Sharp County record., 1888-05-24

into the water, and it became sweet
slaked the thirst of the SUFFERING : p
Are we branch of the Tree ~
sweetening all the brackish CountainS
we can touch? Dear Lord send US all
on Thy mission. All around us embitto
lives, emblttered by persecution,
bittered by hypercriticism, embittt
by poverty, embittered by pain
bittered by injustice, embittere1
sin. Why not go forth and sweeten d
by smiles, by inspiring words, by b.
factions, by hearty counsel, by pra
by gospelized behavior. Let us remep
that if we are wOrmwood to OF
we are wormwood to ourselves
our life will be bitter and our eter
bitter. The Gospel Of Jesus Christ is
only sweetening power that is sufici
1t sweetens the disposition. 1t sweet
the manners. 1t sweetens life. 1t sv
ems mysterious providence. 1t sweet
Affections. 1t sweetens death. 1t sw
ems every thing. l have heard pc,
asked in social company: "If you CO
have three wishes gratifed what vo
vour three wishes be-" If l couldh
three wishes met this morning, tell
what they would be: Ql More Of
grace of God. (2) More Of the grace
God. (8) More of the grace Of B
In the yard of my brother ID
missionary in Annoy, China, there
tree called the Emperor tree, the
characteristics of which are that it alV
grows higher than its surrounding,
its leaves take the form of crow
this Emperor tree be planted by an
bush it grows a little higher than thel
and spreads out above it crown. III
planted by the side of another ttI
grows a little higher than that tree
spreads above it crown. Would
that this religion Of Christ, more
derful Emperor tree, might Oversh
all your lives; are you lOwly in ami
or circumstance, putting over yC
crown; are you high in talent and poi
putting over you its crown. Oh, for
of the saccharine in our lives and
the wOrmwoOd.
What is true Of individuals is b
nations. God sets them up to reyd
stars, but they may fall wormwOol
Tyre-the atmosphere of the deSet
grant with spices, coming in caraT
her fairs; all seas cleft into foam
keels of her laden merchantmG
markets rich with horses and cameh
Togarmah; her bazaars filled
upholstery from the Ocean, with enc
and coral and agate from Syria
wines from Helbon, with embroil
work from Ashur and Chilmad w !,
now the CLEAN of her towers Eh~ !
roar of her chariOts, where the mas
her ships? Let the fishermen ~
their nets where once she stOOdS
sea that rushes upon the barreN
where once she challenged the admiral
of all nations, let the barbarians WHO
their rude tents where once her paC
plittered answer the question. SheFas
star, but by her own sin turned toDrf
wood and has fallen.
Babylon, with her two hundredndf
towers and her brazen gates and .eN
battled walls, the splendor Of nn
gathered within her palaces, her IN
gardens built by NebuchadneZus
his bride, Amyitis, who had been
up in a mountainous country @
not endure the fiat country round
these hanging gardens bull
above terrace, till at the helsN
hundred feet there were woodS@
f6a El6fys f}G5EEiRfg f55EEiiRHfg tHR8e H8 II HfeEdHFS ss @
on the wing. On the tip-top aKA
ing with his Queen, among status1
white, looking up at birds brousi
distant lands, and drinking out
ards of solid gold or looking of
ers and lakes upon nations Subda
tributary, crying:
SIS not this great Babylon whia
built?"
What battering ram smOte Tx
What plowshare upturned the .
What army shattered the bra7a
What long, fierce blast of storm
this light which illuminated the
What crash Of discOrd drove O
music that poured from palace
and garden grove and called The d
ers to their revel and the dancers
feet? l walk upon the scene OF dej
to find an answer and pick upl
bitumen and brick and broken
the remains of Babylon, and a
silence of the night hear the Su
that billow of desOlation which
the scene, l hear the wild waves
Babylon was proud. BaOylCl
pure. Babylon was star, bus
turned to wormwood and has fal
Ipray that our Nation may n0l
crimes of the nations that have
and our cup of blessing turn
wood and like them we 60 dow
by nature and by grace an opul
expect that this country will cohu-
vance until the world shall put
nial era aand that when Christ sl
again He will set His throne
between the Alleghenies ana
Nevadas. But be not decelveu'
safety is in righteousness to"a
Justice toward man. If we forge
ness of the Lord to this lana
His Sabbaths and improve nO'
| disasters that have again ana y
to us as a people, and we lea,
lesson neither from civil war lS
epidemic, nor drought nor nh
scourge Of locusts and grass
the political corruption
poisoned the fountains
virtue and beslimed the hgn
authority, making free goy01
times kissing and a byworg
earth; if the drunkenness anu
ness that staggeS and blasla5S
streets of our great cities asp