The Penn's Grove record., 1889-05-18

Ali we will want OF 1t VIII be seven
feet by three. and that will take in the
largest, and there will he room and to
spare. That Is all Of this country We
will need very soon-the youngest Of
us. But we have an anxiety about
the welfare and the happiness of the
generations that are coming on, and it
will be a grand thing if, when the
~archangel's trumpet sounds, we find
that our s~epulchre. like the one Joseph
Of Arlmathea provided for Christ, is in
the midst of u garden.
THE NAME IN THE ROCK.
One of the seven wonders of tie
| world was the white marble watch
tower of Pharos Of Egypt. Sostratus,
the architect and sculptor. after build
ing that watct-tower, cut his name on
it. Then he covered 1t with plaster
ing, and TO please the King, he put tie
monarch's name OF tile outside of tie
plastering; and the storms beat and tie
seas dashed In their fury, aud they
washed off the plasterlng, aud they
washed 1t out, and they washed it
down, but the name or Sostratus Wa
deep cut in the Imperlshable rock.
So across the face of this
nation there have been q great
many names written, across our lnan.
ces, across our religions, names worthy
of remembrance names written on the
architecture of our churches and II
schools and our asylums and our home,
OF mercy I; but God is the architect of
this continent, and He was the sculptor
of all Its grandeurs !; and long after
through the wash of the ages and the
tempests of centuries-al, other names
shall be oUliterated, the divine sigma
ture and divine name will be brighter
and brighter as the millenniuDs go by,
and the world shall see that the God
WHO made this continent has redeemed
it by his grace from all its sorrows and
from all its crimes.
HAVE YOU FAITH
in such a thing as that? After all the
chariOts have been %unwbeeled, and
after the war chargers have been Grip
pied, the chariots which Elisha saw on
the morning of his peril will roll on in
triumph, followed by all tile armies of
heaven on white horses. God could
do it without us, but He will not. The
| weakest of us, the smallest Drained OF
us, shall have a part In the triumph.
We may not have our name, like the
name of Sostratus, cut in imperishable
rock and conspicuous for centu-
ries, but we shall be remembered, in a
better place than that, even in the
heart of Him who came to redeem us
and redeem the world, and our name
will be seen close TO the signature of
His wound, for, as to-day, He throws
out His arms to US, He says: s'Behold,
have craven thee on the palms of
My hand" By the mightiest of ali
agencies. the potency Of prayer, | beg
you seek our national welfare.
A MARINE o OFFICE.
Some time ago there were 4,6OD,000
letters in the dead letter post office ut
Observation-Disclosures that lost their
way-but not n prayer ever directed
to the heart of God miscarried. The
way IS all clear for the ascent OF your
supplicatiOns heavenward in behalf OF
this nation. Before the postal COM
municatlon was SO easy, and long ago,
on a rock one hundred feet high, on
the coast of England, there was a
barrel fastened to a post, and in great
letters on the side of the rock, so it
could be seen far out at sea, were the
words "Post Office;" and when ships
came by a boat put out to take and
fetch letters. And so sacred were those
deposits of affection in that barrel that
no lock wa ever pat upon that barrel,
although 1t contained messages for
America, and Europe, and Asia, and
Africa, and all the islands Of the sea.
Many a stOrm.tossed sailor, homesick,
got messages Of kindness by that rock.
and many a homestead heard good
news from a boy long gone. Would
that all the heights of our national
prosperity were In interchange Of SYM
pathies-prayers going up meeting
blessings coming down; postal celes-
tial, not by a storm-struck rock on a
wintry coast, but by the Rock Of
AGES.