Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-08-30

z(amR Tn have DEFH An1E~ ~4.-
nv;est cannot alone unite n couple. Ill
Tord ALMIGHTY must proclaim banas. lnes
-.nw : home IN which there - no syM
na,hv ana NO haursness, and no good eneel.
rhe slamor of the battle may not 9hfe
heard outside. but God knows, notvl,nh .
ing. the playing Of the .pg sd blossoms and
an hana5;ction of the officiating pastor,
there has been no marriage; erd on
one side Of them the rock OF perseen.toh' 80 ~
ON the other side the rock OF aomse
Hr;tv What shaft such q one DO. 10 :
Jonathan did-limb. Get NJ the heights %
Gods consolation. from wnicn We may 1on
Joxn In triumph upon outside persecation
md home trouble. While good ard greae
John Wesley was being sileneeo Dy :.
magistrates and having his name 49, a
the board fences Of London IN doggsrei. .
fhe same time his wife was making nim
miserable as she couId-acting as though she
we're nosseseed with the devil, as snpposss
she was: never doing him 9 kfp9hess ~
the day she ran away so that ne wro.e 49,
iiarv tbase words. II did not forsake hei,;
7 have moi dismissed her; ! viii not recah
her. Planting one foot, John Wesley dlo.
tupon outside persecution, and the othet ~
On home frouble. be climbed up into me
heights of Christian joy, and aitsr preacsns
40 O0Osermons. and travelling zto,voo Lif'
reached the heights OF heaven; ,no"sh
this NDFtu he q u tot
rock on the one side, and a sharp rock ohene
other" Liz "a
| the text who has bereavement and o srragsis
for fvelihooda at the same TINT otnaus
! mentioning names, j sPeakfromo ossIsa-
Al, II j. a hard thing for o woman 20 MAKE
/ nm honeut living. even when her heart y not
| troubIed. and she has a AR cheek and rhe
| marn.tisU Of an exquisite presence. nas
now the hus bond or the father If aeaa. tns
expenses of the obsequies have absorbed M
| that was left in the savings oahA,
| and watching, she goes forth-a grave, q
( hearse. a coffin behind her-to contend iof
her existence and the existence Of her chit
| dren. When 1 see such q battle as that open
| shut nv eyes ait the ghastliness OF tine spec
tacle. Men sit with embroidered sipPe,s
and write heartlsss essays aoous 49,
wages: but that question Is made up OF usafs
and blood. and there is more blood than
tears Obi give women free access 70 All
the realms where she can get q I~iyelinooo,
| from the telegraph Office TO the pulpit Icy
men's wages be cut down before her's are cut
down. Men have ron in Their souis ana ean
| stand il. Make the way FIRE 20 her o. ihs
! broken heart. May God put into my hama
I the cold, bitter cup of privatioI, and give me
/ nothing hut q widowless hut for shelter ior
many years, rather than that after am
dead there should go out rom my nome m
TO the pitless world a woman's arm 70 hSnt
the Gettysburg. the Austerntz, tne "htefioo
of life, for bread.
And yet how many women there are seaied
| between the rock of bereavement on the one
sid4 and the rock Of restitution on the other,
Bozez and Seneh interlocking Their shadow
and dropping them upon her miserable way:
"There is a sharp rock on the one side, and
a sharp rock on the other side" What are
such TO dof Somehow, let them climb up in
to the heights ofthe glorious promise: Leave
thy fathsrless children; ! viii preserve them
alive; and let thy widows trust in Me. Or
get up into the heights Of that
other glorious promise: The Lord
preseryeth the stranger and reIieyeth the Wild
ow and the fatherless." 81 ye sewing SoIn-
| an on starving wages. 0iye widows turned
ont from the once beautiful home. OF We f-
male teachers kept on niggardly stipend. y!
We despairing women, seeking In vain Tor
work, wandering along the docks and THINK
ing 10 throw yourself into the river last night.
OF We women of weak nerves and aching sides.
and short breath and broken heart, you need
something more than human sympathy; you
need the sympathy of God. Climb mp into
his arms. He knows il all, and be loves o
more than father, or mother, or husband ever
did: and instead Of sitting down, wringing
your hands in despair, ron had better begin
to climb. There are heights of consolation
for ron, though now there is a sharp rock
on the one side, and a sharp rock on the 9th
er side"
Again, that man is in the crisis of the
text who has a wasted life on one side, and
an illuminated eternity OF the other. Though
a man may all his life have cultured, deliber-
alton and salfpoise. If lac gets into that posi-
ton all HE seif-possession is zone. There
are all the wrong thoughts OF his existence,
| all the wrong deeds. all the wrong words
straits above straits. gigantic. Ponderous,
o~yershadowing. hat rock l call BoZez- On
the other side are ali the retrsbutions OF the
future, the thrones ofjudgment, the eternal
ages, angry with his long defiance
rock l call Seneh. Between these two rocks
Lord Byron persisted and Aleibiades per-
ished, and Herod persisted, and ten thousand
times ten thousand have persisted. Oh man
immortal. man redeemed, man blood
bought. climb out OF thore hadows- Chm
| up by the way Of the Cross. Have your
wasted life forgiven: have your eternal life
secured. This morning just take one look
to the past and see what il has been, n
take one look to the future and see what il
threatens to be. You can afford to lose
your health, you can afford to lose your
property, yoe can afford to lose your repu-
tattoo; but you cannot afford 10 lose your
soul. That bright, cleaning, glorious, pre-
cious, eternal possession you m~ustcarrya loft
in the day when the earth burrs up and the
heavens burst.
You see from my subject that when a man
goes into the safety and peace of the gospel
he does not demean himself. There is moth
ing in religion that lead to meanness OF un-
manliness. The gospel Of Jesus Christ only
asks you to climb es Jonathan did-limb
toward God. climb toward heaven. climb
into the sunshine of Gods favor. To be-
come a Christian is not to go meanIy
down; it is to come gloriously up-upinto the
communion of saints. up into the peace that
pssseth all understanding, Up into the com
partnership Of angels. He lives up; he dies
up.
o. then. accept the wholesale invitation
which make this morning to all the people.
Come Ut from between a wasted life and an
illumined eternity. Like Jonathan, climb mp
with your might. and instead ofsitting down
to wiring your hands in the shadow and in
the darkness-"e sharp rock on the one side,
and sharp rock on the other side"