The Russellville Democrat., 1888-09-20
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 atonement, it makes us all right with the past and all right with the future, and all right with God, and all right with man, and all right forever.
 Lamartine tells us that King Nimrod said to his three sons: "Here are three vases. and one is of clay, another of amber and another of gold, Choose now which you will hays.r The eldest son, having the first choice, chose the vase of gold, on which was written the word Empire" and when opened It was found to contain human blood. The sec- ond son, making the next choice, chose the vase of amber. inscribed with the wsrd ''Glory,n and when opened it con- tained the ashes of those who were once called great The third son took the vase of clay, and opening 1t found it empty, but on the bottom of it was inscribed the name of God. King Nimrod asked his courtiers which vase they thought weighed the most. Tho avaricious men of his court said the vase of gold. The poets said the vase of amber. But tho wisest men said the em ply vase, because one letter of the name of God outweighed & universe.
 For Him thirst, for His grace beg, on His promise build my all. Without Him can not be happy. l have tried the world, and it does well enough as far as it goes; but it is too uncertain world. am not prejudiced witness l have been one of the most fortunate, or to use e more Christian word, one of the most blessed of men, blessed in my parents, blessed in the place of my nativity, bless ed in my health, blessed In my field of work, blessed in my natural tempera- meut blessed in my family, blessed ln my opportunities, blessed In comfort able livelihood, blessed in the hope that my soul will go to Heaven through tho pardoning grace of God, and my body, unless it be lost at sea or eremated ln some confagration, will lie down in the gardens of Greenwood among my kin dred and friends, some already gone and others to come after me. Life to many has been a disappointment, but to me It has been pleasant surprise; and yet declare that if did not feel that God was now my friend and ever present help, should be wretched and terror struck. But want more os Him. I have thought over this text and preached this sermon to myself until, with all the aroused en- ergies of my body, mind and soul, can cry out:
 As the hart panteth after the water bro obs, so panteth my soul after Thee. o God
 Through Jesus Christ make this God your God and you can withstand any thing and every thing, and that which affrights others will inspire you. As in time of earthquake when an old Christian woman was asked whether she was scared, answered.: "No, am glad that have God who can shake the world" or, as in financial panic, when Christian merchant was asked if he did not fear be I. ttVae I Sba11
 break when the fftieth psalm breaks in the fifteenth verso: Gall upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorify me-" O., Christian men and women, pursued of annoyances and exasperations, remember that this hunt whether still hunt or hunt in full cry, will soon be over. If ever whelp looks ashamed and ready to slink out of sight it Is when in the Adiron- dacks a deer, by one long, tremendous | plunge into Big Tupper lake, gets away from him. The disappointed canine swims in little way, but, defeated,
 swims out again and crInges with humil- iated yawn at the foot of his master. And how abashed and ash amed 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 between you and | your pursuers. We are told in Revela- | ton, 22d and 18th, ''Without are dogs" | by which conclude there is whole ken- | nell of hounds outside the gate of Heaven, or, as when a master goes in door, his l 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 | can not get in. "Without are dogs W I have seen dogs and owned dogs that I
 would not be chagrined to soc in the | Eeavenly city. Some of the grand old
 watch dogs who are the consta bulary 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 gong too near the | precipice, and some of the dogs whose neck and paw Landseer, the painter, has made immortal, would not find me shut l hng 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 l the cancer, he too much hurt the poor
 woman whom the dog felt bound to
 protect: and dogs that we caressed | Ill SuT tutihlOou uaJS pi Nhht At AohhNi | time laid down on the rug in seeming
 sympathy when our homes were desolated. | I say, if some soul entering Heaven should happen to leave the gate ajar and these
 faithful creatures should quietly walk in, l 1t would not at all disturb my Heaven. | But all those human or brutal hounds l that have chased and torn and lacerated | the world; yea, all that now bite or worry | or tear to pieces, shall be prohibited. | "without are dogs?' No place there for harsh critics or back biters or despoilers
 of the regulations of others. Down with | you to the kennels of darkness and de- | spair Ths hart has req ched the eternal
 water brooks, and the pantiug of the long
 chase is quieted in still pastures, and
 ''There shall be nothing to hunt or de-
 stroy in all Gods holy mount"
 l Oh, when some of you get there 1t will | be like what hunter tells of when he
 was pushing his canoe far up north in
 the winter and amid the ice-fioes, and a
 hundred miles, as he thought, from any
 other human beings. He was startled l one day as he heard stepping on the
 foe, and he cooked his rife ready to meet
 any thing that came near. He found a
 man, barefooted and insane from long
 exposure, approaching him. Taking
 him into his canoe and kindling fires to | warm him, he res tored him and found out
 where he had lived. and took him to his
 home and found all the village in great
 excitement A hundred men were search.
 ing for this lost man, and his family ana
 friends rushed out to meet him; aud, as
 had been agreed, at his first appearance
 bells were rung, aud guns were dis
 charged, and banquets spread, ant l the regcuer loaded with preg
 ents Well, when some of yol
 step out of this wilderness, where vol
 have been chilled and torn, and some
 times lost amid the icebergs, into thu
 warm greeting of all the'villages of th'
 Glorihed, and your friends rush out to giv'
 you welcoming kiss the news that ther' l Ia annihAr snnl fnrAvnr saved will call Ihl