the preparation OF the aos-
pei" There and then you may recount The
contrast between the day when YOU en-.
listed in Christian conflict and the day
when you closed i in earthly farewell and
and heavenly salutation, and the text.
which has so much meaning for us now,
will have more meaning for us then--"Let
not him that girdeth on his harness boast
himself az he that puttsth it off,"
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