Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-09-21

cannot be happy. have tried the world.
Sn4 u uoes well enough Is Tar as
it goes but Is Is leo uncertain
g world too eYanescent world. am n0s a
preJudiced witness. / have nothing against
this World. / have been one ef The most for
Iunates or, 70 use more Christian IS ord, one
OF the most blessed OF men, blessed ia nav
parents, blessed ia The place OF my nativity.
blessed ia my health blessed in my field of
work blessed i'm my natural temperament,
blessed ia my family, blessed in my OppoF-
Iuuluess blessed IN a comfortable livelihood,
blessed IN the hope that my soul viii 20 90
Heaven through the pardOniug mercy OF God.
ana NV body, unless it be lost at sea or
cremateG in some cOnnagatiOn, VIII lie down
Ia inc gardens OF Greenwood among ms
kindred and friends, some already gone and
others TO come after me. Life to many has
Deen disappointment 5ut 10 me 10 has been
q pleasant surprise, aud yet declare that II
did not 1eeI that God was now nv friend
and ever present help. i should be Wretched
aud terror struck. But 1 want more OF Hum.
i have thought over this text and preached
luis sermon 10 myself until with all the
aroused energies OF my body, mind and soul,
i can cry out: AS the hart panteth after
the water brooks, SO panteth my soul after
Thee, . God"
Through Jesus Christ make this God vour
God and You can withstand anything aud
everything, and that which affrights Others
VIII inspire You AS i'll Ia time of earth
quake When an old Christian woman was ask
ca WneIher she was scared, answered: 'tNO, j
am glad that have GOD who can shake the
world" or, as in financial panic when
CHRISTIAN merchant was asked if he do not
Tear he would break answered: Yes ] shall
break when the hItieth Psalm breaks in the
fifteenth verse: Call upon me ia the dav Of
trouble; 1 will deliver thee and thou
shalt glOsify me-" o Christian
men and women, pursued of an
noyances and eXHsper0tions, remember
that this hunt whether a still hunt or a
hunt In full cry, Will soon be over IL ever a
WhelP looks ashamed aud ready TO stink out
OF sight lt Is when IN the AdirOudacks deer
DY one long, tremendous plunge into BIG
upper Lake gels away from him. The dis
appointed canine sWims in a little way but
defeated, sWims out again and Cringes with
Inundated YaWn at the feet of his master.
And how abashed and ashamed will ali your
earthly troubles be when you have dashed ins
to the river from under the throne Of God,
and the-heights and depths of heaven are be-
tween you aud your pursuers. We are told
In Revelation, 22nd and 18th: t'WithOut are
dogs" BY which / conclude there Is "a whole
kennel Of hounds outside the gate of heaven,
or, as when master goes in door, his dog
lies on the steps waiting for him to come out,
so the troubles of this life may follow US to
The shining door, but they cannot get in.
without are dOgsH' 1 have seen dogs, and
owned dogs, that / would not be chagrined
TO see IN the heavenly city. Some of the
grand old watch dogs who are the cOnstab bull
airy OF the homes in solitary places, and for
years have been the only protection of wife
and child; some of the shepherd dogs that
drive back the wolves and bark away tho
nOciIs from gong too near the precipice; and
sumo Oh TIE QDES whose neck ana paw Land
seer the painter, mas made immortal, would
not hud me shutting them out from the gates
of shining pearl Some of those old st.
Bernard dogs that have lifted perishing
travellers out Of the Alpine snow; the dog
that John Brown, the Scotch essaylst, saw
ready to spring a the surgeon lest in rsmoV-
ing the cancer, he TOO much hurt the poor
woman whom the dog felt bound to protects
and dogs that we caresscd in our childhood
days, or that in laier time laid down on
the rug in seeming sympathy when our
las nHaHN lFf HrnHaN
entering heaven should happen to leave the
gate jar and the faithful creatures should
quietly walk in, it would not at all disturb my
heaven. But all those human o. brutal
hounds that have chased and torn and lacer-
ated the world; yea, all that now bite or tear
TO pieces shall be prohibited. Without are
dOgsW No place there for harsh critics or
bacll-Oiters or despOi!ers of the reputation Of
others. Down with YOU to the kennels of
darkness and despair The hart has reached
the eternal water brooks, and the painting of
the long chase is Quieted in still pastures and
There shall be nothing to hunt or destroy in
all GODS holy mOuut."
Oh, when some OF you get there 10 viii be
like what hunter tells OF when he was push
ing his canoe far up north in the winter and
amid the Ice floats, and hundred miles,
he thought, from any other human beings.
lie was startled one day as he heard a step
ping on the ice, and lie cooked the rifle eadV
10 meet anything That came near. He fOund
a man. bareE Dotted and insane from long eX-
pOsure, approaching him. Taking him into
his canoe and kindiing fires to warm him, he
restored him and found ont where he had
lived and took him to his home, aud found all
the village in great excitement A hundred
men were searching for his lost man. and his
family and friends rushed out TO meet him;
and had been agreed at his first appear
ailce, DeHs We're fuHg, ana guns were dis
charged, the banQuets spread. aud the rescuer
loaded with presents. Well, when some of
YOU step ont of this wilderness, where you
have been chilled and torn and sometimes lost
amid the icebergs, into the warm greetings Of
all the villages OF the glorifed, and your
friends rush out o give on UelcOmiug kiss,
the news That there is another soul forever
saved viii call the caterers of heaven to spread
the banquet and the bell men to lay hold OF
the rope in the tower, and while the chaiices
click at the feast, and the bells claBg from
the towers, it viii be q scene so uplifting 1
pray God 1 may be there to take part in the
celestial merrimcut Aud now do you not
think lie prayer in SOlOmOu's song, where lie
compared Christ to a reindeer coming down
III the night to pasture Oh the plains, would
make an eXquisitely appropriate perOratiOu to
my sermon: Until the day break and The
shadows Zee aWay, be thou Ike q roe or a
young hart upon the mountains of Bether"
A String Made Of Salt.