The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-08-14

angel can tell you. But can hint at 1t
For my text brings me up to this point
.Thou shalt be saved" 1t means happy
life here and peaceful death and q bliss.
full eternity. 1t is grand tning to 60 to
sleep at night and to getup in the morning,
and to do business all day feeling that all Is
right between my heart and God. No acct
dent, no sickness, no persecution, no peril,
no sword can do me any permanent dam
age. l am forgiven child Of God, and He
is bound to see me through. The mountains
may depart, the earth may burn, the light
of the stars may be blown out by the blast
of the judgment hurricane; but life and
death, things present and things to come,
are mine. Yes, further than that = 1t
means a peaceful death. Mrs. Hemans,
Mrs. Sigourney, DR.. Young, and al
mostall thepoets have said handsome things
about death. There is nothing beautiful
about it. When we stand by the white and
rigid features of those whom we love, and
they give no answering pressure of the hand
and no returning kiss Of the lip, we do not
want any body poetizing around about us.
Death is loathsomeness, and midnight, and
the wringing of the heart until the tendrils
snap and curl in the torture, unless Christ
shall be with us. confess to you an infin-
tie fear, consuming horror of death, un-
less Christ shall be with me. would
rather go down into cave of wild beasts
or jungle of reptiles than into the grave,
unless Christ goes with me. Will you tell
me that | am to be carried out from my
bright home and put away in the darkness!
! can not bear darkness. At the first COM
ing of the evening l must have the gas
lighted, and the further on in life l get the
more like tohave my friends round about
me.
And am to be put off for thousands of
years in dark place with no one to speak
to! When the holidays come and the gifts
are distributed, shall add no Joy to the
'Merry Christmas" or the Happy New
Years" All, do not point down to the hole
in the ground, the grave, and call 1t beau
tiful place. Unless there be some super
natural illumination l shudder back from
it. My whole nature revolts at it. But now
this glorious lamp is lifted above the grave,
and all the darkness is gone, and the way is
clear. look into it now without a single
shudder. Now my anxiety is not aboutdeath:
my anxiety is that I might live Alright,
for know that if my life is consistent
when / come to the last hour, and this voice
is silent, and these eyes are closed, and
these hands with which beg for your eter-
nal salvation to-day are folded over the
still heart, that then shall only begin to
live. What power is there in any thing to
chill me in the last hour II Christ wraps
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What darkness can fall upon my eyelids
then amid the heavenly daybreaka q
Death, will not fear thee then. Back ia
thy cavern of darkness, thou robber of all
the earth. Fly thou despoiler of families.
With this battle-ax I hew thee in twain
| from helmet to sandal, the voice of Christ
sounding all over the earth and through the
heavens: 20 Death, l will be thy plague
| o Grave, will be thy destruction"
To be saved is to wake up in the presence
of Christ You know when Jesus was upon
earth how happy He made every house He
went into, and when He brings us up tc
His house in Heaven how great shall be our
glee. His voice has more music in 1t than
is to be heard in all the oratories Of eternity.
Talk notabout banks dashed with eflores
cence. Jesus is the chief bloom of Heaven
We shall see the very face that beamed
sympathy in Bethany, and take the very
hand that dropped its blood from the short
beam of the cross. o, want to stand In
keternity with Him. Toward that harbor
steer. Toward that goal run. shall b
satisfied when awake in His likeness.
1 o, broken hearted men and women, how
sweet it will be in that good land to pour al
4 your hardships and bereavements and losse.
into the loving ear Of Christ and then have
Him explain why it was best for you to be
sick, and why it was best for you to be wild
owed, and why it was best for you to bt
prosecuted, and why it was best for yor
to be tried, and have Him point to ar
elevation proportionate to your dis
quietude here, saying: "You suffered
with me on earth, come up now and b.
glorified with me in heaven" Some ont
went into house where there had beer
a good deal Of trouble, and said to thu
woman there: "You seem to be lonely
eyes," she said, II am lonely" "Hov
many in the familya" "Only myself
"Have you had any children!" II hat
seven children" "Where are theyl'
"Gone." "All goner "All" "All dead9'
"Au." Then she breathed long sigh int
the loneliness, and said 10, sir, hav
been good mother to the grave" And 81
there are hearts here that are utterly broker
down by the bereavement of life. Ipoin
you to-day to the eternal balm of Heaven
Are there any here that am missing thi
morningl o, you poor waiting maid! you
hearts sorrow poured in no humal
ear, lonely and sad! how glad 70,
will be when Christ shall disban
all your sorrows and crown you queel
unto God and the Lamb forever! Aged me-
and women, fed by His love and warmed b.
his grace for three score years and ten will
not your decrepitude change for the leap o
hart when you come to look face to fac
upon Him whom having not seen, you love
That will be the Good Shepherd, not out i
the night and watching to keep of tn
wolves, but with the lamp reclining on tn
sunlit hill That will be the captain of GU
salvation, not amid the roar and crash an
boom of battle, but amid his disbande
troops keeping victorious festivity. Tha
will be the bridegroom of the church CON
ing from afar, the bride leaning upon hi
arm, while he looks down into her face an
says: "Behold, thou art fair, my love b
hold, thou art fair!"
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