Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1898 — RAM’S HORN BLASTS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RAM’S HORN BLASTS.

Warning Notea Calling the Wicked t# Repentance.

UR greatest foe is self. ' Self-adulation is self-deception. Star-gazing is not star-gaining. Childlikeness is not childishness. Folly never files out of man's reach. War with tyran-

ny, is peace with heaven. Sin is never disposed of at less than cost. It is of a half truth that a whole He is born. Popular plaudits will pass no man to Paradise. The reign of righteousness will right all wrongs. Lip-service is vain, without heartconsecration. A gossip may be ambitious, but she never soars above a lie. The almighty dollar has no hypocritical worshipers at its shrine. Calamities are God's curfews to call the soul home before nightfall. Faith is the mother of character and a mature faith is never childless. God’s providence will never place you where His grace cannot keep you. My son, live a straight life. The bent tree is never the giant of the forest. Though* the sins of the father go visiting, they never fail to come home to him. There are too many good Samaritans abroad without bandages and liniment. Some people pay so much attention to their reputation that they lose their character. There is not much lifting power in the testimony of the church member who does not pay his debts. There are many of those whose idea of worship is a fervent thank God that they are better than their neighbors. The church carpet seldom looks worn to the man who expects to be called upon to assist in purchasing a new one. The preacher who mixes too much truth and Christianity with his sermons, doesn’t often receive a “call” from fashionable churches.