Milford chronicle., 1888-12-14


through every grain field, by every sheep
fold, under the trees OF every orchard, the
Kings wagons. They drive up three times
day-morning, noon and night. They bring
furs from the Arctic, they bring fruits from
the tropic, they bring bread from the temper
ate zone The King looks out, and he says;
s'There arc twelve hundred millions Of
people TO be fed and clothed. So
many pounds Of meat so many bar
rels of flour, SO many yards OF cloth
and linen and flannel, SO many hats,
so many socks, so many shoes" enough
for all, savo that VIC who arc greedy
get more shoes than belong to us, and
others 20 barefooted. None but a God could
feed and clotho the world. None buta kings
corn crib could appcase the worlds famine
None but a king could tell how many wagons
to send, and how heavily to load them, aud
when they are to start They are coming
over tho frozen ground today. Do you not
hear their rumblingl They will stop atnoon
at your table Oh. if for a little while they
should cease, hunger would come into the
nations, as TO Utica when Hamilcar
besieged it, and as in Jerusalem
VIXEN Vespasian surrounded it; and the
nations would be hollow eyed, and fall upon
each other in universal cannibalism; and
skeleton would drop upon skeleton; and there
would be no one to bury the dead; and the
earth would be field of bleached skeletons;
and the birds Of prey would fall dead, hock
after flock, without any carcasses to devouri
and the earth in silence would wheel around,
one great black hearsel All life stopped be
cause the Kings wagons are stopped. Oh,
thank God for bread-for breadl
JACOB HEARS GOOD NEWS.
.,,.,i, fbnf lilo ffaoqa that emma
from tho Egyptian palace, the Kings wagons
bring us good news Jacob had not heard
from his boy for a great many years. Ho
never thought Of him but with a heartache,
There was In Jacobs heart a room where lay
tho corpse Of his unburied Joseph; and when
the wagons came, the kings wagons, 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 yet alive;
that he has forgiven US because we threw
him into the pit of suffering and the dungeon
of shame. He has risen from thence to stand
in a palace. The Bethlehem shepherds were
awakened at midnight by the rattling Of the
wagons that brought the tidiugs. Our
Joseph-Jesus sends US a message OF pardon,
Of life, Of heaven; corn for our hunger,
raiment for our nakedness, Joseph-Jesus is
still alive.
/ go to hunt up Jesus. go to the village
IF Bethany, and say: "Where does Mary
liver They say: ''Yonder Mary lives" l
20 in / see where she sat in the sitting
room. 1 go out where Martha worked in the
kitchen, but l find no Jesus. go into pl-
late's court room, and find the judges and
the police and the prisoners box, but no
Jesus. 20 into the Arimathean cemeteryi
but the door is gone, and the shroud is gone,
and Jesus is gone. By faith look up TO the
Kings palace, and behold have found himl
Joseph-Jesus is still alivel Glorious religion,
religion made not out of deaths heads, and
cross bones, and undertaker's screw driver,
but one bounding with life, and sympathy,
and gladness. Joseph is yet alivel
know that my Redeemer lvesI
What comfort this sweet sentence gtvesl
He lives he lives, who once was deadi
He lives my ever living 2eadl
He lives to grant me daily breath,
He lives and shall conquer death;
He lives my mansion to prepare,
He lives to bring me safely there
He lves-all glory TO his pame
lie lives, my Jesus still the salneg
Oh, the sweet joy this sentence gives,
know that my Redeemer livesl
The Kings wagons will after a while un-
/ load, and they will turn around and they will
/ go back to the palace, and really think that
you and l will go with them The King will
/ not leave us in this famine struck world
/ The King has ordered that We be lifted into
/ the wagons, and that we 60 over into Goshen,
where there shall be pasturage for our largest
| flock Of JOY, and then We will drive up to the
| palace, where there are glories awaiting us
which will melt all the snow of Egyptian
marble into forgotfulness.
WE WILL SEE OUR FRIENDS AGAIN
think that the Kings wagons will take US
up to see our lost friends. Jacobs chief an
ticipation was not seeing the Nile, nor Of see
ing the long colonnades Of architectural
beauty, nor Of seeing the throne room,
There was a focus to all his journeyiugs, toa
his anticipations, and that was Joseph. Well,
my friends, do not think heaven would be
worth much if our brother Jesus was not
there. If there were two heavens, the one
with all the pomp and paraphernalia Of an
eternal monarchy, but no Christ, and the
other were plain heaven, humbly thatched
with few daisies in the yard, and Christ
were there, l would say, .let tho Kings
wagons take me up to the old farm house"
If Jesus were not in heaven, there would be
no music there; there would be but few peo-
I
the lost Christ, crying through the universei
''Where is Jesusl where is Jpsesf' aud after
they had found him, with loving violence
they would take him and bear him through
the gates; and it would be the greatest day
known in heaven within the memory Of the
oldest inhabitant. Jesus never went OF from
heaven but once, and he was so badly treated
on that excursion they will never let him go
again.
Oh, the joy of meeting our brother, Joseph
Jesusl After we have talked about him foz
ten, or fifty, or seventy years, to talk with
him, and TO clasp hands with tho hero Of tho
ages; not crouching as underlings IN bis
presence, but as Jacob and Joseph, hug each
other. We will want some new term by
which to address him, On earth we call him
Saviour, or redeemer, or friend; but when
we throw our arms around him in evcllast~
ing embrace we win want some new mama
Of endearment. ! can think Of what we
shall do through the long ages Of eternity,
but what We shall do the first minute can
not guess. In the first fash Of bis eounten-
] ance, IN the first rush Of our emotions, what
we shall do cannot imagine Oh, the over
whelraing glory Of the first sixty seconds ~
heaven. Methinks we will just stand, and
look and look and loak.
The kings wagons took Jacob UP 70 see hl'
lost boy, aud so | really think that the Kings
wagons will take Us up to see our lost kin
dred How long is it since Joseph went oui
Of your household How many years is Il
now last Christmas, or the l4th of mex
month"; 1t was dark night when be dlaa
and a stormy day it was a. the burial; ant
the clouds Wepl with you, and the wind
sighed for the dead The bell at Green
woods gate rang only few moments, be-
your heart mas been tolling, talling, eve
since. You have been under delusion, lik
4 was dead You put his name first in the birtl
: record OF the family Bible, aud then YOU put !
4 in the death record o. the family Bible, ans
y you have been deceived Joseph is yet alive
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