The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-30

foot 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
men.if they had ever known that in the after
ages Of the world they would have been called
Egyptian guano.
Ofhow much worth now il the crown Of
Cesar? Who bids it? Who cares now any
thing about the Amphictyonic council or the
laws of Lycurgus7 Who trembles now be-
cause Xerxes crossed the Hellespont OF a
bridge of boats? Who fears because Nebu-
chadnezzar Numbered at the gates Of Jeru-
salem? Who cares now whether or not Gle
opatra marries Antony? Who crouches be-
fore Ferdinand, or Boniface, or Alaric? Can
Cromwell dissolve the English parliament
the Netherlands? No; mol However much
Elizabeth may love the Russian crown she
must pass it to Peter, n Peter to Cathe-
rine, and Catherine to Paul, and Paul to
Alexander, and Alexander to Nicholas.
Leopold puts the German sceptre into the
hand of Joseph, and Philip comes down of
the Spanish throne to let Ferdinand go on.
Honse of Aragon, house of Hapsburg, house
of Stuart, house of Bourbon, quarrelling
about everything else, but agreeing in this:
"The fashion of this world passeth away
But have all these dignitaries gone? Can
they not be called back? / have been in as
l CEAh VIC = ~ VhC Aoh GAhlCd
and many distinguished men have answered.
i'll should call the roll today Of some OF
those mighty ones who have gone, / wonder
il they would not answer, I will call the roll
Of the kings first: Alfred the Greatl William
the Conquered Frederick Ill Louis XVII No
Robert Southeyl Thomas Campbell John
Keatsl George Grabbed Robert Burnsl No an
swer. Icall the roll ofartists: Michael Angelo!
Paul Veronesel William Turner Christopher
Wrenl No answer. Eyes closed. Ears deaf.
Lips silent Hands palsied. sceptre, pencil,
| pen, sword, all down forever. Why should
we struggle for such baubles?
Another reason why We should culture this
spirit of cheerfulness is the fact that God
knows what is best for His creatures. You
know what isgood for your child. He thinks
you are not SO liberal as you ought to be.
He c~riticises 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, Godis the best offathers.
Sometimes His children think that he is hard
or them and that He is not as liberal with
them as He might be. But children do not
know as much as a father ! can tell you why
you are not ~afauent, and why you have not
been granaly successful. 1t Is because you
cannot stand the temptation. Ifyour path had
been smooth, you would have depended upon
your own surefootedness; but God roughened
that path, SO you have to take hold of His
hand. If the weather had been mild you
would have loitered along the water courses:
You quickened your pace heavenward,
warm robe of q Saviour's right
eousness. What have 1 done?" says
the wheatsheaf to the farmer, "what have /
done that you beat me so hard with your
fail?" The farmer makes no 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 NOV
upon the golden grain banked up IN either
side of the floor understands why the farmer
beat the wheatsheaf with the fail.
Who are those before the throne? The on
swer came: '"These are they who, out of
great tribulation, had their robes washed and
made white in the blood of the Lamb"
Would God that we could understand that
our trials are the very best thing for u.s., If
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 fag-
COTS that was consuming him, and. kissed it
and said: blessed be God for the time when
I was born for this preferment." They who
suffer with Him on earth shall be glorified
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 the
Lord will provide somehow. Will He who
holds the water in the hollow of His hand,
| allow His children to die of thirst? Will He
| who ownst the cattle on a thousand hills, and
all the earth's luxuriance of grain and fruit,
| allow His children to starve? Go out to-
morrow morning at 5 o'clock, into the woods
| and hear the birds chant. They nave had
no breakfast, they know not where they will
dine, they have no idea where they will sup,
but hear the birds chant at 5 O'Clock in the
---s. IL H. e~-v~ ~ L. So g.
they sow not, neither do they reap, nor
gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father
feedeth them. Are you not much better than
they?"' Seven thousand people, in Christ's
time, went into the desert. They were the
most improvident people I ever heard of.
They deserved to starve. They, might
have taken food enough to last them
they take. A lad who had more wit
than all of them put together asked
his mother that morning for some loaves of
bread and some fishes. They were put into
his satchel, He went out into the desert.
From this provision the 1000 were fed, and
until the provisions that the boy brought in
one satchel was multiplied so that he could not
have carried the fragments homein six satch-
els. 60" you say, "times have changed, and
the day of miracles has gone" / reply that
what God did then by miracle he does now
ny uuUuItl lows. L udFc UcCA yOuuk bIiu
David, but now l ON old; yet nave I never
seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed beg
| ging bread" 1t is high time that you peo-
| pie who are fretting about worldly eircum-
stances, and who are fearing you are coming
to want, understand that the oath of the
Eternal God is involved in the fact that you
are to.have enough to eat and wear.
Again, 1 remark that the religion of
Jesus Christ is the grandest influence to make
a man contented. Indemnity against all
financial and spiritual harm! 1t Gains the
spirit, dwindles the earth into insignifcance,
and swallows up the soul with the thought Of
heaven. 0 We who nave been going about
from placeto place expeetingto q q change
Of circumstances, something to give ssolace
to the spirit,I commend you this morn;sgsf
to the warm hearted earnest, nsactisu1, conn
ssThere ia pence, saith my God, for the
I'D and as long az You continue IN sin
you will he miserable. Come to Christ. Make
Him your portion and start for heaven, and
Eyon will be a~happy man-you will be a
happy woman rn@
Yet, my friends, notwithstanding all these
inducements to a spirit of contentment, /
is divided into two classes-those who scold
and those who get scolded. The carpenter
| wants to be anything but a carpenter, and
the mason anything but a mason, and the
| banker anything but q banker, and the law
yer anything but a lawyer, and the minister
anything. but q minister, and everybody
would be happy if he were only somebody else.
the apple orchards throw down their BIOS
SONS because they are not tall cedars, and
the scOw wants to be q schooner, and the
sloop wants to be a H-pounder, and parents
have the worst children that ever were, and
everybody has the greatest misfortune, and