THE CEN NTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSLAY, AUGUST 1806, THE SOUL. It Will Have to Account for Deeds Done in tho Body. If We Accept the Offer of Jesus Christ to be Our Advocate We Need Not Foar—He Wii Surely Se- cure Our Pardon. Dr. Talmage, in his latest Washing: ton sernion, points out the fact thatall have sinned and must be condemned unless Christ pleads for our forgive: | ness. His text was: I John 2: 1: "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.” Standing in a eourt room, you say to yourself; ‘‘At this bar crime has often been arraigned; at this witness stand the oath has often been taken; at this jurors’ bench the verdict has been ren- | dered; at this judge's desk sentence has been pronounced.” But I have to tell you to-day of a trial higher than any oyer and terminer or circuit or supreme or chancery. It is the trial of every Christian man for the life of his soul. This trial is different from any other in the fact thatit is both civil and eriminal. The issues at stake are tremendous, and I shall in my sermon show you, first, what are the grounds of com- plaint; then, who are the witnesses in the case, and lastly, who are the ad- vocates, When a trial is ¢alled on the first thing is to have the indictment read Stand up thep, O Christian man, and hear the indictment of the court of high Heaven against thy soul. It isan indictment of ten counts, for thou hast directly or indirectly broke all the ten commandments. You know how it thundered on Sinai, and when God came down how the mountain rocked and the smoke ascended as from a smolder- ing furnace, and the darkness gathered thick, and the loud, deep trumpet ut- tered the words: “The that sin- Are guilty, Do not a negative announce and soul neth it shall diel” you not gui put in kk, for 1 have to sinne come There is FOO; no, not the » point he i one keep whole law, your sou gs: Thou knowest that Have you kept the bar man? Have you sltered when you ought rue? Have ought to have played to have and I broken ian not been been the been you not wm ought you rge it upon you » have claims greatest on is an libie says but it ir in. la t Lloek iren, tha sin, while all along the line tht to have been cast nothing brand and the shout 1 lifted: “Hosanna to |e hes, ve beer of Davie you have heard the indictment Are you ready to plead guilty guilty? Perhaps you are not yet to plead. Then the trial will The witnesses will called, shall have the matter decided. In the name of God I now make proc lamation: Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! whoso ever hath anything to offer in this trial in which God is the plaintiff and the Christian soul the defendant, let him now step forward and give testi mony in this solemn trial, The first witness 1 eall upon the read or 104% ready go and we on. be | the h | trial, | Christian man? | trade 1 ever | us to believe | famous audiences ever gat stand in behalf of the prosecution is | the World of Christian charactor. there are people around You know that you who pers all eritieal and observant | | dom been seen In any court room, Ed. | mund Burke advanced in a speech | which will last as long as the English | petually banquet on the frailties of | God's children, You may know, if you have lived in the country, that a crow | eares for nothing so much as carrion. There sre those who imagine that | ont of ‘the faults of across the stream of death, and they are going to try ity alas for the mistakél When they get midstream away will go the bridge and down will go their souls to perdi but | Christians | they can make a bridge of boats | | i ow rd heart, "w FPO 3 ’ Lian fay ad of this Christian do you know “Oh,” says the \ 1 know a great deal about him talks about putting his Heaven, but he is thesharp knew, He that he is a child but he is just full of imp riections do not know but 1 am a great deal be * than he now Oftentin earthly, and he talks so muce nbout himself lam very glad to te tify that this is a bad man.” ition and cstv In tion stl aga! What nha trens ar. stm is '8 he vers Stop, 0 World with the greedy ey: and hard heart 1 fear you are too much interested in this trial to give impartial evidence. Let all those who hear the testimony of this witness know that there is an old family quar rel between these two parties. There always has been a variance between the world and the church, and while | the World on the witness stand to-du has told a great deal of truth about this Christian man, you must take it all with much allowance, remembering that they still keep the old grudge good. O, World ofthe greedy eye ani the hard heart, that will do; sit down. you may The second witness I call in this case Conscience. Who art thou, O What is your Where were you born? What are you doing? “Oh,” says Conscience, **I wus born in Heaven. I came to bu friend this man. I have lived wit bim. I have instructed him. I have warned him. showed him the right and the wrong, advising him to take the one and eschew the other. I have kindled a great light in his soul. Witl a whip of I have his and 1 have cheer him when doing right; am compelled to testify to-day that he has sometimes rejecte my mission. Oh, how many life have I pressed to his i down, and with his hard ing heart of the Son of God! me very much that I have against tl Christian man in behalf of him who will ear is science? Con. business? down scorpions wickedness, soourge tri and 3 on the