Sharp County record., 1888-08-02

one Ebay W a;rrrmstances, just after tno
vantageous w wv nod been wrecked in the
English channel, a sIe"iii0l ,toir
o,onr in the darkness, when Ine '3ina 1"p over
nmn5 nLuns . SONG A sweet song, coming oS o+
t,'~ t,,o ,,,oter and he bore down toWaruo V,i"
Un? ""r0 ond found it was a Christian "oi.lan
oo-oVI W, r,Ianl, T Of the wrecked steamer sinS
ing to the tune of st MarViN '
Jcsus lover OF my soul,
Let me to Thy bosom n.y. =,
Wrile the bllows near me Toil, :,
While the tempest still IS hign
The heart right toward God anu ma cod 10"
ore bappv. The heart wrong tow'l0 wv
and man, we are unhappy >, o n
Another reason why we should cUlil4 soot
this spirit inculcated in the teXV Is vnS S;tion
that all the differences Of earthly con9i'tH tHn
are transitory. The houses you Ouilu' ,n,I ,nu
land Won cultivate, the places IN "hlcn a."
barter, are soon to 60 INTO o'n0l f if Won
However hard you may have IL NOW, - "a
are a Christian the scene Will soon 4ho
Pain, trial, persecution never KnocA az. az -
dcor of the crave. A coffin made ouC VI
nine boards is Just as good resting pi"Co
as one made out OF silver HloUN'0N
hogany or rosewood. +ba
Go down among the resting places ol viio
dead and YOU will find that though peoP.o
there had a great difference oil WorIuly "a,
cumstances, now they are all alike unIon
scious. The hand that greeted the 0ei"'oi1 .It
and the President, and the King IS sun "'
the hand that hardened on the mechahlc
hammer or the manufacturers WheeL
does not make any difference now WheInel
there is plain stone above thenl lioili
which the traveller pulls aside the Weeus
70 read the name, or tall shaft sprlhS"iB
into the heavens as though to tell tlelr
virtues to the skies. ..., so.
In that silent land there are no tltleS lot
great men. and there are no rumollhgS u
chariot wheels and there is never Heaiu
the foot of the dance The Egyptian guaho
which is thrown on the fields in the Ea'I
for the enrichment of the soil is the dust
raied out from the sepulchers OF hIli2S
and Lords and mighty men. On, tne 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 OIL
Caesar? Who bids for iti Who cares now
any thing about the Amphictyonlc coun-
Gil or the laws Of Lycurgusi Who trem0les
now because XerXes crossed the HelleS-
mont on a bridge of boatsl Who fears be-
cause Nebuchadnczzar thunders at the
rates of Jerusalem! Who cares now
whether or not Cleopatra marries Antony'
Who crouches before Ferdinand, or Bonl.
face. or Alaricl Can Cromwell dissolve
the English Parliament nowi Is william,
Prince Of Orange, King Of the Netherlands u
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 off 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 gomez Can
they not be called baCk} | 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 answeri
will call the roll, | will call the roll OF
the Kings first: Alfred the Great Will
lam the Conqueror! Frederick II. Louis
XVI? No answer l will call the roll of
the poets. Robert Southey! Thomas
Campbell! John Keats George Crabbe
Robert Burns No answer. / call the roll
of artists Michael Angelo Paul Veron-
ese William Turner! Christopher Wrenl
No answer Eyes closed Ears deaf. Lips
silent. Hands pasied. Scepter, pencil,
pen. sword, put down forever. Why
should we struggle for such baublcsi
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 crticises your dis
cpline, 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 on them,
and that He is not as liberal with them as
He might be. But children do not know as
much as father. | can tell you why you
are not largely aftluent, 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
the first howl of the storm you quckened
your pace Heavenward and wrapped
around you the warm robe of a Saviour's
righteousness What have l done2" SAYS
the wheat-sheaf to the farmer, "what have
done that yOu beat me so hard with your
failW The farmer makes no answer, but
the rake takes off the straw, and the mill
blows the chatf 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 thronel The
answer came: These are they who, out
Of great tribulaton, had their robes
wash he'd and made white in the blood of the
Lamb" Would to God that we could under
stand that our trials are the very best
thing for US. five had an appreciation of
that truth, then we should know whv IL