The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-04-17

the hills OF tnlne lnlqulIN| Oni yO WhV
have snned, instead Of flying away from
Christ, If you only knew who 1t is that
comes to save you, you would fly no FUR
ther. but turn around, and, while Christ
seeks you, you would seek Christ ana
this hour would be a scene of a penltent
sinner and q pardoning Savior throwing
their arms around each others necks,
while heaven could afford to stop halt an
hour and hang over the battlemenis gaz'
ing. What is that autter among the an
gelsP Who is that horseman rushing
through the city with such dispatchY
What is that announcement on the bul'
letins of heaven2 | know what 1t 49,
Christ has found that which was lost
"Nor angels can their Joy contain,
But kindles new with fire;
The sinner lott is found, they sing,
And strike the sounding Tyre"
remark again: We are lost to hap
piness, and Christ comes to find us. A
Caliph said, II have been fifty years a
Caliph, and have had all honors and
wealth, and yet in the fifty years l can
count up only fourteen days of happi'
ness. How many there are in this audi
ence who can not count fourteen days in
all their lives in which they bad no Vex'
ations or aunoyanCesP We all feel a ca
pacity for happiness that has never been
tested. There are interludes of bliss,
but whose entire life has been a contlnu.
GUS satisfaction? How is it that most OF
the fine poems of the world are some-
how descriptive of griei2 Is it because
men know more about sorrow than they
do about Joy. John Milton succeeds
when he writes Paradise Lost" but he
fails when he comes TO write paradise
Regsined." Dantes "Inferno" is chime
of horrors. Bryants "Thanatopsls" is
poem of tears. Take the pathos out OF
the writings of Tennyson and Longfel-
low, and you have taken three fourths OF
their power. John Ruskin writes his
most effective passages about the ruins
of Venice. The day of bad news comes
faster than the carrier-pigeon HES with
good news. There are flashes of salts
faction for the heart; but whose heart
has been prolonged delight? The soul
has four banks of keys, and the world
does not know how to play on such an
elaborate instrument; but religion comes
and with her right hand she touches the
higher keys of the soul, and with her
left hand the lower keys, and then she
sweeps them with the symphonies OF
heaven. Oh, how many have been stung
and plagued Had it not been for risk
ing your eternal interests, some OF you
would have put an end to the scene OF
earthly suferings with your own hand;
A deep undertone of sadness rolls thro'
your soul. You would be willing now
to give up your money and your social
position, and all you have achieved, for
one day of the peace which the good old
slave expressed, when he said in broken
language: "In owning Christ | seem to
own everything. The air is mine, for
can breathe it; the sunshine is mine, for
can sit in it; the earth is mine, Tor | can
lie down on il; and heaven is mine, for l
am going to it," To have something OF
that complete satisfaction which belongs
to the humblest of Gods children, you
would give mostanything. Oh ye who
are struck through with unrest, Christ
comes to give you rest. If Christ comes
TO you, you will be independent of all
earthly considerations 1t was 30 with
the Christian man who suffered for his
faith, and was thrust down the coal hole
of the Bishop of London. He said: "We
are happy here, singing gladstone songs
the night long. Oh, God, forgive me for
being 70 unworthy of this gloryW More
joyful in the hour of suffering and mar
tyrdom was Rose Allen. When the per
secutor put candle under her wrist,
and held It there until the sinews snap
ped, she said IF you see fit you can
burn my feet next, and then my head"
Christ once having taken you into His
custody and guardianship, you can laugh
at pain and persecution and trial, Great
peace for all those whom Christ has
found, and who have found Christ. Je-
sus comes into their sick rooms. The
nurse may have fallen asleep in the lat
Ter hours of the watches ofthe night; but
Jesus watches with waking eyes, ard He
puts His gentle hand over the brow of
he patient and says: "You will not al
ways be sick. | will not leave you.
There is a land where the inhabitant
never saith, 4 am sick Hush, troubled
Joul PeaCt"
Then Jesus comes into the house of
bereavement and he says: II took your
ost darling. / come now to make up
or his absence. | wanted him at the l.
,ate when you came through. The days
If your separation will only add to the
oys of reunion. Peace l am the res.
ERECTION and the life he that believeth
n me, though he were dead, YET shall be
ive."
Just as sometimes a child is so sick {
hat it can not lie any longer in the {
radle, and the mother has TO take it up, I
o sometimes the Lords children are so
roubIed that they can not lie easy an
Vhere but in Gods lap, and He bends
yer them and sings this sweet lullaby : {
As one whom his mother Comforteth,
o will comfort you"
The pouI that on Jesus hath leaned fer repOsS
will not, will not desert to his foes;
That soul, though all hell should endeaVor to
shake,
I'll never, no, never, no, never forsake| =
Again l remark that we are lost to |
eaven, and Christ comes to take us :
lere. can not imagine anything more
than, without having any
lusiCal teste, to sit and listen to an ora.
iris for two hours and half. Though it c
Q the best of oratorios, if man has no /
iusical taste it is distress to him, 1
bile it is a Joy to others, and can not {
nagine anything more distressfll for a '
an who has no love for pictures than Z
be shut up in the Luxembourg Gal Y
ryin Paris. Yes, can think of one >
ing worse than that, and that will be a
r man 10 enter heaven without any g
ste for it. ! sometimes hear people t
TX. as though all man had to do was '
at to leave this world and 60 into g
,aven and sit down to his erjoyments. e
man cannot stand Christian society o
re for one day, how would he stand a
ilion years ofit2 ! see an unregen-
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