The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-07-19

tomorrow morning at . O'Clock, Into the
woods and hear the birds chant. They
have had no breakfast, they know not
where they will dine, they have no idea
where they will sup but hear the birds
chant at . o'clock in the morning. "Be-
hold the fowls OF the air for they SOW
not, neither do they reap, nor gather
into barns, yet your heavenly Father
feedeth them. Are you not much better
than they 2" Seven thousand people, in
Christians time, went into the desert.
They were the most improvident people
/ vel heard OF. They deserved to starve.
They might have taken food enough to
last them until they got back. Nothing
did they take.
A lad, who had more wit than all of
them put together, asked his mother that
morning for some loaves of bread and
some fishes. They were put into his
satchel. He went out into the desert.
From this provision, the seven thousand
were fed, and the more they ate, the
larger the loaves grew, until the proyi.
sion that the boy brought in one satchel
wal multiplied so he could not have
carried the fragments home in six
satchels. 90" you say, "times have
changed, and the day OF miracles has
gone" l reply that, what God did then
bv miracle. He does now in some other
way, and by natural laws. 81 have been
young" said David, "but now am l old;
yet have l never seen the righteous for
saken, nor his seed begging bread" Il
is high time that you people who are
fretting about worldly circumstances, and
who are fearing you are coming to want,
understood that the oath of the Eternal
God is involved in the fact that you are
to have enough to eat and to wear.
Again l remark that the religion OF
Jesus Christ is the grandest influence to
make a man contented. Indemnity
against all financial and spiritual harm!'
1t Gains the spirit, dwindles the earth
into insignificance, and swallows Up the
soul with the thought of heaven. o We
who have been going about from place
to place expecting to find in change OF
circumstances something to give solace to
the spirit, l commend you this morning
to the warm hearted, earnest, practical,
common.sense religion of the Lord Jesus
Christ. There is no peace, saith my
God, for the wicked" and as long as you
continue in your sin you will be mis-
cradle. Come to Christ. Make him
your portion, and start for heaven, and
you will be a happy man, you will be a
happy man, you will be a happy woman
Yet, my friends, Notwithstanding all
these inducements to a spirit OF content
ment, l have to tell you this morning the
human race is divided into two classes
those who scold and tho.e who get
scolded, The carpenter wants to be
anything but a carpenter, and the mason
anything but a mason, and the banker
anything but a banker, and the lawyer
anything but a lawyer, and the minister
anything but a minister, and everybody
would be happy if he were only some
body else. The anemone wants to be a
suntiower, and the apple orchards throw
down their blossoms because they are
not tall cedars, and the scow wants to be
a schooner, and the sloop would like to
be a seventy-four FOUNDER, and parents
have the worst children that ever were,
and everybody has the greatest mis-
fortune, and everything is upside down,
or going to be. All! my friends, you
never make any advance through such a
spirit as that. You cannot fret yourself
up; you may fret yourself down. Amid
all this grating of tones 1 strike this
string of the gospel harp: Goodness
with contentment is great gain. We
brought nothing into the world, and it is
very certain we can carry nothing out;
having food and raiment let us Herewith
be content"
Let us all remember, If we are Chris
tians, that we are going after awhile,
whatever be our circumstances now, to
have a glorious vacation. AS in summer
we put off our garments and go down
into the cool sea to battle, so we will put
off these garments OF flesh, and step into
the cool Jordan. We will look around
for some place to lay down our weari-
ness; and the trees will say "Come
and sleep in my bosom :" and the winds
will say: "Hush! while l sing thee a
cradle hymn ;" and while six strong men
carry us out to our last resting pllce, and
ashes come to ashes and dust to dust, we
will see two SCARED feet standing amid
the broken soil, and a lacerated brow
bending over the open grave, while a
voice, tender with all-a1ection and
mighty with all-omnipotence, will de-
clare: II am the resurrection and the
life; he that beIieveth in Me, though he
were dead, yet shall he live" Comfort
one another with these words.