Milford chronicle., 1905-01-20

91AnEaANAH AAEG DAHEAAEa
I The sunbeams can cure physical dis
ease. The gospel light, if Christian
people will only perform their Chris
tian duties at the ballot box, will curt
governmental disease. The late DR.
Neils Finsen by scientific investigation
found that certain microbes would die
under certain cOlored lights. We know
that all governmental injustiees and so
cial crimes and city temptations will
disappear under the bright rays which
may be flashed from the gospel light.
Thus 1t is every Christians duty to see
to 1t that as far as he may be able he
shall have a Christian supervisor and
a Christian common council and a
Christian mayor and a Christian gov
ernOr and a Christian congressman and
Christian senator ard a Christian
president of the United States. If
Christian church members will stand
shoulder to shoulder at the ballot box
the injustices and crimes and evil
temptations which run rampant through
our great cities will no longer exist.
But bethink myself as | come to
the close Of this sermon on Tran
scendent Light" that l have two duties.
The one is to the servant of Jesus
Christ; the second is to the man and
the woman who have not yet been
willing to accept the SaviOur's love-
The one is TO the disciple of the Chris |
tian light; the second is to the child of /.
Satan, who is living in the darkness |
Of sin. These are the two classes Of /
my audience. There is no third group.
for "he that is not with me is against
me, and he that gathereth not with me
scattereth abroad" As l come to this
closing part of my sermon I tremble
with excitement. know as you
ought to know, the tremendous results
If your decision. Why do | tremble?
Because your father. your mother your
wife, your child or the preacher of this
morning cannot make you become a
child of light if you are not willing
o do so Of your own accord.
The gospel light, like that Of the
un's light. with all of its creating,
aving power, is the easiest of all great
lfuences to be resisted. The light
ings strike everywhere. They cut to
ne right and to the left. With one
low they can split rocks and wreck
ONES and dismantle trees. The suns s
eat cannot be ignored, even if one r
ould. When the hot summer months q
,me, all who can do so flee from the +
ties and HE themselves away to the =
oods or the seashore Closed doors q
Id windows make the sitting air only d
e more oppressive. The poor little +,
ildren moan and cry The sick, if
ey are not taken away to the sea- n
ore or the high mountains, often die. q,
le city parks are crowded with suf- +,
ring humanity. =,
Cannot Escape Thunder. n
You cannot escape if you would the 8,
lnds of the cannonading of the ele- II
9nts when the thunderstorm begins %
growl and to crash. The frightened th
] may run to her bedroom and close On
, windows and draw the shades and hi
ry her ears in the pillows. The w
)ming discharges of the heavenly of
illeries send their echoes even mr.
Ough stone walls. But the sunlight an
be overcome so easily that all one TT
J to do is to close the eyelids and tie III,
andage over the face, and as a blind w,
II he will have to grope his way fo,
ng the darkness. All one has to do ms
o plant the flowers under the shad- aU
) Of wall. and you can see them wi
and droop and wither and die. S
ht may have a creating. a develop
protecting, a saving influence,
light will never force its way "
ugh blocked vestibule or through WI
hick obstruction which has been ic
ted to keep it out Thus the Cos Co,
light will never enter your heart of
lss you wish it to come. Christ me-
, Il am the light" What is your nIo-
yer? VIII you accept that light? ero
you reject it and live in eternal eva
ness? sor
hat is your life to be? What is hon
death to be? What is your eterni- saif
D be? One moonlight night upon Won
Hudson river there came the quick cam
of the pilots bell. warning the en- Ola,
sr that danger was ahead. 1t was viii
'Onlight night No boat was near ono,
ship was in midstream, so the en- for
r could not tell what the signal a NJ,
It. He went at once to the pilot wan
=. There he found the old pilot dy- l,no,
As he lifted up the PROSTATE man .vvo
blot murmured: ut is dark. A done
has settled upon the river, and I
1t see. Tell the captain it is dark
can't see" Oh, my friends, is Th
life's close to be shrouded in dark man
? Is your river Of death" to be Iced
spiritual sense like that Of the TIL
on river pilOt-in an atmosphere wife
impenetrably. awfully and eter- est O
dark? III,
IN King Philip III. Of France. prett
"the Hardy" returned from his chris
lgainst the Moors and his con- his s
over the bey of Tunis, it is said ness
ie Drought Dack In his train five intert