Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-09-16
CONTINUED from hrst nigel

q more christian word, one OF
the most blessed Of men, blessed
in my parents, blessed in the
place Of my nativity, blessed in my
health. blessed in my field OF work,
blessed in my natural temperament,
blessed in my family, blessed in my
opportunities, blessed in a comfortable
livelihood, blessed in the hope that my
soul will go to Heaven through the par
doning mercy Of God, and my body, IN
less it be lost at sea or cremated in some
conflagration, will lie down in the gar
dens of Greenwood among my kindred
and friends, some already gone and others
to come after me. Life to many has
been a disappointment, but to me it has
been a pleasant surprise, and yet | de-
clare that if ! did not feel that God was
now my friend and eve present help,
| should be wretched and terror struck.
But | want more of him. | have
thought over this text and preached
this sermon to myself until with all the
aroused energies of my body, mind and
soul, and | can cry out. LAS the hart
panteth after the water brooks, SO panteth
my soul after thee, o God" Through
Jesus Christ make this God your God and
you can withstand anything and every
thing, and that which affrights others
will inspire you. As in time Of earth
quake when an old Christian woman
was asked whether she was scared, an
swered: mo, l am glad that l have a
God who can shake the world, or, as in
a financial panic, when a Christian mer-
chant was asked if he did not fear he
would break. answered: "Yes, / shall
break when the fifteenth Psalm breaks
in the fifteenth verse: Call upon me in
the day of trouble; | will deliver thee
and thou shalt glorify me. o Chris
tan men and women, pursued Of
annoyances and exasperations. remember
that this hunt, whether a still hunt or a
hunt in full cry, will soon be over. If
ever a whelp looks ashamed and ready to
stink out Of sight it is when in the
Adirondacks a deer by mi long, tremen-
dous plunge into Big Upper lake gets
away from him. The disappointed canine
swims in a little way, but, defeated,
swims out again and cringes with humili-
ated yawn at the feet of his master. And
how abashed and ashamed will all your
earthly troubles be when you have dashed
into the river from under the throne of
God, and the heights and depths Of heaven
are between you and your pursuers. We
are told in Revelation xxi, Is: Without
are dogs" by which | conclude there is
a whole kennel Of hounds outside the
gate Of heaven, or, as when a master
goes in a door his dog lies on the steps
waiting for him to come out, so the
troubles Of this life may follow us to the
shining door, but they cannot get in.
without are dogsl" have seen dogs
and owned dogs that ! would not be
chagTined to see in the heavenly city.
Some of the grand old watch dogs who
are the constabulary of the homes in sol
itary places, and for years have been the
only protection of wife and child; some
Of the shepherd dogs that drive
back the wolves and bark away
the focks from going too near the
precipice; and some of the dogs whose
neck and paw Landseer, the painter, has
made immortal, would not find me shut
ting them out from the gate of shining
pearl. Some of those old st. Bernard
dogs that have lifted perishing travellers
out of the Alpine snow; the dog hat
John Brown, the Scotch ~essayist, saw
ready to spring at the surgeon lest, in
removing the cancer, he too much hurt
the poor woman whom the dog felt
bound to protect; and dogs that we
caressed in our childhood days, or
that in later time lay down on
the rug in seeming sympathy when our
homes were desolated. | say, if some
soul entering heaven should happen to
leave the gate ajar and these faithful
creatures should quietly walk in, it
would not at all disturb my heaven. But
all those human or brutal hounds that
have chased and torn and lacerated tho
world; yea, all that now bite or worry
or tear TO pieces, shall he prohibited.
"Without are dogs No place there
for harsh critics or backbiters or despoil-
ers Of the reputation of others. Down
with you TO the kennels Of darkness and
NSopoh' lhN udil idn ItdCIltl tnt tleT-
nal water brooks, and the painting of the
long chase is Quoted in still pastures, |
and There shall DE nothing 70 hunt or |
destroy in all Gods holy mount"
Oh, when some Of you get there IL
will be ike what a hunter tells of when
he was pushing his canoe far up north in
the winter and amid the ice foes, and 4
hundred miles, as he thought, from any
other human beings. He was startled
n day as he heard a stepping on the
ice, and he cooked the rifle ready TO meet
anything that came near. He found a
man, barefooted and insane from long
exposure, approaching him. Taking him
into his canoe and kindling fires 10 warm
him, he restored him and found out
where he had lived, and took him to
his home and found all the village in
great excitement. A hundred men were
searching for this lost man, and his
family and friends rushed out to meet
him, and, as had been agreed, at his first
appearance bells were rung and guns
were discharged and banquets spread,
and the rescuer loaded with presents.
Well, when some Of you step out Of this
wilderness, where you have been chilled
and torn and sometimes lost amid the
icebergs, into the warm greetings Of all
the villages Of the gloriiied, and your
friends rush out 10 give you welcoming
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