West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-09-20

Sh Cu ittSJ Deau. therefore, tho
world goes running for You with its best
Maynard breech-loader Highest compli.
ment is IL to your talent, or your virtue or
your usefulness. Yon will DO assailed in
proportion to your great achievements The
best and the mightiest being that the world
ever saw, had set after him all the
hounds, terrestrial and diabolic. and
they Tapped his blood after the Cal
yarean massacre The world paid moth
ing TO its Redeemer but a brafnble and n
cross. Many who have done their best T.
make the world better have had such a rough
time OF it that all their pleasure is in antici.
patton OF the next world, and they would
express their own feelings in the words
OF the Baroness Of Marin at the close of hs
long life:
"Would you be young again2
one tear OF memory giYen;
onward I'll HE;
Lifes dark wave forded DER,
Al but at rest on shore,
say, would you plunge once more
with home so nigh?
"If you might, would you now
Retrace your way7
wander through stormy wildg,
Faint and aslray?
Nights gloomy watches fed,
Morning all beamag red.
Hopes smile around us shed,
Heayenward, awaYl"
Yes; for some people in this world there
seems no let up. They are pursued from
youth TO manhood, and from manhood into
cd age. Very distinguished are Lord
Stafford's hounds, and Queen Victoria pays
eight thousand, five hundred dollars per year
TO her Master of Buckhounds But all Of
them put together do not equal in number.
or speed, or power to hunt down, the great
kennel OF hounds of which Sin and Trouble
are owner and master.
But what is a relief for all those pursuits
OF trouble, and annoyance, and pain, and be-
reavementl My text gives it to you i'm a
word of three letters, but each letter is char
lot IL you would triumph or a throne if YOU
want 70 be crowned, or lake IL you would
sake your thirSt-yea a chain of three letters
-G-o-d, the One for whom David longed. and
the One whom David found. You might as
well meet a stag which, after its sixth mile
Of running at the topmost speed through
thicket and gorge, and with the breath Of
eco dc85osl 'te hcols. has cc-.e - f-1L s-ht of
Scroon Lake and tried to cool its projecting
ana blistered tongue with drop of dew from
blade or grass, as to attempt to satisfy
an immortal soul when flying from trouble
and SIN, with anything less deep and
high, and broad, and immense and infinite
and eternal than God. His comfort, why IL
embossoms ali distress. His arm it wrenches
OF all bondage His hand, it wipes away all
tears. His Christly atonement, 10 makes US
oil right with the past aad all right with the
future, and all right with Cod, all right with
man and all right forever. Lam1rtine
tells us that King Nimrod said
to his three sons: "Here are three vases and
one Is Of clay, another of amber. another OF
gold. Choose now which you will have"
The eldest son. having the first choice, chose
the vase Of god, on which was written the
word empire" and when opened It was
found % contain human blood. The
second son, making the next choice,
chose Tie vase Of amber inscribed
with the word ''gloryn and when
opened 10 contained the ashes Of those who
were once called great. The third son took
the vase Of clay, and opening It, found II
empty. but on the bottom Of it was inscribed
the name OF God. King NimrOd asked bis
courtier5 which vase they thought weighed
the most. The avaric ous men OF his court
said the vase Of gold, The poets said the one
OF amber. But the wisest men said the empty
vase, because one letter Of the nams Of Col
outwei2hed a universe.
For Him thirst for His grace bog: on
Ills promise ] build my all. Without Him
cannot be happy / have tried the world,
and u does we'll enough as far as IL goes, but
~ Is too uncertain world, too evan0scent
world. | am not pre- .udiccd witness.
have nothing against this world have been
one OF the most fortunate, or, to use
more Christian word, one Of the most
blessed or men, blessed IN my parents, blessed
IN the place Of my nativity, blessed ia nv
health, blessed Ia my field OF work, blessed
IN my natural temperament, blessed IN my
family, blessed IN my opportunities. blessed
in comfortable livelihood. blessed IN tho
hope that my soul will 90 70 Heaven through
body, unless 10 be lost at sea or oremated in
some conliaRratiOn, VIII lie down In the gar.
dens OF Greenwood among my kindred and
ff1ends, some already gone and Others to
come after me- Life 70 many has been n
disappointment. but 10 me 10 has boen n
pleasant surprise, and yet ] declare that II
did not feel that God was my friend and ever
present help, I should be wretched and ter.
Tor struck But want more Of Him
nave thought over this text and preached
thi8 sermon TO myself until with an the
. aroused energies Of my body mind nnd
soul, can cry out. "As the hart panfafh
after tho wnter brooks. 50 panteth nv fouI
after Thee. O GOd.n
Through Jesus Christ make this God vour
bod and y0u can Withstand anything and
everything. and that which anrighfg others
viii inspire You. As in time Of earthquake
when On old Christian woman was asked
whether she waa scared, answered.
'No, ] am glad that j have God
VINO con shake tho world or a.
ma financial panic, when n Christian
merchant was asko III ho did not fear be-
would break, answered. eyes 4 shall break
when the fftieth Psalm breaks in the fftioth
verse; Can upon Ne in the day Of trouble.
viii deliver thee and thou shalt rlorify
Mo q Christian men and women pursued
Of annoYancCs and exaeperati0ns. remember
mat This hunt. whether q stu hunt or q hunt
Pm tuii cry, win soon bo over. ~ ever a
Wheip looks ashamed and ready 10 stink out
o. sight 10 Is whsn in the Adir0ndacks a
eeoF ~ one long tremendous plunge iato