Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1885-12-26

You and may not know where they live or
what their name is; God knows, and thew
have more angels lowering over them than
you and have and they will have higher
seat in heaven. As was at the tombstone at
the foot of Melrose Abbey-the tombstone
placed by Walter Scott over the grave of an
old man who had served for good many
years in his house-the inscription most sig
nificant, and defy any man to stand there
and read it without tears coming into his
eyes, was the epitaph, We'll done, good and
faithful servant
"Who are those who were bravest and de.
served the greatest monument, Lord Claver-
house and his burly soldiers or John Brown.
the Edinburgh carrier, and his wifes Mr.
Atkins the prosecuted minister of Jesus
Christ in Scotland, was secreted by John
Brown and his wife, and Claverhouse rode up
one day with his armed men and shouted in
front OF the house. John Browns little girl
came out. He said to her, well, miss, is Mr..
Atkins heref She made no answer, for she
could not betray the minister of the gospel.
'Hav Claverhouse said then you are a chip
OF the old block, are you! 1 have something
| in my pocket for you; 1t is nosegay. Some
people call it a thumbscrew, but / call it
nosegay.' And he got off his horse and he nut
it on the little girls hand, and began to turn
it until the bones cracked and she cried He
said, Don't cry! don't cry! This is not O
thumbscrew; this is a nosegay.' And they
heard the child's cry, and the father
and mother came out and Claverhouse
said, Hal 1t seems that you then have
laid your holy heads together determined to
die like all the rest of your hypocritical, can't
ing, sniveling crew Rather than give up
good MIR. Atkins-pious Mr. Atkins, you
would die | have a telescope with me that
would improve your vision,' and he pulled
out pistol. Now" he said. you old prag-
m 1nSt vnI CHI fob ,a1,l f,,f hi
cold morning of Scotland, and for the honor
and safety of the king, to say nothing of the
glory of God and the good of our souls
will proceed simply and in the neatest and
most expeditions mannerto blow your brains
out" John Brown fell upon his knees and
look out! If you are going to pray, steer
clear of the king, the council and Richard
Cameron ooh, Lord" said John Brown
'since it seems to be Thy will that | should
leave this world for world where l can love
Thee better and serve Thee more put this
poor widow woman and these helpless,
fatheress children into Thy hands"
He rose up and said Isabel, the hour is
come of which spoke to you on the morning
when proposed hand and heart to you. and
are you willing now, for the love of God, to
let me die" She put her arms around him
and said: ''The Lord gave, and the Lord
hath taken away. Blessed be the name Of
the Lord"
"Stop that snivelling." said Claverhouse,
81 have had enough of it. Soldiers, do your
work. Take aim! Fire!" and the head of
John Brown was scattered on the ground
While the wife was gathering up in her
apron the fragments of her husbands head
gathering them up for NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
looked into her face and said: "Now, my
good woman, how do you feel now about your
bonnie mani" ooh, she said, 81 always
thought weel of him. He has been very good
to me- 1 had no reason for thinking any
thing but weel of him, and l think better of
him now"
Oh.what a grand thing it will be in the last
day to see God pick out his heroes and hero.
inesl Who are those paupers of eternity
trudging off from the gates of heavens Who
are they! The Lord Claverhouses and the
Herods, and those who had sceptres and
crowns and thrones, but they lived for their
own aggraudizement and they broke the
heart of nations Heroes of earth. but
paupers in eternity beat the drums of their
eternal despair. Woe! Woe! Wool But there
is great excitement in heaven. Why those
long PROFESSIONS! Why the booming of that
bell in the tower! 1t is Coronation Day in
heaven. Who are those rising on the thrones
with crowns of eternal royaltys They must
must have been great people on earth, world
renowned people. No, they taught in ragged
school. Who are those souls waving sceptres
of eternal dominion! Why, they were little
children who waited on invalid mothers
She was called little Mary" on earth, she is
an empress now. Who are that great multi
tude on the highest thrones of heaven? Why
they fed the hungry, they clothed the naked,
they healed the sick, they comforted the
heartbroken. They never found any rest
until they put their head down on the pillow
of the sepulchre. God watched them God
laughed defiance at the enemies who put
their heels hard down ON these, his dear
children; and one day the Lord struck his
hand 50 hard on his thigh that the omnipo-
tent sword ratified in the buckler as he said,
Il am their God, and no weapon formed
against them shall prosper"
Go home to the place where God has put
you to play the hero or the heroine. Do not
envy any man his money, or his applause, or
his social position. DO not envy any woman
her wardrobe, or her exquisite appearance
Be the hero or the heroine. If there be no
flour in the house, and you don't know where
your children are to get bread, listen, and
you will hear something tapping against the
window pane Go to the window and you
will find it is the baak of a raven.
and open the window and there will ly
in the messenger that fed Elijah. Do
you think that the God who grows the cot
ton of the South will let you freeze for lack
of clothes' Do you think that the God who
allowed the disciples, ON Sunday morning, to
go into the graintield and there take the
grain and rub it in their hands and eat-do
you think God will let you starve' Did you
ever hear the experience of that old man! 81
have been young and now am old, yet have
| never seen the righteous forsaken or his
seed begging bread:" Get up out of your dis
couragement, oh, troubled soul, oh, sewing
woman, oh, mon kicked and cuffed by unjust
employers, oh, ye who are hard beset in the
battle of life and know not which way to
turn, oh, you bereft one, oh, you sick one
with complaints you have told to no one,
come and get the comfort of this subject.
Listen to our great captains cheer: ''To him
that overcometh will | give to eat of the fruit
of the tree of life which is in the midst of the
ParadiSe of GOdn