The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-07-19

PAGES of the dead, and you will find that
though people there had greater difference
of worldly circumstances now they are all
alike uncons ,ious. The hand that greeted
the Senator, aud the President aud the King
is still as the hand that hardened on the
mechanics hammer or the manufacturers
wheel. IL does not make any difference now
whether there Is a plain stone above them
from which the traveller pulls aside the weeds
to read the name, or tall shaft springing
into the heavens as though to tell their vir-
tues to the skies
In that silent land there are no titles for
great men, and there are no rumblngs of
chariot wheels. and there is never heard the
foot of the dance The Egyptian guano
which Is thrown on the fields in the east for
the enrichment Of the soil is tire dust raked
out from the sepulchers of kings and lords
and mighty men. Oh the chagrin of those
men IL they had ever known that in tho after
/ ages OF the world they would have been
, called Egyptian guano.
or how much worth now Is the crown OF
Cgsari Who bids for i'll Who cares now
anything about the Amphictyonic council or
the laws of Lycurgus, Who trembles now
because XerNes crossed the Hellespont on a
bridge of boatsi Who fears because Nebu-
chadnezzar thundcrs at the gates of Jerusa-
lem! Who cares now whether or not Cleopatra
marries Antony Who crouches before Fer.
dinand, or Boniface, or Alaric, Can Crom.
well dissolve the English parliament nowi
Netherlandsi No, no! However much
Elizabeth may love the Russian crown, she
must pass IL to Peter, and Peter to Catherine
and Catherine to Paul, and Paul to Alex
ander, and Alexander to Nicholas. Leopold
puts the German scepter into the hand of
Joseph. and Philip comes down off the Span
ish throne TO let Ferdinand go on. House of
Aragon, house of Hapsburg, house of
Stuart, house of Bourbon, quarreling
about everything .el'e, but agreeing
IL II Al. III
passeth away" But have all these dignita.
res gomez Can they not be called back, I
have been in assembages where lhave heard
the roll called, and many distinguished men
have answered IL | should call the roll to
day of some of those mighty ones who have
gone wonder IL they would not answer. |
will call the roll. will call the roll of the
Kings first: Alfred the Great William the
Conqueror! Frederick III Louis XVII Nc
answer. l will call the role of the poets
Robert Southey! Thomas Campbell! John
Keats! George Crabbe, Robert Burns. No
Angelo! Paul Neronesol William Turnerl
Christopher Wren! No answer Eyes
closed. Ears deaf Lips silent Hands pal
sled. Scepter, pencil, pen, sword, put down
forever. Why should we struggle for such
baubles.
Another reason why we should culture this
spirit of cheerfuiness is the fact that tiol
knows what is best for His creatures. You
know what is best for your child. He thinks
you are not as liberal with him as you ought
to be. He criticises your discipline. but you
look over the whole field, and YOU loving
that child, do what in your deliberate judg-
ment is best for him. Now, Go is the best
OF fathers Sometimes his children think
| that he is hard on them, and that he is not as
/ liberal with them as he might b. But chill
/ dren do not know rs much aS n father. |
/ can tell you why you are not largely aiuent,
/ and why you have not been grandly success
full IL IL because you cannot stand the temp
tation. IL your path had been smooth, you
would have depended upon your own
surefootedness; but God roughened that
path, so you have to take hold of
| his hand. II the weather had been
mild, you would have lotered along the
water courses, but at the first howl of the
storm you quickened your pace heavenward
and wrapped around you the warm rob, of
| Soviour's Righteousness. what have /
done" says the wheltsheaf to the farmer;
''what have done that you beat mo so hard
with your flaif' The farmer makes no
the mill blows the chaff to the wind, and the
J golden grain falls down at the foot Of the
| windmill. After while, the straw looking
| down from the NOW upon the golden grain
banked up on either side the floor .nder-
stands why the farmer beat the wheatsheat
with the fail.
Who are those before the throne, The an
swer came; These are they who, out of
great tribulation, had their robes washed and
made white in the blood of the lamb"
| Would God that we could understand that
our trials are the very best thing for us. II
we had an appreciation of that truth, then
| we should know why it was that John
! Noyra, the martyr, in the very midst OF the
flame, reached down and picked up one OF
! the fagots that was consuming him. and
kissed it, and said blessed be God for the
/ time when | was born for this preferment.
! They who suffer with Him on earth shall he
gloriiled with Him in heaven. Be content,
| then, with such things rs you have.
Another consideration leading us To the
! spirit of the text is the assurance that the
| Lord will provide somehow. win he who
/ holds the water in the hollow Of his hand
low his children to die of thirst win he
| who owns the cattle on n thousand hills. and
| all the earth's luxuriance of grain and fruit,
allow his children To starvo. Go out to-
morrow morning mt D o'clock in the woods
| and hear the birds chant. They have had no
breakfast, they know not where they will
| dine they have no idea where they will sup;
| but hear the birds chant at o'clock in the
morning. Behold the fowls of the air:
for they SOW not, neither do they reap, nor
gather into barns, yet your heavenly
Father feedeth them. Are you not
much better than theyr Seven thousand
! people, in Christs time, went into the desert
They. were the most improvident people |
ever heard OF. They deserved TO starve. They
might have taken food enough TO last them
until they got back. Nothing did they take
lad, who had more wit than all of them
! put together, asked his mother that morning
Tor some loaves of bread and some fishes.
They were put into his sachel. He went out
into the desert From this provision the
seven thousand were fed, and the more they
ate the larger the loaves grew until the pro-
vision that the boy brought in one sachel was
multiplied so he could not have carried the
fragments home in six sachels. "O" YOU say,
times have changed, and the day of miracles
has gone" l reply thai, what God did then
by miracle, He does now In some other way,
and by natural laws. II have been young y
said David, but now am old; yet have
never seen the righteous forsaken, nor His
seed begging bread 1t is high time that
you people who are fretting about worldly
circumstances, and who are fearing you arc
coming TO want, understood that the oath of
the eternal God Is involved in the fact that
You are to have enough to eat aud to wear.
Again; remark that the religion of Jesus
Christ Is the grandest influence TO make a
man contented Indemnity against all finan.
cial and spiritual harm IL calms the spirit
dwindles the earth into insignflcance, and
swallows up the soul with the thought of
heaven. o ye who have been going about