cups 0! lips that how often has heel on the t dashe« stood Lt pains ha stif Wis must wise the gullty, say ne wrong as beer Cale} Of the omnipotent Spirit Hin this man? Holy One, “i Ow tho sometimes he fell back again : often from his first estate. Ten thon sand times ten thousand has he grie me, although the Bible saying: ' sve not the Spirit.” and that is great, the august, the We bow Spirit, "says the Yo i pave striv times, and seem Lo re lown before knowest thou yes, him en with him ten though pent he warne } Holy Ghost Yes, nougsn I Irinity : Quench driven me bac) | I'hird uence ’ Yes. Un Christis begin to tr in demnation? We have ome n ’ th w to teresting part of is great trial, evidence all in. The advocates Some of you have read of the famo trial in Westminster hall of Warren Hastings, the despoller of India. That great man had conquered India bj splendid talents, by courage, by bribes by gigantic dishonesty The world had rung with applause or eon: demnation. Gathered in Westminster hall, a place in which thirty kings had been inaugurated, was one of the most red. For sat there, the mo whole eign ministers and prince Peers marched in, gold. Mighty men and women from all lands looked down upon the scene, Amid all that pomp and splendor, and amid an excitement such as has sel language, concluding with this burning charge, which made Warren Hastings | | eringe and cower! “I impeach him in the name of the Commons House of Parliament, whose trust he has be. | teayed. I impeach him in the name of | the English nation, whose ancient honor he has sullled. 1 impeach him | in the name of the people of India, whose rights he has trampled on and whose country le has turned into an ¢lad in ermine and | desert. And, lastly, In the name ot human nature, in the names of both sexes, in the name of every age and (rank, 1 impeach him as the common | enemy and oppressor of all.” But I turn from the recital of these memorable occasions to a grander trial, and I have to tell you that in this trial | of the Christian for the life of his soul | the advocates are mightier, wiser and more eloquent, The evidence all being in severe and stern justice rises on be- half of the prosecution to make his | plea. With the Bible open in his hand, | he reads the law, stern and inflexible, and the penalty: **The soul that sin- neth, it shall die.™ Then he says: 0, { thou judge and lawgiver, this is thine own statute, and all the evidence in earth and Heaven agrees that the man has sinned against these enactments. Now let the sword leap from its scab- bard. Shall a man go through the {very flames of Sinal unsinged? Let the law be executed. Let judgment be pronounced. Let him dle. I demand that he die!" 0, Christian, does it not iook very dark for thee? Who will plead on thy side in so forlorn a cause? Sometimes a man will be brought into a court of law, and he will have no friends snd no money, and the judge will look over the bar and say: "Is«there any- who will volunteer to take this man's case and defend him?” And some young man rises up and says: ‘I will be his counsel;" perhaps starting on from that very point to a great and brilliant career. Now, in this matter of the soul, as you have nothing to pay for counsel, do you think that anyone will volunteer? Yes, yes; I see One rising. He is a young man, only 38 years of age. I see His countenance suffused with tears and covered with blood, and all the galleries of Heaven are thrilled with the spectacle. Thanks be unto God, “we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” Oh, Christian soul, your case begins to look better. I think, perhaps, after all, you may not have to die. The best Advocate in universe has taken your side. No one was ) qual fied to defend you. He knows al the law, all its demands, all its pen: He is always ready. No new the case can surprise him, and plead for you for one he ever sm nothing as earnes as though you bro: asure to His feet tt} ight 8 wo Beside tre has undertaken who wercas { ‘ } CAS Courage, thin) some never 1 soul! 1 hat, after 3 84 tiar f Tor may great Advocate He say “I ad admit al hat prove chance ya, for His has lent 1 Fine Ke eral against mit the 100K mine wa, | demand hath flown; the from him; ‘ scourzings cup pass we. Put on him I have Urver worn the against my thre shame sot his throne of triumph! Well, the and now th sides have more that is the mnsel on Ix spoken, there only thing remaining, and awarding of the judgment. If you ever been in a court room you the silence and solemnity verdict is about to be rendered, judgment about to this s wn trial-—shall it shall it be lost? Attention! around, beneath. All the eries, “Hear! hear!” The Judge rises cision, never to be “The mnation in One have know when the or the About saved or above, universe be given ul be and gives this de- changed, never to is, therefore, n to them w be revoke re no cond ho are Jesus aver will ave tread i« the manuiac ing amid the buzz of clack of flying machiner; be at the by nister may he we m the will be and the counsel may the mi pleading the gospel, GOms the r pie ading the in the pulpit the drunkard ups, and the blas- phemer with the oath caught between his teeth. Lo! the «sun hides. Night comes at midnoon. The stars appear at noon today. The earth shudders and throbs. There an earthquake opens and a city sinks as a crocodile would erunch a child, Mountains roll in thelr sockets and send down their granite cliffs