The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-09-15

neiGhbor. Though we never enter the Prom
ised Land ourselves, let rs be content with
the thought that those for whom we toll will
some day inherit it? Such are the lessons
which Moses on the summit of Mount Nebo
teaches us.-"The Bible for Learners"
The many reformers, martyrs and mission
aries, in all times of the church, have died on
the threshold of their reward, in hope not in
possession. Events have moved too SLOW,
and the generation passes away which should
have supported the saint or the chief; or
events have moved too fast, and the strength
of the rising generation has superseded the
want of leader; or a word has been spoken
unadvisedly with his lips, and his prospects
are suddenly overcast; or he is struck by de-
cay of Do wer, or by sudden untimely death;
again and again the Moses of the church, of
the commonwealth fingers there, or dies
there, in the land of Moab, and goes over to
possess that tsgood lend;" and Canaan is won,
not by the first and greatest of the nation,
but by his subordinate minister and success
sor. Joshua. the son of Nun.
To labor and not to see the end of our la
bors; to SOW and not to reap; to be removed
from this earthly scene before our work has
been appreciated, and when it will be carried
on not by ourselves, but by others, Is law
80 common in the highest characters of his
exempt from its operations.-Arthur r.
Stanley, D. D., Histoy of the Jewish
Church."
So the righteous are taken away from the
evil to come; the righteous are taken away
from disappointment. They want to see
their families all Comfortably settled'-that
is to say, all SO beautifully settled as to have
nothing to do. They want to see their sons
come to manhood, and all the education of
their children completed, and their houses
set forth without purpose and without q
faculty; thus they will work and slave night
and day that the eldest sons may have ten
thousand more, and that some daughter may
be saved from ''stooping" to work. An
evil pnrposel A vicious cruelty! Ii you
leave every child you have million sterling,
but with no taste for work, with sense OF
indisnity attaching to all labor, you cannot
put him into hotter hell on earth. You
meant it we'll; it was pleasing to think that
the boys would have nothing to do and that
the girls would be enclosed in garden OF
flowers; there is no such garden under the
blue heavens, and there is no difficulty great
er than to get over an evil training. And
sometimes our purpose ID good, II is
built right up to the last shaping point, we
will see certain institutions thoroughly found
ed and brought into noble and benefcent
working order; then having seen all this ac-
complished we shall be satisfied. GOD does
not allow us to see even these sacred issues
He says, ~ can do without you; you have
been faithful, now you must enter heaven,
and look upon some things from above"
w Q wonder why the good man was not per-
mitted to live ten years longer to have seen
all the reward of his labor upon the earth; 1t
is mean wonder, an unworthy surprise.
We wonder that the good man was not kept
ten years longer in prison, ten years longer
in Punishment, ten years longer in weak
ness; but let us magnify the mercy of COP
that sent an angel down in the nighttime,
shook the foundations of the prison, and let
out his servant into liberty and rest.--Joseph
Parker, d. d.