Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-10-20

brooks, and the dark night of the soul
begins To grow gray with the morn
ing, yea 10 purple, yea 10 flame, from
horizon to horizon. The batteries of
temptation silenced. Troubles hat
fought against US captured and made
10 fight on our side. Not asa result of
any toll or trouble ON Il part, but
only MS IA result of Looking unto
Jesus" But what do you mean by
Looking unto JesuSf' some one in.
quires. | mean faith. What do you
mean by faithl' | mean believing.
What do you mea by believingf'
| mean this; If you promise to do a
certain thing for me, and ! have con-
tidence in your veracity-if you say
you will give me such "A thing and
need il very much, | come in conf
dencc that you are an honest man and
will do what you say. Now, the Lord
Jesus Christ says; You are in need of
pardon and life and heaven, YOU can
have them if you come and get them"
You say: II can't come and ask first.
! am afraid you won't give it To me-"
Then YOU n unbelicving. But you
say: Il will come and ask. | know,
Lord Jesus, thou art in earnest about
this matter. | come asking for par
don. Thou hast promised To give II To
me, thou wilt give it to me. thou hast
given il to me-" That is faith. Do you
see it yet! oh" says some one, Il
can't understand it," No man ever
did, without divine help. Faith is the
gift of God. You say: That throws
the responsibility off my shoulders"
No. Faith is the gift Of God, but it
comes IN answer to prayer.
An over glorious is my Lord.
lie must De loved and yet alored;
Ills worth IL all The nations knew.
sure the whole earth would love Him, too
LOOKING To JESUS"
! remark again, that we must look
To Jesus rs an example. Now, a mere
copyist, yoa know, is always a failure.
If a painter 90 10 a portfolio or IA gal.
lery Of art, however exquisite. TO get
his idea of the natural world from
these pictures, he will not succeed as
well as the artist who starts out and
dashes the dew from the grass and
sees the morning Just as God built il
In the clouds. or poured it upon the
mountain, or kiudlcd il upon the sea.
People wondered why Turner. the ia
nous English painter, succeeded so
well in sketching a storm upon the
ocean. Ii remained a wonder until il
was found out that several times he
had been dashed 10 the deck in the
midst of a tempest and then looked
out upon the wrath of the sea, and
coming home To his studio. he pic
tured the tempest. 1t is not the copy
list who succeeds, but the man who
contronts the natural world. So if a
man III literary composition resolves
that he will initiate the smoothness of
Addison, or the rugged vigor Of Car.
lyle, or the welrdness of SpenSer. or
the ~epigrammatic style of Ralph
Waldo Emerson, lie will not succeed
as well as that man who cultures his
W natural style. What is true in
this respect is trde in respect 10 char
acter. There were mcn who were fas.
cinated with Lord Byron. he was
lame and wore a very large collar.
Then there were tens of thousands of
men who resolved that they would be
just like Lord Byron, aud they limped
and wore large collars. but they did
not have any of his genius, You can
not successfully copy a man whether
he Is bad or good. You may take the
very best man That ever lived aud try
and live lIlc him, and you will make
"A failure. There never was a better
man than Edward Payson. Many
have read his biography, not under.
standing that he was a sick man, aud
they thought they were growing in
grace because they were growing like
linn In depression of spirit. There
were men To copy Cowprr, the poet,
a glorious man, bat sometimes alilict.
ed with melancholy almost Ia insan
lty. The copyists got CDwpers faults
but none OF his virtues.
There never was but one Being iii
10 copy. A few centuries ago he
came out through humble surround.
lDgs, and with a gait and manner and
behavior diTorrTt frnm pnytIiro Gba
world had seen Arnor, 8ii ,i5ssrS
Of pcoplc Ice wos a u~oriec, r1n,lcI
Among fishermen, he showed how
fisherman should act. Amuug tax
gathers. br showed Low t,y%5,Lrrs
should act. hmogg lawyTr. he
bowed how Iawy,T, IgpiI NET
.npag farmers Ie sIgfrrJ how m.
uag .uid met, Amorr r,IIars i.
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