The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-07-27
on plank OF the wrecked steamer, sing
ing to the tune of "St Martin's:"
"Jesus lover of my SOUL
Let me 10 Tiny bosom fly.
While the bllows near me RON,

While the tempest still is high"
The heart right toward God and man, we
are happy. The heart wrong toward God
and man, we are unhappy
Another reason why we should come to
this spirit inculcated in the text is the fact
that all the differences of earthly condition
are transitory. The houses yau build, the
land you cultivate, the places in which you
barter, are soon to 90 into other hands.
However hard you may have il now, If you
are q Christian the scene will soon end.
Pain, trial, persecution never knock at the
door of the grave. coffin made out OF
pine boards is just good resting place
as one made out of silver mounted ma
hogany or rosewood
Go down among the resting-places Of the
dead, and you will find that though people
there had great difference of worldly cir
cumstances, now they are all alike uncon-
scious. The hand that greeted the Senator,
and the President, and the King is still as
the hand that hardened on the mechanics
hammer or the manufacturers wheel. IL
does not make any difference now whether
there is q plain stone above them from
which the traveller pulls aside the weeds
to read the name, or tall shaft springing
into the heavens as though 70 tell their
virtues to the skies.
In that silent land there are no titles for
great men, and there are no rumblings of
chariot wheels and there is never heard
the foot of the dance. Tho Egyptian guan0
which is thrown on the fields in the East
for the enrichment of the soil is the dust
raled out from the sepulchers of Kings
and Lords and mighty men. Oh, the cha
grin of those men if they had ever known
that in the after ages of the world they
would have been called Egyptian guano.
OF how much worth now is the crown Of
CRsarl Who bids for it4 Who cares now
A T..Av
Gil or the laws Of Lycurgusl Who trembles
now because Xerxes crossed the Helles-
pont on a bridge of boatsl Who fears be-
cause Nebuchadnezzar thunders at the
gates of Jerusaleml Who cares now
whether or not Cleopatra marries Antonyt
Who crOuches before Ferdinand, or Boni-
face, or Alaricl Can Cromwell dissolve
the English Parli mcnt now4 Is William,
Prince of Orange, King of the Netherlands
No, mol However much Elizabeth may
love the Russian crown, she must pass 1t
|. to Peter, and Peter to Catherine, and
Catherine to Paul, and Paul to Alexander,
and Alexander to Nicholas. Leopold puts
the German scepter into the hand of JO-
seph, and Philip comes down of the Span
ish throne to let Ferdinand go on. House
of Aragon, house of Hapsburg, house Of
Stuart house of Bourbon, quarreling
about every thing else but agreeing in
this: ''The fashion of this world passeth
away -
But have all these dignitarles comet Can
they not be called backl / have been in
assemblages where have heard the roll
called, and many distinguished men have
answered. If / should call the roll to-day
of some of those mighty ones who have
gone wonder if they would not auswerl
/ will call the roll. l will call the roll Of
the Kings first: Alfred the Great Will
lam the Conquerorl Frederick IA. Louis
XVII No answer. / will call the roll of
the poets. Robert Southeyi Thomas
Campbell John Keatsi George Grabbed
Robert Burns No answer. I call the roll
of artists: Michael Angelol Paul Veron-
ese! William Turnerl Christopher Wreni
No answer. Eyes closed. Ears deaf. Lips
silent. Hands pasied. Scepter, pencil,
pen, sword, put down forever. Why
should we struggle for such baublest
Another reason why we should culture
this spirit of cheerfulness is the fact that
God knows what is best for His creatures.
You know what is best for your child. He
thinks you are not as liberal with him as
you ought to be. He criticises your dis
cipline, but you look over the whole field,
and you, loving that child, do what in your
deliberate Judgment is best for him. Now,
God is the best Of fathers. Sometimes His
children think that He is hard en- them,
and that He is not as liberal with them as
He might be. But children do not know as
much as father. l can tell you why you
are not largely affiuent, and why you have
not been grandlY successful 1t is because
you can not stand the temptation.
If your path had been smooth, you would
have depended upon your own surefooted-
ness; but God roughened that path, so you
have to take hold Of His hand. If the
weather had been mild, you would have
lOitered along the water courses, but at
Vg-T~zr
your pace Heavenward and wrapped
around you the warm robe of q SaviOur's
righteousness What have / done1" says
the wheat-sheaf to the farmer, ''what have
done that you beat me so hard with your
hail7" The farmer makes no answer, but
the rake takes off the straw, and the mill
blows the chaff to the wind, and the golden
grain falls down at the foot of the wind
mill. After awhile, the straw, looking
down from the NOW upon the golden grain
banked up on either side the floor, under
stands why the farmer beat the wheat
sheaf with the fail.
Who are those before the thronei The
answer came: "These are they who, out
OF great tribulation, had their robes
washed and made white in the blood Of tho
Lamb" Would to God that we could under
stand that our trials the very best
thing for us. five had an appreciation of
that truth, then we should know why IL
was that John Noyra, the martyr, in the
very midst Of the fame, reached down and
picked up one of the fagots that was con-
suming him, and kissed it, and said:
blessed be God for the time when l was
born for this perferment" They who
suffer with Him on earth shall be glorified
with Him in Heaven Be content, then,
with such things as you have.
Another consideration leading US to the
spirit of the text is the assurance that the
holds the water in the hollow Of His hand
allow His children to die Of thirst viii
He who owns the cattle on a thousand hills,
and all the earth's luxuriance Of grain and
fruit allow His children to starvel Go
out tomorrow morning at FIVE O'Clock into
the woods and hear the birds chant They
have had no breakfast, they know not
where they will dine, they have no idea
where they will sup; but hear the birds
chant at five O'Clock IN the morning. Be-
hold the fowls Of the air; for they sow not,
neither do they reap, nor gather into barns,
yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them
Are you not much better than they"
Seven thousand people, in Chrisps time,
went into the desert. They were the most
improvident people I ever heard of. They
deserved to starve. They might have
taken food enough 70 last them until they
got back Nothing did they take. A lad,
who had more wit than all Of them put
together, asked his mother that morning
for some loaves Of bread and some fishes.
They were put into his sachel- He went
cut into the desert. From this provision
the seven thousand were fed, and the more
they ate the larger the loaves grew, until
the provision that the boy brought in one
sachel was multiplied so he could not have
carried the fragments home ia six sachels.
COZ you say, "times have changed, and
the day Of miracles has gone" reply
that, what God did then by miracle, He
does now in some other way, and by
natural laws. Il have been young" said
David, "but now ! am old yet have