The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-10-25

and rroans OF families thou hast blasted,
| and roll on the bed OF knives thou hast
sharpened for others. and let thy music
| be the everl asting miserere OF those
whom thou hast DAMNED ] brand the
forehead or infdelity. all the crimes
of elf-immolation for the last century
on the part OF those who had their reason.
My friends, II eyeryour life through its
abrasions and fts molestatio2s should
seem 20 be undesirable, and You are
| tempted TO quit 10 BY your own behest, do
not consifer yourself as worse than
others. Christ Himself was tempted 20
cast Himself from the roof Of the temple,
but as He resisted, so resist ye. Christ
came to medicine all our wounds In
your trouble prescribe life instead of
death. People who. have had 1t worse
than you VIII ever have it shave gone
songful on the way. Remember that God
keeps the chronology OF your life with as
much precision as He keeps the chronicle
gy OF nations, your death as well as your
cradle.
Why was it that at midnight just at
midnight, the destroying angel struck
the blow that set the Israelites free from
bondage? The four hundred and thirty
wears were up at twelve O'Clock that
night. The four hundred and thirty years
were not up at eleven, and one O'Clock
would have been tardy and too late. The
four hundred and thirty years were up at
twelve o'clock, and the destroying angel
struck the blow, and Israel was free.
And God knoYSs jjssst tns hour when it is
time to lead you up from earthly bond
age. BY His grace make not the worst
of things, but the best of them. II you
must take the pills do not chew them.
I'd
your earthly perturbations, Just as Caius
gave to Agrippa chain of gold as heavy
as had been a chain of iron. For the ask
ing-and I do not know to whom speak
in this august assemblage, bat the word
may be especially appropriations your
asking you may have the same grace that
was given to the Italian martyr, Algerius,
who, down in the darkest of dungeons,
dated his letter from sthe delectable
orchard of the Leonine prison"
And remem Der that this brief life OF
ours is surrounded by a rim, very thin
but very important rim, and close to that
rim is great eternity, and you had bet
ter keep out of it until God breaks that
rim and separates this from that. To get
rid OF the sorrows Of earth, do not rush
into greater sorrows. To get rid Of 4
swarm of summer insects leap not into
jungle of Bengal tigers.
There is q sorrowIess world, and it is SO
radiant that the MONDAY sun is only the
lowest doorstep, and the aurora that
lights up our northern heavens,
confounding astronomers as to what
it can be, is the waving of the ban.
ners of the procession come to take
the conquerors home from church mill
tant to church triumphant, and you and
have ten thousand reasons for wanting to
go there, but we will never get there
either by self-immolation or impenitency.
All our sins slain by the Christ who came
to do that thing, we want to go In at just
the time divinely arranged, and from
couch divinely spread, and then the clang
Of the sepulc hral gates behind us will be
overpowered by the clang of the opening
of the solid pearl before US. Q God,
whatever others may choose, give me
Christians life, Chris tian's death,
Christians burial, Christians immor-
talityl