The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-14

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and l believe through Christ's grace we
can sing five thousand souls into the
kingd. m of Christ. An argument they
can laugh at; sermon they may talk
down; but five thousand voiced utter
ance of praise to God Is irresistable,
Would that Queen Balkis would drive all
her spice laden dromedaries into our
church music. Neither was there any
such spice as the Queen of Sheba bro't
to King Solomon"
Now l want to impress the fact that re.
ligion is sweetness and perfume and
spikenard and saffren and cinnamon and
cassia and all the sweet spices together.
"Oh," you say, N have not looked at it
as such. Thought it was nuisance; 1t
had for me repulsioD; | held my breath
as though it were NAL odor; have
been appalled, at its advance; have said
if have any religion at all, want just
as little of it as possible to get through
With" Oh, what mistake you have
made my brother: the religion of Christ
is present and everlasting redolenCe.
1t CounteraCts all trouble. Just put it
on the stand beside the pillow of sick
ness. 1t catches in the curtains and per.
fumes the sitting air; it sweet ns the cup
of bitter medicine, and throws glow on
the gloom of the turned lattice; it is a
balm for the aching side, and a soft ban
dage for The temple stung with pain. 1t
lifted Samuel Rutherford into revelry
of spiritual delight while he was in phys
ical agonies. 1t helped Richard Baxter
until, in the midst of such complication
of diseases as, perhaps, no other man
ever suffered, he wrote "The Saints EV'
erlasting Rest" 1t poured light uT on
John Bunyan's dungeon-a light of the
shining gate Of the shining city. And it
is good for rheumatism, and for neural
gia, and for low spirits, and for Consump-
tion. 1t is the CatholiCOu for all disord-
ere. Yes, it will heal all your SORROWS
Why did you look 80 sad this morning2
Alas for the loneliness of the heart.
break and the load that is never lifted
from your soul. Some Of you go about
feeling like MaCaulay when he wrote:
"If had another month Of such days rs
| have been spending, l would be impa.
tent to get down into my little, narrow
crib in the ground, like the weary factory
child" And there have been times in
your life when you wished you could die.
You have said, "0h, how sweet to my
lips would be the dust of the Yalleyn land
wished you could pull over you, in your
last sleep, the Coverlet Of green grass and
daisies. You have said: "How beauti'
fully quiet it must be in the tomb; wish
l was there" l see all around about
me widowhood and orphanage and child
lessness-sa disappointment, per-
pleXity. If could ask all those to rise
who have felt no sorrow, and bsen buf.
feted by no disappointment; if l could
ask all such to rise, b " many would
riseP Not one. A widowed mother with
her little child went West, hoping to get
better wages there, and she was taken
sick and died. The 0yerseer OF the Poor
got her body, put it in a box, put it in
wagon, and started down the street to.
ward the cemetery at full trot. The
little child, the only child, ran after it
through the streets barehesded, crying;
Bring me back my mother!" And it
was said, as the people looked on and
saw her crying after what was in the
box in the wagon-all she loved on earth
it is said the whole village was bathed
in tears.
And that is what great many Of you
are doing-Chasing the dead. Dear Lord,
is there no appeasemen: for all this scr.
row l See about me? Yes; the thought
OF re direction and reunion far beyond
this scene of struggle and tears. "They
shall hunger no more; neither thirst any
more; neither shall the sun light on them
nor any heat; for the Lamb which is in
the midst of the throne shall lead them
to living fountains Of water, and God
shall wipe away all tears from their
eyep." Across the CouChes of your sick;
across the graves of your dead, l fling
this shower Of sweet spices. Queen Bal
kis driving up to the pillard portiCo Of
the house of cedar, carried no suCh pun
genCy of perfume as exhales today from
The Lords garden. II is peace; 1t is com.
lort; it is infinite sati. faction. This Cos.
pei commend to you Some one could |
not understand why an old German
Christian scholar used to be always 30
calm and happy and hopeful, when he
mad 30 many trials and sicknesses and |
ailments. A man seCreted himself in |
he house. He said: IL mean to watch |
his old scholar and Chrietian:" and he |
saw the old Christian man 60 to his room |
aud sit down on the chair beside stand |
and oren the Bible and read chapter af
er chapter, hour after hour, until his
ace was all aglow with the tidings from
heaven; and when the clock struck IL |
le arose and shut the Bible and said: |
Blessed Lord, we are on the same old |
erms yet. Good night. Good night"
}, you sin-parChed, and you trouble
here is comfort, here is salts
action. Will you come and get it2 1 |
,an not tell you what the Lord offers
,ou hereafter 30 we'll as l can tell you
low: ut doth not yet appear what we
hall be-"
Have you read of the Tai Mahal in In
liza, in some respects the most majestic
on earthP Twenty thousand
nen were twenty years in building it.
It costs about $l6,000,000. The walls are
,f marble, inlaid with CorDelian from
3agdad, ard turquoise from Thibet, and
asper from Punjaub, and amethyst from
Persia, and all manner of precious stones.
4 traveller says it seems to him like the
Inning of the enchanted castle of burn
shed silver. The walls are 245 # high, !
md from the top Of these spril gs a dome |
30 mo- feet high, that dome containing
he most wonderful echo the world has |
aver known, 80 that ever and anon trav-
,lers standing below with flutes and |
lsrps and drums, are testing that echo,
and the sounds from below strike up, |
md then come down, as it we're, the vol
,es of angels all around about The build.
ng. There is around it garden of ban
ysn. and tamarind, and palm, and all
he floral glories of the ransaCked earth.
But that is only tomb Of dead Emp
-ess, and it is tame compared with the
yrandeurs which God has builded for
your living and immortal spirit. 0, home
1f the blessed, foundations of go d, ar
,hes of victory, cap stones of praise, and
4 dome In which there are echoing and
re eChoing the hallelujahs Of the ages.