West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-05-31

very brightly.
When you started out for heaven, oh,
how Sinai Numbered and devils tor
mented, and the darkness thickened
All the sins OF your life bounced upOn YOU
and IL was tho darkest hour you ever saw
when you first found out your sins After
awhile you went into the haryest.field OF
Gods mercy; you began 20 CLEAN i'm the fields
OF divine promise and you had more sheaves
than you could carry, as tho voice
u God addressed YOU, saying: blessed Is
the man whose transgreSsions are forgiven,
and whose sins are covered" very dark
starting In conviction n very bright ending
in the pardon and the hope and the triumph
II tho Gospel
SO, very often in our worldly blsiness or I'm
our spiritual career. we start of on a very
dark path. We must go. The flesh may
shrink back, but there Is voice within or n
voics from above, saying: "You must go:n
and we have 10 drink the gall, and we
have 70 carry the GRO $, and we have
TO traverse the desert and we are Dounded and
Hailed OF Misrepresentation and abuse. and
we have TO urZo our way through ten thou
sand Obstacles that must be slain by cur own
right arm. We have 70 ford the river, we
have To- climb the mountain, we have TO
storm the castle; but blessed be God
the day Of rest and reward will come On
the tip top or tho captured battlements we
VIII shout the victory; IL not i'm this world,
then In that world where there Is no gall 10
drink, no burdens TO carry, no battles 90
light. How do know III Know IL i know
IL because God says so: "They shall
hunger no more, neither thirst any more,
neither shall the sun light on them, nor any
heat, for the lamb which is i'm the midst OF
tho throne shall lead them TO living foun-
talns OF water, and God shall wipe all tears
from their eyes,
IL was very hard for Noah TO endure the
soothing of the people i'm his day, while
he was trying to build the ark, and
was every morning quizzed, about his
practical use; but when the deluge came,
and the tops OF the mountains disappeared
like the backs OF sea-monsters, and the elo-
ments, lashed up in fury, clapped their
hands over n drowned world, then Noah in
the ark rejoiccd in his own safety and in the
safety of his family and looked on the wreck
OF n ruined earth.
Christ, bounded Of prosecutors, denied a
pillow, worse maltreated than the thieves
ON either side OF the cross, human hate
smackiDg its lips in satisfaction after
II had been draining His last drop Of
blood, the sheeted dead bursting from the
sepulchres ut His crucifixion. Tell me. o
Gethsemane and Golgothal were there ever
darker times than thosei Like the booming
of the midnight sea against the rock, the
surges OF Christs anguish beat against the
gates OF eternity, TO be echoed back
by all the thrones of heaven and all the
dungeons OF hell. But the day of reward
OF this world are to be hung on His throne,
uucrowned heads are to bow before Him on
whose head are many crowns and all the
celestial worship is to come up at His feet like
the humming OF the forest, like the rushing
or the waters, like the laundering of the seas,
while all heaven, rising ON their thrones, beat
time with their sceptres: "Halleluiah for
the Lord God omnipotent reignethl Halle
luJah, the Kingdoms of this world have be-
come the kingdoms of our Lord Jesus
CHRISTI
That song OF love- now low and far
Ere long shall swell from star to star;
That light, the breaking day which tips
The golden-spired Apocalypse"
". Again: l learn from my subject that
events which seem TO be most insignificant
may be momentous Can you imagine any
thing more unimportant than the coming
OF poor woman from Moab TO Judahl Can
you imagine anything more trivial than the
fact that this Ruth Just happened to alipht
las they say-just happened to alight ON
that field of Boazl Yet all ages. all genera
tons have an interest in the fact that she
was 10 become an ancestor of the Lord Jesus
Christ, and all nations and kingdoms must
look at that one little incident with
a thrill of unspeakable and eternal
satisfaction. SO it is in your history and i'm
mine; events that you thought Of no import
ance at all have been of very great moment
meeting--you did not think of it again for a
of your lifel
1t seemed to DO of no Importance that
Juoal invented rude instruments of music
calling them harp and organ; but they were
the introduction of all the worlds minstrelsv.
and as you hear the vibration of n stringed
instrument even after the fingers have
been taken away from it, so all music
now OK fiute and drum and cornet is only the
long continued strains OF Jubal's harp and
Jubals organ. IL seemed to be n matter of
very little Importance that Tubal Cain
learned the uses of copper and iron: but that
rude foundry of ancient days has its echo in
the rattle OF Birmingham machinery and
the roar and bang Of factories on the BIerri-
mac.
1t seemed 20 be a matter of no Importance
that Luther found n Bible in a monastery:
but as he opened that Bible, and the brass
bound lids fell back, they Jared everything,
from the Vatican to the furthest convent in
Germauy, and the ru5ting of the wormed
leaves was thesOun of the wings of the Angel
OF the Reformation. II seemed to be a matter
of no Importance that a woman, whose name
has been forgotten, dropped a tract in the
way Of a very bad man by the name OF
Richard Baxter He picked up the tract
and read it, and it was the means Of his
salvation
In after-days that man wrote n book called
THE Call TO the Unconverted," that was the
means Of bringing a multitude TO God
among others Philip Doddridge. Philip Dodd-
bridge wrote a book called "The Rise and
Progress OF Religion, which has brought
thousands and tens OF thousand into the
kingdom OF God, and among others the
great Wherefore. WiberfOrce wrote n
book called: "a Practical View OF Christi
anity," which was the means OF bringing q
great multitude TO Christ, among others
Leigh Richmond. Leigh Richmond wrote
trac. called: THE Dairyman's Daugh-
ter. which has been the means OF the sal
walton OF uncOunted multitudes And
that tide OF influence started from the fact
that one Christian woman dropped a Chris
tan tract in the way OF Richard Baxter
Cue tideo OF influence rolling on through Rich.
ard Baxter, through Philip DOddridge.
through the great Wherefore, through
Leigh Richmond. on, on, on for
ever, forever. So the insignificant
events Of this world seem. after
all TO be momentou8 The fact that Won
came MP that street or this street seemed 10
be OF no Importance TO you, and the fact that
you went Inside OF some church may seem TO
De a matter OF very great insignihcance 20
you but you viii find it tho turning.point i'm
your history.
v Again: ! see IN my subject an illustra-
ton OF the beauty OF female industry.
BEHOLD Ruth toiling in the haryest-held
under the hot sun, or at noon taking plain
bread with the reaper8. or eating the parched
corn which BOaz handed TO her The Gus.
toms Of society, of course, have changed and
without the hardships aud exposure 30 which
Ruth was subjected every intelligent womaD
viii find something 90 do
] know there is a siczly ssntimentilitv on
this subject I'm SONS families there arc per
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