Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-23

to the royal family. It. was taken up 70
the Kings residence, and for the honesty Of
the man in bringing it back he had house
given to him, and a garden and q farm.
Who was it that sent the raven tapping on
the window? The same God that sent the
raven to feed Elijah by the brook Cherith.
Christ in the hour of extremity
You mourned over your SINS You could
not find the way out. You sat down and
said: 'God will not be merciful. he has
cast me off," but in that, the darkest hour of
your history, light broke from the throne,
and Jesus said: 30, wanderer, come home.
have seen all thy sorrows. In this, the
hour of thy extremity, I offer thee pardon
and everlasting life r.
IN THE LAST EXTREMITY.
Trouble came. You were almost torn to
pieces by that trouble. You braced yourself
up against it You said: "I will be stole,
and will not cere;' but before you had got
through. making the resolution. it broke
down under you. You felt that all your
resources were gone, and then Jesus came.
''In the fourth watch of the night, the
Bible saws, "Jesus came walking on the
sea-" Why did he not come in the first
watch or in the second watch? or in the
third watch? do not know. He came in
the fourth, and gave deliverance to His
disciples Jesus in the last extremity
wonder If it will be so in our very last
extremity. We shall fall suddenly sick,
and doctors will come, but in vain. We
will try the anodynes and the stimulants ana
the bathings but all IN vain. Something Will
say: You must CO." No one to hold US back,
but the hands of eternity stretched out TO pull
US on. What then? Jesus will come to us, ana
as we say, 'sLord Jesus, am afraid Of that
water; I cannot wade through TO the other
side" He will say: Take hold OF my arm"
and we will take hold Of His arm, and then ne
will put His foot in the surf Of the wave. taxing
us on down deeper, deeper, deeper, ana our
soul will cry: "All thy waves and billoWs nave
gone over me-" They cover the feet come to
and our soul cries out: Lord Jesus Christ,
cannot hold thine arm any longer Tnen
Jesus viii turn around, throw both bis arms
about us, and set US on the beach, Tar beyond
the tossing of the billows: Jesus in the last e4-
tremity.
TO THAT GRANDER WEDDING.
That wedding scene is gone now. The we'd
ding ring has been lost. the tankards have been
broken, the house is down; but Jesus invites
us to grander wedding, You know the Bible
says that the church is the Lambs wife, and
the Lord will after while come to fetch her
home. There will be cleaning of torches in
the sky, and the trumpets of God Will ray1sh
the air with their music; and Jesus Will stretch
out his hand, and the church, robed in white,
will put aside her veil, and look up into the
face OF the Lord the King and the bridegroom
will say to the bride: "Tnou hast been faithful
through all these yearsI The mansion
is readyi Come homel Thou art fair,
my loveri and then he shall put upon
her brow the crown of dominion, and the table
will be spread, and it will reach across the
Skies and the mighty ones Of heaven will come
in, garlanded with beauty and striking their
cymbals; and the bridegroom and bride will
stand at the head of the table, and the ban
queters, looking up, will wonder and admire,
and say: "That is Jesus the bridegroom But
the scar on his brow is covered with the coro-
net and the stab in his side is covered with
robeI" and THAT is the bridei The WEAKNESS
of her earthly woe lost in the flush of this
wedding triumph"
There will be wine enough at that wedding;
not coming up from the poisoned watts Of earth.
but the vineyards of God will press their ripest
clusters, and the cups and the tankards will
blush to the brim with the heavenly vintage,
and then all the banQueters will drink stand
ing. Esther having come up from bscchana-
liam revelry of Ahasuerus, where thousand
lords feasted, will be there. And the Queen of
Sheba, from the banquet of Solomon, will be
there. And the mother of Jesus, from the
wedding of Cana, will be there. And they all
will agree that the earthly feasting was poor
compared with that. Then, lifting their chalices
IN that holy light, they shal. cry to the Lord Of
the feast: Thou hast kept the good wine
until now."