The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-12-04
AM
Thanksgiving Sermon Delivered by
Rev, w. s. Aftleck al the Presby-
terrain Church, Kimball.

continued, ttstisn them ana they are wlthuraWn.
This is the practical lesson that Moses was then
trying to teach to Israel. He reviews and re-
counts Gods great regard for them, and His
wonderful dealings towards them i'll delivering
them from the cruel expressions of Egypt, and
the despotism of the Pharoahs. lie feelingly
portrays unto them Gods miracles and acts
which He did in the midst of Egypt, and unto
Pharoat, the king of Egypt, and unto ali the land.
And what He did unto the army of Egypt, unto
their horses, and to their chariots; how He made
the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as
they pursued after you. and how the Lord hath
destroyed them unto this day. And what He did
for you in the wilderness: your eyes have seon all
the great acts of the Lord which he did: therefore
shall We keep all the commandments which !
command you this day, that ye may be strong
and 20 in and possess tho land whittier ye go to
possess il! and that We may prolong your days IN
the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers
to give them, and to their seed, Il land flowing
with milk and honey: for the land whittier thou
Goest IN to possess it is not like the land of
Egypt, from whence ye come out. where thou
sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy
foot. as Il garden of herbs: hut the land whittier
We 60 to possess it. is Il land of hills and valleys,
and drinketh water of the rain of Heaven: a land
which the Lord thy God careth for; the eyes of
the Lord thy God are always upon it,
In all probability those lsraelites would more
richly enjoy this lnnd of y promise and Of freedom,
in consequence of their long bondage in Egypt.
Somehow, according to a wise. inyariable, nat
ural and spiritual law, the benoticonce of which
is mysterieusly hidden from mankind, serrows
seem always to precede Joys. Joseph must go
through the pit and the prison to the palace.
Moses must suffer affection with the people Of
God before he could be translated from Nebo'5
summit i-to the Celestial City. Yea. even Jesus
can only go 10 Paradise through cruciiixion on
Calvary. For il became Him, for whom are all
things, and by whom are all things, in bringing
many SONS unto glory, to make the captain Of
their salvation perfect through suffering"
"ris first the good and then the beautiful,
Not first the beautiful and then tho good;
First the wild moor, with rock, and reed, and
[pool,
Then the gay garden, rich in scent and hue.
Not first the glad and then the s%orrowful,
But first the sorrowful and then the glad;
Tears for Il day. for earth of tears is full,
Then we forget that we were ever sad,
lis first tie fight aud then tho victory,
Not first the victory and then the fight;
The long dark night, and then the dawuingd day
Which uslter8 in the everlasting light"
But Palestine, even in its best days, is but Il
miniature representation of the goodness and
greatness of our osn land. either iii its oxtcut,
its beauty, its fertility, its manufacture, It's
commerce, its population, its churches, its insti.
turions or its government. America, US 4 home
for man, and as u visiting country for God, in
receiving His constant care ard inspection. stands
infinitely AID immeasurably higher to-day than
Canaan d!d in tho memorable centuries of the
hoary past. We sacrifice many OF The rcompar
able delight, Of the present in DelfyiEg the past
True, that God somatimcs talked then viii
Holy men face to face, bat God had not nj thai
time revealed to them either His sovereign will
or given to them His precious word. Our son:
now, IN their early youth, learn more about Go,
in our Sunday schools, than those lsraelitisi
Scers and 5ires ever learned in the schools o
their Prophets. True, that miracles of both mu
niticence and bcneticence were often wruughtfo
them, but wo have all the blessings daily whic!
they received miraculously, and then they onl!
received them on occasions of extreme necessity
What necessity Is there now for the rock being
smitten by the rod Of Moses, when both cart
and Heaven smilingly vic with each other to Civ
us abundance OF Gods first beverage, water
With Gods own word which is a lantern to on
feet and az ever burning, nor-coneuning lam
NANS 'ii EtAit " ilhA w nav W.. - Wv l'iiib.
of cloud by day, or the pillar Of fire by night
What need have we of the dividing of the Red Sea
when we can, with almost lightning rapidly
bridge simibar waters, aud bury Pharnah and HI
army under tire-belching cannon before the
would have time to say their prayers? Heaven
windows need not open during the night-watc
to send us manna-our good land responding t
Gods sunshine, ard rewarding our industr!
yields sufficient to nearly feed the whole worlc
) o, thank God. that we live in a land that tn
Lord our God careth for, and whose watchft
, eye is always upon it, from the beginning of tn
year unto the ending Of the year. Them
: BE steady in joy and in sorrow;
BE truthful in create or in small.
Fear nothing but sin and each morrow
: Heavens blessings upon thee shall fail;
In worst trIbulation
Shun low consolation,
And trust in the God that sees ALL
But in what way does the lsrRelites Canaan, I
Land of PROMISE symbolize unto us our o"
/ land?
sIMILARIT1Es.
Both peoples had been similarly educated
expressions, prosecutions. cruelties, wrongs, g
:, ~tortians, hardships and tribulations before til,
We're counted worthy TO possess such glowing i
t heritance. lXnpr blood | know has often chile
snd your righteous Indignation been great
stirred. while you have read of the impossibi,
ties exacted by the Egyptians from the e
| thralled Hebrews. But l tell you. my brethre
that the unjust demands of Fharoah never cor
u pared to the tyrannous and iniquitons taxatio
II and Ill requited labor of the Primitive Anne
!, cans, in the days Of their colonization. Pharo
was princeiy humane when compared TO Georl
c King of Great Britain, md Of her colonial pC
- sessions. Blacker political crimes never dat
ened kingly rule than those perpetrated by I'll
a arrogant and insane monarch. But however b
:. potent men may be, the Lord is good, u struI
hold in the day of trouble. He knowcth them I'll
! trust in Him 1t was still "a land which t
Is Lord thy God cared for, the eycs of the Lord t
God wsre always upon it,
II Thank God, the crimes of nations upon ea'
n are chronicled in Heaven. The tears of the
pressed are carefully bottled. The truth Y
~ Numbered from the skies. so for shalt go a
eS no farther The voice Of the Eternal m;
both Piuroah and George tremble in their i
aces, by saying Meme, meme, tekel, uphirsa,
Thou art weighed in tho balance. and fou
wanting" and | verify believe that it WAS mu
ally decreed in the councils of the skies. t
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson should
our Moses, and Aaron, and George Washing
our Joshua in l77G. as il was for the deiivera
of Israel 3.E30 years previously. Indeed, i
rs He that brlnge:h the princes to nothing:
|a maketh the judges of the enrth rs vanity {
J., careth for. aud Influences national changes
interests. much more than we observe or
" knowledge. "Why sayest thou, q Jacob,
speakest, o Israel, my way Is Ind from the IL
re and my judgement is passed over from my Il
HastthoH not known Hast thou not heard |
the everlasting God, the Lord, the creator OF