Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-11
body else. wife, and every wife somebody

s '""Ao 0-AAo11o" morning LOT tne great
sahara Desert, until the simeon shall
sweep seven feet of sand all over them, and
not one passing caravan for the next 500
years bring back n miserable bone of
their carcasses. Free loveism! II is the
double distilled extract of nux vomica.
ratsbane and adder's tongue. Never until
society goes back to the old Bible and hears
Its eulogy of purity and it's anathema of
u-nclennness, never until then will this evil
be extirpated.
Behold also in the giant of the text that
great physical power must crumble and ex.
plre. The Samson of the text long ago
went away. He fought the lion. He fought
the Philistines. He could fight anything.
But Death was too much for him. He may
have required a longer and a broader
grave, hut the tomb, nevertheless, was his
terminus. All, if the giant of the text
could not finally succeed in the contest
against death, we of lesser fiber and lesser
strength, l think, will lave to surrender!
What! Do you tell me that the muscle of
the arm must be %shrunken, thai the tongue
must be palsied, that the foot must halt in
its march, and halt forever? Yes, if
the giant of the text surrendered,
we shall surrender. By prudence,
by good habits, by the enthrone-
ment OF moral principle, we may postpone
the hour, but come it must, and come il
will. If, then, we are to be compelled to
go out of this world, where are we to go to?
Ihls body and soul must soon part. What
shall be the destiny of the former? l know.
Dust to dust. But what shall be the destiny
OF the latter? Shall it rise into the COM
partnership of the white-robed, whose sins
Christ has slain, or shall it be down among
the unbelieving who tried to gain the
world and save their souls, but were swim
died out of both? Blessed he God, we have
q champion. He is so styled in the Bible, a
champion who has conquered death and
health and is ready to fight all our battles
from the first to the last. "Who is this
that cometh from Edom, with dyed gar
ments from Borrah, mighty to save::D If
we fall in the wake of that champion,
death has no power and the grave no vic
tory. The worst man trusting in him shall
have his dying pangs alleviated and his
future illumined.
In the light of this subject, I want to call
your attention to a fact which may not
have been rightly considered by five men
in this house, and that is that we must be
brought into Judgment for the ON
ployment Of our physical organism.
Shoulder, brain, hand, foot, we
must answer in judgment for the
use we have made of them. Have they
been used for the elevation Of society or it's
depression? In proportion as our arm is
strong and our step elastic will our ac-
count at last be intensified. Thousands of
sermons are preached to invalids; I
preach this sermon to stout men and
healthful women. We must give to God
an account for the right use of this physi-
cal organism. These invalids lave COM
paratively little to account for. Perhaps
they could not lift twenty pounds. They
could not walk half a mile without sitting
down to rest. In preparation Of this SUBJ
ject I have said to myself: elbow shall I
account to God in Judgment for the use of
a body which never knew one moment of
real sickness, rising up in ju> gment,
standing beside the men and women who
had only little physical energy, and yet
consumed that energy in a con1agration
of religious enthusiastic" How will we
feel abashed! Oh! men of the strong arm
and stout heart, what use are you making
of your physical forces? Will you be able
to stand tie test of that day when we
must answer for the use of every talent,
whether Of physical energy or mental acu-
men OF spiritual power?
Hank, it thunders! That day advances,
and | see some one who in this world was
an invalid, and as she stands be-
fore the throne Of God to II
swer, she says: Il was sick all
my days; L had but very little strength: but
l did as well as I could in being kind to
those who were more sick and more suffer-
ing" And Christ will say: swell done,
faithful servant" And then there will
come up one who will say: ~ went on
crutches all my days. It was very marc
for me to get along, and l tried to be pa
tient under all my infrmities, and though I
have not many stars in my CROWN, l re-
joice hat have been able to do something
for Jesus" ''Well done, faithful servant"
says Jesus, "well. done" And then Il little
child will stand up before the throne, and
she will say: "On earth l had q curvature
Of the spine, and l was very weak,
and [ was very sick, but | used
to go out and gather flowers out of the
wild wood and bring them to my sick
mother, and she was comforted when she
saw the sweet flowers out of the wild wood.
I did not do much, but 1 did something"
And Christ shall say, as he takes her up in
his arms and kisses her. "Wel done, well
done, faithful servant: enter thou into the
joy of thy Lord" What then will be said
of us, to whom the Lord gave physical
strength md continuous health?
Hank! It thunders again. The judg-
ment! The judgment! I said to an old
Scotch minister, who was one of the best
friends l ever had: doctor, did you ever
know Robert Pollok, the Scotch poet, who
wrote the "Course Of Time?" ooh, yes"
he replied; ~ knew him well. was mis-
classmate." And then the Doctor went on
to tell me how the writing Of the "Course
of Time' exhausted the health of Robert
Pollok, and he expired. The fact was that
no MAJ could have such a glimpse of the
day for which all other days were made as
Robert Pollok had, and long survive that
glimpse. In the description of that day he
says, among other things:
Begin the woe, we woods, and tell it to the
doleful winds;
And doleful winds wall it to the bowling
hills;
And bowling hills mourn to the dismal
Wales;