Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-07-15

typh llit vinegar,
Then there Is the sourness Of the deata
hour, Whatever else we may escape,
that acid sponge will be pressed 10 our
lips. | sometimes have curiosity to
know how / will behave when | come to
die, Whether l viii he calm O. excited
whether / viii be filed with reminis-
ceECc or wI.l anticipation. ! cannot
say. But come TO the point, must and
you must. In the six thousand years
that have Iasscd only two persons have
got into the eternal world without death,
and ! 10 Dot suppose that God is going
TO scr ! a carriagsior US with horses Of
flame, TO draw us up the sleeps Of
heaven; but | suppose we viii have to
go like the preceding generations. An Of
iicCr from the future world will knock at
the door Of our heart and serve on US
the writ of ejectmeut, and we will have
TO surrender. And we will wake up
after these autumnI, and wintry,
and yernal, and sumnery glories have
vanished from our visiJn-we will wake
up into a realm which has only one
season, and that tho sesxon OF everlast-
ing love, But you say: Il don't want
to break out from my present associa-
tiuns. 1t is so chilly and Sd damp to go
down the stairs of that wult. / don't
want anything drawn so lhtly over my
eyes. II there were only srme way of
breaking through the part,to on between
worlds without tearing thh body all to
shreds. ! wonder if the surgeons and
the doctors cannot COMPOUND a mixture
by which this body and soul can all the
time be kept together? Is there no es-
cape from this separation None; alb
solutely none. So / look over this audi
ence today-the vast majority Of you
seeming in good health and spirits
and yet ] realize that in a short time all
Of us will he g0ne-gone from earth, and
gone forever. 4 great many men tumble
through the gates of the future. as il
were, and we do not know where they
have gone, and they only add gloom and
mystery 10 the passage; but Jesus
Christ 50 nightly stOrmed the gates of
that future world that they have never
since been closely shut. Christ knows
what il is to leave this world. Of the
beauty If which he was more appreciative
than we ever could be. He knows the
exquisiteness Of the phosphorescence Of
the sea; he trod it. He knows the glories
Of the midnight heavens; for they were
the spangied canopy Of his wilderness
pillow. He knows about the lilies: he
twisted them into his sermon. He
knows about the fowls Of the
the air; they whirred their way
through lis discourse. He knows about
the sorrows Of leaving this beautiful
world Not a taper was kindled in the
darkness. He died physicianless. He
died in cold sweat and dizziness and
hcmolThaGc and agony that have put
him in sympathy with all the diving. He
goes through Christendom aud he gath
ers VI the stingS out al all the death pill
lows and he Puts them under his own
neck and head. He gathers on lis own
tongue the huT ing thlrsts Of many gen.
er;itions. The sponge is soaked in the
sogr0ws Of all those who have died ia
their leds - '-ell rs soaked in the sor-
rows # ell th e who perishod in icy or
fiery maTtyrdOm. While heaven was
plying and earth WAS liocking and hell
was dcr!ding, he took the vinegar!
To all those in this audience to whom
life has been an acerbily-a dose they
could not swallow. draughJ that set
their teeth on edge anu a-rasping-I
preach the omnipoient sympathy Of Jesus
Christ. The sister of Hor-chul. the as
tronomor. used TO help him in his work.
He got al the credit; she got none. She
used 10 SPEND much Of her time polishing
the telescopes through which he brought
the distant worlds nigh. aDd it is my ann
bition now, tins hour. TO clear the lens Of
your spiritual vision. So that looking
through the dark night of your earthly
troubles YOU may behold the glorious con-
stelIalion of n SlvlUurs mercy and n
Sayiuurs love. o. INV friends. do not
try to carry all your ills alone. d. not
Put yuur poor shoulder under the
hpeniuaeS when the Almighty Christ is
ready to Lift up al your burdens. When
YOU have a trouble of any kind you rush
this way, and that way, and sou wonder
what this man will say about il, and
what that man will say about it, and you
try thi, prescription. and that prescrip-
tion, and the other prescription. o. why
de- yuu not 60 straight 10 the heart Of
Christ. knowing that Tor our own shining
and suffering race he took the vinegar.
There was a vessel that had been
tossed on the seas for great many
weeks and been disabled, and the sup
plyuf water gave ont. MD the crew were
diving of thirst. After many days they
saw sail against the sky. They sig
nalcd il. When the vessel came nearer
the people on the suffering ship cried 10
the captain # the other vessel: "Send us
some water We are dying for lack of
water" And the captain on the vessel
that was hailed responded dip your
buckets where you are. You are in the
mouth Of the Amazon, and there are
scores ~ wilus 0f fresh water all around
about you. and hundreds of feet deep
And then they dropped ihpir buckets
over the silauf the vessel AMI brought
mp the c'cr bright fresh wHter and
put ont ihc i,YJ of their Tint. So hail
you tog fr. ghcra long and perilous voy-
age thirsting as you are lJr pardon. and
thirNing for cymiort and thirsting
for eternal iifr; and ask you what Is
the use ~ your going ia that death
Struck state, wbll all around you il the
decp. clear, wide. sparkling food II
Gods sympathrtic mercy OH. dip your
buckets. aud drink. and live forever.