an avalanche of rock. Rivers pause in their chase for the sea, and ocean, uprearing, cries to flying Alps and Himalaya. Beasts bellow and moan and snuff up the darkness Clouds fly like flocks of swift cagles. Great thunders beat and burst. Stars shoot and fall WHaIK law, be may be reeling amid his ¢ archangel’'s trump repeats it till all the living hear, and the continents of dead spring to their feet, crying: | “Time shall be no longer!” Oh, on that day will you be ready? tian will get off in his trial. Will you get off as well in your trial? Will | | Christ plead on your side or against | | you? Oh, what will you do in the last | gront nasize, if your consclence is against you, and the world Is against | you, and the angels of Heaven pre against you, and the loly Spirit is against you, and the Lord God Al- mighty is against you? Detter this day secure an Advocate. boom and | The Al | mighty, rising on his throne, declares that time shall be no longer, and the | I have shown you how well the Chris. | SUBLIME FOLLY. | Bublimest folly—from thelr enmps uprise Two mighty armies, eager for the fray. The drum best roils, the brazen trumpets bray, And guns and bayonets flush against the skies. Now shall be shown on which side victory les. Swords gleam, the booming cannon hurl dis may, The quick, sharp rifle | way, On high the bird of evil omen cries shots for death make Men fall as in the field the full ripe grain Where bending reapers swing the sickle's Linde, In ranks they fall, never to rise again. But wherefore the dread holocaust thus made? That past all doubt man may make plain, On honor more than 1ife his heart is staid, =Biaboit Spalding. SOME LEAP YEAR LAWS. A Woman Could Propme Siz Hundred Yours Ago and the Man Had to Accept. In two countries, at least, and more than 600 years ago, laws were passed which guve women the right of propos- ing marriage. These enactments went even farther than this, They also stip- ulated that if the man whose hand they had sought should refuse he should in- cur a heavy fie, A searcher smnong the ancient records of Scotland has recently discovered an act of the Scottish parlisment, which wis passed in the year 1288, which runs as rollows: “It is statut and ordaint that during the rein of his maist blisit Megeste, ilk for the years knowne as Lepe Yeare, ilk mayden ladye of baithe highe and lowe estact shall hae liberte to bespeke ye man she likes, albeit gif ho refuses ta taik hir to be his lawful wyfe, he shall be muleted in ye sam of ane dandis or less, as his estait may be; except and awis gif he can make it appeare that he is betrothit ane ither woman, he then shall be free,’ A year or two later a law almost sim- ilar to the Scottish enactinent was passed in France and recived the ap- proval of the king. It is also said that before Columbus sailed on his famous voyage to the westward a similar privi lege was granted to the maidens of Ge this truth noa and Florenos rd extant of conditio trace of st ueth of making lookes, 1 fit of « her prog wal with =] Up to of the un if a man sho o man wil lergy who within a cx writien should prury laws of | decli ald soften the disag his answer would presentation of an sil suocessf ¢ r for hi A curious leap year ‘superstition is still to met with in some parts of New England, and that is that during leap year the "beans grow on the wrong side of the pod. "'—Philad -phia Examiner al suitor Mice and Rats In Japan. There are small “deer” on the island that arouse no poetry or gracious senti- ments. The mice, those pests of Japa nese teahouss, raced through the doll. houses at will by dark, the ornamental traceries and designs pierced in the pretty wood panels above the screens giving them free range of every room, They ran over my face, scratched my pillow, nibbled my fingers and kept me awake night after might with their rus. tling and gnawing. On the third night of mouse carnival I ealled the servants and had lights brought ‘he lan heard the mel bustle le yoross the court to the matter was, ‘I think the use,’ 1 said. “Ol honor. able lads low and proudly. plenty of rats at the could not at all snould make such diord sounds ¢ pee what i this he certainly hg is a mouse i , certainly “Yes, indeed, 1 Momiji.’ And he why we tronble about a thing and object to thes s of abundant prosperity companions of Daike the god plenty. — Eliza Rhuhamah Scidmor Century. understand oh sO natural evidence fun thes of in Ru, Two Fiandles, Everything has two handles-=tho one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If, then, your brother do you an injury, do not take it by the hot hard handle, by rep. resenting to yourself all the aggravating circumstances of the fact; but look rather on the soft side and extenuate it as much as is possible by considering the nearness of the relation and the long friendship and familiarity between you-=obligations to kindness which a gingle provocation ought not to dissolve, And thus you will take the accident by ita manageable handle, Epictetus, The Jeer of a Plebelan. Lanrs—Miss Backdate is | in the Duanghters of the Revolution. Flora~8he had a right to be proud | Just think how narrowly she escapes being old enough to be a sister instead of a danghte =O ine innati E nquirer, Men spend their Ives in antici pations some period or other when they have time. But the present time has one ad vantage over every other. 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