Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-08-11


alike unconscious. The hand that greeted
the Senator, and the President.and the King
is still as the hand that hardened on the
mechanics hammer or the manufacturers
wheel. 1t does not make any difference now
whether there is plain stone above them
from which the traveller pulls aside the weeds
60 read the name, or tall shalt sprlnging
into the heavens as though to tell their vir-
tues to the skies.
In. that silent land there are 10 titles for
great men, and there are no runblings of
chariot wheels, and there is never heard the
foot of the dance. The Egyptian gllanO
which is thrown on the fields in the east for
the enrichment of the soil is the dust rake1
out from the sepulchers of kings and lords
and mighty men. Oh the chagrln OF those
men if they had ever known that in the after
ages Of the world they would have been
called Egyptian gulno.
OF how much worth now is the crown of
Caesar! Who bids for it, Who cares now
anything about the Amphictyonic council or
the laws of Lycurgus! Who trembes now
because Xerxes crossed the Hellespont on a
bridge of boatss Who fears because Nebu-
chadnezzar thunders at ths gates of Jeru
lem. Who cares now whether or not Cleopatra
marries Antony! Who crouches before Fer
dinand, or Boniface, or Alaric' Can Crom
we'll dissolve the English parliament now.
IS William, Prince of Orange. King of the
Netherlands No, mol However much
| Elizabeth may love the Russi IN crown she
must pass it to Peter, and Peter TO Catherine,
and Catherine to Paul, aud Paul to Alex
ander and Alexander to Nicholas Leopold
puts the German s,epter into the han of
Joseph and Philip comes down of the Span
ish throne tc let Ferdinand 20 on House of
Aragon, house of Hapsburg. house of
Stuart, house of Bourbon, quarreling
about everything else, but agreeing
in this: 1.-The fashion of this world
passeth away" But have all these dignita-
ries gone. Can they not be callel backi |
have been in assembages where have heard
the roll called. and many distinguished men
have answered. If | should call the roll to-
day of some of those mighty ones who have
gone wonder if they would not answer.
will call the roll | will call the roll of the
Kings first: Alfred the Great William the
Conqueror Frederick II! Louis XVII No
answer. | will call the role of the poets
robert Southeyi Thomas Campbell Johu
Keats George Grabbed Robert Burnsl No
answer. | call the roll of artists: Michael
Angeloi Paul Veronesel William Turneri
| Christopher Wren! No answer Eya
closed Ears deaf Lips silent Hands pal
cied. Scepter, pencil, pen, sword. put down
forever. Why should we struggle for such
baubes'
Another reason why we should culture this
spirit OF chearfulness is the fact that God
knows what Is best for His creatures. You
know what is best for your child. He til INKS
you are not as liberal with him as you ought
to be. He criticses your discipline. but you
look over the whole field, and you, loving
that child, do what in your deliberate ludg-
ment is best for him Now, Col is the best
OF fathers Sometimes his children think
that he is hard on them, and that he is not n
liberal with them as he might be. But chli.
dren do not know as much as father. i
car tell YOU why you are not largely fiusnt,
AZ why You have rot beaa giandly SUCCESS.
inL 1t is because you cannot stanl tne JeIso
tation II your path had been SIN 10Th, You
would have depended upon your own
surefootedness; but God roughened that
path, so you have to take hold o,
his hand. If the weather had beer
mild YOU would have loitered along the
water courses, but at the first howl of the
| st<r1m you quickened your pace heavenward
! avd wrapped around you the warm robe of
| Soviours righteousness. What have J
! doueyn says the wheatsheaf to the farmer:
'swhat have done that you beat me SO hard
1 with your flaiP' The farmer makes ne
| answer, but the rake takes off the straw. and
the mill blows the chaff to the wind, and the
| golden grain falls down at the foot of the
| windmill. After a while, the straw looking
| down from the NOW upon the golden grain
banked up on either side the floor under
stands why the farmer beat the wheatsheat
with the fail.
/ Who are those before the Ihrone. The an
| swer came: These are they who, out OF
| great trihulation, had their robes washed and
/ made white in the blood of the lamb"
| Would Col that we could understand that
our trials are the very best thing for us. IL
We had an appreciation of that truth, then
/ we should know why it was that John
| Noyra, the martyr, in the very midst of the
| fame. reached down and picked up one OF
| the fagots that was consuming him, and
kissed it, and said blessed be Cod for the
time when was born for this preferment."
! They who suffer with Him on earth shall be
| glorilied with Him in heaven. Be content,
| then. with such things as you have.
Another consideration leading us to the
| spirit of the text is the assurance that this
! Lord will provide somehow. VIII he whc
| holds the water IN the hollow Of his hand
low his children to die of thirst Will he
VINO owns the cate on Il thousand hills. and
| all the earihs luxuriauce of grain and fruit,
| allow his children to starves Go out to
| morrow morning at 3 O'Clock in 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. Behold the fowls OF the air;
for they SOW not, neither do they reap, nor
J gather into barns, yet your heavenly
| Father feedeth them. Are you not
much better than they" Seven thousand
| people, in Christs time went into the DESERT
| They were the most improvident people ]
| ever heard Of. They deserved to starye. They
| uiRub nave ltktH loDu tnDuRu 70 ltiSb buen
until they got back. Nothing did they take
| A lad, who hal more wit than all of them
| put together, asked his mother that morning
| Tor some loaves of bread and some fishes.
| They were put into his sachel. 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 pro
vision that the boy brought in one sachel was
| multiplied 81 he could not have carried the
| fragments hhne in six sachels. 90" YOU say
''times have changed, and the day OF miracles
has gone + reply thai, what God did then
! by miracle, He does now in some other way.
/ and 10y natural laws. II have been young
said David, but nov ] am old; yet have J
never seen the righteous forsaken, nor Hs
| ieed begging bread IL is high time theS
| ron people who are fretting about woridt
| circumstances and who are fearing you ~
coming to want UNDERSTOOD that tie oath .,
the eternal tod Is involved IN the fact that
! Won are 10 nave enough 10 eat aud 10 war
=, Again: l remark ihlt the religion Of Jesus
, Christ il the graniest influence 10 make a
, man contented. Indemnity against all Imam
/ cial and spiritual HARM IL Gains the spirit,
dwindles the earth into illsigniticance and
swallows up the soul with the thought Of
heaven. q We @ho have bee2 going aboni
from place 10 place expecting 10 lind u
change Of circuin tame something TO give