The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-03-10

with which he walked on Galilee, In
this book, apostle answering prophet,
Paul to Isaac, Revelation to Genesis.
Glorious light turning the midnight OF
sorrow into the wisdom Of joy-piercing
every fog, unfickering in every tempest.
oh, this book is the kiss of God on the
soul Of lost man. No man evsr proposed
an improvement. Does God provide a
Savior; he 10 a complete Savior. God
man. Divinity, humanity united in the
same person. He set up the starry pill,
lars of the universe and the towers OF
light He planted the cedars on the
heavenly Lebanon. He struck out OF
the rock the rivers of life, singing under
the.tree, singing under the thrones. de
unquarried the sardonyx and the Chry-
solite, and the topaz Of the heavenly
wall, pulling down jasper for the founda-
ton, and heading up amethyst for the
capital, and swinging twelve gates that
are twelve pearls, In one instant he
thought out universe, and yet he is a
child crying after his mother, and hold
ing her hand while he is learning to
walk, Omnipotence sheathed in the
muscles and flesh of a Child's arm. Om-
nisCience strung in the optic nerve of a
childs eye, Infinite love beating in a
child's heart. The great God appearing
in the form of a child one year old, five
years old, fifteen years old. While all
earth were ascribing to him all honor,
and glory and power on earth, sinful
men called him 'this fellow" While
the heavenly host, with folded wings
over face, bowed before him and cried,
"Holy, holyl" on earth they denounced
him as blasphemer and sot. Rocked
in boat on Gennesaret, and yet he it is
who undirks the lightning from the
storm cloud and dismssts Lebanon of its
| forests; and holds the five oceans on the
tip Of his fingers as a leaf holdeth a drop
of water. o, he is a complete Savior.
Rubbing his hand over the place where
we have pain until it is soothed; yet the
stars of heaven are the adoruing gems of
his right hand. Holding us in his arms
when we part with our dead; and sitting
down with US on the Tombstone, and,
while we plant roses there, he planting
consolation in our grieved hearts, every
chapter a stalk, every verse stem, every
word rose. A complete Savior, COM
plete Bible, q complete universe, a COM
plete crossing of the Jordan. Every
thing God does is complete.
Again, learn from this crossing that
between us and every Canaan Of success
and prosperity there is river that must
be passed. "Oh, how would like to
have some Of those grapes on the other
side" said some of the Israelites to JOSH"
ua. "Well, why don't you cross over and
get themP" said Joshua. A river Of diff.
fiCulty between US. Everything that is
worth having. God did not intend this
world for an easy parlor, through which
we are to be drawn in rocking chair;
but we are to work our passage, climb
masts, fight battles, scale mountains, ford
rivers. God makes everything valuable
difficult to attain, for the same reason
he puts gold down in the mine, and the
pearl down in the sea; it is to make US
dive and dig for them. We acknowledge
this principle in worldly affairs; would
that we were wise enough to aCknowl-
edge it in religious things. We are not
surprised to find that Cornelius Wander
bilt used to blister his hands rowing
ferry boat; nor to find that A. I, Stewart
swept out his own store. You have nu-
merous illustrations under your own OBJ.
servation, where men have had it just as
hard as they could have had it; and yet
after awhile had it easy. Now the walls
of their home bloom and blossom with
pictures. Carpets that made foreign
looms laugh embrace their feet The
summer wind lifts the tapestry about
the window gorgeous enough for Turk
ish Sultan. Impatient steeds, and gild.
ded harness, and cushioned carriage
move through that sea of New York life
like very wave of beauty and splendor
Who is it? Why, it is the boy that came
to New York with dollar in his pocket
anu his estate thrown over his shoulder
in cotton handkerchief The silver on
the harness of that team is petrifed
sweat drops,
That beautiful dress is the faded cali
co over which God put his hand approx
ingly, turning it to Turkish satin or Ital.
ian silk. Those diamonds are the tears
which suffering froze as they fell. Oh,
there is river of difficulty between US
and every earthly achievement. You
know it is so in the acquisition of know
ledge. The ancients used to say Vulcan
struck Jupiter on the head, and tie God
dess of Wisdom jumped out, illustrating
the truth that wisdom comes by hard
knocks. There was river Of difficulty
between Shakespeare, the boy holding
horse at the door of a London thester,
and that Shakespeare, the great dramatist
winning the applause of all nations by
his tragedies. There was a river of diff
fCulty between Benjamin Franklin, with
loaf of bread under his arm, walking
the streets of Philadelphia, and that
same Benjamin Franklin, the philoso-
pher, Just outside Of Boston, playing
kite with the thunderstorm. An idler
was cured of his bad habit by looking
through the window, night after night,
at man who seemed sitting at his desk
turning off one sheet after another until
almost the dawn of morning. The man
seated there writing was the industrious
Walter Scott; the man who saw him
through the window was LoCkhart, the
illustrious biographer. Lord Mansfield,
pursued by the press and the populaCe
because of a certain course he had taken,
shook his fist in the face of the mob, and
said' "Sirs, when ones last end comes
it can not come too soon, if he fall in de
fenGe of the law and the liberty of his
country" And 80 there is, my friends,
tug, o jostle, q trial. a push--an anxiety
through which every man must 60 be-
fore he comes to worldly success. Is this
not rightP Is 1t not properP Successes
easily purchased; triumphs easily gained,
without opposition are valueless; they
cannot be properly appreciated, because
they took no labor, no exertion. The
real value of a victory depends much on
the cost, the sacrifice, it took. Now, be
wise enough to apply the same principle
in religion. Eminent Christian charaC-
ter is only attained by crossing the JOr
dan. No man just happened to get good.
Why does thatman know 30 much about
the Scriptures2 He was studying the
Bible " bile you were reading a 1noVell
He was on fire with the sublimities of
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