The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-09-06

san francisco, upon winch uiteThtiohs
and improvements were to be made
amounting to $5,0O0,000. and the con-
tracts for the work only awaiting the
return of the young couple to be
signed and the work begun. How full
and real and certain seemed life as
they glided with the swiftness Of the
wind across the country to the gay
scenes of Paris. How dim and unlikely
seemed death and the threshold OF
eternity. The peasants stopping In
their work and leaning on their hoes
gazed after them and envied them
their lot, and thought OF the years
which yet seemed before them and OF
all the luxury and travel and pleasure
that would be counted off to them in
the days of the years as they rolled
around one by one. And 10, while they
are gazing the rushing auto swerves
to one side, and with the suddenness
of the lightning fash the crash comes
deaths silence settles down upon the
fair young pair as they lie amidst the
wreckage, and their souls are in eter-
nifty.
Four Important Points.-There are
four essential points to our text. AS
Mr.. Moody used to put 1t: /. There is
one God. 2. We are accountable to Him.
3. We must meet Him. 4. We need
preparation to meet Him. Let us turn
our thoughts to the first point. There
is one God. One God, the Creator. One
God. the Ruler Of the universe. One
God, the lover of mems souls and the
hater of sin. One God, the Saviour OF
men. One God who is all this. And
because He is the one and only Goa,
Thou shalt have no other gods before
Me-" Is this message for to-day?
We carry it to the heather lands,
where the hideous little gods have
their place in.every home and receive
the worship and alteration OF its in
mates. We know it is a message for
those darkened lands, but ours is
Christian land, with no shrines in our
homes and no ugly images before
which we fall down and worship. And
because of this are there no strange
gods that are claiming our worship
and our service? How about the god
of pleasure, the god of gold, the god
of social supremacy, the god OF self
will and self-indulgence, the god OF
pride and worldly ambition, the god
of religious forms and ceremonies.
Read the last half of the fifth chapter
of Amos if you want tose how Jealous
| in outward religious activity the chill
dren of Israel were. They had their
| feast DAYS, their burnt offerings and
meat offerings, and peace offerings as
in days of yore, when they ascended
as a sweet smelling SAVIOR to the Lord
from consecrated hearts. But God
saws: 1T hate, despise your feast
days, and will not smell your solemn
assemblies" They had their fine
church music, but God says: "Taks
thou away from Me the noise OF thy
songs; for l will not hear the melody
of thy VOLS" Why was this? Because
there was no longer one God before
them, but "Moloch and Chiun, you
images, the star of your god, which y
made to yourselves" Gods OF thei
own making and which were beini
served in the form of their many re
ligious activities. There is go'
in every heart, there is a god in ever
home, there is god in every church i
the land. II it is not the one God
Spiritual power and presence, 1T is
, god of human making, and abhorren
to the one God of Heaven.
The second point before us is tina
: we are accountable to Him. Cain wa
accountable to God for the killing o
| his brother Abel. 1t is significant tina
, Scripture gives no record of the paI
!, ents calling their son to account TO
his awful sin, but tells of the wicke
youth being brought face to face wit
; his God, the one to whom he was frs
accountable and from whose search
ing gaze he could not escape. The al
important question was not wha
, would father or mother say or de
but what does God think about it, wha
will He do? The all-important ques
ton to you, my friend, is not you
! standing in the community, not wha
: your friends or relatives say or thin
, about you, but what is my standin
, before God, whom / am to meet som
! day face to face? David with tn
: crimes of murder and adultery black
I ening his soul was accountable to Goo
He realized it after he had hidden hi
! sin for months and tried to account t
! his family and his nation for his 81
' by making the widow Of the man h
| had cruelty slain in battle his wifi
/, When David got into the presence
/ the Lord, upon his face. he cries
Against Thee, Thee only, have
J sinned, and done this evil in Thy sight
, God is the final auditor of all accounts
1 We cannot escape His searching eye G
] the record of Heaven. Fine speeche
I before the throne OF God will not pr
e vail. We may plead: lord, Lore
r have we not prophesied in Thy name
: and in Thy name have cast out devils
and in Thy name done many wonderf'
a works?" But the Lord will look dee
h err than the mere outward prQfessio
n of the life and will say to many SOU
{ Depart from me, We that work u
e iquity." Are you more concerns
+ about the opinion of those about W
L than you are as to what God thinl
v of YOU? Remember that your fin