Milford chronicle., 1888-10-19

and men, stand up, thou monster, thy lip
blasted with blasphemy, thy cheek SCARED
With lust. thy breath foul with the corruption
Of the agesl Stand up, Satyr, filthy goat,
buzzard Of the nation, leper Of the centuriesl
Stand up thou monster lnfdelityl Part man,
part panther, part reptile, part dragon, stand
up and take thy sentenced Thy hands red
with the blood IN which thou hast washed,
thy feet crimson with the human gore
through which thou hast waded, stand up and
take thy sentenced Down with thee 20 the
pit and sup ON the sobs and groans Of fami-
lies thou hast blasted, and roll on the bed Of
knives which thou hast sharpened for others,
and let thy music be the everlasting miserere
Of those whom thou hast damned l brand
the forehead of Infidelity with all the crimes
of self immolation for the last century on the
part Of th)se who had their reason.
My friend, if ever your life through its
abrasions and its molestations should seem to
be unbearable and you are tempted to quit
it by your own behest, do not consider your
self as worse than others. Christ himself
was tempted to 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 it worse than ysu will
ever have it have gone songful on the way,
Remember that God keeps the chronology of
your life with as much precision as he keeps
the chronology of nations, your death as
well as your cradle.
Why was it that at midnight, just at mid
night, the destroying angel struck the blow
that set the Israelites free from bondagei
The four hundred and thiry years were up
ut twelve O'Clock that night. The four hun
dred and thirty years were not up at eleven.
I 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 destroy
/ ing angel struck the blow, and Israel was
/ free And God knows just the hour when it
/ is time to lead you up from earthly bondage
1 By his grace make not the worst Of things,
/ but the best Of them If you must take tho
| pills, do not chew them. Your everlasting
rewards will accord with yEur earthly per-
turbations, just as Caius gave to Agrippa q
chain of gold as heavy as has been a chain Of
iron. For the asking-and do not know to
whom / speak in this august assemblage, but
the word may be especially appropriate-for
/ your asking you may have the same grace
that was given to the Italian martyr AL,
gerius, who, down in the darkest Of dun
geons, dated his letter from the "delectable
orchard of the Leonine prison
And remember that this brief life OF ours
is surrounded by a RIM a very thin but very
important rim, and close upto that rim is a
great eternity, and you had better 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 a swarm OF summer insects, leap
not into jungle of Bengal tigers.
There is a sorrowless world, and it is so
radiant that the MONDAY sun is only the low
est doorstep, and the aurora that lights up
our northern heavens, confounding astron-
omers as to what it can be, is the
waving of the banners Of the pro
cession come to take the conquerors
home from church militant to church tri-
umphant, 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
church divinely spread, and then the clang
of the sepulchral gates behind us will be over
powered by the clang of the opening Of the
solid pearl before us. o God, whatever Others
may choose, give me Christians life, 9
Christians death, a Christians burial, d
Christians Immortality