The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-04-12
SERMON
REST
BY IRVING A. sEARLEs.

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Reference Is not here made to either physi-
cal or mental rest The text speaks OF spirit
ual rest You shall find rest unto your souls.
Allusion to this is made in jeremiah: Stand
We in the ways and see and ask for the old
paths where Is the good way and walk therein
and We shat! ind rest for your souls
Res. .s a necessity OF nature in all her
various manifestations. Each creative day was
followed by night OF rest At night flowers
close their leaves IN sleep Even so busy an
organ as the human heart must have rest be-
tween pulsations.
We can not wei imagine greater eU!
than 70 be deprived OF rest. You have heard
the legand o: the Wandering Jew. Jew
made some insulting remark to the Savior.
Jesus replied ." ! shall rest but you shall not
Ever since that. so the story has it. that Jew
has been wandering up and down the earth.
seeking rest bat finding none. Death even,
would not come to give him rest Were this
fact. whaJ could De moIe terrible:
1t is ueheved that the want of rest FASTENED
the death Q! Horace Greedy. A short time be-
fore he died he said TO friend that he had not
had sound sleep for fifteen years.
Recognizing it's need, various attempts
have been made 10 Ind this rest for the soul
Some seek il in intemperance, others IN travel
some in pleasure, many in suicide. But these
attempts to secure rest Of soul are wretched
failures l. is said that the state o: Alabama
derives its name from this circumstance:
Tradition says that tribe OF Indians had
fled many days before a prairie fire. Weary
and almost ready to fall young chief crosses
agreatr river. struck his tent pole and exclaimed
Alabama Here we may rest" This hope
proved unIounded Tor another tribe subse-
quently destroyed them. How many times
has the world exclaimed. Here we may rest"
only to find the statement untrue.
Christ Is the one to whom this rest seeking
world IS invited to come. Come unto ne, !"
says the Savior. You were made TO rest in
Him and hence. can find that soul rest In none
other. Visit the menagerie and see the show
man pouring ice-water upon the Polar bear
See the monster walking lncessently to aud
FRO in his IRON cage. Why that uneasiness ?
That animal is out OF lts element. God made
him for the frozen regions of the North. He
eau hnd rest only by conforming to the sur
rounding- in which the creator Designed that
he should move
The Aeronaut tells US that there Is some
where in the blue expanse current that would
carry the balloon. unopposed, around the world
This current once reached the balloon is at
rest from the counter currents that meets it
elsewhere.
Man has religious nature. To live without
paying attention to this is abnormal and unrest
of soul must follow. This is as the Polar bear in
tbs tropics. To recognize this part of our
nature and care for 1t is to strike the current
where he soul finds rest.
s The real. perfected rest that Christ gives
is yet in the future. There remanith rest
for the people Of God John gives US faint
idea OF that land OF rest
And saw no trouble therein Here
temple is the symbol OF worship The Jews
had one OF gorgeous structure. We meet to-
night in our UNCONVENTIONAL temples. Some are
IN these engaged in worship. while multitudes
without have no thought Of God but in that
other world these petty temples are swept
away Worship is now universal. Not church
walls but tue whole universe resounds with
praises and alteration to God
And there shall be no night there Here
the absence of night would be an evil Earth's
weary ones need the night for rest but there
no one is weary. We need the night for IN
struction. 1t is at night that the astronomer
studies the heavens. but there the spirit freed
from It's prison home may study Gods works
forever. There will be no night of sorrow
there. Birds do not sing in the night Place
them IN dark room or cover their cage with
blanket and their song is hushed. How many
times IN life does the darkness OF sorrow cover
one until the heart is sick and its Joy departs
How welcome the land OF eternal sunlight
And there was no more sea- The sea
separates friend from friend. Have you a
lIieuu VI tue OiuoT blue VI Tue lou
say will see that friend But old ocean roll
ing high her waves sends through her angry
surges the reply, Never! Never" Here is
barrier separating friend from friend But. OF
that othsr world il is SAID, And there was no
more sea" These barriers Of separation are
swept away. 1 have friends from whom on
earth [ may ever separate, but IN that other
wotld shall meet them. / shall know them
from among tue millions that are there. and
they will know me. Welcome then that land.
Where every severed wreath is bound
Where none have heard the knell
That smites the heart with that deep sound
FAREWELL, BELOVED, FAREWELL
And there was rainbow about the throne"
After the deluge, God calling attention to the
rainbow, said to Noah that that should be
sign TO the world that there should be no more
flood. Associated with the rainbow was the
promise that the storm was over. How sug