New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-09-19

fear he would break, answered: eyes, I shall
break when the fftieth Psalm breaks in the
fifteenth verse: Call upon me in the day of
trouble; will deliver thee and thou shalt
glorify me- O Christian me and women,
pursued of annoyances and exasperations, re-
member that this hunt whether a still hunt
or hunt in full cry, will soon be over IF
ever a whelp looks ashamed and ready to
stink out of sight it is when in the
Adriondacks a deer by one long, tremendous
plunge into Big Upper lake gets away
from him. The disappointed canine
sWims out again and ernges with humili-
ated yaWn at the feet of his master.
And how abashed and ashamed will all your
earthly troubles be when you have dashed
into the river from under the throne of God,
and the heights and depths of heaven are be-
tween you and your pursuers. We are told
in Revelation, 22d and 18th, s.Without are
dogs by which l conclude there is whole
kennel of hounds outside of the gate of
heaven. or, as when master goes in q door,
his dog lies on the step waiting for him to
come out, so the troubles of this life may fol
low us to the shining door, but they cannot
get in Without are dogsI" Ihave seen
dogs, and owned dogs, that would not, be
chagrined to see in the heavenly city Gome
stabulary of the homes in solitary places,
and for years have been the only protection
of wife and child; some of the shepherd
dogs that drive back the wolves and
bark away the focks from going
too near the precipice; and some of the dogs
whose neck and paw Lanpheer, the painter,
has made immortal, would not find me shut
ting them out from the gate of shining pearl
Some of those old ST. Bernard dogs that have
lifted perishing travellers out of the Alpine
snow; the dog that John Brown. the Scotch
essayist, saw ready to spring at the surgeon
lest, in removing the cancer, he too much
hurt the poor woman whom the dog felt
bound to protect: and dogs that we caressed
in childhood days. or that in later time laid
down on the rug in seeming sympathy when
our homes were desolated. / say, ifsome soul
entering heaven should happen to leave the
gate aiar and these faithful creatures should
quietly walk in, it would not at all disturb
my heaven. But all those human or brutal
hounds that have chased and torn and LAGER
ated the world; yea, all that now bite or
worry or tear to pieces, shall be prohibited
"Without are dogsr' No place there for
harsh critics or back biters or despoilers of
the reputation of others. Down with you to
the kennels of darkness and despair! The
heart has reached the eterua water brooks
and the painting of the long chase is quieted
in still pastures, and "lThere shall be nothing
to hunt or destroy in all Gods holy mount.
Oh, when some of you get there it will be
ing his canoe far up north in the winter and
amid the ice-hoes, and a hundred miles, as he
thought, from any other human beings. He
was startled one day as he heard a step
ping on the ice, and he cooked the rifle
ready to meet anything that came near. He
found man, barefooted and insane from
long exposure, approaching him. Taking
him into his canoe and kindling fires to
warm him, he restored him and found out
where he lived, and took him to his home,
and found all the villagein great excitement.
A hundred men were searching for this lost
man, and his family and friends rushed out
to meet him; and as had been agreed at his
first appearance bells were rung, and guns
were discharged. and banquets spread, and
the rescuer loaded with presents. Well, when
some of you step out Of this wilderness, where
you have been chilled and torn and some
times lost amid the icebergs, into the warm
greetings of all the villages of the glorifed,
and your friends rush out to give you well
coming kiss, the news that there is another
soul forever saved will call the caterers of
heaven to spread the banquet, and the bell
men to lay hold Of the rope in the tower
and while the chalices click at the feast, and
the bells clang from the towers, it will be a
scene SO uplifting pray God, I may be there
to take in the celestial merriment. And
now do you not think the prayer in Solo
mons song, where he compared Christ to a
reindeer coming down in the night to pas
ture on the plains, would make an exquisite
ly appropriate peroration to my sermon:
"Until the day break and the shadows fee
away, be- thou like a roe or young hart
upon the mountains of Bether."