The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-07-27

| uaTu YOU may nave IL now, IL you are chris
tien the scene will soon end. Pain, trial
| persecution never knock at the door of thu
| grave coffin made out Of pine boards il
| just as good a res ting place as one made GU
| OF silver motnted mahogany or rosewood
| TO down among the resting places of the
| dead, and you will find that though people
| there had great difference of worldly circun-
| stances, now they are all alike unconscious.
| 1hs hand that greeted the SENATOR and the
| president and the king IS as still as the hand
| thathardened on the mechanic hammer OrthC
manufacturers wheel. 1t does not make any
difference now. whether there is a plain stone
above them from which the stranger pulls
aside the weeds to read the name or tai
shaft springing into heaven as though to tell
their virtues TO the skies
In that silent land there are no titles for
great men, and there are no fumblingS of
chariot wheels and there is never heard the
loot of the dance. The Egyptian guano
which is thrown on the fields in the East for
the enrichment of the soil, is the dust raked
out from the sepulchres of kings and lords
and mighty men. 0 the chagrin of those
men if they had ever known that in the after
ages of the world they would have been call
ed Egyptian guanO.
Of how much worth now is the crown of
Caesars Who bids for it! Who cares now
anything about the Amphictyonic Council or
the laws of Lycurgus! Who trembles now
because XerXeS crossed the HelleSuOnt on 8
bridge of boats3 Who fears : because
NcbuchadheZzar thunders at the gates of
Jerusalem: Who cares now whether or not
Cleopatra 1narries Antonys Who crouches
before Ferdinand, or Boniface, or Alarcl
Can Cromwell dissolve the English Parlia-
ment now. Is William, prince of Orange,
king of the Netherlands! No; no! However
much Elizabeth may love the Russian crown,
she must pass it TO Peter, and Peter to Cath
crime, and Catherine to Paul, and Paul TO Al
pKun1pF M invn Inrf 70 ohy1a 4
puts German sceptre into the hand of
Joseph, and Philip comes down off the Span
lsh throne to let Ferdinand 90 on. House of
Aragon, house of Hapsburg house of
Stuart, house of Bourbon, quarrel
ing about everything else, but agree
passeth away" But have all these dign-
taries cones Can they not be called back! l
have been in asBemblages where l have heard
the roll called. and many distinguished men
have answered. II l should call the roll to-
day of some of those mighty ones who have
Will call The roll. | will call the roll of the
kings first: Alfred the Great William the
COnuuerOrl Frederick H. Louis XVI! No
answer. | will call the roll OF the poets:
Robert SOuthey! Thomas Campbell John
Keats! George Crabbe! Robert Burns! No
answer. call the roll of artists: Michael
Angelo! Paul VerOnese! William Turnerl
christopher Wren! No answer. Eyes closed.
Ears deaf. Lips silent Hands palsied.
Sceptre pencil, pen, sword, put down forever.
Why should we struggle for such Oaubles
Another reason why we should culture this
spirit of CheerfulneSs is the fat that God
knows what is best for His creatures. You
know what is best for your child. He thinks
you are not as liberal with him as you ought
to be. He criticse5 your discipline, but YOU
look over the whole field, and you, loving that
child, do what in your deliberate judgment
is best for him. Now. God is he best of
Fathers Sometimes His children think that
ne is hard on them, and that He S not as lib
etal with them as He might be. But children
10 not know as much as father. | can tell
you why you are not largely afliutnt and why
you have not been grandly successful. 1t is |
because you cannot stand the temptation. II
IOtr path had been smooth. you would have
depended upon your sure fOOtedneSs; but |
Tod roughened that path, so you have to take |
lOld of His hand If the weather had beeh |
mild, you would have lOitered along |
he water courses; but at the |
irst howl of the storm YOU
lulckened your pace heayenward and wrap
,eq around you the warm robe of a SagiOur's
righteousness
'What have dOne!" saws the weatbrsbeaf
the farmer, what have l done, that you
eat me so hard with your Hail?" The farm
r makes no answer, but the rake takes off
he straw, and the mill blows the chaf to the
ind, and the golden grain falls down at the
DOT of the windmill After awhile the
traw looking down, from the NOW upon the
olden grain banked up on either side the
cor understands who the farmer best the
heatSheaf with the fail
who are those before the throne? The an
yer came: "These are they who. out of
reat trlbulatlon, had their robes washed and
lade white in the blood of the lamb"
you'd God that we could understand that
lr trials are the very best thing for us If
e mad an appreciation of that truth then
e should know why it was that John NOyra.
lie martyr in the very midst of the flame
ached down and picked up one of the fag-
Dts that was consuming him, and kissed it,
III said: BLESSED be God for the time when
was born to this preferment" They who
liter with Him on earth shall be glOrfed
tn Him in heaven. BE content, then, with |
Ich things as you have.
Another consideration leading us to the
Trit of the text is the assurance that the
ord will provide somehow. viii He who ]
dds the water in the hollow of His hand, al ,
" HIS children TO die of thirst. Win He
no owns the cattle on a thousand
lis, and all the earth's luxur-
Ice of grain and fruit allow ;
is chrildren to starve? Go out tomorrow
orning at five O'clock into the woods and
ar me birds chant. They have had no
eakfast they know not where
es will dine, they have no {
ca where they will sup; but hear the !
rds chant at five o'clock in the morning. S
}eEold the fowls of the air; for they sow :
It, neither do they reap. nor gather into
rms, yet your heavenly Father feedeth them
e You not much better than theyln Seven '
Ousand people, in Chrsts time went into t
e desert. They were the most imprOvident ?
oDIe ever heard of They deserved to
lrve They might have taken food enough I
last them until they got back Nothing |
l they take. A lad, who had more ;git '
an all of them put together, asked his {
'ther that morning for some IOaves of | :
Fad and some fishes. They were put into
; satcheL He went out into the desert. q
ON this provision, the seven thousand were [
|, and the more they ate, the larger the ! +
ives grew, until the provision that the boy 4,
ought IN one satChel was multiplied so lie l
lld not have carried the fragments home I
six satchelS. ooh, " Won say, ''times have :
lnGed, and the day of miracles has gone" a
cply that what God did then by miracle,
does now in some other wav and by ma
al laws Il have been young" said Dav. I
nut now am | old; yet have | never seen II
: righteous toTSaken, nor his seed begging u
,ad.' 1t is high time that YOU people Who .
: tretting about worldly circumstances. and =
q are fearing YOU are coming TO want. IN 2
stand that the oath of the Eternal God j. c
'olved in the fact that you are to have I
)ugh to eat and to wear. -
Again: ! remark that the religion of Jesus L
rist is the grandest influence to make Il
n COutpHtci. Indemnity arafnsr al Gra,