Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-25
to bring us back to holiness. H

comes to bring US back to holiness. He
oon nes not to destroy US, but to take the
tb.ss qasnoes OF our guilt. He breaks
Rougn iacerating thorns, and He dies to
u cleanliness. Heye is a man who q
:" weeks ago said: "All is right with me.
M w noC willing to confess 1 am a sinncr."
vow, the spirit comes to his soul. and he
.eels himself to be so great a sinner that
Uue,e Is no mercy for him. When did he
. q the most accurate estimate? Now.
ine heart is deceitsul above all things
ana desperately wicked." But. saws some
NV ~ the audiences: ~ nave sinned so
niucn l 90 not believe Christ will take me-"
- siea. commander thought of going over
Ivy h'aly. Ills friends laughed at him and
eo' gu can never get over the Alps. If
you Nno" anything about the Alps, you
Ano" you can never get over there" The
s.oinahder waved his hand, and said:
mere shall be no Alps" Then the road
was quilt through the Simplon Pass-the
WONDER OF following ages. We stand and
see tne mountain of our guilt. The OBJ
sCacles seem so great that it is impossible
Tor US to find a way into the neaca and life
StSS u OuElSU comes, ana lie
Wv waves HIS wounded hand, and cries:
mere shall be no obstacles. 1 will come
oser Cne mountain of thy sin and the hills
OF thine iniquity." o ye who have sinned,
instead OF flying away from Christ, if you
only knew who it is that comes to save
you, you would fly no farther, but turn
around, and while Christ seeks you you
would seek Christ, and this house would
De a scene OF a penitent sinner and a par
donlng Saviour, throwing each others
arms around each others necks; while
heaven could afford to stop half an hour
and hang over the battlements gazing.
What is that flutter among the angels?
VINO Is that horseman rushing through
the city with quick dispatch? What is
mat announcement on the bulletins of
Heaven? ] know what it is. Christ has
found that which was lost.
Nor angels can their joy contain,
But kindle with new fire;
Inc sinner lost is found, they sing,
And strike the sounding Tyre"
remark again, we are lost to happiness,
q Christ comes to find US. A caliph
SAID: IL have been fifty years a caliph,
ana L have had all honors aud all wealth,
and yet, in the fifty years 1 can count up
only fourteen days of happiness" How
many there are in this audience that can
not count fourteen days in all their life in
which they had no vexations or annoy
ances. We all feel a capacity for happi-
ness that has never been tested. There
are interludes of bliss, but whose entire
life has been a continuous satisfaction?
Why is it hat the most of the fine poems
OF the world are somehow descriptive of
grief? 4 1t is because men know more about
sorrow thar they do about joy. John Mil
ton succeeds when he writes "Paradise
Lost" but fails when he comes to write
Paradise Regained." Dante's "Inferno"
is a chime of horrors. Bryant's "Thana-
toDsls" is q poem of tears. Take the
pathos out of the writings of Tennyson
and Longfellow, and you have taken three
fourths their power. John Ruskin writes
his most effective passages about the ruin
OF Venice. 1t is because men know more
about sorrow than about joy that they are
more effective in describing the former.
The dog of bad news runs faster than the
carrier pigeon flies with good tidings.
There are Pushes of satisfaction in the
heart; but whose life has been a prolonged
delight? The soul has four ranks of keys,
and the world does not know how to play
on such an elaborate instruments; but reli
gion comes, and with her right hand she
touches the higher keys of the soul, and
then sweeps them with the symphonies OF
Heaven. Christ comes to find those who
have been lost to happiness. He soothas
them. He inspirits them. He lifts them.
He opens the door of the lost Eden, and
invifaS than fo ooO,o in n roi, 70 ,o,,a
Oh, how many in this house have been
goaded, and stung, and plagued! Had il
not been for risking your eternal interests,
some of you would nave put an end to the
scene of earthly suffering with your own
hand. A deep undertone of sadness rolls
+ through The soul. You would be willing
now to give up your money and your so.
, cial position and all you have achieved fol
one day of the peace which the good old
} slave expressed when he said, with broker
| language: SIN owning Christ I seem tt
) own everything. The air is mine, for
can breathe it; the sunshine is mine, for
can sit in it; the earth is mine, for I car
} lie down in it," To nave something of the
complete satisfaction which belongs to the
!, humblest of Gods children, you would
give almost anything. Oh, ye who arr
struck through with unrest, Christ comes
l tonight to give you rest. If Christ comes
to you, you will be independent of al
! worldly circumstances. So in the hour Of
suffering and martyrdom was Rose Allen.
s When the prosecutor put a candle under.
meath her wrist, and held it there
until the sinews snapped, she said
n eff you see fit you can burn my
$ feet next, and then also ny head
Christ once having taken you into Hi!
a custody and guardianship, you can laugh
a at pain, and persecution, and trial. Grea
peace for all those whom Christ has found
! and you nave found Christ. Jesus Gomez
n into their sick room. The nurse may hav'
a fallen asleep in the latter watches Of tn
night, but Jesus watches with slumberles
eyes, and He puts His gentle hand owe
9 the hot brow of the patient, and says
"You will not always be sick. I will no
n leave you. There is a land where the in
" habitants never saith: Il am sick.' Husf
a troubled soul! Peace!"
d This Jesus comes into the house of be
reavement, and He says: II took you
h lost darling. I come now to make up TO