West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-06-08
thickened! All the sinsof yourlife

thickened! All the sins Of yourlife
pounced upon: you. and it was the
darkest hour you ever saw when you
| first found out your sins. After .
while you went into the harvest field
of Gods mercy; you began to CLEAN
in the fields of divine promise, and
you had more sheayes than. you
could carry, as the voice of God adj
dressed you, saying, BLESSED is the
man whose transgressions are for
given, and whose sins are covered"
| A very dark starting in conviction,
very bright ending in the pardon
and the hope and the triumph of the
Gospel!
So, very often in our worldly bust
ness or in our spiritual career, we
start off on very dark path. We
must go. The flesh may shrink
back, but there is voice with
in. or voice from above, saying:
"You must co." and we have to
drink the gall, and we have to carry
the cross, and we have to traverse
the desert, and we are pounded and
failed of Misrepresentation and
abuse, and we have to urge our way
through ten thousand obstacles that
must be slain by our own right arm.
We have to ford the river, we have to
climb the mountain, we have to
storm the castle, but, blest be God,
the day of rest and reward will come.
On the tip top Of the captured bat
Elements we shall shout the victory;
if not in this world, then in that
world where there is. no gall to
drink, no burdens to carry, no bat
ties to fight. How do / know it !?
Know it! I know it because God
says so: "They shall hunger no
more, neither shall the sun light on
them, nor any heat, for the Lamb
which is in the midst of the throne
shall lead them to living fountains
of water, and God shall wipe all
tears from their eyes, E aeigfl
! 1t was very hard for Noah to en-
dure the soothing of the people in his
day while he was trying to build the
ark, and was every morning quizzed
about his old boat that would never
be of any practical use; but when
the delnge came, and the tops Of
the mountains disappeared like the
backs of sea monsters, and the e.e-
ments, lashed up in fury, clapped
their hands over drowned world,
then Noah in the ark rejoiced in bis
own safety and in the safety OF his
family, and looked out on the wreck
of ruined earth.
Christ, bounded of prosecutors,
denied a pillow, worse maltreated
than the thieves on either side of
the cross, human hate smacking it's
lips in satisfaction after it had been
draining his last drop of blood, the
sheeted dead bursting from the sep
ulchers at his crucifixion. Tell me,
| o Gethsemane and Golgotha ! were
there ever darker times than those !?
Like the booming of the midnight
sea against the rock, the surges OF
! Christ's anguish beat against the
gates of eternity, to be echoed back
by all the thrones of heaven, all the
dungeons of hell. But the day Of re-
ward comes for Christ; all the pomp
and dominion of this world are to
be hung on his throne, uncrowned
heads are to bow before him on
whose head are many crowns, and
all the celestial worship is to come
ND at his feet. like the cumming Of
the forest, like the rushing of the
waters, like the laundering of the
seas, while all heaven, rising on
their thrones, beat time with their
scepters: "Hallelujah, for the Lord
God omnipotent reigneth Halle.
lujah, the Kingdoms of this world
have become the kingdoms Of our
Lord Jesus Christ %
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.
| Nv. Again: / learn from nv
subject that events which seem to
be most insignificant may be mo-
mentous. Can you imagine any,
thing more unimportant than the
coming of poor woman from Moab
to Judah? Can you imagine any
thing more trivial than the fact that
this Ruth just happened to alight-
as they say-just happened to alight
on that field of Boaz I? Yet all
ages, all generations have an inter-
est in the fact that she was to be
come an ancestor of the Lord jesus
Christ, and all nations and king
doms must look at that one little in
cident with thrill of unspeakable
and eternal satisfaction. So it is in
| your history and in mine; events
that you thought of no Importance
at all have been of very great mo-
ment. That casual Conversation,
thot accidental meeting-yom did
not think Of IL again for a long
while; bit hor it changed all the
phase Of your life!
1t seemed to be Of no Importance
that Jubal invented rude instru-
ments Of music, call them harp and
organ; but they were the introduce
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