Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-06

worldwide coming to God hinder on
both sides the sea all national calamity.
nut DO not let us as a nation, either by un.
righteous law at Washington or bad lives
among ourselves, defy the Almighty.
one would think that our National sym.
DOL OF the eagle might sometimes sug-
gest another eagle-that which an.
Gent Rome carried. III the talons of
tnat eagle were clutchea at one
time, Britain, France, Spain, Italy, Dal.
malta, Rhoetia, Noricunl, Panaor:a, Moe.
sia, Dacia, Thrace, Macedonia, Greece
ASA Minor. Assyria, Ph.enic;a, !a!est;na,
Egypt and all Northern Africa, ard all the
islands OF tho Mediterranean, AM, indaad,
az. tno world that was worth having, and.
~ 'Vo,o0o OF people under the wings nj
mat one eagle. Where is she now: ASK
uionon, the historian, in his prose pca,n,
the decline and Fall of t!,e Roman En-.
pre-" Ask her gigantic ruins STRUGGLING
1helr sadness through the sges, tho screech
owl at windows ons of which
worldwide %conquerors locked. Ask the
aay Oh Judgment when her crowned
aeoauehees, Commodus aad Pertinax and
Cal'gula and Diocletan, shall answer for
'nelf lhlamy. As men and as nations let
US repent and have our trust
IN a %pardoning God rather shan
depend on former successes for
immunity. Out OF thirteen greasest
Dat5ies of the world, Napoleon had lost
out one before Waterloo. Pride and de.
structlon often ride in the same saddle.
hut notice once more, and more than all
10 my text, that God is so kind and loving
enat when it is necessary for him to cut be
mas TO go to others for the sharp.edged
weapon. "In the same day shall the Lord
shave with a razor that is hired.n God ia
To- God is pity. God is help. God is
shelter. God is rescue. There are no sharn
eages about him, no thrusLing points, no
instruments of liberation. Ii you want
Dalm Tor wounds, he has that. II you want
save for divine eyesight, he has that. But
II there is sharp and cutting work to do
which requires a razor, that he hires. God
mas nothing about him that hurts, save
when dire necessity demands, and then he
has to go clear off to some one else to GET
the instrument. This divine geniality will
be no novelty to those who have nom.
oefeo the Calvarean massacre, where
God submerged himself in human tears.
and crlmsoned himself from punctured
arteries, and let the terrestrial and in.
ternal worlds maui him until the chan.
dellers of the sky had to be turned out,
because the universe could not endure the
i%ndecency. Illustrious for. love he must
have been to take all that as our substi.
tute, paying out of his w heart the Grim.
son price OF our admission at the gates of
Heaven. King Henry II. of England
crowned his son as King, and on the day
OF coronation put on a servants garb and
waited, he, the King, at the sons table,
to the astonishment of all the Princes.
But we know of a more wonderful scene,
the King of Heaven and earth Offering to
put on you, his child, the crown of life,
and i'll the form of a servant waiting on
you with blessing. Extol that love, all
painting, all sculpture, all music, all
architecture, all worship, In Dresdenian
gallery let Raphael hold him up as a
child, and in Antwerp Cathedral let RI.
bens hand him down from tho cross as a
martyr, and Handel make all his oratorio
vibrate around the one chord: "He was
wounded for our transgressions, bruised
for our iniquity." But not until all the
redeemed got home, and from the counte.
nances Of all the piled.up galleries of the
ransomed shall be revealed the wonders
of redemption, shall either man or seraph
or ~archangel know the height and depth
and length and breadth Of the love OF God.
At our National capital a monument in
honor of him who did mere than any one
to achieve our American independence
was for scores of years in building. and
most of US were discouraged and said it
never would be completed. And how glad
we all were when, in tho presence of
the highest offic ais Of the Nation, the
work was done. But will the monu.
ment to him who died for the eternal
liberation of the human race ever b. com.
pleted? Fer ages the work has been go
ing up; evaneelists and apostles and mar.
tyrs have been adding to the heavenly
pile, and every one Of the millions of the
redeemed, going up from earth, has made
to it contribution of gladness; and weight
Of glory is swung to the top of other
weight of glory, and layers Of hosannas
OH layers Of %hosannas, higher and higher
as the centuries go by, higher and higher
as the whole milleniums roll, sapphire on
the top of jasper. sardonyx on the top Of
chalcecony, and chrysoprasus above to-
paz, until far beneath shall be the walls
and towers and dom s Of the great capital.
a monument forever and forever rising,
and yet never done. "Unto him who
hath loved us and washed us from our
sins in his own blood, aud made us kings
and priests forever" Alleluia. Amen.
MEXICAN METHUSELAHS.