The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-11

the words was sent on to Washington,
and the next day that cylinder, from an
other Photographic instrument when
turned, gave back to me the very words
II had uttered the day before, and wlth
the same intonations .Scold into a phono-
graph, and it will scold back. Pour mild
words into phonograph, and 1t will re-
turn the gentleness.
Society and the world and the Church
are monographs. Give them acerbity
and rough treatment you will get back.
Give them practical friendliness, ami
they will give back practical friendliness.
A father asked his little daughters
"Mary, why is IL that every body loves
your" She replied, 81 don't know, I'M
less 1t is because love every body" "A
man that hath friends must show himself
friendly" We want something like that
spirit of sacrifice for others which was
seen in the English channel, Iwhere, In
the storm q boat containing three men
was upset, and all three were in the wa
ter struggling for their lives. A boat
came to their relief and q rope
was thrown to one of them, and
he refused to take it, say
ing: First fling it to Tom; he
is just ready to go down. L can last some
time longer" A man like that, be he
sailor or landsman, be he in upper ranks
of society or lower ranks, will always
| have plenty of friends. What Is true
MAYNARD is true Godward. We must be
the friends of God if we want Him to be
our friend. We can not treat Christ bad
| ly all our lives and expect Him to treat MS
lovingly. was reading OF sea fight, In
which Lord Nelson captured French
officer, and when the French officer Of
fered Lord Nelson his hand Nelson re-
piled: First give me your sword, and
then give me your hand" Surrender OF
our resistance to God must precede Gods
proffer of pardon to US. Repentance be-
fore forgiveness. You must give up your
rebelious sword before you can get
grasp of the d ivine hand.
Oh, what a glorious state of things to
have the friendship of God! Why, we
could afford to have all the world against
and all other worlds against us if we had
God for US. He could in minute blot
out this universe. 1 have no idea that
God tried hard when He made ALL things.
The most brilliant thing known to us is
light, and for the creation of that He only
used a word of command. AS out of
flint frOntiersman strikes spark, so
out of one word God struck the MONDAY
universe do not read that
God lifted so much as finger. The
Bible frequently speaks Of Gods hand,
and Gods arm, and Gods shoulder, and
Gods foot; then suppose He should put
hand and arm and shoulder and foot to
utmost tension, what could He not make?
That God, OF such demonstrated and I'M
demonstrated strength, you may have for
your everlasting friend. But stately
and reticent friend, hard to get at, but as
apprOachable as country mansion on
summer day when all the doors and win.
dows are wide open. Christ said: 81 am
the door, And He is q wide door,
high door, a palace door, an always
open door.
My four-year- old child got hurt and
did not cry until hours after, when her
mother came home, and then she burst
into weeping and sOm3 of the domestics,
not understanding human nature, said to
her: "Why did you not cry before" She
an sw cred: "There was no one to cry to"
Now l have to tell you while human SYM
pathy may be absent, Divine sympathy Is
always accessible. Give God your love
and get His love; your service and secure
His help; your repentance and have His
pardon. God friend: Why, that means
all your wounds medicated, all your sor-
rows soothed, and if some sudden catas-
trophe should hurl you out of earth it
would only hurl you into Heaven. II God
| is your friend, you can not 90 out OF the
| world too quickly or suddenly, so far as
your own happiness is concerned"
There were two Christians last Tuesday
who entered Heaven; the one was stand
| ing at window in perfect health watch
,nr n oh nj ba Itch mi ipS 10 nj "
slew him; but the lightning did not fash
down the sky as swiftly as his spirit
| flashed upward. The Christian man who
died on the same day next door
had been for year or two failing in
| health, and for the last three months
had suffered from a disease that made
the nights sleepless and the days
an anguish. Do you not really think that
the case of the one who went instantly
was more desirable than the one who en-
tered the shining gate through long
lane of insomnia and congestion? In the
Que case it was like your standing YEARLY
at a door. knocking and waiting, and
wondering if it will ever open, and knock
ing and waiting again, while in the other
case it was swinging open OF the door
at the first touch of the knuckle. Give
your friendship to God, and have Gods
| friendship for YOU and oven the worst
accident will be a victory.
How refreshing is human friendship;
and true friends, what priceless treas
| ures! When sickness comes, and trouble
| comes, and death comes, we send for our
friends first of all, and their appearance
in our doorway in any crisis is re-en-
forcement, and when they have entered
we say: Now it is all right" Oh, what
would we do without friends, personal
friends, business friends, family friends?
But we want something mightier than
human friendship in the great exigencies.
When Jonathan Edwards, in his fiIal
hour, had given the last goodbye to
all his earthly friends, he turned on his
pillow and closed his eyes confident
| " saying: ''Now where is Jesus of Naz =
areth,s my true and never-failin9
friend?" Yes, l admire human friend
| ship as seen in the case of David and
Jonathan, of Paul and Onesiphorus, OF
Herder and Goethe, of Col dsmith and
Reynolds, of Beaumont and Fletcher, of
Cowley and Harvey, of Erasmus and
Thomas More, of Leasing and Mendels-
sohn, of Lady Churchill and Princes 8
Anne, Of Orestes and Pylades, each re-
ouesting that himself might take the
point of the dagger so the other might b,
spared, of Epaminondas and Pelopidas,
who locked their shields in battle deter
mined to die together: but the grandest,
| the mightiest, the tendereSt friendship in
all the universe is the friendship be-
| tween Jesus Christ and believing soul.
Yet after all 1 have said 1 feel have