Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-09-28

cannot be happy. have tried the world,
and It does well enough IS far as
it goes, but It is too uncertain
q world, too eVanescent world. I am not a
pre1udiced witness / have nothing against
this WOrld. / have been one of the most for
tunate, or. 10 use a more Christian word, one
OF the most blessed OF men, blessed in my
parents blessed In the place OF my nativity.
blessed In my health, blessed in nv field Of
work. blessed In my natural temperament.
blessed In my family, blessed ia my oppOr-
tunittes, blessed in comfortable livelihood,
blessed IN the hope that nv soul will 90 20
Heaven through the pardOuing mercy Of God.
ana my body, unless 1t be lost at sea or
cfemGLeu In some cO0uagatlOn, viii lie down
in The gardens OF Greenwood among ms
kindred and friends, some already zone and
Others 10 come after me. Life to MANY has
been disappointment, but 10 me it has been
Z pieusahL surprise ana yet declare that If
1 did not feel that God was now nv friend
and ever present help. / should be Wretched
aud terror struck. But I want more OF Him.
have thought over this text and preached
lnls sermon to myself until with all the
aroused energies OF my body, mind and sOuL
i can cry out: LAS The hart panteth after
the water brooks SO panteth my soul after
Thee, o God"
Through Jesus Christ make this God your
God and you can withstand anything and
everything, and that which affrights others
VIII inspire YOU. AS in In time of earth
quake when an Old Christian woman was ask
ed whether she was scared, answered: mo, 1
am glad that have q God who can shake the
world" or, as in "a financial panic. when a
Christian merchant was asked if he did not
fear he would break, answered: yes, / shall
break when the hftieth Psalm breaks in the
fifteenth verse: Call upon me in the day of
trouble; I will deliver thee and thou
shalt glOElfy me- " 0 Christian
men and women, pursued Of an
nOyances and corporations remember
chat this hunt, whether a still hunt or a
hunt In full cry, will soon be over. If ever
whelp looks ashamed ana ready to stink out
OF sight it is when in the AdirOndacks a deer
Tremendous DiUnUa fu 10
upper Lake gets away from him. The dis
appointed canine sWIms in a little way but
defeated swims out again and cringes with
Inundated yaWn at the feet of his master.
And how abashed and ashamed will all your
earthly troubles be when you have dashed in.
to the river from under the throne of God.
and the heights and depths Of heaven are be-
tween you and your pursucrs. We are told
In Revelation, 2Snd and 18th: without are
dogs" by which conclude there is a whole
kennel OF mounds outside the gate of heaven,
or, as when master goes in a door, his dog
lies on the steps waiting for him to come out,
SO the troubles OF this life may follow US to
the shining door, but they cannot get in.
without are dOgsl" I have seen dogs and
owned dogs, that 1 would not be chagrIned
to see in the heavenly city. Some of the
grand old watch dogs who are the cOnsta bull
airy 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
hocks from gong too near the precpice; and
some OF the dogs whose neck and paw Land
Seer the painter has made immortal would
not tind me shutting them out from the gates
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 10 spring al the surgeon lest, in remOY-
ing the cancer, he too much hurt the poor
woman whom the dog felt bound to protect:
and dogs that we caressed in our childhood
days, or that IN later time laid down on
the rug in seeming sympathy when our
homes were desOlated. 1 say, if some soul
entering heaven should happen to leave the
gate alar and The faithful creatures should
quietly walk in. it would not 1T all disturb nv
heaven. But all those human or brutal
hounds that have chased and torn and LAGER
ated the world; yea, all that now bite or tear
to pieces, shall be prohibited. without are
dOgs! No place there for harsh critics or
bacl-b tiers or despOilers Of tie reputation OF
others. Down with YOU to the kennels of
darkness and despairl The hart has reached
the eternal water brooks, and The painting Of
the long chase is quoted in still pastures and
There shall be nothing To hunt or DESTROY in
all Gods holy mount"
Oh, when some OF you get there it will be
like what a hunter tells of when he was push
ing his canoe far up north in the winter and
amid the ice-tOats, and hundred miles, az
he thought, from any other human beings.
He was startled one day as he heard step
ping on the Ice, and he cooked the rife ready
to meet anything that came near. He fOnnd
a man, barefOOted and insane from long eX-
pOsure, approaching him. Taking him into
his canoe and kndling fires to warm him, he
EC6LOEGu MN anu 1Oulu OUT where lie QaQ
lived and took him to his home, and found all
the village in 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 appear
ance, bells We're rung, and guns were dis
charged, the DanQuets 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 sometimes LOST
amid the icebergs into the warm greetings of
all the villages OF the glOrifed, and your
friends rush out 10 give YOU WelcOming kiss,
the news that there is another soul forever
saved viii call the caterers of heaven to spread
the banquet, and the bell men To lay hold of
the rope iu the tower, and while the chalices
click at the feast, and the bells clang from
the towers, it will be a scene so uplifting I
pray GOdI may be there to take part in the
celestial merriment And now do you not
think The prayer in SOlOmOn's song where he
compared Christ to a reindeer coming down
In the night to pasture on the plains, would
make an eXquisitely appropriate perOratiOn to
my sermon: "Uutu the day break and the
shadows flee away, be thou ike q roe or a
young hart upon the mountains of Bether'