The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-12-20

the Kings wagons,
My friends, ws afe In a world by sin
faniiees stuck; but the King is in con-
slant communication with us, his wagons
coming and going perpetuallyi and in the
rest Of my discourse | will show you what
the wagons bring and what they take
back.
In the first place, like those that came
from the Egyptian palace, the Kings
wagons now bring us corn and meat and
many changes of raiment. We are apt 10
think of the fields and the orchards as
feeding Is. but who makes the fax grow
for the liRAn, and the wheat for the bread,
and the wsol on the sleeps back? oh,
wish we could see through every graics
field, by every sheep-fold, under the trees
of every orchard, tho Kings wagons.
They drive up three times day-morn-
ing, noon and night They bring furs
from the Arctic, they bring fruits from
the tropic, they bring bread from the tenn
perate zone. The King looks out, and He
says; There are twelve hundred millions
of people 10 be fed and clothed. So many
pounds of meat, so many barrels of flour,
so many yards of cloth and linen and fam
mel, so many hats, so many socks, so
many shoes" enough for all, save
that we who are greedy get more
shoes than belong to us, and others
go barefooted. None but a God
could feed and clothe the world.
None bat Kings corn-crib could APP
pease the worlds famine. None but a
King couldtell how many wagons to send,
and how heavily to load them, and when
they are to start. They are coming over
the frozen ground to-day. Do you not
hear their rumbling, They will stop at
noon at your table. Oh, if for little
while they should cease, hunger would
come into the nations, as to Utica when
Hamilcar besiegod il, and as in Jerusalem
when Nespasiah surrounded it; and the
nations would be hollow eyed, and fall
upon each other in universal cannibalism:
and skeleton would drop upon skeleton;
and there would be no one to bury the
dead; and the earth would be field of
bleached skeletons; aud the birds of prey
would tall dead, flock after AOck, without
any Carcasses to devour; and the earth in
silence would wheel around, one great
black hearse! All life stopped because the
Kings wagons are stopped. Oh, thank
God for bread-fOr bread,
| remark again, that, like those that
came from the Egyptian palace, the
Kings wagons bring us good news. Jacob
has not heard from his boy for great
many years. He never thought of him
but with a heartache. There was In
Jacobs heart room where lay the corpse
of his unburied Joseph; and when the
wagons came, the Kings wagons, and told
him that Joseph was yet alive, he faints
dead away. Good news for Jacob. Good
news for us, The Kings wagons come
down and tell us that our Joseph jesus is
H., 1,,s. Ea
we threw Him into the pit of suffering and
the dungeon of shame. He has risen from
thence to stand in palace. The Bethle-
hem shepherds were awakened at mid
night by the rafting of the wagons that
brought the tidings. Our Joseph-Jesus
sends US message of pardon, of life, of
Heaven; corn for our hunger, raiment
for our nakedness, Jesus-J Joseph is yet
alive.
go to hunt up Jesus. go to the village
of Bethany, and say: "Where does Mary
live!" They say; "YOnder Mary lives"
go in. l see where she sat in the sitting
room. go out where Martha worked in
the kitchen, but find no Jesus. | go into
Pilates courtroom and find the Judges
and the police and the prisoners box, but
no Jesus. go into the Arimatheau Gem
etcry, but the door is gone, and the
shroud is gone, and Jesus is gone. BY
faith | look up to the Kings palace; and
behold have found Him. Joseph Jesus
is still alive! Glorious religion, religion
made not out of deaths head, and cross
bones, and undertaker's screw driver, but
one bounding with life, and sympathy.
and gladness. Joseph is yet alive!
l know that my Redeemer lives.
What comfort this sweet sentence gives.
He lives, He lives, who once was dead
He lives, my everything head
He lives TO grant me daily breath,
He lives, and shall conquer death.
He lives my mansion to prepare,
He lives to bring me safely there.
He lives, all glory to His name;
He lives, my Jesus still the same.
Oh, the sweet joy this sentence gives
know that my Redeemer lives!
The Kings wagons will after awhile I'M
load, and they will turn around and they
will go back to the palace, and | really
think that you and | will go with them.
The King will not leave US in this famine
struck world. The King has ordered that
we be lifted into the wagons, and that we
go over into Goshen, where there shall be
pasturage for our largest flock Of Joy, and
then we will drive up to the palace, where
there are gluries awaiting us that will melt
all the snow Of Egyptian marble into fora
getfuluess.
think that the Kings wagons will take
us up 70 see our lost friends. Jacobs
chief anticipation was not seeing the Nile,
nor of seeing the long colonnades of
architectural beauty, nor of seeing the
throne room, There was a focus to all
his journeyings, to all his anticipa-
tons, and that was Joseph. Well, my
friends, do not think Heaven would be
worth much if our brother Jesus was not
there. If there were two heavens, the one
with all the pomp and paraphernalia of
an eternal monarchy, but no Christ, and
the other were q plain Heaven, humbly
and Christ was there l would say: "Let
the Kings wagons take me up to the old
farmhouse"
If Jesus were not in Heaven there would
be no music there; there would be but
few people there; they would be off look.
ing for the lost Christ, crying through the
universe: "Where is Jesus! Where is
Jesus:" and after they had found Him,
with loving violence they would take Him
and bear Him through the gates; and it
would be the greatest day known in
Heaven within the memory of the oldest
inhabitant. Jesus never went off from
Heaven but once, and He was so badly
treated on that excursion they will never
let Him go again.
Oh, the joy Of meeting our brother, Jo-