The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-09-21

wisest men said the empty vase, because |
one letter of the name of God Outweighed |
a universe.
For Him 1 thirst, for His grace beg, !
on His promise build my all. Without |
Him 1 can not be happy 1 have tried |
the world, and it does we'll enough as far
as it goes; but it is too uncertain world |
L am not prejudiced witness. have
been one of the most fortunate, or to use
more Christian word, one of the most
blessed Of men, blessed in my parents,
blessed in the place of my nativity, bless
ed in my health, blessed in my field of
work, blessed in my natural tempera-
ment blessed in my family, blessed in
my opportunities, blessed in a comfort
able livelihood, blessed in the hope that I
my soul will go to Heaven through the
pardOning grace Of God, and my body,
unless it be lost at sea or cremated in
some cOnfagration, will lie down in the
gardens of Greenwood among my kim
dred and friends, some already gone and
others to come after me. Life to many
has been disappointment, but to me 1t
has been a pleasant surprise; and yet
declare that if did not feel that God was
now my friend and ever present help,
/ should be wretched and terror struck.
! But want more OF Him. 1 have thought
over this text and preached this sermon
erges of my body, mind and soul, can
| cry out:
As 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 any
thing and every thing, and that which
/ affrights others will inspire you As in
time of earthquake when an old Christian
! woman was asked whether she was
| scared answered.: mo, I am glad that
| have God who can shake the world" or,
as in a financial panic, when Christian
| merchant was asked if he did not fear he
| would break, answered: Yes, shall
| break when the fiftieth psalm breaks in
| the fifteenth versec Call upon me in the
day of trouble; I will deliver thee and
| thou shalt glorify me-" ., Christian
men and women, pursued of annOyances
| and exasperatiOns, remember that sthis
| hunt, whether q still hunt or a hunt
| in full cry, will soon be over, If ever
| whelp looks ashamed and ready to stink
out of sight it is when in the AdirOn-
| dacks a deer, by one long, tremendous
plunge into Big Upper lake, gets away
from him. The disappointed canine
| swims in little way, but, defeated,
/ sWims out again and crlnges with humil-
lated yawn at the foot of his master.
/ And how abashed and ash AIMED will all
your earthly troubles be when you have
| throne of God, and the heights and
depths of Heaven are between you and
your pursuers.- We are told In r evela-
ton, 22d and 18TH ''WithOut are dogs"
| by which I conclude there is a whole ken
nell of hounds outside the gate of Heaven,
or, as when master goes in 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 hey
can not get in. ''Without are dogs !"
l have seen dogs and owned dogs that
would not be chagrined to see in the
heavenly city. Some of the grand old
watch-dogs who are the cOnstabulary OF
the homes in solitary places, and fOI
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 gong too near the
| precipice, and some of the dogs whose
neck and paw Landseer, the painter, haa
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 that 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 latter
sympathy when our homes were desolated.
1 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
the world; yea, all that now bite or worry
or tear to pieces, shall be prohibited.
''Without are dogs?'' No place there for
harsh critics or back bite1s or despoilers
of the regulations of others. Down with
you to the kennels of darkness and de-
spair! Ths hart has rea ched the eternal
water brooks, and the painting OF the long
chase is quoted in still pastures, and
''There shall be nothing to hunt or de-
/ stroy in all Gods holy m CUNT"
Oh, when some of you get there it will
} be like what a hunter tells of when he
was pushing his canoe far up north in
! the winter and amid the ice-hOes, and 3
hundred miles, as lie thought, from any
other human beings. He was startled
one day as he heard a stepping on the
ice, and he cooked his rifle ready to NEE;
any thing that came near. He found O
man, barefOOted and insane from long
exposure, approaching him. Taking
him into his canoe and kindling fires tC
warm him, he res tOred him and found out
where he had lived, and took him to his
home aud found all the village in great
I y
ing 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 dis
charg ed and bauquets spread, and
the rescuer loaded with pres.
ents. Well, when some of yoU
step out of this wilderness, where yoU
have been chilled and torn, and some
times lost amid the icebergs, into the
warm greeting OF all the villages Of the
glorifed, and your friends rush out to give
you a welcoming kiss, the news that there
is another soul forever saved will call thu
caterers of Heaven to spread the banque
and the bell-men to lay hold of the rope
| in the tower, and while the chalices clicl
| at the feast, and the bells clang from this
| towers, it will be scene so uplifting
pray God l may be there to take part il
9 | the celestial merriment. And now, d.
4 you not think the prayer in SolomOn'i
l | song, where he compared Christ to
reindeer coming down in the night t
= pasture on the plains, would make an ex'
= quisitely appropriate peroraUiOn to nv
S ! sermon:
Until the day break and the shadows fee
! away, be thou like a roe or young hart upol
r | the mountains OF Bother
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