Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-01-27

hSatAf W u y hiAtAi4'E kllAh vi tIuuit-
ment Do you really want to1oin the
companionsdip Of your loved ones who
have gomez Are YOU as anxious TO
join them as David End bis men were
TO JOIN tLur lluilicsR Then | am
here, IN the uaao Of God, 70 say that
you may, and TO tell you how.
/ remark, in the first place, if you
want TO Join your loved ones in glory
you must travel the same way they
went No sooner had the half dead
Egyptian been resuscitated than he
pointed the way the captors aud the
captiyes had gone, and David and his
men followed after So our Christian
friends have gone into another
country, and II We want 10 reach
their companionship We must take
the same road. They repenied;
we must repent. They prayed;
We mus pray. They trusted in
Christ; we must trust in Christ.
They lived a religious life; we must
live n religious life. They were in
some things Ike ourselves. I know,
now that they are gone, thMe is halo
around their names; but they had
their faults They said and did things
they ought never 10 have sad or done.
They were sometimes rebelliois, some
times cast down. They wer FAR from
being perfect So suppose that when
we have gone, some things IN us that
are now only tolerable may be almost
resplendent But as they were like us
I'm deficiencies, we ought 10 be like them
in taking a supernal Christ to make
up for the deficits. Had it not been
for Jesus they would have all perished;
but Christ confronted them, and said:
II am the way" and they took it,
THE CAPnvE's PATH UNPLEASANT.
have also TO say 10 you that the
path that these captives trod was q
troubled path, and that David and bis
men had to 90 over the same difficult
way. While these captiyes were being
taken oil they said 'Oh, we are IN
tired; We are SO sick; we are 20
hungry But the men who had
charge Of them said: Stop this cry
ingi Go onp David and his men
also found il hard way. They had
to travel IT, Our friends have gone
into glory. and it is through much
tribulation that we are 10 enter into
the kingdom. How our loved ones
used to have to struggled How their
old hearts achedl How sometimes
they had tussle for breadl In our
childhood we wondered why there
were SO many wrinkles ON their faces.
| We did not know that what were
called crows feet" on their faces were
the marks Of the black raven Of trou-
BILE. Did you never hear the old
people, seated by the evening stand.
talk over their early trials, their
hardships, the accidents, the burials.
the disappointments, the empty hour
barrel when there were so many hum
cry ones to feed, the sickness almost
unto death, where the next dose Of
morphine decided between ghastly be-
reavement and an unbroken home cir
clei Oh, ycS il was trouble that
whitened their hair. Il was trouble
that shook the cup in their hands
II was trouble that washed the
luster from their eyes with tho
rain Of tears until they needed
spectacles. II was trouble that made
the cane necessity for their journey.
Do you never remember seeing your
old mother sitting, on some rainy day,
looking out of the window, her elbow
on the window sill, her hand 10 her
brow-looking out, not seeing the fall
ing shower ut all you w.u knew she
was looking into the distant past,
until the apron came up 70 her eyes,
because the memory was too muchfor
bert
on she big, unbsdden tear.
| ste.iing down the furrovcd cheek.
| rold In eioqusoce sincere.
rAis Of zoe they could not speak
Bus this soens of weeping o'cr,
Past this scene Of toll and pain.
Tbcy shall feel dksrcs no msre
\ Nsve. nessr weep again
Who are these under the altari"
the question was asked; and the re-
sponse came: These are they which
came outof great tribulation, and have
washed their robes, and made them
white In the blood Of the Lamb" Our
friends went by q path Of tean into
glory. Be not surprised II We have 10
travel the sAme pathway.
Iremark, again, II we want 10 win
the society Of our friends in heaven,
We will NOT only have 70 travel . pafh
Of faith and path Of tribulsfion, but
we will also have 10 positively bel<is
for their companionship. David -
his men never wanted sharp swords
and invulnerable shields and thick
breastplates 20 much = they wanted
them on the day when they came
down upon the AmalekiteA II thNy
had lost that battle, they never would
have got their families back. l sup-
pose that one glance at their loved
ones in captivity hurled them into
the battle with ten fold courage and
energy. They nid; I'VE musl
win a Everything depends upon
i H. Let each one take q man
ON point Of spear OF sword. We musl
win it, And l have 70 tell you thal
between US and coming into lbe com
panionship Of our loved ones who ars
departed there u an Au1&srlils, theru
Is q Gettysburg, there h q Weisrl0o.
War with the world wsr with ~
flesh, war with the devil We ha>s
either 10 conQucr our troubles, o. e.
troubles will conquer VA David wiZI
either slay the AmAlekiJes o. -
Amalekites will slsy David And ~
is not the fort 20 b taken vorth -
the pain, all The peril, all the bc-e1s-
mcnti Looll who axa llcr a o.