The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-09-27
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whether she waa scared, answered:
"No, / am glad that I have a God
who can shake the world" or as
merchant was askei il he did not fear he
would break, answered: "Yes, shall break
when the fiftieth Psalm breaks in the fftieth
verse; Call upon Me in the day OF trouble;
l will deliver thee and thou shalt glorify
Meh o Christian men and women pursued
of annoyances and exasperations, remember
that this hunt, whether still hunt or a hunt
in full cry, will soon he over. II ever a
whelp looks ashamed and ready to slink out
OF sight it is when in the Adirondscks a
deer by one long, tremendous plunge into
Big Tupper Lake gets away from him. The
d sappointed canine swims in little way
but, defeated, swims out again and
cringes with humiliatei 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
in Revelation, 2!d and 18th: "With-
out are dogs" by which l conclude
there is whole kennel of hounds out
side the gate of heaven, or, as when a
master goes in door, his dog les on the
steps waiting for him to come out, so the
trou les of this life may follow us to the
shining door, but they canRot get in. with
out are dogsm l have seen dogs, and owned
dogs, that would not be chagrined to ses in
the heavenly city. Some of the grand old
watch dogs who are the constabulary Of
the homes in solitary places and for years
have been the only protection of W fe and
child; some of the shepherd dogs that drive
back the wolves and bark away the flocks
from going too near the precipice and some
OF the dogs whose neck and paw Lan1-
seer, the painter, has made i'm
mortal, would not find me shut
ting them cut from the gate of shining
pearl. Some of those old st. B,rnard dogs
that have lifted perishing trave ers out Of
the Ap ne 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 protest; and dogs
that we caresse1 in our childhood
DAYS or that in later time laid down on the
rug in apparent sympathy when our homes
were desolated. say, if some soul entering
heaven should happen to leave the gate aar
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 lacer-
ated the world yea, all that now bite or
worry or tear to ieces, shall be
prohibited "Without are dogs!' No place
there for harsh critics or backbiters or de-
spoilers OF the reputation of others. Down
with you to the kennels of darkness and de-
spair! The heart has reached the eternal
water brooks, and the painting of the long
chase is queted in still pastures and There
shall be nothing to hurt or destroy in all
Gods holy mount"
Oh, when some of you get there it will be
like what farmer tells of when he was push
ing his canoe far up North in the winter and
amid the ice-foes, and hundred m les, as
he thought, from any other human beings.
He was startled one day as he heard
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, appro ching him.
Taking him into his canoe and kndiing fires
to warm him, he restored him and found out
where he had lived, and took him
to his hoD,s, 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 appear
ance bells were rung, and guns 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 cebergs, into the warm greetings OF
all the villages of the glorified, and your
friends rush out to give you welcoming
kiss, the news that there is another sou for
ever saved will call the caterers OF heaven
to spread the banquet, and the bell men 10
lay hold of the rope in the tower. and while
the chailces click at the least, ana Gne oelis
clang from the towers, it will be a scene SO
uplifting l pray God l may be there
to take part in the ce estial merrment And
| now do you not think the prayer in Solo
mons song, where he compared Christ to
reindeer coming down in the night to pasture
on the plains would make an exquisitely ap,,
! propriatc peroration to my sermon: "Untll
| the Iay break and the shadows flee away,
be thou like roe or young hart upon the
mountains of Bether."