New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-10-24

Thy hands red with the blood in which:
thou hast washed, thy feet crimson
with the human gore through which
thou hast waded. stand up and take
thy sentence! Down with thee tc
the pit and sup on the sobs and groans O.
families thou hast blasted, and roll on the
bed knives which thou hast sharpened for
Others and let thy music be the everlasting
miserere of those whom thou hast dammedl
brand the forehead of infdelity with all the
crimes of selfimmol ation for the last century
ontthe part of those who had their reason.
My friends, if ever your life through its
abrasions and its molestations should seem
TO be ulbearable, and you are tempted to
quit it by your own behest. do not consider
yourself as worse than others. Christ him.
self was tempted to cast himself from the
roof of the Temple; but as He resisted, SO re-
sist ye. Christ came to medicine all your
wounds. In your trouble prescribe life in
stead of death. People who have had it
worse than you viii ever have it have gone
songfm on the way. Remember that God
keeps the chronology of your life with as
much precision as he keeps the chronology
of nations, your death as well as your cradle.
Why was it that at midnight, just at mid.
night, the destroying angel struck the blow
that set the Israelites free from bondage?
The 40 years were up at IL O'Clock that
night. The 430 years were not up at IL,
and L o'clock would have been tardy and
too late. The 430 years were up at II
o'clock and, the destroying angel struck the
blow, and Israel was free. And God knows
just the hour when it is time to lead you up
from earthly bondage. By his grace make
not the worst of things, but the best ofthem.
If you must take the pills do not chew them.
Your. everlasting rewards will accord with
you earthly perturbations Just as Casius
gaveeto Agrippa chain of gold as heavy as
had been chain of iron For the asking
and do not know to whom | speak in this
august assemblage, but the word may be es.
pecially appropriate for your asking you
may have the same grace that was given to
the Italian martyr, Algerius, why, down in
the darkest of dungeons, dated his letter
from the delectable orchard of the Leonine
prison.
And remember that this brief life of ours is
surrounded by a RIM a very thin but very
Important rim, and close up to that rim is a
great eternity, and you had better keep out
OF it until God breaks that rim and sepa-
rates this from that To get rid of the SORROWS
of earth, do not rush into greater sorrows.
10 get rid ola swarm of summer insects,
leap not into a jungle of Bengal tigers.
There is asorroWless world, and it is SO
radiant that the MONDAY sun is only the
lowest doorstep and the aurora that lights
up our southern heavens, confounding as
tronomers as to what it can be, is the waving
of the banners of theprocession come to take
the conqueroTs home from church militant
to church triumphant, and you and l have
10000 reasons for wanting to go there, but
we will never get there either by self-immo-
lation or impenitency. All our sins slain by
theHChrist who came to do that thing, we
want to go in at just the time divinely ar
ranged and from couch diviney spread,
and then the, clang of the sepulchral gates
behind us will be overpowered by the clang
OF the opening of the solid pearl before us.
o God, what ever others may choose, give
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Christians burial, a Christians immortal
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