The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-03-29


drop the reins on the horses neck, and will
take his right hand and smite on bis heart
and soy: "God be merciful to me
sinner" and before he has
stabbed his horse hc will take his feet out OF
tho stirrups. and he will slide down on the
ground, md lie will lneel, crying, "Have
mercy on me, . God. according to thy low
ing kindness, accor'ling unto the multitude
ofthy tender mercics; blot out my trans.
gressions, for acknowledge my transgres.
sions and my sins are ever before thec." All,
my friends, you see this in not O complimen.
tary gospel. That Is what makes people 30
mad. 1t comes to u nun Of million dollars
and impenitent in his sins and says, You're
a pauper:" 1t comes to woman of faircst
cheek, who hos never rerentefl, and says:
ing himself on his independence and says:
YOU'RE bound hand and foot by the devil" !"
1t comes to our entire race ind snys: "You ne
q ruin, ghastly ruin, an ilimitnble ruin. !"
Sntan sometimes says to mo, "Why do you
prench That truth? Why don't you preach
9 gospel with no repentance in it?' Why
don't you fluttcr mems hearts 80 TINT you
mnke them feel all right? Why don't you
repentance in It, saying nothing about the
ruin. talking all the time about rcdemp-
tion?" ] sny. Get thee behind me, Sutan." !"
would rather lead five souls the right way
than 20; 900 the wrong way. The redemp-
tion Of the gospel il a perfect farce II there is
no ruin. ''The whole need not q physician,
but they that are sick" "lfany one, though
he be an angel from heaven, preach any 9th.
him be accursed." There must be the mid.
night ride over the ruins before Jerusalem
can he built. There must he the clicking OF
the hoes before there con be the ringing Of
the troweas.
Agnin. My subject gives me O specimen
OF busy and triumphant sadness. II there
was any man in the word who had right
to nope and give up everything as lost it
was Nehemiah. You sny "lIe was cub.
bcnrer in the nalnce of Sllushan, and 1t was
grand place" so it was. Tho hall of thnt
pnlnre was 200 feet square. and the roof
hovercd over tllirty-six m marhle pillars, ench
p'llar 60 f,et high; and the intense blue OF
the sky, and he deep green of the forest 70.
ilage, and he white ftllc driven snow, all
hung, trembling in the upholstery. But, my
friends, You know very well tant fne nrch-
iterture will not put down Inconsistencies
Yet Nehemiah did not give up.
Inc Then. when you see him going among these
towers. aud by the torn-up grave of his fl.
ther, You would suppose that lie would have
dismountcd from his horse and gone to his
room and said: Woe il mo! NV fathers
grave is torn up. The templeis tlishonored.
The walls are broken down. havcno money
with which to rebuild. | wish had never
been horn. wish ! were dead" Not no
says Nehemiah. Although he had grief so
intense that it excited the commentary OF
his king. yet TINT Icnnless, cxpnt,iatcd Ne
hsmiah rouses himself up to rebuild the city.
He gets his permission OF absence. He gets
llis passports. lie hustcns away to JerIsa.
lem. l,y night on llorsc-bnck he rides
through tho ruins. lilo ovcrcomes the most
terocious opposition. He nrouees the piety
and patriotism OF tho people, aud in less
than two months. namely. in fifty-two days.
busy and triumphant sadness.
Nv friends. the whole temptation in with
You when YOU have trouble to do lust
the opposite to the behavior of Nehemiah
mud that is to give up. You sny, II have
lost my child and can never smile again, II
have lost my property and never Gun re-
pay my fortunes" fon say, again for n
new lie IfSatnn can make you form that
resolution, and make yon keep it, he has
rcincd you. Trouble il not sent to crush
you, hut to arouse you to animate YOU, to
propel you. The blacksmith does NOT thrust
THERON into the forge, and tlen blow away
with tho brllows, aud then hIing the hot
iron out on the anvil and beat with stroke
after stroke to ruin the iron. hut to prepare
it Tor q letter Use. Oh. that the Lord God
1f Nehemiah would rouse mp all broken
hearted people to rebuild. Whipped. he.
tray"i, shinwrecked, imprisoned Paul went
rigllt on. The Italian martyr Algerius sits
IN his dungeon writing letter, and he dates
it From the tlclert nile orchard of the Leon.
inc prize on" That is what call triumphant
sndness. knew II mother who buried her
bnby on Friday aud on SnHhnth npmarc,l
IN the house of God and snid: "(;ive me n
class. have no child now left INC, and /
would like to have u clnss OF little children.
Give me class of the bnck street." That,
l sny, is beautiful. That is triumphant sad.
beautiful pnrlor in Philadelpliia-n pnrlor
pictured and statuettcd-thcra will be from
ten to twenty destitute children of the street.
1t has been 20 every Rallbuth afternoon at
u o clock for many yenis. These destitute
children receive religious instruction, con.
cl,l,!ing with cakes and sandwiches. How
do know that that has been going on for
mnny years? know in this way:
That was the first home N Fhiladelphia
where ! wns called to comfort. They had
u splendid boy and lie Ind been drowned Mt
Long Branch. The father and mother nl-
most idolizetl the hoy, aud the sob md
shrek OF that father and mother az they
hung over the coffin rrsound in my ears to-
dny. There seemed to liz no use oi praying,
,or !, "heh ikGeit doWn to pray the ontcry in
Inc room drowned out all the pray. But
he Lord comfOrtcd that sorrow, They did
not forget their trouble. Ifyou should go
on the snowiest winter afternoon into
Laurel Hill you would find monument
with the word "Wai,cr' inscribed upom Fl.
aud n wreath of fresh flowers around the
name. think there has not been an hour
oil these years. winter or summer when there
wnsnot II wreath of fresh flowers around
Walters nnme. But the Christian mother
who sends those flowers there, having no
child lett Sabbath afternoons mothers ten
or twenty o! the lost ones OF the sire ts.
That is beautiful. That is what call busy
and triumphant sadness. Here ia Il man
who has lost his property. lie does not go
to hnrl drinking He does not destroy his
own lie. lie comes and snys: Harness
me for Christian work. My moneys gone.
have no treasures on earth. want treas
TO serve God" Yousny that this man has
fntleI, He has not fniled-he has triumphetl,
oh, wish could persuade all the people
who have any kind of trouble never to
give up. ! wish they would look
ut tie midnight rider of the text,
md that the four hoo!s of that beast on
which Nehemiah rode might cut to picces nll
your discouragements and hnr'lships and
trials: Give up! Who il going to give
nil I,s tronbios hnsodp T:;..a,, nU I''" Na'.
think of giving up. Are yon borne down
hnl,;p,, lsr ,i.,d ,o.i,ars ,m,,,, ~; Wi H.. 'J in.
ness of n tenn,nnnt house nnd !" snn,a , ia, YIN
r"mlns IN. tn" little girl looked up. while
holding her dead mothers hand. and said:
. 'Ol' J do Wist Gnd ,nd made more light
'or poor toiks; My dear God will be your
lglit' uod VIII he your shelter, God will tn
soor nome are you bGrhe down with tho
o. ne! ls the house lonely
m no." ,mht ,r,i: ,hc enid ~ gone! DO not give