The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-07-20

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~ Iarown a-beam end. Wen, brother voI
ny ~ glorious company. Christ owned MOI
ehe Ntolse IN which He stopped, or the colt 81
49, ne feae, or the boat in which II,
saied, he lived in a borrowed bonsa Fl,
was buried in a borrowed grave Fynossd -
~ KINDS Of weather, vet He had only IN,
sul0 OF clothes. He breakfasted in the morn.
ing, and no one could possibly tell where II,
could get anything to eat before nig5+
ne would nave been pronounced 4 anaGcial
nliufe. de had to perform a miraeb.
V gel money to pay a tax bin. Not !
uonar qua ne own. Privation of domes.
ucltyj prlvation of nutritious food: priva.
tl9n Of a comfortable couch in which to sleen
prlgatlon.o Of all worldly resources. The KINGS
u Ihe earth had chased ehalices ont Of which
70 drink but Christ had nothing but n nlain
cup set before Him, and it was yerv shorn
ana lt was very u He took the vinegar.
mere also is the s~ourness of bereavement.
Ahere We're years that passed along before
your family circle was invaded bv death,
put the momeh the charmed circle wos
proken. everything seemed to dissolve.
hardly have you put the black apparel in
the wardrobe, before you have again to take
Y out. Great and rapid changes In your
family record. You got the house and re.
lolced IN 1t, but the charm was gone as soon
as the Grape hung on the door bell The one
upon whom you most depended was taken
away from you. A cold marble slab lies an
your heart to-day. Once, as the children
romped through the house, you put your
hand over your aching head, and said: aOh.
III could only I'VE II still?" Oh, it Is foo
still now, You lost your patience when the
tops, and the strings, and the shells were
left amid floor; but oh, you would be willing
20 have the trinkets scattered all over the
hoor again, if they were scattered by the
same hnudG WITH urba+, -ALI--#-tLT
share bereavement rips up the heart. But
Jesus knows all about that. You cannot
tell Him anything new in regard to b~ereaye.
ment He q only a few friends, and when
lie lost one it brought tears to His ewes.
Lazarus had often entertained Him
at his home. Now Lazarus
IS Q "a and buried and Christ
breaks down with emotion-the convulsion
OF grief ~shuddering through all the ages Of
bereavement. Christ knows what it Is to 90
through the hous missing a familiar inmate.
Christ knows what it is to see an unoccupied
place at the table We're there not four OF
them-Mary, and Martha, and Christ, and
Lazarus? -Four Of them. But where is
Lazarus? Lonely and afflicted Christ, His
great loving eyes filed with tears, which drop
from eye to cheek, and from cheek to beard
and from beard to robe, and from robe to
floor, Oh, yes, yes. He knows all about the
loneliness and the heartbreak. He took the
vinegar
Then there is the soreness of the death.
hour. Whatever else we may escape. that
acid-sponge will be pressed TO oar lips. l
sometimes have a curiosity to know how I
will behave when | come to die. Whether l
will be calm or excited-whether / will be
filled with reminiE4snce or with anticipation.
l cannot say. But come to the point / must
and you must. In the six thousand years
thaA h0vn nassau nnI,r Aur~ - 49, -
into the eternal world without death, and |
do not suppose that God is going to send a
carriage for US with horses Of fame to draw
us up the sleeps of heaven; but / suppose we
will v to go like the preceding genera
lions. An oaieer from the future world viii
knock at the door Of our heart and serve on
us the writ Of ejectment, and we will have to
surrender. And We viii wake up after
this autumnal, and wintry, and vernal, and
summary glories have vanished from our Wis
sion-we will wake up into q realm which has
only one season, and that the season of ev-
erlasting love. But you say: II don't want
to break out from my present associations.
1t is so chilly and so damp to go down the
stairs of that vault. Idon't want anything
drawn so tightly over my eyes. If there were
only some way Of breaking through the par
tition between worlds without tearing this
body all to shreds. / wonder if the surgeons
and the doctors cannot compound a mixture
by which this body and soul can all
the time be kept together? Is there no
escape from this separation2" None; abb
solutely none. So / look over this
audience to-day-the vast majority Of you
seeming ia good health aud spirits-and yet
[ realize that in a short time all ofus will be
gone-gone from earth, and gone for ever.
A great many men tumble through the gates
of the future, as it were, and we do not know
where they have gonet and they only add
gloom and mystery to the Passenger but jesus
Christ 50 mighty stormed the gates of that
future world that they have never since been
shut. Christ knows what it is to leave
his world, Of 1.-THE beauty of which he was
more appreciative than we ever could be. He
knows the exquisiteness of the phosphores-
eEce of the sea; he trod it. He knows the
glories Of the midnight heavens; for they
were the spangled canopy of his wilderness
pillow. He knows about the lilies; he
twisted them into his sermon. He knows
about the fouls Of the air; they whirled their
way through his discourse. He knows about
the sorrows of leaving this beautiful world.
Not a taper was kindled in the darkness. He
died physieianless. He died in cold sweat,
and dizziness, and hemorrhage, and agony
that have put In sympathy with all the dy-
ing. He goes through Christendom, and
gatheres up the strings out Of all the
death pillows, and he puts them under his
own neck and head. he gathers on his own
tongue the burning thirsts of many genera
tions. The sponge is soaked in the sorrows
of all those who have died In their beds as
well as soaked in the sorrows ofall those who
persisted in icy or iery ~martyrdom. While
heaven was pitying, and earth was knocking,
and hell was deriding, he took the vinegar
To all those in this audience to whom life
has been on acerbity-a dose they could not
swallow, q draught that set their teeth on
edge and a-rasping-I preach the onnnipotent
sympathy of Jesus Christ. The sister Of
HerscheI, the astronomer, used to help him
IN his work. He got all the credit; she got
none. She used 10 spend much OF her time
polishing tkH telescopes through which he
brought the distant worlds nigh, and IL is
my ambition now thtY hour, to clear the lens
your spiritual vision, SO that, looking
the dark night of your earthly
troubles you may behold the glorious con-
stelIation of q SaYiour's merey and
SaTfear,s lore. 0 ny friends, do
not try to carry all your iHs alone.
no not but your poor shoulders under
the Apennines when the Almighty Christ
a ready to lift up al your burdens.
when YOU have a trouble OF any kind, You
this way, ard that way n You won
what this man will say about il, and
what that man will say about ii; and you
B isprescription, and the other preserip-
O, Why do you not 60 straight to the
Of Christ, knowing that for our own
SHINING and suffering race, He took the yine-
garl
There was d vessel that had been tossed
on the seas for q great many weeks, and