Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1888-12-20

sleeps back! Oh, wish we could sac tFro,,,,,
! every grain field, by every sheep fold. under
tine trees OF every orchard, the king's
wagons. They drive up three times day-
morning, noon, and night. They bring furs
from tue Arctic, they bring fruits from the
tropic, they bring bread from the
temperate zone The King looks ont
ana he says: There are twelve
hundred millions OF people to be fed
and clothed. So many pounds of meat e.
many barrels Of flour so many vards -
CLOTH and linen and flannel so many hats,
SO many socks, so many shoes;n enough for
all, save that we VINO are gree iy get more
shoes than belong to us, and Others 90
barefooted. None but God could feed and
clothe the world. None but u Kings corn
crib could appease the worlds famine None
but King could tell how many wagons to
send and how heavily to load them aud when
they are to start They are coming
over the frozen ground to-day. DO you not
hear their rumbnng! They will stop at noon
at your tab Oh, If for little while they
should cease, hunger would come into the
nations, to Utica when Hamlcar b-seged
IT, and as in Jerusalem when Nespasian sur
rounded 1t; and the nations would lie 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 a
field OF bleached skeletons; and the birds OF
prey would fall dead, flock al ter flock, with.
out any carcasses to deyour; and the earth
in silence would wheel around, one great
black hearse! All life stopped because the
Kings wagons are stopped. Oh, thank God
for bread-for bread
/ remark again, that like those that came
from the Egyptian palace. the Kings wagons
bring us good news Jacob had not heard
from his boy for great many years He
never thought o him but with "a heart ache
There was in Jacobs heart a room where lay
the corpse of his unburie1 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 u.s. The Kings wagons come down /
and tell us that our Joseph Jesus is vet |
alive: that He has forgiven us because we 1
threw Him into the pit of suffering and the !
dun. con of shame He has risen from thence to 4
stind in palace. The Bethlehem shepherds 1
were awakened at midnight by the rafting OF /
the wag ons that brought the tidings. Cur /
Joseph-Jesus sends us a message Of pardon, 4
of life. of heaven: corn for our hunger. raj \
ment for our naktdness. Josepi-Jesus is yet /
alive
! 80 to hunt up Jesus. 60 10 the village
of eihany, md say Nv here does Mary |
hveg 1hev say; "Yonder Mary lives y ] 1
go IN. ! see where she sat n the sitting
room ! go out where Martha worked IN
the Kitchen. Tut | find no Jesus. 20 into
Pilates court room. and | find tie Judges
and the p lice and the prisoners box
but no Isis. / 80 into the Arimathean
cemetery; lut the door is gone, and
he shroud is gone. nnd Jesus is gone.
by faith look upto The Kings palace and
behold / have found him, Joseph ess IS
still alivel Glorious reiigion,a religion made
not out Of deaths eads and cross bones,
and undertaken scrcw-drIyer hut one
bounding with life. and ~ mpathy and glad
ness Joseph is yet alive.