Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1883-11-04
SUyD.fY READING.
Who win Sho,r Us 1ny Good:

To his ftlluw-nIan, Come with us and
we will do thee goud.n Alas. The scale
for gn0i Ii 80 keen ami constant, while
TIL disappointment is 50 utter and 80
dire. But the church in all ages may
dare to say II, ior the good which il
has to propose, and concerning which
it utters the promise, is that one good
thing-that "bctt.r part" which has
been shown H. il hy the Lord. IL has
not stumbled upon il byaccident, and,
testing il, found in IL elements which
seem to promise satiiiwtion, There is no
scanning about IL; oqm stion. Ii l. the
good which man was made 10 seek Tor;
the missing which is the root of all his
unrest all the secret of all lis pain. Ii
/, the good which the Goldman held
To through all the anguish and dark
n,ss OF Calvary, and which satisfies ior-
ever the spirits who behold the :ace of
the Majesty om high. MOSES, when lie
spoke that word, spoke with conf
drnce, ;.s he had n right Ia speak. The
Lord had spoken good of Israel, and
the Lard fulfilled Every word that
he has spoken. There WAS nothing
upon earth that Was comparable with
I lsraeis condition and destiny. The
ireest, noblsst, largest and most fruit
FIJI life that man could live in those
days lsra,l was living there in the will
dvrn,ss. They had heard The word 10y
which all things live, and all beings.
Their lite Was built on the everlasting
rock. Hearing the word of their un-
sen bat eyrr-pr,sent Ruler, and obey
ing il, II Was well with them. IL was
we'll with them in their state, In their
homes, in their camps, in their
marches; ii Was well with them in life,
w1l with them in death, and it would
he we'll with them IN GUd's eternal
kingdom Oh high. Well, always well,
ANA iorey.ver. Ii Was a glorious hon
or 10 belong 10 such nation; IL wus u
blessed thing 10 Ii 'e in their fellow
ship. J,t.iro had the seeing eye that
could discern il. Kaliab bad the eye
To discern il Ia her day, and she and
her house were Al, ed.
The loiticst spirits of our race inter-
pref mort iulIy this universal groan-
ing. Indeed, it may he said tina, the
true height of man above his fellows
il Just in the proportion In which lac
pi les Tor and aims at that good
which is ever above him in The height;
above his attainment, above his LOS
session; but, blessed be God not above
his hope; Tor by hope here, not 10y
lruili"n, humanity il saved. A great
longing desire. the search for good, il
the luel which leeds the fire of genius
in all it, n0bler forms and qualities a
great hope in the midst of the longing
j. added To the endowment of the
supreme men of genius, The great
poets, prophets, and apostles of the
world. Did we listen only TO the voice
of huinanity as 1t finds utterance
through the great ones Of our race, we
should conclude that restless, aching
longing is the normal experience Of
mankind.
History M well as scripture il
charged with the affirmation that the
man or the society which persistently
seeks TO live on the lower plane OF It's
existence, andmak 'lct Us eat and let
US drink. for tomorrow We die" its
simple philosophy of life, is seeking
death and loving the gates
of hell. a seeker man Is
and must be. He can know no rest
until he has tasted the higher joys of
being. the joy of loving the supremacy
COOL, of doing the absolutely right, of
knowing the divinely true, Of fellow
ship with Him whom to know IL ever
lasting life. Here, in this aspiration
and effort, IL the seed Of our future be-
roniing. of the character we must bear,
the experience We must know, the
destiny We must work out for eternity.
And the question for Us all Is, what
seed ARE we sowing In this awful seed
field; what roots Of miseries aHe We
blasting and destroying; what germs
of joys aud glories are we nursing and
training and pressing to fruit? We
have our scheme Of business laid out
full clearly, without question. But
what of the srhene of life2 What Of
the being and becoming of spirit that
is to live OH joyous in the sunlight, or
moaning IN the darkness, when all
these bubbles OF life are broken; and
hon I'm ny., n ~ ft.a Nnuar a,