The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-12-27

the temperate xone. The King looks out
and he says: ""There are twelve hundrei
millions Of people to be fed and clothed. 81
many pounds OF meat, 20 many barrels o
flannel, 30 many hats, 30 many socks, 30
many shoes; enough for all. save that We who
are greedy get more shoes than belong to- us,
and Others 20 barefooted. None but q God
could feed and clothe the world. None but q
kings corn crib could appease the worlds
famine. None but q king could tell how
many wagons to send, and how heavily to
load them, and when they are to start. They
ore coming over the frozen ground today.
Do You not hear their rumbling? They win
stop at oon at your table. Oh, If for q
little while they should cease, hunger would
come into the nations, MS TO Utica when
Hamilcar besieged it, and az in Jerusalem
when Vespasian surrounded it, and the no
tions would be hollow eyed, and fall upon
each other in universal c~annibalism, md
skeleton would drop upon skeleton; and
there would be no one to bury the dead,
flock after flock, without any carcasses to
devour; and the earth in silence would wheel
around, one great black hearse. AL life
stopped because the Kings wagons are
stopped. Oh, thank God for bread-for
bTeadl
I remark again, that like those that came
from the Egyptians palace, the Kings wag-
ons bring us good news; Jacob had not
heard from his boy for q good many years.
ache. There was in Jacobs heart a room
where lay the corpse of his unburied Joseph;
n when the wagons anne, the Kings wag-
ons, and told him that Joseph was yet alive,
he faints dead away. Good news for jacob
Good news for usl The Kings wagons come
down and tell us that our Joseph-Jesus is
threw him into o pit Of suffering and the
dungeon of shame. He has risen from
thence to stand in o palace. The Bethlehem
shepherds were awakened at midnight by the
rattiing of the wagon that brought the
tidings. Our Joseph-Jesus sends as q mes
sage of pardon, of life, of heaven; corn for
our hunger, raiment for our ~nakedness.
J0seph. Je sus is yet alivel
l go to hunt up Jesus. Igo to the village Of
Bethany and say: Where does Mary live?"
They say: "Yonder Mary lives" I go in. I
see where she sat in the sitting-room. 1go
out where Martha worked I'M the kitchen, but
| find no Jesus. l go into Pilates court
room, and I find the judges and the police
and the prisoners box, but no Jesus. l 60
into the Arimathean cemetery, but the door
IL gone, and the shroud is gone, and Jesus is
gone. By faith look up to the Kings pal
ace; and behold / have found himl Joseph
Jesus is still alivel Glorious religion, y reli-
and cross-bones, and undertaker's screw
driver, but one bounding with life, and SYM
pathy, and gladness. Joseph is yet alivel
know that my Remember lives.
What comfort this weet sentence givesi
He lives, He lives, who once was dead,
He lives, my everything Head.
He lives to grant me daily breath,
He lives, and | shall conquer death.
He lives my mansions to prepare,
He lives to bring me safely there.
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He lives, all glory to his name;
He lives, my Jesus, still the same,
Oh, the sweet joy this sentence gives,
know that my Redeemer lives.
The Kings wagons will sffRer a while nm.
ioadsIana Ef1sy Will t9S asfnn around, and they